Lei Jiang


Lei Jiang
  • Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Joseph R. Pearson Hall, room #408
1122 W. Campus Rd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-3101

Education

Ph.D. in Education, University of Georgia, 2021
M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2019
M.Ed. in Language and Literacy Education, Harvard University, 2015
B.A. in English, Economics, Fudan University, 2014, Shanghai, China
Exchange student, University of California, Berkeley

Research

  • Language and education policy
  • K-12 to higher education pathways
  • Multilingualism and curriculum leadership
  • STEM opportunities

Teaching

  • Research in education policy and leadership
  • Sociology of educational organizations
  • Curriculum, instruction, and learning theory
  • Social, cultural, and political dimensions of schools
  • Quantitative methods
  • Research methods in education

Selected Publications

Jiang, L. (in press). Bowling alone?: Asian American multilingual learners’ access to four-year colleges. Journal of Language, Identity & Education.https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2024.2399267

Li, S., Jiang, L., Sun, W., & Fan, F. (in press). Teaching multilingual learners in rural communities: Negotiating ethics of teacher identity. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3361

Jiang, L., & Harklau, L. (2024). Multilingual learners’ access to college: Students, school counselors, and institutional doxa and hysteresis. TESOL Quarterly, 58(2), 881-908. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3260

Arnold, L., Hassel, H., & Jiang, L. (2024). After implementation: Assessing student self-placement in college writing programs. Journal of Writing Assessment, 17(1), 1-26.  https://doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.249

Jiang, L., Li, S., & Sun, W. (2023). International first-generation college students pursue PhDs in the U.S.: Navigating the profession as emerging research scholars. In H. Kayi-Aydar, A. Steadman, & K. Shea (Eds.), Narratives of TESOL professionals: Experiences navigating the doctoral program. Information Age Publishing.

Callahan, R.M., Jiang, L., & Núñez, A.-M. (2023). EL policy and immigrant politics: State and federal influence on ever-EL students’ postsecondary pathways. Educational Policy, 37(5), 1467-1505. https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048221103802

Cahnmann-Taylor, M., Coda, J., & Jiang, L. (2022). Queer is as queer does: Queer L2 pedagogy in teacher education. TESOL Quarterly 56(1), 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3044

Bhattacharya, U., & Jiang, L. (2022). The Right to Education Act: Medium and dis-citizenship. In C. LaDousa & C.P. Davis (Eds.), Language, education, and identity: Medium in South Asia. (pp. 209-227). Routledge.

Harman, R., Buxton, C., Gaibisso, L.C., Jiang, L., & Bui, K. (2021). Culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics praxis in science classrooms. Language and Education35(2), 106-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2020.1782425

Coda, J., Cahnmann-Taylor, M., & Jiang, L. (2021). “It takes time for language to change”: Challenging classroom normativity through Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 20(2), 90-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2020.1726755

Jiang, L. (2020). Toward interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks for educating secondary school immigrant students. In L. Cardozo Gaibisso & M.V. Dominguez (Eds.), Handbook of research onadvancing language equity practices within immigrant communities (pp. 283-305). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3448-9.ch015

Bhattacharya, U., Jiang, L., & Canagarajah, A.S. (2020). Race, representation, and diversity in the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Applied Linguistics 41(6), 999-1004. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz003

Buxton, C., Harman, R., Gaibisso, L.C., Jiang, L., Bui, K., & Allexsaht-Snider, M. (2019). Understanding science and language connections: New approaches to assessment with bilingual learners. Research in Science Education, 49(4), 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-019-9846-8

Bhattacharya, U., & Jiang, L. (2018). The Right to Education Act: Instructional medium and dis-citizenship. InternationalJournal of the Sociology of Language, 253, 149-168. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0028

Jiang, L. (2017). Sarah’s first visit to Shanghai. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 13(1), 206.

Jiang, L. (2017). God-Read English. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 13(1), 207-208.

Service

Selected National/International Services

Program Chair, Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2024-2026

Co-Chair, Mentoring Committee, Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology, American Educational Research Association, 2024-2026

Chair, Graduate Student Travel Award Committee, Bilingual Education Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2023-2024

Member, Research Article Award Committee, American Association for Applied Linguistics, 2023-2026