Lehigh University's inaugural call for applicants to the Advancing Future Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Program recruited six outstanding scholars. Four of them are beginning as postdocs in the program in Fall 2023. One will begin as a Research Assistant Professor in Fall 2023. One will begin as a postdoc in Fall 2024.
You can learn more about them here:
Dr. Yatma Diop
Yatma Diop holds a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Michigan State University. His research centers on how early caregiver-child interactions and home-learning environments support children's language and literacy development. His current research focuses on families and children in Senegal. However, he plans to examine African immigrants' parenting beliefs and practices in the U.S. and to what degree acculturation influences these parenting patterns. He aims to implement culturally relevant interventions that support language and literacy development for parents and children in Senegal and African immigrant families in the U.S. Dr. Diop also has experience teaching courses on child development, parenting, and cultural diversity in human development research.
Dr. Lee Her
Lee Her holds a PhD in second language studies from Michigan State University. As an applied linguistics researcher and educator, she adopts a critical lens to situate, analyze and critique the oftentimes implicit power dynamics that language policies create in public institutions, such as community colleges or in the home setting. Currently, she is interested in how dual language bilingual education policies –formal and informal– shape Hmong heritage language maintenance. Her future research goals aim to investigate issues of equity, concerning the Hmong language in classroom language policy, institutional language policy and family language policy. She hopes that such studies contribute to highlighting the linguistic experiences of speakers and learners of less commonly taught languages and improve students’ heritage language learning experiences.
Dr. Taneka Jones
Dr. Taneka Jones joins Lehigh in November 2023. Bio and photo pending
Dr. Minjung Noh
Minjung Noh Ph.D. is a religious studies scholar with a transnational and interdisciplinary method, specializing in the confluences of religious cultures between South Korea, Haiti, and the United States. Her work to date spans Korean religions, comparative ethnic and gender studies, and transnational Christianity. She has held previous positions at Drew Theological School (Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Christianity and Gender Studies, 2021-2023), Wartburg College (Visiting Assistant Professor of World Religions, 2019-2020) and Temple University (Instructor of record, 2016-2021). Her research has been published in Journal of Korean Religions, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Religion, State & Society. Her current book project "Transnational Salvations: Korean Women Missionaries in Haiti" is the first monograph that investigates the multidirectional religious dynamics between South Korea, USA, and Haiti through the angle of the evangelical missionary network built between these three nation-states.
Dr. Rosemary Steup
Bio pending
Dr. Candace Jordan
Dr. Jordan will join Lehigh in Summer of 2024. Photo and Bio pending.
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