Ellen Middaugh, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at San José State University. She is co-PI for the CLARION (Civic Literacy, Action, & Reasoning in Online Networks) project, conducting research on youth civic development and engagement in the digital age. She previously served as Research Director for the Mills College Civic Engagement Research Group in Oakland, California and Senior Researcher with the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics . She is co-Editor of the volume #youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital Age (with Ben Kirshner). Recent publications include More than just facts: Promoting civic media literacy in the era of outrage and Did you know?!...Cultivating online public voice in youth (with Chris Evans).
ellen.middaugh@sjsu.edu
Dr. Marta Estellés is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research analyses educational policies, discourses, and curricula and their implications for democratic education. Her research draws from a variety of disciplines, including sociology of education, curriculum and policy studies, social studies education, social theory, history and philosophy. Over the past four years, she has been the principal investigator of a project funded by the Spencer Foundation that explores the increasing confluence of safety and citizenship discourses in educational debates. Dr. Estellés has also led Arts Beyond Borders, a project funded by the NZ National Commission for UNESCO to develop teaching resources aimed at engaging young people in global issues through the arts.
During her career, Dr. Estellés has received several awards and appointments, including Best Conference Paper Award by the AERA Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG, Research Excellence Award by the Division of Education and best dissertation in Humanities by the University of Cantabria. She has previously been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and Arizona State University. Dr. Estellés has published articles in Journal of Teacher Education, Globalisation, Societies and Education, Review of Education, Discourse and Compare. Her book The Safetyfication of Education: Neoliberalism, Psychopolitics and the End of Critical Education has recently been published by Bloomsbury Academic.
marta.estelles@waikato.ac.nz
Hillary Parkhouse, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education. Her research focuses on how teacher education and professional development can support culturally relevant education and sociopolitical consciousness for teachers and students. She also studies critical civic education and global awareness for social justice. These research interests stem from her experiences teaching high school social studies, English as a Second Language, and literature in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Dr. Parkhouse and her co-authors, Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, Jocelyn Glazier, and J. Montana Cain, published the book Becoming a Globally Competent Teacher (ASCD, 2019). Dr. Parkhouse has also published articles in Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Educational Researcher, and Review of Educational Research. She currently teaches courses on multilingual learners, bilingual education, curriculum development, and teacher education.
heparkhouse@vcu.edu