Leisy T Wyman, Ph.D.

Current Research

She currently serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology and Education Quarterly and the Journal of American Indian Education, and reviews scholarly papers for journals in anthropology and education, bilingual education and bilingualism, and for the National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science program and Division of Research on Learning. Her books to date and works in progress include Youth Culture and Linguistic Survivance, (forthcoming, Multilingual Matters), a co-edited journal issue on Indigenous youth bilingualism for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education, a co-edited book on Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism in dynamic worlds (under review, Routledge), and Qipnermiut Egmirtellrit, a co-edited volume of Yup’ik elders’ narratives in two Yup’ik orthographies (Alaska Native Language Center). Her research appears in multiple edited volumes, including the Handbook of Research on Literacy and Diversity (Morrow, Rueda & Lapp, eds. Guilford Press, 2009), and the Companion to Anthropology and Education (Levinson and Pollock, eds., Wiley-Blackwell, in press), as well as International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Journal of American Indian Education, Gifted Child Quarterly, and World Studies in Education