Urban Research Seminar - Tracing the Specter of Semilingualism in Bilingual Education Policy

The NYU Urban Initiative presents Nelson Flores, Ph.D, in a line up of eminent international scholars for this year’s multidisciplinary Urban Research Seminar.  This event series is open to the greater NYU community in an effort to integrate NYU's faculty and students with a keen interest in cities.

Nelson Flores is an associate professor of educational linguistics at the University of

Pennsylvania. His research examines the intersection of language, race, and the political

economy in shaping U.S. educational policies and practices. His current research projects include

a longitudinal study of students in a dual language charter school in a predominately low-income

Latinx area of Philadelphia that seeks to challenge deficit perspectives by documenting the

complex linguistic practices these students engage in on a daily basis and a book project that

examines the institutionalization of bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights era. Dr. Flores

has been the recipient of many academic awards including the 2017 AERA Bilingual Education

SIG Early Career Award, a 2017 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the 2019 James Atlas

Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. He also serves on

several editorial boards including The International Journal of the Sociology of Language,

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and Multilingua.