LLSS Program Faculty - College of Education

Program Coordinator, Educational Thought & Sociocultural Studies
RICKY LEE ALLEN • • • • •
Associate Professor, Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies

Office: Hokona Hall 209
Telephone: 505-277-7247
E-mail: rlallen@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., UCLA
Background: Secondary science teacher.
Research Interests: Sociology of education; critical studies of whiteness; critical race theory; and critical pedagogy.
Scholarship Interests: Theoretical aspects of these areas, most specifically on the racial politics of critical educational and social thought.
Courses: Whiteness Seminar; Critical Race Theory; Seminar in Educational Studies; Paulo Freire; and Philosophy of Education.

REBECCA BLUM MARTINEZ • • • • •

Professor, Bilingual/ESL
Director, Latin American Programs in Education (LAPE)

Office: Hokona Hall 248
Telephone: 505-277-4972
E-mail: rebeccab@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of California Berkeley
Background: ESL/Bilingual teacher in New Mexico and Mexico.
Research Interests: Bilingualism; second language acquisition; language maintenance and use in immigrant and indigenous communities.
Courses: ESL Methods; Research Issues in Bilingual Classrooms & Communities; 1st & 2nd Language Development; La Ensenanza de la Lectoescritura; Naturalistic Inquiry; Dual Language Immersion Programs.

GREG CAJETE • • • • •
Associate Professor, American Indian Education
Director of Native American Studies

Office: Mesa Vista Hall 3080
Telephone: 505-277-3917
E-mail: Gcajete@aol.com
Education: Ph.D., International College Los Angeles
Background: Secondary and adult education; social science education.
Research Interests: Indigenous science/culturally based curricula; arts in education; multicultural environmental education; creative teaching/learning; transformational education.
Courses: Environmental Science for the Elementary Teacher; Science in Native American Education; Art in Native American Education; Educational Foundations of Native American Studies; Teaching the Native American Child; American Indian Leadership Studies and the Building of Native Nations; The Culturally-Based Curriculum; Theoretical Models of Curriculum for Community and Environmental Renewal; The Pedagogy of Native American Games.

J. ANNE CALHOON • • • • •
Associate Professor, Literacy and Language Arts

Office: Hokona Hall 246
Telephone: 505-277-9601
E-mail: acalhoon@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., Marquette University
Background: English and choral music teacher; elementary classroom teacher K-3; learning/reading specialist; LD/MR advocate.
Research Interests: Cognitive processes in early literacy development; developmental aspects of learning and their social construction.
Courses: Teaching of Reading; Oral and Written Language.

SYLVIA CELEDON-PATTICHIS • • • • •
Associate Professor, Bilingual/ESL

Office: Hokona Hall 232
Telephone: 505-277-2536
E-mail: sceledon@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Background: Curriculum and instruction (bilingual and mathematics education)
Research Interests: Linguistic and cultural influences on the teaching and learning of mathematics by second language learners and/or minority student populations; a recent interest involves the study of my daughter's language acquisition of Spanish, Greek, and English.
Courses: Seminar in the Education of the Bilingual Student; Supervision of Student Teachers; History and Theory of Bilingual Education; Teaching Issues in Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies; Language, Culture, and Mathematics; Teaching Mathematics in Elementary School; Master's Seminar in LLSS (CIMTE 590).

ELAINE DANIELS • • • • •
Lecturer, Literacy and Language Arts

Office: Hokona 281
Phone: 505 277-0577
Email: edaniel1@unm.edu
Education: M.A., Northwestern University
Background: Teaching middle level language arts and literacy in public schools; pre-service education (graduate and undergraduate), literacy courses, program development, and student advising; staff member at The Walloon Institute for teachers; educational consultant for PBS and BBC on the development of the young children’s program “Animalia.”
Research Interests: Literature circles; reading and writing in the content areas; children and adolescent literature; letter writing in the classroom; reading and writing process.
Courses: Children’s Literature; Adolescent Literature; Reading and Writing in the Content Fields; Reading, Writing, and Diversity.

Program Coordinator, Bilingual/ESL
HOLBROOK MAHN • • • • •
Associate Professor, Bilingual/ESL

Office: Hokona Hall 212
Telephone: 505-277-5887
E-mail: hmahn@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Background: Taught high school in inner city schools in Los Angeles for five years before coming to UNM.
Research Interests: ESL literacy and language acquisition; Vygotskian theory; professional development for practicing teachers.
Courses: Second Language Literacy; Teaching English as a Second Language; Literacy Across Cultures; Educating Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students; Vygotsky Seminar.

Program Coordinator, American Indian Education
KATHRYN MANUELITO • • • • •
Associate Professor, Bilingual Education/American Indian Education
Coordinator, Institute for American Indian Education

Office: Hokona Hall 202
Telephone: 505-277-1832
E-mail: kathrynm@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University
Background: Elementary, Secondary, Bilingual, and Indian Education.
Research Interests: Indigenous and Bilingual Education.
Courses: Seminar in Language and Literacy in Indigenous Communities; Theoretical and Cultural Foundations of Bilingual Education; Education Across Cultures in the Southwest.

Program Coordinator, Social Studies
GLENABAH MARTINEZ • • • • •
Associate Professor, Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies

Office: Hokona Hall 206
Telephone: 505-277-6047
E-mail: glenie@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Background: Rio Grande High School social studies teacher; former director and instructor of Native American Studies at UNM; curriculum writer.
Research Interests: Critical educational studies; historical literacy; Indigenous studies.
Courses: Sociocultural Foundations of Education; Sociology of Education; History of Education; Native American Studies; Secondary Social Studies Methods; School and Society; Comparative Education.

LOIS MEYER • • • • •
Associate Professor, Bilingual/ESL

Office: Hokona Hall 267
Telephone: 505-277-7244
E-mail: lsmeyer@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, UCLA
Background: ESL/Bilingual teacher, program coordinator, and curriculum specialist in California and Mexico; professor of elementary education, San Francisco State University.
Research Interests: Second language acquisition; bilingualism and bilingual education; teacher preparation and curriculum development for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms; language policy in Mexico and the U.S.; the ethnography of indigenous bilingual education in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Courses: ESL Methods; History and Theory of Bilingual Education; Curriculum Development for Multicultural Education; Seminar in Issues of Language and Literacy.

RICK MEYER • • • • •
Professor, Literacy and Language Arts

Office: Hokona Hall 256
Telephone: 505-277-6376
E-mail: rmeyer@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Background: Reading; taught primary grades for 16 years; grades 4-6 and high school teaching experience (Upward Bound Program).
Research Interests: Emerging literacy, school-based inquiry; teacher study groups; written language; intertextuality; politics of teaching and learning.
Courses: Family Literacy; Reading Seminar; Written Language Development; Critical Literacy; High Desert Writing Project director/instructor for coursework.

ELIZABETH (BETSY) NOLL • • • • •
Associate Professor, Literacy and Language Arts
Associate Dean, COE

Office: Travelstead Hall
Telephone: 505-277-9610
E-mail: enoll@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Background: Taught language arts, reading, & other subjects at the middle school level for 16 years; have lived and taught overseas.
Research Interests: Literacy, culture, & schooling; academic writing; children's, adolescent, & multicultural literature.
Courses: Teaching of Oral & Written Language; Topics in Academic Writing; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Case Study Methodology.

LEROY ORTIZ • • • • •
Associate Professor, Bilingual/ESL
Director of Multicultural Education Center

Office: Hokona Hall 153
Telephone: 505-277-7768
E-mail: leroyo@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Background: Native New Mexican, having grown up in Santa Fe, New Mexico; taught Navajo children for 4 years in Chinle, Arizona and Crownpoint, New Mexico; director of Special Education for 14 school districts in Colorado (2 years); spent a summer studying in Universidad Autonoma, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Research Interests: Language education; bilingualism; sociolinguistics and literacy development; teacher education; curriculum and instruction in bilingual/multicultural education.
Courses: Seminar in the Education of Bilingual Students; Curriculum Development in Multicultural Education; Social Studies Education.

TRYPHENIA B. PEELE-EADY • • • • •
Assistant Professor, Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies

Office: Hokona Hall 210
Telephone: 505-277-5221
E-mail: tbpeele@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, Anthropology and Linguistics
Background: Elementary classroom teacher; ethnographer.
Research Interests: Qualitative and ethnographic research; education of African American children in school and non-school community settings; teaching and learning practices in the African American community.
Courses: Introduction to Qualitative Research Mehods; Advanced Qualitative Research Methods; Education and Arican American Children; Education and Anthropology; Ethnography; Discourse Analysis.

Program Coordinator, Literacy and Language Arts
LUCRETIA (PENNY) PENCE • • • • •
Associate Professor, Literacy and Language Arts

Office: Hokona Hall 201
Telephone: 505-277-6959
E-mail: ppence@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Background: Middle school teacher for 18 years; worked for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium as a consultant on teacher assessment.
Research Interests: Assessment and culture; composing; applications of literacy theory in the classroom
Courses: Teaching of Writing; Teaching of English; Sex and Gender in Education; Teaching of Literature; Creative Drama.

SHANNON C. REIERSON • • • • •
Lecturer III, Bilingual/ESL

Office: Hokona Hall 144B
Telephone: 505-277-1825
E-mail: sreiers@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Background: ESL teacher in New Mexico and bilingual teacher in Honduras.
Research Interests: Bilingualism; second language learning and use in sociocultural contexts; immigrant and international education; social justice and language teaching/learning.
Courses: Theoretical and Cultural Foundations of Bilingual Education; ESL Across the Content Areas; Literacy Across Cultures; Education Across Cultures in the Southwest; 2nd Language Literacy; Educating Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

CHRIS SIMS • • • • •
Assistant Professor, Educational Linguistics/American Indian Education

Office: Hokona Hall 216
Telephone: 505-277-3175
E-mail: simsacoma@aol.com
Education: Ph.D., University of California Berkeley
Background: Joint appointment with LLSS and Linguistics.
Research Interests: Keresan languages; language policy and planning; language pedagogy.
Courses: Issues in Language Literacy Sociocultural Studies; Curriculum Development Native American communities; Language & Education in SW Native American Communities.

YOO KYUNG SUNG • • • • •
Assistant Professor, Literacy and Language Arts

Office: Hokona Hall 208
Telephone: 505-277-1411
E-mail: yookyung@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Background: Early childhood educator; children's literature and media specialist.
Research Interests: Politics in children's literature; cultural studies; immigration literature and young readers; ideology and identity in language studies; postcolonial studies and children’s literature; translation studies and international children’s literature.
Courses: Children’s Literature; Seminar in Children’s Literature.

NIEVES G. TORRES • • • • •
Lecturer III
Director, Plaza Comunitaria Adult Education
Coordinator, Family Literacy Program

Office: Hokona Hall 150
Telephone: 277-9612
E-mail: nieves1@unm.edu
Education: Ed. D., University of New Mexico
Background: Bilingual/ ESL elementary and middle school teacher; supervisor and mentor to bilingual K teachers; Director of Parent Programs for school districts, projects, and for MALDEF. Research Interests: Adult education, validating, and reframing negative experiences of unschooled individuals, advocacy, and social justice.
Courses: ECME 217 Practicum Lab.
Programs: Director of the Plaza Comunitaria Adult Education, Coordinator of the COE Family Literacy Program.

RUTH TRINIDAD GALVAN • • • • •
Associate Professor, Educational Thought & Sociocultural Studies

Office: Hokona Hall 203
Telephone: 505-277-0094
E-mail: trinidad@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Utah
Background: Adult ESL instructor and elementary bilingual teacher in Los Angles inner city schools.
Research Interests: Global, transmigrant, and transnational issues of Latin American immigrants; Latina education in the U.S.; womanist/feminist epistemologies and pedagogies.
Courses: Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogies; Perspectives on Sex and Gender in Education; Latino/a Identities & Schooling; Introduction to Qualitative Research; Anthropology of Education.

Coordinator, LLSS Ph.D. Program
DON ZANCANELLA • • • • •
Professor, Literacy and Language Arts
Department Chair, LLSS

Office: Hokona Hall 143
Telephone: 505-277-7782
E-mail: zanc@unm.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Missouri
Background: High school and middle school language arts teacher
Research Interests: Teaching & learning of literature; English language arts curriculum; writing in literary forms.
Courses: Teaching of English; Studies in Reading & Literature; Studies in Rhetoric Composition; Seminar in English Curriculum & Instruction; Literature for Adolescents; Teaching of Writing.