Assistant education professor Dan Heiman honored for dissertation

Dan Heiman, a new assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education, has won an outstanding dissertation award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for his work in bilingual education. AERA has invited Heiman to present his research at its annual meeting in New York this April.

Heiman has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, where he specialized in bilingual and bicultural education in the Department of Mexican American and Latin Studies. His dissertation title is: Two-way immersion, gentrification, and critical pedagogy: Teaching against the neoliberal logic.

This is Heiman’s first year at PSU where he is an instructor in the ESOL/Bilingual Endorsement Program and a cohort leader of the Bilingual Teacher Pathway program. His research focus is on the critical and equitable process of dual-language teaching, and preparing and working with future bilingual teachers in those processes.

Previously, Heiman was a bilingual teacher in El Paso, Texas, and a teacher educator at the University of Veracruz (Mexico).