Assistant Professor Esther June Kim named co-PI on $3.5M Spencer Foundation Grant
Summary
The Spencer Foundation has awarded a $3.5 million Transformative Research Grant to a multidisciplinary team that will transform how Asian American Studies is taught in K-12 classrooms.
Full Description
The Spencer Foundation has awarded a $3.5 million Transformative Research Grant to a multidisciplinary team conducting a large-scale study on community-driven initiatives to teach Asian American Studies in K-12 classrooms. Spencer’s Transformative Research Grant (TRG) funds innovative, methodologically diverse, interdisciplinary, collaborative research on education with the goal of transforming education systems for equity. TRGs focus on projects of up to five years in duration that identify a clear challenge, problem or opportunity of equity in education and will have transformative, system-level impacts.
The awarded team includes scholars with diverse methodological and disciplinary expertise, including ethnic studies, curriculum studies, K-12 policy, learning sciences, case study analysis, survey methodology, and network analysis. The team consists of Principal Investigator Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, at Michigan State University, and Co-PIs Sohyun An, at Kennesaw State University; Esther Kim, at William and Mary; Soo-yong Byun at The Pennsylvania State University; Michael Brown, at University of Michigan; and Jennifer Higgs at University of California, Davis.
