Lee Her 

Dr. Lee Her is an assistant professor in the College of Education at Lehigh University. As an applied linguist, her research focuses broadly on heritage language maintenance for linguistically minoritized communities. Using qualitative methodology and policy analysis, Dr. Her adopts a critical lens to situate, analyze and critique the oftentimes implicit power dynamics that language policies create. Currently, she is interested in how dual language bilingual education policies - formal and informal - shape Hmong heritage language maintenance. Her research aims to investigate issues of equity, concerning the Hmong language in classroom, institutional and family language policy. 

Dr. Her has published in top-tier applied linguistics journals such as Modern Language Journal, Language Policy, System and Bilingual Research Journal. Her research has received System's inaugural early career researcher award (2022). Dr. Her earned her Ph.D. in second language studies from Michigan State University, under her advisor, Dr. Peter I. De Costa. 

If you are interested in her selected publications or current projects, you can reach her at leh323@lehigh.edu.