Conference Presentations

Discussant

Ungemah, L. (2013, April). “Adolescents and High School Problems.” Discussant at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.

Workshop Presented

Ungemah, L. (2021, June). “Reimagining Research Representation.” Workshop presented at the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative Conference, online.

Ungemah, L. (2015, May). “Reading the academic article: Pedagogical approach of speed dating/speed reading.” Workshop at the Bridging Historias Conference: Latino/a History and Culture in the Community College Classroom, New York, New York.

Papers Presented

Ungemah, L. (2020, February) “Parents as Partners: Using the Family/Home as a Space to Learn Ethnography and Work.” Paper presented at the 40th Annual University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ungemah, L., Bahl, T., Makris, M. (2019, April). “When Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Becomes Too Culturally Relevant: Examining the Community College Context.” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Ungemah, L. (2017, April). “Using Student Research to Teach Writing: A First-Year Course in Ethnographic Research.” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon.

Ungemah, L., Gatta, M., Orman, A., Tesser, D., Wilson, K. (2016, May). “Get ‘Ignited’ about Experiential Learning.” Paper presented at CUNY Experiential Learning Symposium, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L., Hindman, J., Mickelson, N. (2016, April). “Acting as If: The De-Centered Writing Program as a Framework for Success in Community College Writing Programs.” Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, Texas.

Ungemah, L., Franco, W., Leyva, F., McDermott, M., Muller, G. (2016, February). “Community College Immigrant Students Conduct Ethnographic Research.” Paper presented with four Guttman students at the 37th Annual University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ungemah, L. (2015, February). “Academic segmented assimilation: Assimilate for academic success—or fail.” Paper presented at 36th Annual University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Fuller, K., Tyner, A. & Ungemah, L. (2014, May). “Integrated dystopias: Teaching an interdisciplinary capstone to Guttman’s inaugural class.” Paper presented at tenth annual CUE (CUNY Undergraduate Education) conference, New York, New York.

De Los Santos, R., Gonzalez-Stokas, A., Nair, R., Ungemah, L., & Walker, R.  (2013, May). “Talking across disciplinary boundaries: Creating a collaborative educational culture through instructional teams.” Paper presented at ninth annual CUE (CUNY Undergraduate Education) conference, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L. (2013, April). “Teaching conscious consumerism.” Paper presented at the annual National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, Birmingham, Alabama.

Siegel, J. & Ungemah, L. (2012, November). “Reading & writing from high school to college: Understanding and Improving the Transition.” Paper presented at second annual CUNY Conference on Best Practices in Reading/Writing Instruction, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L. (2012, May). “Ethnographies of work: Teaching students to think about a career path.” Paper presented at the eighth annual CUE (CUNY Undergraduate Education) conference, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L. (2012, April). “Bullying & school violence: Reading and writing to think critically on a difficult topic.” Paper presented at the annual National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Ungemah, L. (2012, February). “Writing about bullying and school violence in the urban English classroom.” Paper presented at the annual Student Success in Writing Conference, Savannah, Georgia.

Ungemah, L.  (2007, April). “Curriculum and Contestation:  Globalizing Literature in a Multi-ethnic High School.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Ungemah, L. (2007, March). “Diverse Students, Diversifying Curriculum: Challenges in the Classroom.” Paper presented at the fifth annual Education Across the Americas conference of the Association of Latin American Students, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L.  (2007, February).  “Challenges Facing Teachers of Globally-Themed Literature in a Multiethnic High School.” Paper presented at the 28th Annual University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ungemah, L.  (2007, February).  “Interrupting Education: The Sudden Burden of Being Undocumented in High School.”  Paper presented at the 28th Annual University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ungemah, L.  (2006, April).  “Interrupting Education: The Sudden Burden of Being Undocumented in High School.”  Paper presented at the fourth annual Education Across the Americas conference of the Association of Latin American Students, New York, New York.

Guevara-Torres, R. & Ungemah. L. (2006, March). “Undocumented High School Students and the Challenges of Higher Education.”  Paper presented at the Columbia University Partnership for International Development Colloquium, Undocumented Individuals in America: Resources in a Broken System, New York, New York.

Ungemah, L. (1997). “The White fascination with Blackness: ‘Lost Boundaries’ & ‘Pinky’ as film case studies.” Paper presented at the Blacks in the Diaspora Academic Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.