College of Education and Human Development

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Identity and education

Examining how a person's identity in terms of gender, race, class, and community impact their experience of the education system.

Nina Asher Nina Asher

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…

Nina Asher

Martha Bigelow Martha Bigelow

  • Carmen Starkson Campbell Endowed Chair for Innovation in Teacher Development
  • she, her, hers
  • 612-624-7087
  • mbigelow@umn.edu

My research interests span fields of education, applied linguistics, and cultural studies.

Martha Bigelow

Vichet Chhuon Vichet Chhuon

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.

Vichet Chhuon

Colleen Clements Colleen Clements

My teaching and scholarship focuses on the intersection of social class and identity. My teaching interests are in the areas of social class and education, humanizing pedagogy, sociology of education, and critical pedagogy and leadership.

Samuel David Samuel David

My work as both a teacher and researcher at the University of Minnesota are centrally concerned with improving instruction for minoritized multilingual students across diverse classroom contexts.

Samuel David

Jeff Henning-Smith Jeff Henning-Smith

Jeff Henning-Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Elementary Education and Social Studies program areas.

Jeff Henning-Smith

Kendall King Kendall King

  • Professor of Multilingual Education, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Development
  • 612-625-3692
  • kendall@umn.edu

Schools play a crucial role in determining the life trajectories of minoritized language students as well as the status of minoritized languages and the future of linguistic diversity.

Kendall King

Gillian Roehrig Gillian Roehrig

BS Chemistry and Mathematics, University of Southampton, U.K., 1990 MS Chemistry, University of Arizona, 1993 PhD Teaching and Teacher Education (Science Education), 2002 As an advisor, I aspire to support students in becoming independent learners…

Gillian Roehrig

Crystal Wise Crystal Wise

Dr. Wise’s work as a kindergarten and second-grade teacher informs her research and post-secondary teaching in early literacy, culturally responsive pedagogies, and historical and contemporary literacy practices of African Americans.

Crystal Wise

Cynthia Zwicky Cynthia Zwicky

Cynthia Zwicky has been an educator for more than 25 years. In this time she has worked as a classroom teacher, a mentor to new teachers, and as a coordinator for various programs and initiatives, primarily with Minneapolis Public Schools.

Cynthia Zwicky
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