Cristina Fanning

Associate Director/Instructor
Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy

Bluemont Hall 234
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7685
cris@ksu.edu

Education
Ph.D. Kansas State University in progress Curriculum and Instruction
B.A. Kansas State University 2000 Social Sciences, History
M.S. Kansas State University Secondary Education/ESL

Professional Experience
Associate Director/Instructor, CIMA, Kansas State University 2005-present
Director, College for Kids Program, Grantwood AEA, Cedar Rapids, IA 2003-2005
Project Manager/Instructor, CIMA, Kansas State University 2001-2003
Program Manager, ESL Program, Kansas State University 1999-2001

Primary Teaching Responsibilities
English as a Second Language Distance Education courses
EDCI 731 ESL Linguistics (on-campus courses)
EDCI 740 Culture and Language in Classroom Practice (on-campus courses)

Research and Academic Interests
Investigation of school curriculum using the interpretive community of Critical Race Theory
Organizations that have had drastic implicit and explicit changes in cultural and societal realities using a phenomenology/ethnographic approach
Motivation and resiliency factors among first generation Latinas attending college
Critical theories and their role in adult education
Education history and philosophy
Second language acquisition research

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