Bilingual and Multicultural Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Norbert Francis, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1994)

Second-language reading, biliteracy and language transfer, bilingualism and metalinguistic development

NAU 1995

Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert, Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., M.A., Northern Arizona University; Ed.D., University of New Mexico 1986)

Bilingual and multicultural education, Indian education, curriculum development

NAU 1986

Natalie Hess, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., Indiana State University; Ed.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Arizona 1993)

English literature, teaching English as a second language, bilingual and multicultural education

NAU 1998

Jon Reyhner, Ed.D., Professor

(B.A., M.A., University of California–Davis; M.A., Ed.S., Northern Arizona University; Ed.D., Montana State University 1984)

American Indian bilingual education, history of American Indian education

NAU 1995

Mongkol Tungmala, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Brigham Young University)

Assessment of English Language Learners, Structured English Immersion, Bilingual/Multicultural Education

NAU 2006

Faculty Emeriti

Gina P. Cantoni, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor

(Doctorate in Belles Lettres and Philosophy, University of Rome, Italy 1943)

Teacher training, research in bilingual and multicultural education

NAU 1972 (retired 2000)

Roberto Luís Carrasco, Ed.D., Professor

(B.A., M.A.T., California State University; M.Ed., Ed.D., Harvard University 1984)

Classroom interaction theory, school ethnography, second-language acquisition

NAU 1991