FACULTY & STAFF DIRECTORY
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Nina Asher
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EDUCATION:
Educational Background: Ed.D. -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1999.
M.Ed. -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1990.
M.A. (Social Work) -- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India, 1986.
B.A. (Psychology) -- The University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1984.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Areas of scholarship
Postcolonial and feminist theory
Multiculturalism
Asian American education
Specific focus on
Identity, culture, and curriculum
Intersections of race-class-gender/sexuality in diverse contexts
Critical and self-reflexive approaches in teacher education
Theory and practice in curriculum and teaching
PUBLICATIONS
Asher, N. (2007). Made in the (multicultural) U.S.A.: Unpacking tensions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality in education. Educational Researcher, 36(2), 65-73.
Asher, N. (2006). Brown in black and white: On being a South Asian woman academic. In G. Li & G.H. Beckett (Eds.), “Strangers” of the academy: Asian women scholars in higher education. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
Asher, N. (2006). Review of Sounds of silence breaking: Women, autobiography, curriculum. Teachers College Record. Retrieved August 17, 2006, from http://www.tcrecord.org. ID: 12670.
Asher, N. (2005). At the interstices: Engaging postcolonial and feminist perspectives for a multicultural education pedagogy in the South. Teachers College Record, 107(5), 1079-1106.
Asher, N. (2005). Review of Crossing borderlands: Composition and postcolonial studies. (Invited book review). Teachers College Record Volume 107 Number 11, 2005, p- http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number 11830, Date Accessed: 4/25/2005 6:12:25 PM.
Asher, N., & Haj-Broussard, M. (2004). It is not resolved yet: When a Louisiana French Immersion activist engages postcolonial, feminist theory (or vice versa). In R. Gaztambide-Fernández & J. T. Sears (Eds.), Curriculum work as a public moral enterprise (pp. 97-107). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
PRESENTATIONS
Asher, N. (2006, September). Writing home/decolonizing text(s). Paper presented at the Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Asher, N. (2006, May). Decolonizing the curriculum of self and other, “at home” and elsewhere. In N. Asher (Chair), “Coming home” to worldliness: The curriculum of self, place, and difference. Panel conducted at the annual meeting of the International
Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Tampere, Finland.
Asher, N. (2006, April). Confronting the border: Challenging lessons for educators on the road. In R. Fruja (Chair), Decolonial, Neocolonial, postcolonial: Beyond critical theory. Panel conducted at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
Asher, N. (2006, April). Queer narratives of sameness and belonging: Rethinking home/place and curriculum. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
Asher, N. (2006, March). Mestiza speak: Engendering diaspora. Presented in LSU Women’s and Gender Studies Panel, “Gender and Diaspora,” Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Asher, N. (2006, February). Decolonizing curriculum. Paper presented at conference Articulating the Present (Next) Moment in Curriculum Studies: The Post-Reconceptualization Generations, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Asher, N. (April, 2005). Made in the (multicultural) U.S.A.: Unpacking tensions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality in education. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the AERA, Montréal, Canada.
Asher, N., & Whitlock, R. U. (March, 2005). Yearning: The uneasy homeplace between self and difference. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Studies Association, Montréal, Canada.
Asher, N., & Whitlock, R. U. (March, 2005). (Dis)Locating homes: Self, place, and difference. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Southwestern Women’s and Gender Studies Association, New Orleans, LA.
Asher, N. (March, 2005). Unpack(ag)ing multiculturalism: Engaging the intersections of race, culture, gender, and sexuality in education. Paper presented at the First International Conference on Globalization, Diversity, and Education, Pullman, WA.
Asher, N. (October, 2004). Queering multicultural teacher education in the Deep South. Paper presented at the Bergamo 2004: JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio.
Curriculum Vitae
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In the news
College of Education Faculty Present at the 2008 AERA Conference in NY
Endowed & Emeritus Professors Recognized
More than 200 Attend Teaching the Levees Curriculum Event
Article Selected for Publication in Australia
Nina Asher Studies Multicultural Education
Asher Named Outstanding Reviewer
Professor to Serve as Journal Book Review Editor
** Note: For a more complete listing of faculty publications, presentations, awards, and outreach, please visit our annual reports page.
