Curriculum & Instruction Assistant Professor Idalia Nunez has been recognized with three awards in 2019 for her recent outstanding dissertation.
At their annual conference in Orlando, FL, Nunez received a dissertation award from the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
Nunez also received two dissertation awards at the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting in Toronto, ON, Canada: one from the Bilingual Education Research SIG and one from the Latina/o/x Research Issues SIG.
She gave a talk at AERA based on her dissertation, titled, Literacies of Surveillance: Transfronterizx Children Translanguaging Identity Across Borders, Inspectors, and Surveillance.
Her disseration abstract says her research, "is a multiple case-study focused on the everyday language and literacy practices of three transfronterizx children—children who experience life on both sides of the U.S.-México border—in order to understand how children “read and wrote” themselves as constantly surveilled subjects. This study considered the impact of the physical and figurative borders to the ways children authored who they were across spaces to meet academic, cultural, and familial demands. The findings revealed that transfronterizx children dealt with national, academic, and cultural surveillance on a daily basis that required for them to develop literacies of surveillance to make decisions on their translanguaging. This study challenges deficit perspectives associated to transfronterizx children, families, and communities and offers important theoretical and actionable contributions that can transform educational settings to become spaces that support all students and their bi(multi)lingual experiences."
Congratulations to Dr. Nunez on these awards!
