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Angela Booker
Dr. Angela Booker’s research explores the ways youth, families, and schools make use of media and technology for participation, learning, and community development.
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Tom Humphries
Dr. Tom Humphries' research interests include communication and culture, deaf education, bilingual education, deaf studies, second language learning/teaching.
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Carol Padden
Dr. Carol Padden’s research interests include language, communication, and culture –focusing mostly on American Sign Language (ASL).
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Christo Sims
Dr. Christo Sims studies the relationship between changing media technologies, learning, and equity – specifically among children and young people coming of age in the United States.
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Stefan Tanaka
Dr. Stefan Tanaka’s earlier work focused on the ways that history, pasts, and time were configured to define Japan's world and itself. Recently that inquiry has shifted to history as a technology of communication. This shift to history as media opens an inquiry into different ways that historical knowledge, categories, and practices are both tied to particular literary systems and might change in the digital age.
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Olga Vásquez
Dr. Olga Vásquez's research examines the intersection of literacy, language, and culture in intercultural settings. Specifically, her work covers bilingual education, culturally responsive curriculum, and access to educational resources by underrepresented groups. Currently, she is involved in the study of sustainable innovative educational activities that provide a range of literacy activities through computer and telecommunication technology.