Assistant Professor, Mary Frances Early College of Education Mariana Lima Becker is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the University of Georgia. Her research program is situated at the intersection of K-5 education for bi/multilingual learners, im/migration, and language and literacy studies. Grounded in critical childhood studies and decolonializing transborder approaches, her ethnographic inquiry centers racialized bilingual children with recent histories of migration, foregrounding how they (co-)construct belonging and subalternized knowledge in and out of schools. Her prior projects explored, for example, im/migrant children’s critical consciousness development in K-3 classrooms, im/migrant families’ transnational digital literacy practices, and im/migrant parents and caregivers’ engagement in K-5 schools and Dual Language Bilingual Education programs. Her academic work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Childhood, Global Studies of Childhood, and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.
