Profile

Leah Duran

Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Associate Professor, Teaching/Learning and Sociocultural Studies | Member of the Graduate Faculty

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Grants(5)

'We the People': Migrant Waves in the Making of America
Active·2022·$62.7K / $190K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
migration, american history, cultural diversity, sociology, immigration policy
"We the People": Building Salas de Libros to Explore the Migrant Waves in Our Nation's History
2022·$22.8K / $69K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
migrant waves, history, community integration, education, cultural diversity
National Endowment for the Arts: NEA Big Read: Tucson 2022-2023
2022·$5K / $19.9K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
literature, community engagement, arts funding, cultural program, education
We The People: Migrant Waves in the Making of America
2020·$57.7K / $175K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
migration, american history, cultural diversity, social integration, demographics
2019 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
2020·$70K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
education, postdoctoral, fellowship, academic, research

Publications(28)

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Introduction to Literacy Histories in the United States

2025

literacy, historical, united states, education, literacy development

Names y nombres: Names as gateways to biliteracy in multilingual early childhood classrooms

2024

bilingualism, early childhood education, language development, multilingualism, literacy

Exploring and Expanding Literacy Histories of the United States: A Spotlight on Under-Recognized Histories

2024

united states

13" PANDEMIC AS PORTAL" IN EARLY EDUCATION

2023

pandemic, early education, impact, technology, learning

Recipes as invitations to read, write, and play in preschool

2023

literacy, early childhood education, play-based learning, storytelling

Walls, Bridges, Borders, Papers: Civic Literacy in the Borderlands

2022

civic literacy, borders, cultural identity, education, social justice

Making sense of reading’s forever wars

2022

reading comprehension, war literature, conflict analysis, trauma studies, narrative interpretation

A historical inquiry into bilingual reading textbooks: Coloniality and biliteracy at the turn of the 20th century

2021

bilingual education, colonial education, historical education, biliteracy, textbook development

“Todas las poems que están creative”: Language ideologies, writing and bilingual children

2020

language ideologies, bilingual children, writing, creative

Where everyday translanguaging meets academic writing: Exploring tensions and generative connections for bilingual latina/o/x students

2019

translanguaging, academic writing, bilingual students, tensions, generative connections

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Leah Duran

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Erin Turner

Iliana Reyes

Katharine Zeiders

Carol Brochin

Andrea Romero