Multicultural & International Curriculum Studies

Education: Ph.D., Sociocultural Studies in Education, University of California, Davis, 2002; M.A., Linguistics, University of California, Davis, 1994; B.A., Hispanic Studies, Vassar College, 1988.

Research Interests: Multiculturalism and multilingualism in schools, society, and especially in demographically-transitioning communities; teacher education and professional development for cultural and linguistic diversity; socioacademic identity formation of transnational U.S. Mexican youth; critical ethnography; cultural studies of science education.

Office: N 165C Lagomarcino Hall
Phone: +1.515.294.4144
Fax: +1.515.294.6206
Email: krbruna@iastate.edu
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URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~krbruna/

Highlighted Publications:

• Richardson Bruna, K.  (2009).  Materializing multiculturalism: Deconstruction and cumulation in teaching language, culture, and non(identity).  Mind, Culture, & Activity 16 (2), pp. 183-190.
• Richardson Bruna, K. & Gomez, K. (Eds.) (2009). The work of language in multicultural classrooms: Talking science, writing science. (In S. Nieto's Language, culture, and teaching series.) New York: Routledge/Taylor Francis.
• Richardson Bruna, K. (2008). Jesús and María in the jungle: Possibility and constraint in the third-shift third space.  Cultural Studies of Science Education 4, pp. 221-237.
• Richardson Bruna, K., Vann, R. & Perales Escudero, M. (2007). What's language got to do with it?: A case study of academic language instruction in a high school 'English Learner Science' classroom. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 6 (1), pp. 36-54.
• Richardson Bruna, K. & Vann, R. (2007). On pigs & packers: Radically contextualizing a practice of science with Mexican immigrant students. Cultural Studies of Science Education 2, pp. 19-59.
• Richardson Bruna, K. (2007). Traveling tags: The informal literacies of Mexican newcomers in and out of the classroom. Linguistics and Education 18 (Special Issue on Transnational Literacies), pp. 232-257.

Professional Experience

• 01/2004-01/2005, Co-Teacher, English Learner Science, "Captainville High School, Captainville, IA." (pseudonyms)
  

• 01/2003-Present, Assistant Professor, Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies            Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, Iowa State University. Ames, IA.
  

• 01/2001-01/2003, Research Scientist, Evaluation of the California Professional Development Institutes for English Learners, Education and Human Development Division, American Institutes for Research, Palo Alto, CA.
  

• 01/1997-01/1999, Field Experience Superviser, Teacher Education Program, University of California, Davis & Department of Bilingual and Multicultural Education, California State University, Sacramento.
  

• 01/1990-01/1991, Billingual Instructional Aide  Elkhorn Village Elementary School, West Sacramento, California. 
  

• 01/1988-01/1989, Program Coordinator, Center for the Study of Human Rights, Comlumbia University

Courses Taught

CI 406, CI 420, CI 520, CI 590F, CI 599I, CI 690F, HPC 690

Current Duties

Honors, Awards, Professional Recognitions

• Early Achievement in Research Award, College of Human Sciences, Iowa State University, 2007
• Outstanding Early Teaching Commendation, College of Education, Iowa State University, 2005

Highlighted Grants and Funded Projects

• 2008 The Carmen Sosa Farming Curriculum Project: A Planning Grant Towards Bridging Informal and Formal Math and Science Education to Enhance Talent Expansion and Teacher Performance and Recruitment in Iowa¹s Demographically-Transitioning Communities.  Iowa Math and Science Educational Partnership, $49, 085.
• 2007 Iowa Administrators¹ and Educators¹ Immersion Experience 2007-8: Villachuato, México.  Iowa Department of Education, $18,030.
• 2004-6 Enhancing Science Instruction for ELLs in Iowa. Iowa Department of Education, $70,000.
• 2004 An Exploratory Study of the Conceptualization and Implementation of Math- and Science-Related Academic Language Instruction for Iowa¹s Language Minority Students.  Iowa State University Special Research Initiation Grant, $12,367.

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