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Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu's scholarship focuses on racial and social justice education; systems of white supremacy and anti-Blackness in school and society; critical ethnographic and art-based counterstorytelling methodologies; and critical racial consciousness among Asian American, Black, and other non-Black young people.

K-12 education policy; computational social science; artificial intelligence & education

I am interested in investigating “mathematical play on the margins.” I am currently trying to understand how play is constructed and defined, and how these constructions and definitions get taken up by researchers and educators in ways that place certain values on how we learn and what can be learned through play.

Bilingualism, applied linguistics, codeswitching, bilingual education, dual language education.

My work examines the language and educational experiences of marginalized learners, with a particular emphasis on how teachers, institutions, and policies shape opportunities for multilingual students across PK–12 and higher education. I draw on sociolinguistic, critical, and pedagogical lenses to investigate teacher preparation for linguistically and culturally diverse learners, as well as processes of first and multilingual language development in classroom settings.

Current projects center on
• Linguistically responsive instruction and humanizing and critical approaches for teachers of multilingual learners
• Teachers’ beliefs, ideologies, and everyday practices in diverse learning environments
• Support for international students (MISs - multilingual international students)
• Fostering belonging for minortized students; current project on belonging of Muslim students in higher education
• Preservice teachers’ writing pedagogy