Sabine Siekmann is a Professor of Linguistics and Foreign Languages at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. An interdisciplinary applied linguist specializing in language pedagogy, she conducts largely collaborative research in the areas of bilingualism, Indigenous language maintenance and revitalization, second language teaching, computer-assisted language learning, and critical intercultural education. Siekmann’s research is informed by cultural historical activity theory, teacher action research, and other critical approaches to language pedagogy and theory. She has directed a series of large-scale federally funded grant projects supporting Alaska Native (language) education through graduate education and materials development. Her previous publications include the co-edited volumes: Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, and Pedagogical Perspective (with Johannes Eckerth) and Communities of Practice: An Alaska Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning (with Patrick Marlow) as well as journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Joan Parker Webster is a retired Associate Professor of Education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Specializing in multiliteracies, critical pedagogy, and cross-cultural education, she has worked with Alaska Native storytellers and educators on documenting traditional oral stories, as well as producing heritage language storybooks and bilingual materials for children. Currently she is affliated faculty in the UAF College of Rural and Community Development, primarily working within the Indigenous Studies PhD program. She also works as an educational research consultant, primarily as an evaluator for federally funded grant programs. Parker Webster has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on critical ethnography, teacher action research, multiliteracies, multimodal analysis, and critical intercultural education. She continues to work with teacher action research collaboratives in STEAM education and to conduct critical ethnographic research with Alaska Native communities and schools.
