James Gambrell
Faculty
Professor
Education
- Ed.D. Educational Leadership: Curriculum & Instruction | Portland State University, Portland, OR
- M.Ed. Education: Curriculum and Instruction | Weber State University, Ogden, UT
- B.A. Spanish Translation and Interpretation; Minor in Cultural Geography | Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Professional Experience & Affiliations
- 2024-Current Professor | University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
- 2022-2024 Associate Professor | University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
- 2019-2022 Associate Professor | Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
- 2017-2019 Assistant Professor | Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
- 2014-2017 Assistant Professor | Portland State University, Portland, OR
Research Expertise & Interests
- Breaking the Teacher Shortage Barriers
- Cultural, Economic, and Political structures in Education
- Dual Language Education
Publications
- Delavan, M. D., Gambrell, J. A., & Kasun, G. S. (2024, online published). Following Indigeneity to unbuild inequities in teaching for multilingualism: Restoring relationship with the land. International Multilingual Research Journal (awaiting volume//issue #s). https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2023.2301118.
- Dorner, L. M., Moon, J. M., Freire, J. A., Gambrell, J. A., Kasun, G. S., & Cervantes-Soon, C. (2023). Dual language bilingual education as a pathway to racial integration? A place-based analysis of policy enactment. Peabody Journal of Education, 98(2), 185-204. DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2023.2191566
- Moss, G. D. & Gambrell, J. A. (2023). The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can-Dos. Foreign Language Annals, 56(1), 8–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12677
- Freire, J. A., Gambrell, J. A., Kasun, S. G., Dorner, L., & Cervantes-Soon, C. (2022). The expropriation of dual language bilingual education: Deconstructing neoliberalism, whitestreaming, and English hegemony. International Multilingual Research Journal, 16(1), 27-46. http://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2021.1929762
- Blanton, A., Kasun, G. S., Gambrell, J. A., & Espinosa, Z. (2021). A Black mother’s counterstory to the Brown-White binary in dual language education: Toward disrupting dual language as White property. Language Policy, 20, 463–487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-021-09582-4
- Cervantes-Soon, C., Gambrell, J. A., Kasun, G. S., Sun, W., Freire, J., & Dorner, L. (2021). “Everybody wants a choice” in dual language education of el Nuevo Sur: Whiteness as the gloss for everybody in media discourses of multilingual education. Journal of Language, Identity, & Education, 20(6), 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2020.1753201