Notes on Contributors
Editor
Ellis Hurd
is professor of middle level and bilingual education in the School of Teaching and Learning at Illinois State University. He has 20 years of teaching experience in diverse settings across Illinois and Iowa. He has published on teacher, middle grades and bilingual, and urban education, equity and cultural responsiveness, and mixed identities. He is co-editor of Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades. Ellis serves as former chair and a member of the Collaborating Sites Network (CSN) Advisory Committee for the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) and the International Association of Qualitative Inquiry (IAQI). He is also co-editor of Middle School Journal and a member of the AMLE Program Review Board for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). E-mail: ehurd@ilstu.edu
Ellis is also a man of mixed identity. He has lived in the throes of pain and privilege in being a mixed man. As W. Somerset Maugham said:
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives’ tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are and these are things that you can’t come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them. You can only know them if you are them. (Maugham, W. S., 1954, The razor’s edge, p. 2. Garden City, New York: Double Day. [Original work published in 1944])
Authors
Raymond Adams
is assistant professor of social work in the College of Liberal and Performing Arts at Southern Arkansas University. He has 12 years of social work experience in diverse settings across four states. He has a publication (in press) entitled, “Louisiana Black Men at risk for prostate cancer: An Untold Autoethnography” in the Journal of Social Work & Christianity. Raymond is a member of the National Association of Black Social Workers, National Association of Christian Social Workers and the Council of Social Work Education.
E-mail: raymondadams@saumag.edu
Lisa A. Boskovich
is a doctoral candidate in the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University in Orange, CA with an emphasis in Disability Studies. Her research interests include, fathers who have a child on the Autism Spectrum, and the phenomenological master narratives of individuals with learning disabilities. Lisa currently is working as a Research Assistant at The Thompson Policy Institute on Disability and Autism.
E-mail: bosko103@mail.chapman.edu
Iman Fagan
is an undergraduate student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. Iman is a member of the Multicultural Educational Services Alliance at UNLV which works to recruit and provide resources for students of color to college and into teaching as a profession. Following her graduation, she will pursue a career in teaching at the elementary level.
E-mail: fagani@unlv.nevada.edu
Guillermina-Itzel de Gracia
is a specialist in Anthropology, Heritage Education, and Museum Studies. She is a doctoral candidate in History of America at University of Barcelona in Spain. Guillermina has worked as an anthropologist and Deputy Director for Panama’s National Department for Historical Heritage. She was also co-editor of the magazine “Canto Rodado” of the Panama Viejo Patronage. Guillermina is currently an independent consultant in anthropology museum studies, and history, and is a college professor at Quality Leadership University.
E-mail: itzelopez@gmail.com
David I. Hernández-Saca
is assistant professor of Disability Studies in Education within the Department of Special Education at University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Dr. Hernández-Saca’ responsibilities at UNI include undergraduate teacher preparation courses in the areas of post-school transition programming and issues and applications in special education. The nucleus of his research agenda is problematizing the common-sense assumptions of what learning disabilities are.
E-mail: david.hernandez-saca@uni.edu
Mariana León
is a doctoral candidate of Education (Ed.D.) at Johns Hopkins University and serves as Academic Vice President and member of the Board of Directors at Quality Leadership University. She is a member of Global Shapers, a youth leadership initiative of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the Asociación Panameña de Ejecutivos de Empresa (APEDE).
E-mail: mariana.leon@qlu.pa
Susan Y. Leonard
is a doctoral student in the Educational Theory and Practice with emphasis in Middle Grades Education PhD program at the University of Georgia. She has eleven years of teaching experience with young adolescents. In 2015, she was chosen as Teacher of the Year at the middle school where she taught. Her research interests include professional development and critical pedagogies. Susan is a teacher and teacher educator who also serves as Graduate Student Representative for the AERA Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group.
E-mail: susan.leonard@uga.edu
Lynnette Mawhinney
is associate professor and chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on the lives of teacher of color and teacher diversification. She is author of We Got Next: Urban Education and the Next Generation of Black Teachers, There Has to be a Better Way: Lessons from Former Urban Teachers, and co-editor of Teacher Education Across Minority-Serving Institutions: Programs, Policies, and Social Justice.
E-mail: Lynnette@uic.edu
Dian Mitrayani
is a doctoral candidate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Social Foundations of Education program focused on youth leadership and civic engagement. She is an alumnus of the Asian Development Bank scholars and has conducted research & evaluation in the area of youth development and leadership for over 10 years in both US and international settings. She is also a certified Play for Peace trainer and a peace education research evaluator.
E-mail: mitrayani@gmail.com
Anne Ryen
is professor of sociology at University of Agder, Norway, and has been doing research in Tanzania for 25 years on gender issues and fringe benefits in international businesses, and ethnography on Asian business in East-Africa. Her teaching across three continents and publications focus on qualitative methods and research ethics, particularly in cross-cultural contexts. She is former Chair of the European Sociology Association Research Network on Qualitative Research (ESA RN20 QR) and member of the ESA Executive board. She is leader of a research group on cultural sociology.
E-mail: Anne.Ryen@uia.no
Jessica Samuels
is an Academic Success Counselor at the University of Idaho and is the Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education. She holds a BA in Sociology with a Minor in American Indian Studies, a Diversity and Stratification Certificate, and a Master’s of Public Administration. Jessica is a McNair/TRIO Alumni whose research was entitled Changing Directions for Youth and Families: An Interdisciplinary Look at Cultural Advocacy. She is currently a Political Science PhD Candidate and a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated.
E-mail: jsamuels@alumni.uidaho.edu
Cristina Santamaría Graff
is assistant professor of special education, teacher education in the School of Education at Indiana University in Indianapolis (IUPUI). She has been both a bilingual elementary school teacher and a bilingual special educator in school districts with large Latino populations. Though her expertise is in bilingual special education her research focuses on ‘family as faculty’ approaches that position families’ expertise as central to pedagogy in teacher preparation programs. As a self-identified biracial Mexicana, Cristina’s publications center on mixed identities as well as teacher education.
E-mail: santamac@iupui.edu
Hannah R. Stohry
is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership (leadership, culture, and curriculum) at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research interests include: contemplative practices, multiculturalism, third culture kids, intersectionality, humanizing pedagogy, cultural humility, vulnerability, whiteness studies, autoethnography, and mixed identities. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and holds her license in social work with experience working as a home-based family therapist prior to beginning her graduate degree.
E-mail: strohrhr@miamioh.edu
Francisco J. Villegas
is assistant professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Kalamazoo College. He received his PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research focuses on race and migration, particularly the ways boundaries of belonging are defined, maintained, and navigated. His work has ranged from access to schooling for undocumented migrants in Toronto, Canada to the development of a County ID in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
E-mail: francisco.villegas@kzoo.edu
Paloma E. Villegas
is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University San Bernardino. As an interdisciplinary researcher and artist, her work centers the intersection between migrant illegalization, borders, race and gender in North and Latin America. She teaches courses on migration, transnationalism, race, gender, and community engagement.
E-mail: paloma.villegas@csusb.edu
Hwa Pyung Yoo
is a student at Villanova University, pursuing majors in Political Science and Neuroscience with minors in Education Policy and Peace and Justice. He has a wide range of volunteer teaching experiences often working with students in under-resourced areas, and has presented independent and collaborative research projects on international mindedness and contemporary youth activism under Dr. Jerusha Osberg Conner. He comes from an international background as a third culture kid from South Korea and the U.S., and seeks to continue fostering this international identity along with his passion for education pursuing international education development going forward.
E-mail: Yoo.hwapyung@gmail.com