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Madina Djuraeva

Madina Djuraeva

Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Madina Djuraeva is a member of the research team working around adult women’s experiences with language and literacy education in Northern Uganda. She is particularly interested in the peacebuilding potential of language and literacy education at the intersection of gender, agency, and culture. Her larger research agenda involves the examination of identity, ideology, education, and policy in marginalized multilingual and multiliterate communities in former Soviet countries including post-Soviet immigrants, bi/multilingual K-12 language speakers and learners in the U.S., and adult women learners in Northern Uganda. Madina was a Fulbright fellow and is an Honorary Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • B.A., Bukhara State University

Research Interests

  • Critical Applied Linguistic
  • Anti-bias anti-racist language & literacy education
  • Bi/Multilingual education and development
  • Language (Education) Policy
  • Narrative, Discourse, Intersectional Analyses

Recent Articles


Djuraeva, M. (2021). Multilingualism, Nation branding, and the Ownership of English in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Invited submission to the special issue of World Englishes, https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12557


Djuraeva, M. & Catedral, L. (2020). Habitus and Imagined Ideals: Attending to (Un)consciousness in Discourses of (Non)nativeness. International Multilingual Research Journal, 14(3), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2020.1714159


Catedral, L. & Djuraeva, M. (2018). Language ideologies and (im)moral images of personhood in multilingual family language planning. Language Policy, 17(4), 501-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-018-9455-9


Djuraeva, M. & Tochon, F. V. (2018). (Eds.), Language policy and politics of language: Re-imagining the role of language in a neoliberal society. Deep University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Politics-Re-imagining-Neoliberal/dp/1939755379


Djuraeva, M. (2015). Language Policy in Uzbekistan: Formation of Uzbek National Identity. In F. V. Tochon (Ed.), Language Education Policy Unlimited: Global perspectives and Local Practices (pp. 94-113). Deep University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Education-Policy-Unlimited-Perspectives/dp/1939755069

Madina Djuraeva

Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum
Address: 820 Van Vleet Oval Norman, OK 73019
Office: Collings Hall #230D
Email: mdjuraeva@ou.edu