2025 Ferguson Award – Kate Menken

Dr. Kate Menken Named 2025 Charles A. Ferguson Awardee for Outstanding Scholarship

The Center for Applied Linguistics proudly announces Dr. Kate Menken as the 2025 Charles A. Ferguson Awardee for Outstanding Scholarship.

Kate Menken is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in an Urban Society of the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee and Delegate of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. Her research interests include language education policies, bilingual education, and the experiences of multilingual learners and their families in U.S. public schools (especially New York City).

Her books include English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, 2008); Negotiating Language Policies in Schools: Educators as Policymakers (with Ofelia García, Routledge, 2010); Common Core, Bilingual and English Language Learners: A Resource for Educators (with Guadalupe Valdés and Mariana Castro, Caslon, 2015), a book edited by the entire CUNY-NYSIEB team entitled Translanguaging and Transformative Teaching for Emergent Bilingual Students: Lessons from the CUNY-NYSIEB Project (CUNY-NYSIEB, Routledge, 2020), and Overcoming the gentrification of dual language, bilingual, and immersion education: Solution-oriented research and stakeholder resources for real integration (with Garrett Delavan and Juan Freire, Multilingual Matters, 2024).

Her work also appears in journals such as International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language Policy, Theory into Practice, TESOL Quarterly, Educational Policy, Bilingual Research Journal, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, and International Multilingual Research Journal. Further information can be found on her website: http://katemenken.org and Google Scholar page.

Congratulations, Dr. Kate Menken!