My research lies at the intersection of critical sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, language socialization, and language policy. It addresses questions of multilingualism, epistemic justice, and the construction of social orders in schools characterized by high levels of diversity and mobility. My work examines children’s and youth's communicative practices in encounters across difference in classrooms and playgrounds. It combines long-term ethnography and fine-grained analysis of language interactions, along with archival and other textual material.  This approach allows me to situate everyday linguistic interactions within a larger sociohistorical frame.  This research also contributes to current debates on multilingual pedagogies as well as on decolonizing education.

Current research projects

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) funded sabbatical: Postracial potentials: Language, identity, and epistemic access in multilingual schools. 2018-2019.

NOS (The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences) Contact zones in the Nordic countries: multilingualism, mobility, and diversifying diversity, together with University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 2017-2019.

Editor

Routledge book series Critical Studies in Multilingualism (with Vally Lytra)

Editorial Boards

Langage et Société

Multilingual Margins

Reading and Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa.

Bloomsbury Academic series Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education (series editors Kathleen Heugh, Christopher Stroud and Piet Van Avermaet)

Multilingualism and Language Contact book series, Language Science Press 

Associate Member, The MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham