Leisy Thornton Wyman - Assistant Professor


Ph.D., Stanford University

Leisy Thornton Wyman (Ph.D., Stanford University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture, and is affiliated faculty with the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program. Her research focuses on how identities, ideologies and patterns of community bilingualism intersect in formal and informal education, and she specializes in Indigenous education.

Over the past decade, she has worked with students, families, elders and educators in Yup'ik villages in southwestern Alaska on community-based education, heritage language loss/maintenance, and language documentation. Her teaching focuses on language and culture, bilingualism, American Indian/Native Alaskan education, anthropology of education/qualitative methods, and language planning and policy.

Syllabus

LRC 504 - Language and Culture in Education

LRC 605 - Qualitative Methods in Education