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Dr. Lee-Johnson is the Director of Ed.D. at Webster University. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education. As a first generation immigrant from Hong Kong, she is dedicated to serving the minoritized populations via research, teaching, advising, and service. Lee-Johnson has research experiences in international educational settings, including China, Hong Kong, Italy, and the United States. For example, her research study with 11 researchers in Reggio Emilia, Italy, resulted in an upcoming book on affirming the rights for emergent bi- and multilingual language learners. Some of the highlights of her works include a $2.7 million National Professional Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Education as a Co-PI, an invited speaker at a Harvard Conference in 2021, and an invited guest editor for Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. Her research interests include critical pedagogy, discourse analysis, Bakhtinian theories, and teacher education in K-12 public schools. As an educational researcher, Lee-Johnson aspires to become a voice and advocate for transforming the status quo for minoritized populations in the educational systems of the world.
Media Coverage:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 11, 2021) Critical Race Theory. St Louis NPR: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-05-11/critical-race-theory-explained
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Flewellen, V. (May 3, 2021). KSDK News (TV interview). https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/education/explaining-critical-race-theory-causing-stir-schools-across-country/63-75fe7982-8613-4555-b519-d1a7a85be20e
Panelist at Webster Speaks: We are not a virus: Anti-Asian hate in the U.S. April 28, 2021. (https://www.webster.edu/diversity-inclusion/webster-speaks.php)
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). We are not a virus. Podcast. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628212/8195818?fbclid=IwAR31NGlwj6g_SJAc2J65uKMIqEYh4nBTfxm8YI2WkXUi_S8pS51OvEN-4FY
Program Director
Program Director
Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Ph.D.
Selected Publications:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Flewellan, V., Fair, K., O’Connor, K., Dixon, T., Ono, J., Spencer, A., Singler, J., Schmuke, M., Hanses, J., Barton, A., & Rodney, T. (2022). Adapting an Ethnographic Research to an Online Survey Amid COVID-19: Transformative Lens in Educational Research. In Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Defying “Those Who Cannot, Teach” and Other Stereotypes about Teachers: Analyzing the Just Because Poems Written by ESOL Teacher Candidates. TESOL Journal.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). Critical chronotopic analysis for disrupting whitewashedness in TESOL teacher education. In C. Matias (Ed.) The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education (pp. 243-258). Routledge.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. & Kuo, H. (Eds. in press). This is the worst of times; this is the best of times: Juxtaposing the crisis and opportunities for Asians in the global context. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Spring Special Issue.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2019). Whitewashedness in Teacher Education: Intertextuality Between Colorblindness and the Ferguson Event. Urban Education (peer-reviewed). https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085919857803
Recent Conference Presentations:
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2022). Disrupting Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in the Troubled World with Critical Discourse Analysis. National Association for Multicultural Education (Virtual). March 10-12.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021). How to Accept Educational Responsibilities and Disrupt Anti-Chinese Rhetoric due to Covid-19? AERA 2021 Annual Convention (Virtual). April 9-12.
Lee-Johnson, Y.L., Kaiser, D., Mansouri, S., & Kennedy, S. (2021). Enriching K-12 ESL Teachers' Professional Development Experiences with Saturday Panels. TESOL 2021 Annual Convention (Virtual). March 23-26.
Lee-Johnson, Y. L., Kaiser, D., Mansouri, S., Kennedy, S. (2021). Analyzing the “Just Because…” Poems among Pre-service ESL Teachers: Defying Stereotypes and Reaffirming Teacher Identities. Poster Presentation at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Convention (Virtual).
Lee-Johnson, Y.L. (2021, invited). “We are not a virus”: Solidarity and Resilience for Contesting the Renewed Yellow Peril, Sinophobia, and Xenophobia amid COVID-19. Resilience and Reform: Adapting to a Changing World. Harvard College of Asian Programs (HCAP) Conference. Virtual International Conference.
Awards and Honors:
2021 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2017 Women of Webster Award
2017 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2016 Diverse Issues in Higher Education’s Emerging Scholar
of the Year Nominee
2015 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2014 Kemper Teaching Award Nominee
2012 Flesher Fellowship
2012 Dorothy D. Scrivener Memorial Scholarship
2011 College of Education and Human Ecology Travel Award
2011 Ray Travel Award
Full Time Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Anne Geraghty Rathert, J.D.
Basiyr Rodney, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Brittany Smotherson, Ph.D.
Paula Witkowski , Ph.D. - recent scholarship
Rena Rockwell, Ed.D. (CV)
Stephanie Mahfood, Ph.D. - recent scholarship
Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Brenda Fyfe, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Brynne Schroeder, Ph.D.
Cartelia Lucas, Ed.D.
Ginny Altrogge, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Jennifer Ono, Ed.D.
Katherine O'Connor, Ed.D.
Kevin Gitonga, Ph.D.
Marshaun Warren, Ph.D.
Roy Tamashiro, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Tyrone McNichols, Ed.D. - recent scholarship
Victoria McMullen, Ph.D. - recent scholarship
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