Cultural studies

Nina Asher Nina Asher

• Professor
• she, her, hers
• 612-624-1357
• nasher@umn.edu

In the mid-1980s, armed with my master’s degree in social work (from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bombay, India), I began working as a research assistant on intervention projects focused on improving the educational achievement levels…

Vichet Chhuon Vichet Chhuon

• Associate Professor
• 612-625-4331
• vichet@umn.edu

My research has broadly focused on the experiences of immigrant youth and students of color to understand how school institutions might better help them realize their promise.

Colleen Clements Colleen Clements

• Senior Lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Studies
• she, her, hers
• clements@umn.edu

Santa Barbara Independent Innovation in Theatre Award ICQI, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry NWSA, National Women’s Studies Association AERA, American Educational Research Association, Division G – Social Context of Education SIG -…

Justin Grinage Justin Grinage

• Assistant Professor
• grin0060@umn.edu

The focus of my research centers on analyzing processes of racialization in school and classroom spaces through several areas of inquiry including critical whiteness studies, Black education, neoliberal multiculturalism, and critical literacy.

Mary Hermes Mary Hermes

• Professor
• she, they
• 612-624-3082
• mhermes@umn.edu

Mary Hermes' research focuses on language revitalization and how it can connect people to the land and the planet. She explores different ways of knowing and being through feminist and indigenous lenses.

Timothy Lensmire Timothy Lensmire

• Professor
• 612-625-2092
• lensmire@umn.edu

Bic Ngo Bic Ngo

• Professor, Rodney S. Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
• 612-625-7520
• bcngo@umn.edu

My research and teaching interests focus on culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education in general, and immigrant education in particular.