Dr. Rachel Reynolds

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			Rachel Reynolds, Ph.D.
			Associate Professor of Communication
			Office:	PSA 217
			Phone:	(215) 895-0498
			Email:	rrr @ drexel.edu
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH Sociolinguistics Ethnography of Communication Discourse Analysis West African History and Culture
	RESEARCH PROJECTS Co-founder, 2005, the Working Group on Childhood and Migration. For more information see:  http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/ Interview and Survey Research on Heritage Language Learners at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania.  Kathryn Howard, U Penn, Co-P.I. 2005 to 2006.  Ethnographic research on intercultural communications and neighborhood relations between immigrants and native born, Philadelphia, PA. 2003. Member of an immigrants’ group for first generation Igbo immigrants to the United States, Chicago, IL. 1996-2002.
	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Everyday Ruptures: Children and Migration in Global Perspective.  Cati Coe, Debbie Boehm, Julia Meredith Hess, Heather Rae Espinoza and Rachel R. Reynolds (Eds.).  Forthcoming in 2010: Vanderbilt University Press. “Heritage Language Learners in First-Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes.” Rachel R. Reynolds, Kathryn Howard, Julia Deak Foreign Language Annals, Summer 2009: Volume 42, No. 2 Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA. Global Networks, April 2009, Volume 9(2): 209-226 “ ‘Thank God my children are already grown up’:  Nigerian Women’s Economic Roles and Transnational Migration.”  International Migration. December 2006, Volume 44(5) 167-188. “Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drain.” Andrea Tyler, ed., Language in use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning (Georgetown Roundtable in Linguistics 2003).  DC: Georgetown University Press. 2005, pp. 214-223. An African Brain Drain:  Nigerian (Igbo) Decisions to Immigrate to the U.S.  Review of African Political Economy. Volume 29, Issue 92 (July, 2002): 273-284.