Dr. Timothy San Pedro, The Ohio State University

Research Interests

• Access and Equity
• Anthropology
  • Critical indigenous research methodologies
  • Ethnograph
• Bilingual, Multilingual and Multicultural Education
• Curriculum and Instruction
• English Language and Literature
• English/Language Arts Teacher Education
• Equity
• Literacy
• Multicultural Education
  • Ethnic studies programs
  • Implementing multicultural curriculum
  • Youth motivation and engagement
• Social Justice
  • Activism research
  • Praxis oriented research and teaching
  • Projects in humanization
  • Youth participatory action research
• Urban Education
  • Native American urban education

Education

• PhD, Curriculum and Instruction - English Education, Arizona State University, 2013
  • Concentration: Native American Urban Education
• MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Montana, 2006
• BA, English Teaching, University of Montana, 2006
• BA, Journalism, University of Montana, 2003

His co-authored chapter with Valerie Kinloch in Humanizing Research titled “The Space between Listening and Story-ing: Foundations for Projects in Humanization” examines how trust, vulnerabilities and the development of relationships (or story-ing) provide spaces to engage in transformative resistances and praxis in academic, community and research settings with participants. His first article publication titled “Internal and Environmental Safety Zones” was released December 2014 in the Journal of American Indian Education. A co-authored chapter with Sandy Grande and Sweeney Windchief in Multicultural Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Identity titled “Indigenous People and Identity in the 21st Century” was recently (2015) published as well.  Two other article publications are in press with the Equity & Excellence in Education and Research in the Teaching of English that discuss the agentive uses of student silence.

He is the convener for the Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education, served as the chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning’s Equity and Diversity Committee and is a member of the Standing Committee on Research for the National Council of Teachers of English. For the American Educational Research Association, he serves as co-chair for Division B (Curriculum Development): Section 3 (Methodologies and Ethics). He is an inaugural Gates Millennium Scholar, Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellow, and a Ford Fellow.

Selected Publications

• San Pedro, Timothy (In Press). Silence as Shields: Agency and Resistances among Native American students in the Urban Southwest. Research in the Teaching of English.
• San Pedro, Timothy (In Press). Internal and Environmental Safety Zones: Applying the Safety zone theory to Identity, Motivation, and Engagement in a Native American Literature Classroom. Journal of American Indian Education. 
• Grande, Sandy; San Pedro, Timothy and Windchief, Hawk (In Press). 21st Century Indigenous Identity Location: Remembrance, Reclamation, and Regeneration. In D. Koslow, L. Salett (Eds.). Race, Ethnicity and Self: Identity in MultiCultural Perspective. Washington, D.C.: NASW Press.
• Kinloch, Valerie, San Pedro, Timothy (2014). The space between listening and story-ing: Foundations for Projects in Humanization (PiH). In D. Paris, M.T. Winn (Eds.). Humanizing Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.