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Dr. Rachel Reynolds

	Rachel Reynolds, Ph.D.
	Associate Professor of Communication
		Office:       PSA 217
		Phone:       (215) 895-0498
		E-Mail:       rrr@drexel.edu
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	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH • Sociolinguistics • Ethnography of Communication • Discourse Analysis • West African History and Culture   RESEARCH PROJECTS • Contemporary Africans attitudes towards the Atlantic Slave Trade. • Founder, 2005, the Working Group on Childhood and Migration. • 2006-2007 Heritage Language Learners at two Private Universities. Quantitative and Qualitative assessment of learner types and instructional method appropriateness. • 2003-2005 Ethnographic Research - Intercultural Communication and Relations Between Immigrants and Native-Born. • 1996-2002 Member - Immigrant Advocacy group for Igbo immigrants to United States, Chicago, IL.   SELECTED PUBLICATIONS • 2007 Author - Thank God my Children are Already Grown Up. International Migration. • 2007 Author - “Africans (20th Century)” encyclopedia entry in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Routledge. • 2005 Author - Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants, and the Transmission of Minority Lanugages. In Georgetown Roundtable in Linguistics (2004): Collected Papers. Georgetown University Press. • 2004 Author - We Are Not Surviving, We Are Managing, in City and Society, V 16, N 1.