Edmund ‘Ted’ Hamann has been named the Charles Bessey professor of teaching, learning and teacher education, as announced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.
“I like the life of ‘professoring.’ I like the thinking, the studying, the figuring things out, the teaching,” Hamann said. “It is both affirming and flattering to be recognized as a Charles Bessey Professor. Among other things, it motivates me to do more thinking, more studying, more figuring things out, and more teaching as part of the UNL community.”
Hamann is an anthropologist of education with a primary scholarly focus on the interface between education policy and practice, especially on how transnational movement of students and families gets conceptualized by educators and results in various subsequent responses. In particular, he studies how schools respond to transnational movement of students and families; how educational policies are cultural productions transformed in their conversion to practice; and how school reform is or is no responsive to various student populations.
He is author/editor of 14 books/monographs/journal special issues and has published almost 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 2019, Hamann served as a Fulbright Garcia-Robles U.S. Scholar at the Tijuana campus of the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional studying binational higher education collaborations that were intended to better prepare educators in both the United States and Mexico. He is an AERA fellow of the American Education Research Association and a NEPC fellow at the National Education Policy Center.
The Charles Bessey professorship was established in 2001 to recognize faculty members with the rank of professor who have established exceptional records of distinguished scholarship or creative activity.
College of Education and Human Sciences
Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
