364 Huntington Hall (Tom Green Room)

Cultural Foundations of Education master's student Alessa Garland-Smith will defend their thesis entitled "Shifting Educational Inequity to Education Equity: Bringing Hope to Our Urban Youth." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Kelsey John will defend their dissertation entitled "What Can łį́į́ʼ (the Navajo horse) teach us about decolonizing education?" All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Azam Nastasi will defend their dissertation entitled "We Know? Now What? Teaching, Learning, (Un)Knowing and Educating Toward Epistemic Justice." All are welcome to attend.

Special Education doctoral candidate Chelsea Tracy-Bronson will defend her dissertation entitled "Inclusive Education in Practice: District-Level Special Education Administrators' Leadership." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Yvonne Perez Lopez will defend her dissertation entitled "Mestizaje Ideology as Color-Blind Racism: Students' Discourses of Colorism and Racism in Mexico." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Peter Smith will defend their dissertation entitled "Opportunity, but at what cost? The experiences of African-American parents in a predominantly white school." All are welcome to attend.

Higher Education doctoral candidate Staci Weber will defend their dissertation entitled "'My Training Wheels Are Off:' How First Generation College Students Make Meaning of the Influence of Their College Access and Support Programs." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Jianping Xu will defend their dissertation entitled "Living on a watermelon rind: Chinese academic migrants in the U.S. and their suburban weekend Chinese school." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Lauren Shallish will defend her dissertation entitled "Is Disability a Diversity Issue?: Disability Workers and the Construction of Disability in Higher Education." All are welcome to attend.

Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation doctoral candidate Leigh Tolley will defend her dissertation entitled "Assessing Formative Assessment: An Examination of Secondary English/Language Arts Teachers' Practices." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Yuan Dickerson will defend her dissertation entitled "Chinese Female Graduate Students on US Campuses: Negotiating Classroom Silence and the Leftover Woman and the Good Woman Discourses." All are welcome to attend.

Teaching and Curriculum doctoral candidate Ardyth Watson will defend their dissertation entitled "How 'Global' is the Global History We Teach?: Secondary Social Studies Teachers' Understandings of Global Education." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Meredith Madden will defend their dissertation entitled "Claiming Knowledge, Claiming Lives: Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and the Experiences of Community College Students." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Ashley Taylor will defend their dissertation entitled "Beyond Able-Minded Citizenship: Embracing Intellectual Ability Differences in Democratic Education." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Peter Gerlach will defend their dissertation entitled "'We're All Horacians:' Listening to International Students at an American Liberal Arts College." All are welcome to attend.

Higher Education doctoral candidate Tamara Durant will defend their dissertation entitled "Is Faith on the College Tour? Rural, Public College Students' Exploration of Spirituality and Religious Identity." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Heidi Pitzer will defend their dissertation entitled "Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work, and the Blame Game." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Melissa Smith will defend their dissertation entitled "Teacher Allies: An Exploration of the Professional Experiences of Teachers who Support LGBTQ Students." All are welcome to attend.

Cultural Foundations of Education doctoral candidate Nicole Nguyen will defend their dissertation entitled "Schools under Siege: U.S. Public Schooling in Neoliberal Times of War." All are welcome to attend.