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FULL-TIME FACULTY

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Lilia I. Bartolomé, Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture, Stanford University. Areas of expertise: language and literacy development, multicultural education and bilingual education, qualitative research methods.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 75
Office Hours: Wednesday 6:40- 7:40pm and by appointment
Email: lilia.bartolome@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5762

 

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Corinne Etienne, Assistant Professor
 Ph.D.in French Linguistics, Indiana University. Areas of expertise: language contacts and language attitudes in Creole speaking areas (in particular Haiti), foreign language pedagogy, and teacher cognition.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 77
Office Hours: Monday & Tuesday 5pm- 6:30pm, and by appointment
Email: corinne.etienne@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6750

 

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Panayota Gounari, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania State University. Areas of expertise: cultural studies in education, critical pedagogy, language and literacy education, bilingualism, language and literacy, technology in language education and psycholinguistics.

Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 81
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 2pm- 3:30pm and by appointment.
Email: panagiota.gounari@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5765
Website: http://www.faculty.umb.edu/panagiota_gounari/

 

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Pepi Leistyna, Associate Professor
Ed.D in Teaching and Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Areas of Interest: Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and Media Literacy.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 78
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00- 4:30pm, Wednesday 5:30- 7pm and by appointment
Email: Pleistyna@hotmail.com
Tel: 617-287-6737

 

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Donaldo Macedo, Department Chair ( Sabbatical )

Ph.D., Ed.D. in Language Behavior/ Applied Psycholinguistics, Boston University. Areas of expertise: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics and contrastive analysis.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 80
Office Hours:
Email: donaldo.macedo@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5760

 

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Charles Meyer, Acting Department Chair

Areas of expertise.: general linguistics, structure of the English Language, corpus linguistics, history of the English language, and English as a world language.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 68
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30- 3:30pm and by appt.
Email: meyer@cs.umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6748

 

   

Candace Mitchell, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, Boston University. Areas of expertise: linguistics, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, theories, principles, methods and approaches for teaching ESL, and cross-cultural communication.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 79
Office Hours: Monday 1:45-3:45pm and by appt.
Email: candace.mitchell@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6741


ADJUNCT FACULTY

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Mary Cazabon, Lecturer
Ed.D. in Leadership in Urban Schools, University of Massachusetts Boston. Areas of expertise: Innovative bilingual education, urban schools,writing theories, principles, and testing in second language instruction
Office location: Cambridge Public Schools Bilingual Office
Tel: 617-2349-6400
Email: mar.caz@verizon.net

 

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Tim Sieber, Professor of Anthropology

Ph.D. Anthropology, New York University
Areas of Expertise: Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education, cross cultural perspectives.
Office Location: McCormack Bldg., 4th floor, Room 437
Tel: 617-287-6853
Email: tim.sieber@umb.edu

 

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George Smith, Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Virginia. Areas of expertise: linguistics, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.

Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 104
Email: gwsmith010@yahoo.com

 

 OFFICE STAFF

Michele Ladanyi  

Michele Ladanyi, Program Coordinator
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 103
Email: michele.ladanyi@umb.edu
Phone:  617-287-5760

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Elizabeth Cobb, Staff Assistant                                                     Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 104
Email: elizabeth.cobb@umb.edu                                                    Phone:  617-287-5761