About the Authors

Susan Burch

Susan Burch is an associate professor of history at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. She is currently completing a book on America’s deaf community from 1900 to the Second World War with New York University Press.

Russell Campbell

Russell Campbell was the convener for the Heritage Language Research Priorities Conference. He is former chair of the UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics & TESL and is currently director of the UCLA Language Resource Program. He has collaborated with the Culver City, Los Angeles Unified, and Santa Monica school districts in the establishment and monitoring of one-way and two-way bilingual immersion programs.

Roberto Luis Carrasco

Roberto Luis Carrasco, Ed.D. (Harvard 1985), is an associate professor of bilingual and multicultural education at Northern Arizona University. He received the Outstanding Dissertation Competition Award from the National Association for Bilingual Education (1986). His research publications are in cultural anthropology, the ethnography of communication, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism. Presently, he is the principal investigator of the Whiteriver Apache/NAU Graduate Fellowship and Research Program.

María M. Carreira

María M. Carreira is associate professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches courses in Spanish linguistics and Spanish for native speakers. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Andrea K. Ceppi

Andrea K. Ceppi is a post-doctoral researcher with the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) and a middle school teacher at Santa Monica Alternative School House. Her research focuses on community-based education and cultural influences on learning.

Grace Cho

Grace Cho, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and a coordinator of the Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD) Certificate Program in the Secondary Education Division at California State University, Fullerton. Previously, she taught and supervised student teachers at Biola University and also taught in the California public school system. Her research foci include bilingual education, heritage language development, and multicultural education. She is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the CLAD certificate program. She is trilingual in Korean, Spanish, and English.

Ivonne Heinze Balcazar

Ivonne Heinze Balcazar is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Kansas. Her B.A. and M.A. are in Spanish linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of specialization are childhood bilingualism and the sociolinguistics of Latinos in the United States.

Jo-Anne Lau-Smith

Jo-Anne Lau-Smith teaches educational psychology at the University of Hawai‘i and is an associate researcher with the Center for Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE). She is interested in family involvement in schools and cultural context of education.

Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza

Dr. Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza is an assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics at New Mexico State University. Her research interests include: language use, language attitudes, language policy, education of linguistic minorities, and first and second language acquisition. For the last several years, Dr. MacGregor-Mendoza has also co-chaired the Annual Conference on Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers, held in Las Cruces, NM.

Michele S. Moses

Michele S. Moses is assistant professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in the philosophy of education and education policy analysis. Her research centers on issues of educational equality that affect students of color and poor students.

Florencia Riegelhaupt

Florencia Riegelhaupt, Ph.D. (SUNY Buffalo 1976), is an associate professor of Spanish and educational foundations at Northern Arizona University. She has published numerous sociolinguistic research papers on bilingualism, code switching, Spanish of the Southwest, Spanish for native speakers, and L1/L2 acquisition. Her current work centers on Spanish heritage language and culture acquisition and re-acquisition theory.

Setsue Shibata

Setsue Shibata is an assistant professor of Japanese, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fullerton. Her research interests center on Japanese pedagogy and second language acquisition. She is currently conducting research on computer-assisted language instruction and Japanese education for heritage speakers.

Lois A. Yamauchi

Lois A. Yamauchi is an associate professor at the University of Hawai‘i and a principal researcher with the Center for Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE). She is interested in sociocultural theory and the education of indigenous peoples.