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Selected Consulting Projects
2004 "The Impact of Bilingual Education on
Identity and Inter-Ethnic
Relations Among Elementary and High School Students"
Client: New Mexico Urban School District
Bilingual education has been used as an appropriate means of
instruction for language minorities. Besides the linguistic and
academic benefits of bilingual instruction scholars, teachers, and
policy makers cite the cultural benefits of bilingual education as
one of its assets. However, the cultural benefits of bilingual
instruction on the attitudes of language minority students are
rarely investigated. This project constitues the first phase of a
longitudinal study. The purpose of the
project is to: 1) document and explain the efforts of an elementary
bilingual school at easing the tensions between Chicano and Mexicano
students, and 2) document and explain the long-term effects of
bilingual education on Latino high school students who participated
in two types of bilingual instruction in fourth and fifth-grades.
2000 “Bilingual Education and Identity,” New Mexican Urban Elementary School
Education
2003 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of New Mexico
1997 M.A., Anthropology, University of New Mexico
1991 B.A., Anthropology, Lawrence University
Selected Publications
Forthcoming “Una antropóloga ingrata/An Ungrateful Anthropologist Speaks Out.” Ingrates at the Gate: People of Color in Higher Education Talk Back. Ed., Patti Duncan.
2004 Book Review I am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children
in
the Borderlands. Norma González. Tucson: The University of Arizona
Press, 2001. Journal of Anthropological Research 60: 278-279.
2002 “Bilingual Education and Identity Debates in New Mexico: Constructing and Contesting Nationalism and Ethnicity.” Journal of the Southwest 44 (1): 61-78.
Selected Presentations
2004 "Researching from the Inside: Stories About a Latina
Anthropologist." Paper Presented at the First Annual Women of Color
Mixed H/E/R (Heritage, Ethnicity, Race) Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2003 "Language, Identity, and 'Poofy Hair:' Native Anthropology as a
Form of Advocacy." Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
2003 "Ser de aquí o ser de allá:" Language, Ethnicity, and Race in
Dual Language and Bilingual Resource Classrooms." Paper presented at
the
La Cosecha Dual Language Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2002 “Adventures of 'Poofy Hair Girl:' Reflections on Insider Research in a School Located in the Borderlands,” 10th Inter-American Symposium on Ethnographic and Qualitative Research in Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
2002 “I'm Mexican, I'm Mexican-American: Conflicting and Oppositional Identities in a Bilingual School,” 23rd Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2000 “Constructing Ethnic Identity in the Borderlands: Ethnic Labeling Among New Mexican Middle School Students,” 21st Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Dr. Mariela Nuñez-Janes