Faculty Profile
EDUCATION
1980 - Ph.D., Kent State U., CurriculumSELECTED PUBLICATIONS (more)
2009 - Olmedo. I. M. Blending Borders of Language and Culture: Schooling in La Villita. Journal of Latinos and Education, 8(1), p. 22-37.
2007 - Olmedo, I. M. (2007). ﾓHoy marchamos, maana votamos.ﾔ El papel de los maestros en las movilizaciones a favor de los migrantes. (Today we march, tomorrow we vote: The role of teachers in immigrant rights mobilizations). Decisio, 18, p. 15-21.
2007 - Olmedo, I. M. (2007). Amigos. Dialogo, 10, p. 50-55. Journal of the Center for Latino Research, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
2006 - Olmedo, I. M. (2006). Creating contexts for studying history with students learning English. In B. Lanman & L. Wendling (Eds.). Preparing the next generation of oral historians: An anthology of oral history education. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
2005 - Olmedo, I. M. (2005). The bilingual echo: Bilingual children as language mediators in a dual language school. In M. Farr, (Ed.). Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago (Vol. II), p. 135-55. Erlbaum
2004 - Olmedo, I. M. (2004). Raising transnational issues in a multicultural curriculum project. Urban Education, 39(3), 241-265.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2008 - Teaching Recognition Program Award by Council for Excellence in Teaching
2005 - Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award- IRRPP
2003-04 - Great Cities Faculty Scholar
1998-2003 - Title VII grant from department of Education, Washington, DC for Project STEPS (Support and Training for Excellent Professionals for Schools)
1997 - Fulbright Fellow in Mexico, Western Mexico: History and Traditions in Transnational Context. Summer
1996-97 - Great Cities Faculty Scholar
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
American Educational Research Association
Latin American Studies Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association
National Association for Bilingual Education