Tisha Ellison
Mentor:Gwendolyn McMillon
Tisha Lewis Ellison is an assistant professor in Language and Literacy at Georgia State University. Her research interests explore how agency, identity, and power among African American families are constructed as they use digital tools to make sense of their lives. She was the 2012 recipient of the NCTE Promising Researcher Award, a finalist of the 2011 IRA Outstanding Dissertation Award, and a former fellow of the NCTE Research Foundation’s Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Program. She was a recipient of the J. Michael Parker Award and is currently serving as a board member. She is an editorial review board member for the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Literacy Research Association Yearbook, and Reading Horizons. She is also a journal reviewer for the LRAArea 7 and Qualitative Research. Her current research study: Dig-A-Fam: Families’ Digital Storytelling Project, funded by the NCTE Research Foundation Grant, explores the digital stories, practices, and experiences of African American parents and youth. Her work has appeared in the Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Education, Literacy Research Association Yearbook, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Language Arts, Journal of E-Learning and Digital Media and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.Seemi Aziz
Mentor: MarÃa Fránquiz
Seemi Aziz is a visiting and adjunct assistant professor in Global Cultures, Literacy, and Literature in the Department of Teaching and Learning and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include children’s and young adult literature, issues of representation and religious freedom, and arts and visual cultural analysis in education. She has published in Journal of Children’s Literature, School Library Journal, and the 58th Yearbook of the National Reading Council.
Carol Brochin
Mentor: MarÃa Fránquiz
Carol Brochin is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual/Multicultural Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies at the University of Arizona. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a language arts and literacy teacher in her hometown Laredo, Texas located on the US/Mexico border. It was in this transnational, multilingual context that she cultivated her research and teaching interests in preparing teachers to develop pedagogical practices that affirm the literacy practices of diverse students across educational settings. Her research interests include teacher education and preparation, LGBTQ and bilingual literature for youth, and multimodal literacies. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women, the Texas Education Agency, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Association for the Study of Higher Education/Lumina Foundation, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Prior to joining the College of Education, she was an Assistant Professor of Literacy and English Education at the University of Texas at El Paso where she also directed the West Texas Writing Project (2012-2014). She received her Ph.D. (2010) in Culture, Literacy and Language from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Yoo Kyung Sung
Mentor: Kathy Au
Yoo Kyung Sung is an assistant professor of literacy and language arts at University of New Mexico. Her research interests includepolitics 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. She has published in the Journal of Children’s Literature and Bookbird: Journal of International Children’s Literature.
