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
erica_hodgin@facinghistory.org
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