Cory Buckband

I earned my Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Arizona State University in 2024. Before pursuing my doctorate, I taught 8th-12th grade social studies in Arizona with diverse groups of multilingual, multicultural, and transnational students. Motivated to conduct research that advances social and educational justice, my scholarship brings anthropological and applied linguistic lenses to explore how education policies shape teaching, learning, and opportunity in Dual Language Bilingual Education and other multilingual schooling contexts. I am particularly interested in using critical qualitative methods to explore how bilingual educators, school leaders, and students resist and transform marginalizing and oppressive policies and discourses about minoritized students and communities.

My research interests include: Educational Language Policy; Language Ideology and Raciolinguistics; Dual Language Bilingual Education; Trilingual Education; Multilingual Learners; Educator Agency; Social Justice-Oriented School Leadership; Translanguaging; Neoliberalism; School Choice and Charter Schooling; Critical Ethnography; Critical Discourse Analysis; Geospatial Methods (GIS).