Graduate Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and TESOL Symposium 27

T. Daniel Seely received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research and teaching is focused on biolinguistic theory, specifically on language as an "organ" of the human brain. Seely's research has appeared in such journals as SYNTAX and Linguistic Inquiry; he has a number of books with the late Samuel Epstein, and is a member of "Project EKS," a research team (with numerous publications), which consisted of Samuel Epstein (U. of Michigan), Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University, Japan) and T. Daniel Seely. A collection of their papers appears in Explorations in Maximizing Syntactic Minimization, Routledge Leading Linguists Series. Seely is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and is a two-time participant as faculty at the Linguistic Society of American's Summer Institute.

Nelson Flores is an associate professor of educational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines the intersection of language, race, and the political economy in shaping U.S. educational policies and practices. His current research projects include a longitudinal study of students in a dual language charter school in a predominately low-income Latinx area of Philadelphia that seeks to challenge deficit perspectives by documenting the complex linguistic practices these students engage in on a daily basis and a book project that examines the institutionalization of bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights era. Dr. Flores has been the recipient of many academic awards including the 2017 AERA Bilingual Education SIG Early Career Award, a 2017 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the 2019 James Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. He also serves on several editorial boards including The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and Multilingua.