Kendra R. Wallace, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

410-455-6570, kendraw@umbc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Social Sciences in Education (Educational Anthropology), Stanford University, 1997.

A.M., International Development Education, Stanford University, 1992.

Research

Trained as an educational anthropologist, my research interests center around topics of diversity in schooling contexts, specifically issues related to identity and processes of cultural transmission in teaching and learning. My educational background spans the areas of anthropology, bilingual education, comparative education, formative evaluation, and curriculum development.

I've written on fostering cultural sensitivity, multiculturalism and challenging racism in educational settings. My recent publication titled Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Mixed Heritage Identities explores ethnoracial identity development across the spheres of home, school, and community among this diverse student population.

Teaching

Since arriving at UMBC in 1997, I've taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Most recently, I've taught social foundations, qualitative research methods in schools and communities, racial/ethnic/and gender diversity in schools, sociocultural approaches to human learning and cognition, and the introductory course to the Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. program.