Education and Professional Experiences

Education

• 2003 Indiana University, Bloomington, Doctor of Philosophy
  • Dissertation:
    Van Sluys, K. (2003).  "Creating Critical Social Spaces:  Living and Learning In and About Multiple Languages, Meaning Systems, and Social Worlds," Indiana University, Doctoral dissertation. 
• 2001 Indiana University, Bloomington, Master of Science in Education.
• 1994–1997 University of St. Thomas & Hamline University, St. Paul. Minnesota. Graduate course work.
• 1994 Gustavus Alolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education & Spanish.
• 1992 Fundación Ortega y Gasset.  Toledo, Spain.

Professional Experience

• 2003–Present Assistant Professor of Reading, DePaul University, Chicago.
  • Researching issues concerned with critical literacies, multilingual children, teacher education models, and professional development structures.
  • Collaborating with research teams across institutions including on-going research, analysis, project development, funding searches, and writing.
  • Teaching graduate and undergraduate literacy courses including field-based collaboratives.