After graduating with a BA in Sociology, Dr. Bigler participated in National Teacher Corps in Schenectady New York. She subsequently taught secondary Social Studies in New York for 13 years before leaving to pursue graduate work in cultural anthropology where she combined her interests in diversity and education. In her doctoral research she examined a community conflict between Latinos and senior white ethnics in upstate New York, where struggles over multiculturalism and bilingualism came to the fore. She has published numerous articles on schooling in a diverse society and U.S. Latinos, and is the author of American Conversations: Puerto Ricans, White Ethnics, and Multiculturalism, published by Temple University in 1999. She served as a consultant for the New York State curriculum project Latinos in the USA: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, and has led teacher training sessions on diversity-related issues in New York and Rhode Island. In 2002 she received a Fulbright to teach and conduct research in Salvador Brazil, where she focused on race, identity, and educational wellbeing in Brazilian public schools. She continues to pursue research in Salvador, and has begun to examine educational issues for Brazilian youth in the northeast.
Race relations
WHITE TEACHERS, RACE MATTERS: Preparing Teachers for the New Millennium, Faculty Publications (2002)
Educational anthropologists address in their works the legacy of an enduring history of racial oppression...
Culture
In Search of América: Latina/OS (Re)constructing the U.S.A., Faculty Publications (2006)
Taken collectively, Latinos are now the largest ―minority group in the USA. This chapter, with...
WHITE TEACHERS, RACE MATTERS: Preparing Teachers for the New Millennium, Faculty Publications (2002)
Educational anthropologists address in their works the legacy of an enduring history of racial oppression...
Dangerous Discourses: Language Politics and Classroom Practices in Upstate New York, Faculty Publications (1997)
Contemporary historians of U.S. immigration and ethnicity, and those who chart the experiences of Puerto...
Education policy
Telling stories: On Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Education in Upstate New York, Faculty Publications (1996)
Examination of the public discourse of Euro-American senior citizens and minority speakers during a community...
Anthropology
Telling stories: On Ethnicity, Exclusion, and Education in Upstate New York, Faculty Publications (1996)
Examination of the public discourse of Euro-American senior citizens and minority speakers during a community...
Minority & ethnic groups
In Search of América: Latina/OS (Re)constructing the U.S.A., Faculty Publications (2006)
Taken collectively, Latinos are now the largest ―minority group in the USA. This chapter, with...
WHITE TEACHERS, RACE MATTERS: Preparing Teachers for the New Millennium, Faculty Publications (2002)
Educational anthropologists address in their works the legacy of an enduring history of racial oppression...
Dangerous Discourses: Language Politics and Classroom Practices in Upstate New York, Faculty Publications (1997)
Contemporary historians of U.S. immigration and ethnicity, and those who chart the experiences of Puerto...