Co-Program Chairs: Sharon Chang
Associate Professor of Teaching
Coordinator, Student Teaching/Practicum
Program Director, Bilingual/Bicultural Education
Department of Arts & Humanities
Teachers College, Columbia University
scc2168@tc.columbia.edu

Dr. Sharon Chang is an associate professor of teaching, coordinator of student teaching/practicum, and director in the Bilingual/Bicultural Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Using cultural historical activity theory, Dr. Chang's research investigates the educational inequities in language learning and supports teacher development in multicultural and bilingual settings to promote ethnolinguistic diversity.

Selected Publications:

Chang, S. (2024). Developing bilingual preservice teachers' transformative agency. Teaching and Teacher Education, 137. Article Number 104405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104405
Chang, S. (2024). Bilingual teachers' personal theorizing through art-mediated visual metaphors. Cogent Education, 11(1), 1- 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2380629

Co-Program Chairs: Na Lor

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education
Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis
Teachers College, Columbia University
nl2831@tc.columbia.edu

Dr. Na Lor is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teaches Qualitative Inquiry, Multi and Mixed Methods Research, Sociology of Knowledge, and Sociology of Higher Education. Lor’s research leverages multiple methods and Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) to examine education policies, practices, and pedagogies. Her most recent project “Shifting Spaces and Places” examines how white students and students of color navigate, negotiate, and make meaning of ethnic studies when required as part of the core college curriculum with the aim of (a) improving ethnic studies teaching and learning and (b) measuring ethnic studies curricular contents, classroom contexts, and student backgrounds prior to (c) assessing ethnic studies policy impact. In this line of inquiry, Lor draws upon sociocultural concepts, such as collective memory, collective remembering, and prolepsis to frame her work, anchoring her research in CHAT perspectives to bring forth transformation of self, society, and educational systems in service to equity.

Select Publications:

Lor, N, Gonzalez, T., Pacheco, M., Hong, J., & Roberts, K. (Forthcoming). Revisiting, Rewriting, and Re-imagining Education Across Spatial and Temporal Systems. Bloomsbury Handbook of Cultural Historical Research.

Pacheco, M., Gonzalez, T., Lor, N., Hong, J., & Roberts, K. (2025). Reimagining social futures: Sociocritical literacies among bi/multilingual youth. Journal of Literacy Research.