Standing Committees
CAE Commitees are organized by subject area. Committees work within CAE and other sections to advance research and practice in their area, including proposing and and sponsoring sessions at the AAA Annual Meeting. Each committee holds a business meeting at the Annual Meeting to plan for the next year. Joining a committee is a good way to become involved with CAE, meet other scholars with similar research or teaching interests, and learn how anthropology and education intersect.
- Mission Committee
- Committee 1: Ethnographic Approaches to Schools and their Communities
- Commitee 2: Social and Cultural Contexts of Language, Literacy and Cognition
- Committee 3: Anthropology of Post-Secondary Education
- Committee 4: Ethnographic Approaches to Evaluation in Education
- Committee 5: Transnational Issues in Education and Change
- Committee 6: Multicultural and Multilingual Education
- Committee 7: Blacks in Education
- Committee 8: Latinos and Education
- Committee 9: Gender in Schools and Society
- Committee 10: Culture, Ecology, and Education
- Committee 11: Applied Work for Educational Futures
- Committee 12: Study of Cultural Transmission/Acquisition
- Committee 13: Indigenous Education
- Committee 14: Participatory Research and Evaluation for Youth, Schools, and Communities
Co-Chair
Yuko Okubo
National University of Singapore
Department of Sociology
AS1 #03-06, 11 Arts Link
Singapore 117570
yukoo@sbcglobal.net
Co-Chair
Marta Baltodano
Loyola Marymount University
School of Education
One LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
mbaltoda@lmu.edu
Committee #1
Ethnographic Approaches to Schools and their Communities
Committee 1 suports the mission of CAE in promoting social justice for historically marginalized groups and promoting collaborative work among academics and practitioners in local schools and other spaces.
Chair
Janet Hecsh
California State University, Sacramento
College of Education
Department of Teacher Education
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6079
Phone: (916) 278-7226
Fax: (916) 278-6643
jhecsh@csus.edu
Co-chair
Kathryn Hayes
Sacramento State University
College of Education
Sacramento, CA 95819-6079
rio@internet49.com
Committee #2
Social and Cultural Contexts of Language, Literacy and Cognition
In their research in language, literacy and learning, members of Committee 2 are dedicated to examining issues of power, cultural forms, and social processes. Members reject the claim of a single literacy (associated in large measure with "schooled literacy") but rather recognize multiple literacies. Much of the research of the members analyzes the roles of literacies in the formation of identity, including the analysis of how people in their everyday practice take up/contend with official literacies. Similary, our members engage in the study of language as situated within the contested spaces of power, across various institutional and community setitngs. A commitment to racial and social justice is an essential part of our research, collaboration, and advocacy.
Chair
Doris Warriner
Arizona State University
Division of Curriculum and Instruction
PO Box 872011
Tempe, AZ 85287-2011
Phone: (480) 727-6967
doris.warriner@asu.edu
Co-Chair
Omaia Dessureault
University of Arizona
Department of Language, Reading and Culture
PO Box 210069
Tucson, AZ, 85721-0069
Phone: (520) 248-8678
omaiad@email.arizona.edu
Committee #3
Anthropology of Post-Secondary Education
Committee 3 focuses its work on practices of teaching and learning and organizational cultures related to post-secondary institutional settings. In this we bring the fine-grained approach of ethnographic methods to what is otherwise almost exclusively studied in a quantitative and structural manner. Our work highlights social justice issues laid out in the CAE mission.
Chair
Carol B. Brandt
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Department of Teaching and Learning
313 War Memorial Hall (0313)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231-8495
cbbrandt@vt.edu
Co-Chair
Shabana Mir
Oklahoma State University
Qualitative Inquiry and Social Foundations
Willard Hall 213, Monroe Avenue
Stillwater, OK 74074
Phone: (405) 744-2016
shabana.mir@okstate.edu
Committee #4
Ethnographic Approaches to Evaluation in Education
As evaluators grapple with mechanisms for producing effective evaluations with meaningful results, ethnographic methods hold great promise. We seek to explore promising practices, “trouble” existing paradigms and processes, and create dialogue around what it means to do work that is both public and personal, engaged with social and racial justice, and which occupies an intricate web of contested terrain(s). We especially welcome contributions from diverse practitioners, evaluation participants, collaborators, advocates, and other stakeholders to illuminate our collective and individual work and experience.
Co-chair
Sally A. Campbell Galman
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
School of Education
111 Furcolo Hall
813 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: (413) 545 4247
sally@educ.umass.edu
Co-chair
Clara A Martinez
Naco Research Institute
PO Box 417
Mancos, CO 81328
Phone: (970) 533-7805
Fax: (970) 533-7805
camtz@fone.net
Committee #5
Transnational Issues in Education and Change
Chair
Rob Whitman
University of Southern Maine
College of Education and Human Development
Literacy Education Program
37 College Ave. Bailey Hall
Gorham, ME 07038
Phone: (207) 780-5400
rwhitman@usm.maine.edu
Committee #6
Multicultural and Multilingual Education
Chair
Marilee Coles-Ritchie
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Box 306A
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Mcoles65@gmail.com
Co-Chair
Ali Michael
University of Pennsylvania
Phone: (608) 335-2162
Ali.s.michael@gmail.com
Committee #7
Blacks in Education
Chair
Antwi (A.A.) Akom
Cesar Chavez Public Policy Institute
San Francisco State University
Department of Africana Studies
3004 16th St. Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94103-3462
Phone: (415) 522-5025
Fax: (415) 522-5899
akom@sfsu.edu
Co-Chair
Adrienne Dixson
Ohio State University
School of Teaching and Learning
33 Arps Hall
1945 N. High St
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 247-8461
Fax: (614) 292-7695
dixson.1@osu.edu
Committee #8
Latinos and Education
This committee's work addresses immigrant and non-dominant English-speaking linguistic communities, issues of power and language, and the continued segregation of Latino students in schools. These research lines are our response to issues of racial and social equity and justice in schools and communities.
Co-Chair
Lucila Ek
University of Texas, San Antonio
Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
1 UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Phone: (210) 458-5962
Lucila.ek@utsa.edu
Co-Chair
Cindy Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Education
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: (831) 459-1843
ccruz3@ucsc.edu
Committee#9
Gender in Schools and Society
This Committee addresses critical examinations of gender and gender equity in schools and society.
Chair
Yenhoa Ching
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Education
Social and Cultural Studies
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (815) 708-9677
yenhoaching@gmail.com
Committee #10
Culture, Ecology, and Education
Chair
Fida Adely
Georgetown University
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
114 ICC Bldg
37th + O Sreets NW
Washington, DC 20057-1020
Phone: (202) 687-8192
Fax: (202) 687-7001
Fja25@georgetown.edu
Commitee #11
Applied Work for Educational Futures
Chair
Mariann Skahan
University of New Mexico
Department of Anthropology
Anthropology Building, Room 240
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 277-4524
Fax: (505) 277-0874
E-mail: mariann@unm.edu
Committee #12
Study of Cultural Transmission/Acquisition
Committe 12 focuses on culture learning as well as culture acquisition and culture transmission in and out of school; its interest and effort are not limited to school-age populations, but also include life-long culture learning in various institutional contexts, and in societal settings within and outside the U.S.
Co-chair
Michele Verma
Chao Center for Asian Studies MS-47
110 Rayzor Hall
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005-1892
Phone: (713) 348-8083
mlm2004@columbia.edu
Co-chair
Ojeya Cruz Banks
Ojeya.cruzbanks@otugo.ac.nz
Co-Chair
Steve Borish
California State, East Bay
Department of Human Development
Hayward, CA 94542
Phone: (510) 885-3598
Steven.borish@csueastbay.edu
Committee #13
Indigenous Education
Co-Chair
Walkie Charles
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 750143
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Phone: (907) 474-7170
ffwc@uaf.edu
Co-Chair
Dorothy Aguilera
Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education & Counseling
Educational Leadership
Portland, OR 97219
Phone: (720) 862-5822
Aguilera@lclark.edu
Co-Chair
Sheryl Ludwig
Adams State College
Teacher Education Department
ES-202
Alamosa, CO 81102
Phone: (719) 587-7361
sherylludwig@adams.edu
Committee # 14
Participatory Research and Evaluation for Youth, Schools and Communities
This committee ensures a yearly national venue for participatory research and evaluation methods among youth, schools, and marginalized communities by institutionalizing this praxis-based methodology and pedagogy within AAA and guaranteeing space and time within the CAE program for annual meetings. Members of this committee do work that involves students, teachers, parents, and community members in participatory action research (PAR) on and evaluation of the policy decisions, and institutional and community practices that affect them.
Co-Chair
Julio Cammarota
University of Arizona
Mexican American Studies and Research Center
P.O. Box 210023
Tucson, AZ 85721-0023
Phone: (520) 621-1037
julioc@email.arizona.edu
Co-Chair
Chiara Cannella
University of Arizona
Department of Language, Reading, and Culture
P.O. Box 210069
Tucson, AZ 85721-0069
Phone: (520) 621-1311
cannella@email.arizona.edu
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Last Update: March 9, 2009