SAVE THE DATE!
RILE WINTER 2022 LECTURE SERIES

Greetings!

We hope you are doing well. In preparation for the new year, we're excited to announce our Winter 2022 RILE Speaker Series. Each year, the RILE program brings in top scholars from across the country to visit and share emerging research on race, inequality, and language in education. Beginning in January, we will have an extraordinary group of scholars who will be sharing their work either virtually or in person. We hope you will join us.
 
Save the Date!
Friday, January 7th
Dr. Alfredo Artiles
12-1pm PST
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Dr. Alfredo J. Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. His interdisciplinary scholarship examines the dual nature of disability as an object of protection and a tool of stratification. He aims to understand how responses to disability intersections with race, language, gender and social class advance or hinder educational opportunities for disparate groups of students.
Thursday, February 3rd
Dr. Bryan Brown
12-1pm PST
Dr. Bryan Brown
Stanford University

Bryan A. Brown is a professor of teacher education. His research interest explores the relationship between student identity, discourse, classroom culture, and academic achievement in science education. He focuses on the social connotations and cultural politics of science discourse in small-group and whole-group interaction. Additionally, his research work in science education examines how teacher and student discourse serve to shape learning opportunities for students in science classrooms. Dr. Brown's work in science education in urban communities focuses on developing collaborative curricular cycles and classroom pedagogy based on developing discourse intensive instruction for urban learners. His research has expanded beyond his focus on science education, to include issues of college access in urban communities.His recent work explores how classroom and school culture shapes access to higher education. He conducts mixed methodological work exploring how race, language, and culture impact students learning in urban science classrooms. (more).
Thursday, February 10th
Anne Charity Hudley
3-4pm PST
Dr. Anne Charity Hudley
Stanford University

Anne H. Charity Hudley, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and African-American Studies and Linguistics, by courtesy at Stanford University. She is the co-author of numerous publications and four books: The Indispensable Guide to Undergraduate Research, We Do Language: English Language Variation in the Secondary English Classroom, Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools, and Talking College Making Space for Black Language Practices in Higher Education.
Thursday, March 3rd
Panel on Indigenous Education
3-4pm PST
Dr. Teresa McCarty
University of California, Los Angeles

Teresa L. McCarty is an educational anthropologist whose work focuses on Indigenous education and language education policy. She is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. A Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, and International Centre for Language Revitalisation, she has also been the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the School for Advanced Research. (more).
Dr. Tiffany Lee
University of New Mexico

Tiffany S. Lee (Diné/Lakota) is Chair of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Stanford in 1999. Her research examines Native youth perspectives of language learning and the impact of language immersion, particularly in Diné settings. Her research examines Native youth perspectives with regard to language reclamation and identity. She also investigates socio-culturally centered educational approaches.   
Dr. Sheilah Nicholas
University of Arizona

Sheilah E. Nicholas is a member of the Hopi Tribe located in Arizona. She is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies (TLSS) at the University of Arizona (UA). She teaches courses in Indigenous Culture-Based Education, Language and Culture, Oral Traditions, Language Minority Education, and Teacher Research. She is also a Faculty Instructor for the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) and Immersion Instructor-Consultant for the Indigenous Language Institute, Sante Fe, NM. (more).
Dr. Stephanie Waterman
University of Toronto

Stephanie Waterman is interested in how university staff support college students, Indigenous methodologies, critical race theories, and Indigenous geographies. Her research focus has been about Native American/Indigenous college student experiences. she has also turned her attention to institutions - how do First Nations/Native American student affairs units work? How do they support Indigenous students and how do they intersect with non-Indigenous based units on campus? (more).