James Gambrell

Phone 970-351-2912
Location McKee 273
A portrait of James Gambrell

Education

  • ..Educational Leadership: Curriculum & Instruction | Portland State University, Portland, OR
  • ..Education: Curriculum and Instruction | Weber State University, Ogden, UT
  • ..Spanish Translation and Interpretation; Minor in Cultural Geography |Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • 2024-CurrentProfessor | سԹ, Greeley, CO
  • 2022-2024Associate Professor | سԹ, Greeley, CO
  • 2019-2022Associate Professor | Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
  • 2017-2019Assistant Professor | Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
  • 2014-2017Assistant Professor | Portland State University, Portland, OR

Research Expertise & Interests

  • Breaking the Teacher Shortage Barriers
  • Cultural, Economic, and Political structures in Education
  • Dual Language Education

Publications

  • Delavan, M. D.,Gambrell, J. A.,& Kasun, G. S. (2024, online published). Following Indigeneity to unbuild inequities in teaching for multilingualism: Restoring relationship with the land.International Multilingual Research Journal (awaiting volume//issue #s). https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2023.2301118.
  • Dorner, L. M., Moon, J. M., Freire, J. A.,Gambrell, J. A., Kasun, G. S., & Cervantes-Soon, C. (2023). Dual language bilingual education as a pathway to racial integration? A place-based analysis of policy enactment.Peabody Journal of Education,98(2), 185-204. DOI:10.1080/0161956X.2023.2191566
  • Moss, G. D. &Gambrell, J. A.(2023). The World Languages Professional Life Survey: K–20 articulation through the 5 Cs and the Can-Dos.Foreign Language Annals,56(1), 8–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12677
  • Freire, J. A.,Gambrell, J. A., Kasun, S. G., Dorner, L., & Cervantes-Soon, C. (2022). The expropriation of dual language bilingual education:Deconstructing neoliberalism, whitestreaming, and English hegemony.International Multilingual Research Journal, 16(1), 27-46.http://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2021.1929762
  • Blanton, A., Kasun, G. S.,Gambrell, J. A.,& Espinosa, Z. (2021). A Black mother’s counterstory to the Brown-White binary in dual language education: Toward disrupting dual language as White property.Language Policy,20,463–487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-021-09582-4
  • Cervantes-Soon, C.,Gambrell, J. A.,Kasun, G. S., Sun, W., Freire, J., & Dorner, L. (2021).“Everybody wants a choice” in dual language education of el Nuevo Sur: Whiteness as the gloss for everybodyin media discourses of multilingual education.Journal of Language, Identity, & Education, 20(6), 394-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2020.1753201