Denise Blum

Denise Blum is an associate professor of Social Foundations in the School of Educational Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA. Her research focuses on political economy in Mexico, Cuba and the United States, looking at neoliberalism and equity issues and how young people are negotiating their identities in contexts of educational reform. She is author of Cuban youth and revolutionary values: Educating the new socialist citizen (2012). Char Ullman is an associate professor of Literacy...See more

Denise Blum is an associate professor of Social Foundations in the School of Educational Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA. Her research focuses on political economy in Mexico, Cuba and the United States, looking at neoliberalism and equity issues and how young people are negotiating their identities in contexts of educational reform. She is author of Cuban youth and revolutionary values: Educating the new socialist citizen (2012). Char Ullman is an associate professor of Literacy/Biliteracy and Educational Anthropology in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. Her research focuses on globalization and language use among Mexican (Im)migrants to the United States. She explores the ways in which people construct and are constructed by identities and ideologies, with an emphasis on nationalism. Her current project is about translanguaging on the Mexico-U.S. border. See less