Dr. Madina Djuraeva
- she/her
- Teacher Education, Assistant Professor
General Information
Biography
Dr. Djuraeva is an Assistant Professor of ESL, Bilingual and Biliteracy Education. Her research focuses on sociocultural, educational, economic, and politico-historical discourses of becoming and being multilingual, with implications for multilingual learner education and teacher preparation. Her work has been published in World Englishes, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, International Multilingual Research Journal,and Language Policy. Dr. Djuraeva earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and M.A. from the English Department at the University Wisconsin – Madison. A polyglot (Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Kazakh, Korean, and Spanish) and a former Fulbright recipient, she is originally from Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate courses: Introduction to ESL Equity, Language and Cultural Literacy Graduate courses: Language, Culture, and Power Linguistic Human Rights in Education
Research Interests
Multilingual Learner EducationTeacher EducationMultilingualismPeace and Literacy EducationLanguage PolicyDiscourse and Narrative Analysis
Service Summary
Professional ServiceAffiliate Faculty, Center for Peace and Development, University of OklahomaHonorary Fellow, Center for Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian StudiesReviewer, Linguistic AnthropologyReviewer, Linguistics and the Human Sciences Entering the Academic Job Market Advisor to UNL Ph.D. student Uma GanesanFaculty Mentor to Mihaela Iorga, Visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Portsmouth, UKInstitutional ServiceDepartment levelSecondary Graduate CommitteeTED Program and Research Collaboration CommitteeMetro Area Teachers of English Language Learners Advisory CommitteeUniversity levelORCA Faculty Advisory CommitteeWorldwide Family Student Organization AdvisorFaculty Mentor to Mihaela Iorga, Visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Portsmouth, UKCommunity ServiceMy Culture, Benson High School, Omaha 2022Metro Area Teachers of English Language Learners Advisory Committee