Faculty/Staff Information

Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction, University of Washington-Seattle

M.A. English, Murray State University

B.A. English, Shenyang Ligong University

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration Award, Western Oregon University, 2022-2025

Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2022

Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2022

Latinx Scholars Fellowship, University of Washington-Seattle, 2019

Husky 100, University of Washington-Seattle, 2018

McMahon Scholarship, University of Washington-Seattle, 2017 & 2016

Eugene H. Beebe Scholarship, University of Washington-Seattle, 2016

American Educational Research Association (Division G & K)

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

National Association for Multicultural Education

Social Cultural Foundations of Education

Multicultural Education

Pathways for Paraeducators of Color, Willamette Center for Advancement of Paraeducators (2021), $6,800

Listening to BIPOC Teacher Candidates, Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (2021), $9,300

ED 657, 658, & 659 Action Research Professional Seminar

ED 615 Critical Inquiry into the Foundation of Schooling

ED 636 Leadership & Policy in a Diverse Society

ED 618 Teaching for Equity, Justice, & Agency

ED 622 Assessment, Planning, & Instruction

ED 633 Educational Research

ED 464 Family & Community Involvement in Early Childhood Education

ED 450 Methods for Classroom Management

ED 418 Assessment, Planning, & Instruction

ED 446 Environments for Diverse Learners

Selected Peer-Review Journal Articles

Wu, L. (2024). Borderland teaching of Chinese American teachers with Mexican American students. Curriculum Inquiry, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2024.2385309

Wu, L. (2024). Examining Chinese American teachers' diasporic lives through empire and AsianCrit. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 18(4), 270-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2023.2298856

Wu, L., & Carano, K. T. (2024). Reimagining the COVID-19 pandemic as a portal to justice for Asian American students. The Social Studies, 115(1), 34-46.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2023.2245341

Wu, L., & Lai, O. (2023). Anti-Racist education for Asian American students. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 58(s1), 62-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/00228958.2022.2152141 

Wu, L. (2022). Democracy, Empires, and the Chinese Diasporas. Urban Education, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859221131814

Wu, L., Hsiung, L., & Bogucharova, T. (2022). Finding light among uncertainty. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 34(3), 3-7.

Selected Peer-Review Book Chapters

Wu, L., & Carano, K. (2024). Exploring Asian American history through Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet. In P. Greathouse, M. Hundley, & A. L. Hostetler (Eds.), Exploring history through young adult literature: High school (pp. 85-98). Rowman & Littlefield.

Wu, L. (2023). Historicizing anti-Asian racism to promote justice for Asian Americans post-pandemic. In S. M. McCarther & D. M. Davis (Eds.), Breakthrough: From pandemic panic to promising practice (pp. 225-231). Information Age Publishing.

Wu, L. (2022). Culturally relevant pedagogy for Mexican American students: Existing research and future directions. In Y. Medina & M. Machado-Casas (Eds.), Encyclopedia of critical understandings of Latinx and global education (pp. 65-81). Brill.

Wu, L. (2020). Just what is a first-generation Chinese male immigrant and college student doing in a nice field like teacher education? In J. Sablan & J. Van Galen (Eds.), Amplified voices, intersecting identities: Volume 1: First-generation PhDs navigating institutional power (pp. 93-100).  https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445178_013 

Selected Refereed Conference Presentations

Wu, L., & Carano, K. (2024, November). Exploring Asian American history through Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet. Paper presented (roundtable) at the National Council for the Social Studies International Assembly Annual Conference. Boston, MA.

Wu, L., Affolter, E., & Braden, M. (2024, April). Theorizing and practicing culturally responsive research. In "Expanding on the Scholarship of a Pioneer Advocate for Racial Justice" Presidential Session at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.

Wu, L., McCoy, M., Shirazi, R., & Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2024, February). Exploring the intersections of U.S. imperialism and teacher education. Highlighted Session: 76th Annual Meeting for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Denver, CO.

Wu, L. (2023, April). U.S. foreign and educational policies as a sit of imperial anxiety. In "Asian American Education Scholars Speaking Truth to the U.S. Empire" Presidential Session at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Wu, L. (2023, April). Using empire and AsianCrit to explore Chinese American teachers' diasporic lives. In "Asian Diaspora as Methodologies" Symposium at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Anderson, J. D., Ladson-Billings, G., Wu, L., & Fenwick, L. T. (2023, February). Celebrating 75 years of transforming teacher education. Opening Session: 75th Annual Meeting for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Indianapolis, IN.

Wu, L. (2023, February). Historicizing anti-Asian racism to promote justice for Asian Americans post-pandemic. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Indianapolis, IN.

Wu, L., & Carano, K. (2022, December). Reimagining the COVID-19 pandemic as a portal to justice for Asian Americans. Paper presented at the 102nd National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

Wu, L. (2022, April). Refusing to return to normal for Asian American preservice teachers post-pandemics. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.

Wu, L. (2022, March). Enacting hip-hop pedagogy for joy and justice. Paper presented online at the 31st Annual Conference for the National Association for Multicultural Education. Anaheim, CA.

Wu, L. (2022, March). Expanding pathways for Paraeducators of Color post-pandemic. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. New Orleans, LA.

Wu, L. (2021, April). Borderland teaching of Chinese American teachers with Mexican American students. Paper presented (roundtable) online at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL.

Wu, L. (2020, February). Democracy and freedom for whom? Paper presented at the 16th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference. Airway Heights, WA.

Wu, L. (2019, April). Kin folks ain't always skin folks: A Chinese American teacher working with Mexican American students. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference for the National Association for Multicultural Education. Tucson, AZ.