Humanities & Teacher Education

Meet the Faculty

Damian Corbin Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Education

Division: Humanities/Teacher Education Division
Office: Cultural Arts Center (CAC) 109
Phone: (310) 506-7934
Fax: (310) 506-7307
E-mail: damian.jenkins@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D, Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.A. Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.A. American Studies, Pepperdine University
• B.A. English, Pepperdine University

Courses:

• School and Society, Education 562
• School and Society, Sociology 462
• Teaching Methods for Elementary School Teachers
• Reading Across the Content Areas for Secondary Teachers
• Advanced Student Teaching Seminar for Elementary School Teachers

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• Recipient of Keck Fellowship 1996-1999
• Recipient of Green Fellowship for empirical research in the area of mulit-lingual classrooms 2007
• Research Fellow of the Literacy Inquiry Networking Communities (LINC), University California, Santa Barbara
• Member of the American Association of Anthropology (AAA)
• Member of the American Education Research Association (AERA)
• Affiliate of the AERA Special Interest Group for Language and Social Processes

Academic Interests:

• Classrooms as cultures
• Ethnography
• M.M. Bakhtin as related to theoretically grounded empirical research
• Relationships between spoken and written texts in classrooms
• Social Construction of Knowledge
• Sociolinguistic and anthropological perspectives on everyday life in classrooms