Lisa Weems to replace Nelson Rodriguez as respondent
For personal reasons, Nelson Rodriguez will not be responding to Kevin Kumashiro’s keynote address at 7:30pm, Saturday, Oct. 18. The Bergamo leadership group is instead excited to welcome Dr. Lisa Weems as respondent.
Dr. Weems is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Curriculum at Miami University. She received a Ph.D. from the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Ohio State University, and served as Director of Miami University’s Center for Education and Cultural Studies from 2003 to 2006. Her areas of teaching interest include cultural studies, popular culture, and public life, as well as feminist and postcolonial approaches to inquiry. Dr. Weems’ body of scholarship, which includes publications in Educational Researcher, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Journal of Teacher Education, is distinguished by innovative and challenging discussions of the intersections of race, nationality and sexuality in the construction of public/educational “problems” and the ethical dimensions of teaching and learning with/in difference.