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Dr. Amanda Morales is an associate professor of multicultural and multilingual education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research addresses issues of equity and access for minoritized students across the PK-20 education continuum. More specifically, her current work focuses on teacher diversification pathways, teacher preparation for working with (im)migrant, multilingual, and minoritized students, critical mentoring for teachers of Color (TOCs), as well as the lived experiences of pre-service and in-service TOCs in predominately White institutions. She has won national research awards from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, the American Education Research Association, and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Association. Amanda teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on multicultural education, intercultural communication, and critical, de-colonial/anti-colonial theories in education.
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Dr. Ted Hamann is a professor of teaching, learning, and teacher education at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His primary scholarly interests are in three overlapping areas: (1) how transnational movement of students and families is responded to by schools (particularly movement between the U.S. and Latin America); (2) how educational policies are cultural productions transformed in their conversion to practice (particularly collaboration across tiers of the educational system, like state departments of education working with schools); and (3) how school reform is/is not responsive to various student populations (particularly transnationally mobile students and English language learners).
In the autumn of 2019, as a highlight of 25 years of studying the circumstances, aspirations, and challenges of transnational students, Dr. Hamann served as a Fulbright Garcia-Robles US Scholar at the Tijuana campus (Unidad 022) of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional where he studied binational higher education collaborations intended to better prepare educators in both the US and Mexico to serve student with school experience in the other country.