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Jennifer Leeman
Assoc. Prof. of Spanish
Modern & Classical Languages
George Mason University

   
     
   
   
 

Recent and upcoming conference presentations

Negotiating ethnoracial identity in the US Census. To be presented at the 6th International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Tucson, AZ. April 2012.

Blocking bike lanes: Discourses of mobility, race, and gentrification in transportation policy disputes. To be presented at American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Convention, Boston, MA. March 2012. (with Galey Modan)

Measuring Multilingualism: Language Ideology and Policy in Canada and the US, Legacies of Difference: Comparing Minority Language Politics in Canada and the United States panel, American Association of Anthropology Annual Convention, Montreal, November 2011.

La construcción de la raza en el censo de los Estados Unidos: Ideologías, encuestas y entrevistas (The Construction of race in the US Census: Ideologies, surveys and interviews) V Coloquio de Investigadores en Estudios del Discurso, Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios del Discurso. Villa María, Córdoba (Argentina). August 2011. (Plenary address)

Experiences and views from the Linguistic Landscape. Georgetown University Linguistic Landscapes Symposium. Georgetown University, Washington DC. April 2011. (Invited panelist)

Evaluating language access policy on the ground: Bureaucratic, political and methodological challenges. American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. March 2011 (with Cecilia Castillo-Ayometzi and Anna De Fina)

The racialization of Spanish in the US Census: A historical perspective. Spanish in the US Conference. University of California, Davis. March 2011.