Current Work
Materiality and Education
Currently I am working on a new book proposal about education and materiality. I hope to be able to submit it in late spring of 2024.
Physical Language Learning Spaces
My monograph project entitled Physical Language Learning Spaces in the Digital Age was published with Bloomsbury Academic on February 8, 2024. More info on that project here.
Language Education Summit 2024
On behalf of leadership from language centers and institutes at Michigan State University, the University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, and with funding from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Letters and Science (LAS) Deans, we are pleased to announce the 2024 Big Ten Academic Alliance Language Education Summit. I am excited to be a part of this group of language center leaders planning this event. More information here.
Asymmetrical Course Sharing
As part of the NLRC, we are working on a project to create and research a model of sharing language courses with institutions that are not in consortia or in equal bilateral relationships. More information on this project can be found here.
Enrollments in Language Programs
Another research project is our Undergraduate Enrollment study as well as an edited volume entitled Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education.
Power of Place
I am also excited about the Power of Place project, in which I am conducting expert interviews of college presidents and vice-presidents about the role that place plays in mission design, strategic planning, and overall college development. An overview was recently published as a post “Today’s Colleges and the Power of Place” on the AAUP Blog Academe. We just submitted the manuscript.
LCTL Grant Projects
I am currently the PI and founding Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (NLRC). The center is funded by a Title VI Grant by the U.S. Department of Education. I am also the Co-PI on the 2.5 Million Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which involves a number of projects. Here is more information on that project.
CeLTA Strategic Plan
We are currently finzlaing our 7-year strategic plan for CeLTA. I look forward to making it public soon.