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Shenika Hankerson

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Assistant Professor

Ph.D.
Michigan State University
Shenika Hankerson
Department: 
  • Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership
Division: 
LLSI
Email Address: 
sdhanker@umd.edu
Phone Number: 
(301) 405-3324
Location: 
2227B Benjamin Building
Research Interests
African American Language; African-Centered/Afrocentric Pedagogy; Anti-Racist Writing Pedagogies; Race, Equity, Language, and Literacy; Language Policies and Language Rights; Second Language Writing and Assessment; Rhetoric and Composition
Bio

Dr. Shenika Hankerson is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Social Inquiry in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland-College Park. Her research explores the relationship between writing instruction and writing outcomes for African American Language (AAL)-speaking students, with a special interest in the opportunities that are created through Afrocentric and anti-racist writing pedagogies. Her scholarship has been recognized with awards from the Conference on College Composition and Communication and National Council of Teachers of English, and she has published or forthcoming work in Language Arts Journal of Michigan, AGEP Science Today Bulletin, and Talking Back: Senior Scholars Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies.

Dr. Hankerson is the Principal Investigator and Director of RISE: Research Institute for Scholars in Education. RISE, funded through a $1.1 million grant from the US Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES), is designed to prepare underrepresented undergraduates from the University of Maryland, College Park and Bowie State University with research and career development training in education research. The overall aim of RISE is to increase diversity in the pool of students who pursue doctoral studies in a broad range of fields related to language and literacy.

For more information on RISE, visit: http://education.umd.edu/rise

Publications

Select Publications: 

Hankerson, S. (2020). “I Love my African American Language. And Yours.”: Toward a Raciolinguistic Vision in Writing Studies. In N. Elliot and A. Horning (Eds.), Talking Back: Senior Scholars Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies. Utah State University Press: https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3797-talking-back 

Hankerson, S. (2017). Black Voices Matter. Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 32 (2), 34-39. Special Issue: Race, Language, and Privilege: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lajm/vol32/iss2/7/

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