Language and Social Justice on the Border
Dr. Richard Ruiz is Head of the Department of Mexican American Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Science and Professor in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. In addition, he has faculty affiliations in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and in the Program on Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. He is recognized internationally for his research and scholarship in language planning and policy development. He has been a consultant to the governments of Mexico, Australia, Guatemala, Bolivia, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Netherlands Antilles (Aruba and Curaçao), Israel, South Africa, and native communities in the United States and Canada.
Thursday, November 6, 2014 | 5:30-6:30pm | 101 Herter