Curriculum 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…

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.

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.

Susan Staats Susan Staats

• Professor
• she, her, hers
• 612-625-7820
• staats@umn.edu

As a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching responsibilities in mathematics, my academic pathway is varied and unusual.