Graduate Programs of StudyBilingual/Bicultural Education ProgramFaculty
Sonia Soltero has a PhD in Bilingual Education and an EdS in Biliteracy Studies from the University of Arizona. She was an elementary bilingual teacher for fourteen years: in Arizona she taught Yaqui Native American children and in Chicago Public Schools she taught Latino and African American children. Her areas of expertise are in biliteracy, bilingual teacher preparation, dual language education, and second language curriculum. She is also interested in language policy and the sociopolitics of minority language education. Contact information: 773-325-4788 or send e-mail Jason Goulah is Assistant Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education at DePaul University and Director of Japanese Credit Abroad with Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota. From 2000-2007, Dr. Goulah was a language instructor (Japanese, ESL, and Russian) and Co-Director of the Academy of International Studies at North Tonawanda High School in North Tonawanda, New York. In 2005, Dr. Goulah served as an adjunct in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo in New York and, from 2000-2001, as Senior Lecturer of Japanese at Niagara University in New York. He taught English in Japan from 1995-1999.
Dr. Goulah earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Second and Foreign Language Education, an M.Ed. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and a B.A. in Japanese and Russian: Languages and Cultural Studies at the University at Buffalo; the first American graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University School of Law (Japan), Dr. Goulah earned an LL.M. in Fundamental Laws in 1999. From 2004-2005, Dr. Goulah served as a researcher on Buddhism and Japanese secular law for the Law and Buddhism Project with the University at Buffalo Law School 's Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
Dr. Goulah's research interests include transformative second and foreign language learning, Makiguchian and sociocultural approaches to learning and development, educating immigrant students from the Former Soviet Union, and language, identity and new literacies. His research articles have appeared in journals such as Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Foreign Language Annals, and Journal of Transformative Education. He is married to Maimi Hirano.
Katie Van Sluys has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Indiana. Contact information: 773-325-7668 or send e-mail Advisor |