Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Professor, Teaching/Learning and Sociocultural Studies | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Associate Professor, American Indian Studies-GIDP
Leisy T. Wyman is a faculty member in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies, and an affiliate faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona (UA). Trained in language, literacy and policy, as well as cultural and social anthropology at Stanford University, she has worked for close to 20 years with Yup’ik Eskimo communities in Alaska. Since 2005, she has also worked with Indigenous educators and scholars as a faculty member and/or guest speaker of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) at the University of Arizona.