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Ankhi Thakurta

Assistant Professor

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Ankhi Thakurta

Contact

Campion Hall

Email: thakurta@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • Ed.M., Harvard University
  • M.A., Brooklyn College
  • B.A., Swarthmore College

Courses

Secondary Curriculum and Instruction

Globalization, Mobility, and Education

Research Interests

Urban Migration;聽Civic Learning and identity formation;聽Community-Based Research;聽Arts-Based Research;聽Practitioner Inquiry;聽Teaching for Social Justice

Expertise

  • Bilingualism & Immigration
  • Language Learning & Literacy
  • Urban Education
Curriculum Vitae

Department

TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society

Publications

Thakurta, A., Wan, C., & Campano, G. (forthcoming). Towards a border transgressing pedagogy: Disrupting oppressive ecologies of control, surveillance, and displacement in schools and beyond. In Paul Downes, Guofang Li, Lore Van Praag, and Stephen Lamb (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Promoting Equity in Education through Inclusive Systems and Societies. Routledge.

Thakurta, A. G., & Smith, A. (2022). Flexibility by and for design: Reimagining learning structures in unsettled times. Voices from the Middle, 29(3), 14-17. https://www.proquest.com/openview/fb92ab2c36007ab32bf15146f7dab4f2/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=33274.

Ghiso, M.P., Campano, G., Thakurta, A., & Vazquez, O*. (2022). Community-based research with immigrant families: Sustaining an intellectual commons of care, resistance, and solidarity in an urban intensive context. Urban Education. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859221082676.

Campano, G., Ghiso, M.P., & Thakurta, A. (2022). Community-based partnerships: Advancing epistemic rights through improvement research. In Don Peurach, Jenn Russell, Lora Cohen-Vogel, Bill Penuel, David Eddy-Spicer, Amanda Datnow, Marisa Cannata, & Alan Daly (Eds.), The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education (pp. 189-210). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Staufert-Reyes E., Wan, C., Thakurta, A., Winsch, J., Sykes, Z.*, Luong, Q.* Ghiso, M.P. (2022). Cultivating virtual communities of care: Reflections on community-based research in times of sociopolitical precarity. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice. 71(1): 437-459. https://doi.org/10.1177/23813377221114479.

Thakurta, A. (2021). The door was always there: Transnational youth leverage their multiliteracies for civic justice. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 64(6): 645-656. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1148.

Thakurta, A., Kannan, C., Moon, J., & Ghiso, M.P. (2021). A seat at the table: Preparing youth to shape institutional change at an NCTE roundtable presentation. Voices From the Middle. 28(4): 69-74. https://library.ncte.org/journals/VM/issues/v28-4/31281.

Thakurta, A., Rogers, C., Thomas, E.E., Stornaiuolo, A., & Campano, G. (2021). Editors鈥� introduction: childhoods across borders. Research in the Teaching of English. 56(1), 5鈥�9. https://doi.org/10.58680/rte202131340.

Thakurta, A. Kannan, C., *Setiawan, D., *Kosasih, M., Ghiso M.P., & Campano, G. (2020). The power of the collective in community-based education research. In Perspectives on Urban Education. Winter Issue. https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu/volume-17-spring-2020/power-collective-community-based-educational-research.

*Gultom, F鈥hakurta, A., Kannan, C., *Vazquez, O., Narron, L., Campano, H. G. (2019). 鈥淲hat is home?鈥� A collaborative multimodal inquiry project by transnational youth in South Philadelphia. In:cite journal, 1(2), 4鈥�24. https://doi.org/10.33137/incite.2.32826

Honors & Awards

The Ralph C. Preston Award For Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity (Reading/Writing/Literacy program, Penn GSE) (2023)

AERA Writing and Literacies Special Interest Group (SIG) Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorary Mention (2022)

Graduate Student Award For Ethical Innovations in Research (2022)

English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) Graduate Student Research Award ($2,500) (2021)

Literacy Research Association Area 8 Chair Award (2020) (shared)

University of Pennsylvania Office of the Provost Campaign for Community Award, 鈥淓xploring Racial Justice Alongside Communities of Color During COVID-19鈥� ($1,000) (2020)(shared)

Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College (2012)

Mark of Excellence Award in Journalism (2012) (shared)

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