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Tadesse, S. (2006, April). Insiders on the outside: Personal/professional stories and crossculturalperspectives on higher education. Special session panel presented at the 2006Annual International Conference and Exhibition of the Association for ChildhoodEducation International, San Antonio, TX.Mary Thompson (LAI faculty)Thompson, M. K. (2006, April). Exploring adolescent girls’ unofficial literacies through fanfiction. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American EducationalResearch Association, San Francisco.Thompson, M. K. (2006, April). Who knows where the time goes? Growth withoutproductivity. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the AmericanEducational Research Association, San Francisco.Tomoka Toraiwa (ELP doctoral student)Toraiwa, T. (2006, April). How is “empowerment” realized?: Graduates’ reflections on thewomen’s studies program. Paper presented at the Institute for Research and Educationon Women and Gender Graduate Symposium, University at Buffalo, NY.Toraiwa, T. (2006, June). Graduates’ reflections of the women’s studies program. Paper to bepresented at the National Women’s Studies Association 27 th Annual Conference,Oakland, CA.Fei Wang (LAI doctoral student)Wang, F. (2006, February). Using positioning theory as a lens to explore English languagelearners’ learning opportunities in an ESL class. Paper presented at the TESOL/AppliedLinguistics Graduate Students Conference, East Carolina University, Greenville,NC.Wang, F. (2006, June).Understanding the difficulties faced and strategies used by Chinesegraduate students in an American university. Paper to be presented at the GraduateStudent Conference on Second Language Writing, Purdue University, WestLafayette, IN.Lois Weis (ELP faculty)Weis, L. (2006, April). Forging an agenda for the study of social class and schooling. Chair andparticipant at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational ResearchAssociation, San Francisco.Weis, L. (2006, April). Rethinking class/gender relations in the U.S. White working class. Paperpresented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational ResearchAssociation, San Francisco.Weis, L. (2006, April). Working method: Research and social justice/categories for analysis.Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational ResearchAssociation, San Francisco.Rose Ylimaki (ELP faculty)Ylimaki, R. M. (2006, April). An examination of district leaders’ approaches to conflict andpower through modern and feminist postmodern lenses. Paper presented at the 2006Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.16