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2019 CLA Early Career Award Recipient

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Noreen Naseem Rodríguez

Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an assistant professor of elementary social studies in the School of Education at Iowa State University. Her research interests include elementary educators of color, the teaching of difficult histories, critical uses of diverse children’s literature, and the histories and educational experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Iowa. Rodríguez was a bilingual elementary teacher in Texas for nine years and her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Theory & Research in Social Education, Educational Studies, The Urban Review, and The Journal of Children’s Literature as well as in practitioner journals including Literacy Today and Social Studies and the Young Learner. 

2017 CLA Early Career Award Recipient

Angie Zapata, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Missouri . She is a longtime elementary teacher of bilingual and multilingual children and now teaches undergraduate, masters, and doctoral courses focused on language, literacy, identity, and literature for children and youth in both online and face-to-face settings. Angie engages in collaborative teacher and researcher methodologies to understand how students and their teachers respond to diverse literature and how literature reflecting diverse languaging practices can mentor students' translingual literacy practices and text-making processes. Her most recent publications can be found in Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Language Arts, and the Journal of Children’s Literature in addition to other journals and edited books.
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