Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education
University of South Florida
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I am a linguistic anthropologist of education broadly interested in the relationships between language, race, migration, labor, and schooling as they shape the social futures of youth and young adults in global school-to-work, college and career readiness, and workforce development programs. I use ethnography, participatory action research, and discourse analysis to understand how access to education and employment are positioned in relation to social justice, exploring the inequitable spatial, ethnoracial, gendered, legal, and class-based factors that shape young people’s livelihoods. I have explored these topics in relation to bilingual education programs in the United States as well as through youth workforce development initiatives in the Caribbean. I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on the historical and legal foundations of bilingual education in the United States as well as biliteracy and bilingual language development. I currently teach undergraduate social foundations courses focused on education, diversity, and global society as well as schools and U.S. society.
Research Interests
- Bilingual education
- Language and education
- Language and migration
- Language ideology
- Language, labor, and political economy
- Youth language and literacy practices
Selected Relevant Publications
- Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Ortiz, L. (2022). Layering Caribbean texts and modalities: Relational pedagogies for secondary language arts classrooms. archipelagos, 6. https://archipelagosjournal.org/fr/issue06/hamm-rodriguez-ortiz-layering.html
- Snow Balderas, M., Hamm-Rodríguez, M., Santiago Schwarz, V., & Gort, M. (2022). Resisting high stakes educational reform through genre writing in a multilingual classroom. Language Arts, 99(3), 179-191.
- Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Medina, C. (2021). Intra-Caribbean solidarities and the language of social protest. Applied Linguistics, 42(6), 1138-1143.
- Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Sambolín Morales, A. (2021). (Re)producing insecurity for Puerto Rican students in Florida schools: A raciolinguistic perspective on English-only policies. CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 33(1), 112-131.
- Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Veras, C. (2021). Education in the Dominican Republic. In S. Jornitz & M. Parreira do Amaral. Global Education Systems. The Education Systems of the Americas. Springer Publishing.
Hamm-Rodríguez, M. & Sambolín Morales, A. (2018). The effects of displacement on Puerto Rican K-12 students in Florida after Hurricane Maria. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center. https://hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-report/the-effects-of-displacement-on-puerto-rican-k-12-students-in-florida-after-hurricane-maria