Bio
My primary areas of research include literacy studies and adolescent literacies and socialization in and out of schools; language and culture and sociolinguistic analyses; linguistic anthropology; anthropology and education; cross-cultural studies; immigrant communities in the US and Europe; youth cultures; Middle Eastern populations in the US, including fieldwork and research in Yemeni and Iraqi communities; ethnography and qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, language and gender in education; education policy and social analysis. I have a courtesy appointment in the Department of Anthropology, and I am affiliated with the Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools, the Quantitative, Qualitative, and Measurement in Education Program and, Women and Gender Studies. I am the author All American Yemeni Girls: Being Muslim in an American Public School (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) as well as numerous research articles and book chapters in education and anthropology, and I serve on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Literacy Research and Research in the Teaching of English. I also review, amongst several other journals and agencies, for Ethos, Sociology of Education, and NSF's Cultural Anthropology Program, and I am the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished College of Education and Human Sciences Teaching Award.