Language, Literacy, and Culture Faculty

Baquedano-López, Patricia	Patricia Baquedano-López's interests include the study of language socialization, classroom discourse, learning, and literacy practices in schools, after-school programs, and home and work communities. Her research is ethnographic and uses discourse analytic methods to investigate the ways in which language can be a resource for learning and for developing academic literacies. Her research ...
Cziko, Christine	Christine Cziko is the coordinator of the Multicultural Urban Secondary English (MUSE) Master’s and Credential Program. She has taught in public middle and high schools for 25 years. She is a teacher consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project and for the Strategic Literacy Initiative at WestEd. She is particularly interested in supporting secondary students to become engaged, fluent, and com ...
Eidman-Aadahl, Elyse	Elyse Eidman-Aadahl is co-director of the National Writing Project, where she manages national programs as well as several national/international action research projects. Her research interests include the design and experience of professional learning communities; practitioner inquiry in the U.S. and abroad; and the relationship between practitioner knowledge, policy work, and public engagement ...
Freedman, Sarah	Sarah Warshauer Freedman studies the teaching and learning of written language, as well as ways English is taught in schools. She has worked with teacher researchers in urban, multicultural settings. For this work, she and her collaborators won the Multicultural Book Award from the National Association of Multicultural Educators for the book Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multic ...
Hull, Glynda	Glynda Hull's research interests include writing in and out of schools; multi-media technology and new literacies; adult learning and work; and community, school, and university collaborations. In 2003 she received the Berkeley campus's Distinguished Teaching Award. She has twice received the Richard Braddock Memorial Award for the best article of the year in College Composition and Communication ...
Kramsch, Claire	Claire Kramsch’s area of research is applied linguistics and second language acquisition, as well as language pedagogy. She is the director of the Berkeley Language Center. In 2000 she received both UCBerkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Modern Language Association. In 1998 the Federal Republic of Germany bestowed on her the Goethe Medal in ...
Mahiri, Jabari	Jabari Mahiri's research is on the literacy learning of urban youth--particularly African American students--in schools and outside of them. His focus is on writing development and effective teaching and learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities. He is co-director of the Center for Urban Education and a principal investigator for the Diversity Project. He is also an Academ ...
Pearson, P.	P. David Pearson’s research interests include practice and policy in literacy instruction and assessment. A member of the National Academy of Education, he is a former dean of the College of Education of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also co-directed the Center for the Study of Reading. Before coming to Berkeley he was the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of E ...
Sterling, Richard	Richard Sterling is the executive director of the National Writing Project. Formerly he was a faculty member at Lehman College, where he was also director and founder of the Institute for Literacy Studies, a research unit of CUNY. He also directed and founded the New York City Writing Project and the New York City Mathematics Project. In 1992 he received a grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’ ...
Sterponi, Laura
Tateishi, Carol	Carol Tateishi is the director of the Bay Area Writing Project, a UC Berkeley program dedicated to improving the teaching of writing in Bay Area schools, kindergarten through college, and enhancing the role of successful classroom teachers. She oversees close to 70 programs for 2,000 teachers each year, and summer writing programs for 400 students. She is interested in writing pedagogy, teacher de ...
Van Rheenen, Derek	Derek Van Rheenen’s research interests include literacy development in non-school settings, the connections between sports and learning, and the history of intercollegiate athletics in the American university system. A former Academic All-American and professional soccer player, Van Rheenen teaches courses on sport, culture, and education. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Dissertation Awar ...