April 1: Robert Jimenez

Professor of Education, Peabody College

Vanderbilt University

Mesoamerican Literacies:

Indigenous Writing Systems and Contemporary Possibilities

 

6:15pm

Location To Be Determined

pizza and drinks provided

 

Robert T. Jiménez is currently Professor of Education in Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. He first became interested in the literacy of Latino students as a bilingual education teacher working with migrant agricultural worker children. He received his B.A. from the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Currently, he is directing the Teaching English Language Learners program at Peabody and working as an editor of the National Reading Conference Yearbook. He recently examined the literacy practices found within a central Mexican community and he is now interested in transnational and community-based immigrant literacy practices. His work has been recognized with a García Robles Fulbright Fellowship to Mexico and the Albert J. Harris Award for research on struggling readers. He previously served as a faculty member at the University of Oregon and the University of Illinois. He is also editor of the book, Race, Ethnicity, and Education: Language and Literacy in Schools (2006).