Four doctoral students in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction were awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (DDF) by the University of Minnesota Graduate School. The fellowship gives the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time and funding to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

The recipients of the DDF in Curriculum and Instruction include:

Leah Shepard-Carey, Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Education Thesis: “Sustaining Multilingualism in English-Medium Elementary Classrooms: A Collaborative Exploration of Translanguaging Literacy Pedagogies.” Advised by Martha Bigelow and Lori Helman.

Younkyung Hong, Ph.D. candidate in Elementary Education

Thesis:  “A Phenomenological Exploration of the Hegemonic Insider-Outsider in Teacher Education.” Advised by Annie Mason and Mark Vagle.

Cory Mathieu, Ph.D candidate in Second Language Education

Thesis: Redesigning Materials for Content and Language Integration in Secondary Dual Language and Immersion: A Design-Based Research.” Advised by Diane Tedick. 

Ryan Oto, Ph.D. candidate in Social Studies Education

Thesis: ‘Why work here? This place is so ghetto’: Portraits of teaching with and for racial justice in an urban school.” Advised by J.B. Mayo.

Find out more about doctoral programs in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.