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2021 Penn Graduate School of Education Faculty Recognition Awards

This year, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) is honoring faculty members for their service to students. This award goes to faculty who have gone above and beyond to assist, support, and/or mentor students during this academic year. Those honorees are:

caption: Yumi Matsumotocaption: Rand QuinnYumi Matsumoto, an assistant professor in the educational linguistics division, is an expert on English as a lingua franca—a shared language used among speakers with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. She is particularly interested in how multilingual speakers use multimodal communication practices—such as gestures, laughter, and actions—to resolve miscommunication. Dr. Matsumoto is also interested in studying how second language teachers develop professionally through the lens of sociocultural theory.

Rand Quinn, an associate professor in the division of teaching, learning and leadership, is affiliated with the division’s educational leadership program. He is a faculty affiliate with the educational policy division and the education, culture, and society program and is a senior researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education. Dr. Quinn teaches courses on the politics, organization, and leadership of education.

caption: Sharon Ravitchcaption: Amy StornaiuoloSharon M. Ravitch is a professor of practice in the teaching, learning and leadership division. She is the principal investigator of Semillas Digitales, a school-based program in the coffee-producing regions of Nicaragua that aims to give students digital literacy. Dr. Ravitch’s scholarship integrates the fields of education, qualitative research, educational anthropology, human and organizational development, psychology, and business. Dr. Ravitch earned two master’s degrees from Harvard University and received a Fulbright Fellowship. She has published seven books.

Amy Stornaiuolo, an associate professor in the division of literacy, culture and international education, examines adolescents’ multimodal composing practices, teachers’ uses of digital technologies, and shifting relationships between authors and audiences in online, networked spaces. More broadly, her work centers on how to create equitable and accessible learning opportunities for young people by examining how they draw on diverse cultural and linguistic repertoires as they participate in richly literate lives. In prior work, Dr. Stornaiuolo has taught post-secondary composition and reading at the college level and conducted research on reading/writing relationships, the social construction of remediation, and learning transfer across contexts.

caption: Krystal StrongKrystal Strong is an assistant professor in the literacy, culture, and international education division. Dr. Strong’s research and teaching focus on student and community activism, the cultural and political power of youth, new media and popular culture, and the role of education as a site of political struggle, with a geographic focus on Africa and the African Diaspora. As a scholar and active organizer in the city of Philadelphia, her hometown, Dr. Strong brings a commitment to local communities and the lessons of activism to bear on her scholarship and pedagogy.

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