Education

2002 Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Language, Literacy, and ESL Education
1996 M.Ed., University of Washington, Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching English as a second language
1991 B.A., Central College, English

Selected Publications

Reeves, J., Leijgraaf, M. & Gu, X. (in press). “I am not the other”: A Yazidi American teacher’s identity work. In Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment, edited by Zia Teheddin and Bedrettin Yazan.  Routledge. To be published March 2024.

Wessels, S., Catalano, T., Reeves, J., Leonard, A., Ganesan, U., Barbici-Wagner, A., & Gallardo, C. (2023). “Just attaching a face”: Engaging local refugee communities in preservice teacher education focused on students with immigrant/refugee backgrounds. TESOL Journal. DOI: 10.1002/tesj.782

Reeves, J. (2023). Bilingual paraeducators’ navigation of narrow identity spaces in a rural elementary school. In Educating Multilingual Students in Rural Schools: Illuminating Diversity in Rural Communities in the United States, edited by M. R. Coady, P. Golombek, and N. Marichal, pp. 70-97. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Reeves J. (2022). Understanding language teacher agency. In Theory and Practice in Second Language Teacher Identity: Researching, Theorizing, and Enacting, edited by K. Sadeghi and F. Ghaderi, pp. 75-88. Switzerland: Springer.

Catalano, T., Ganesan, U., Barbici-Wagner, A., Reeves, J., Leonard, A., & Wessels, S. (2021). Dance as Dialog: A Metaphor Analysis of Arts and Community-Based Learning with Preservice Teachers and a Local Refugee Community.  Teaching and Teacher Education, 104, 103369.

Catalano, T., Reeves, J. & Wessels, S. (2018). "The soccer field, it has dirt”: A critical analysis of teacher learners in contact with emergent multilingual students. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, (15)1, 1-20.   

Reeves, J. (2018). Teacher identity. In TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, J.I. Liontas (Ed), pp. 1-7. Oxford, UK: Wiley.

Reeves, J. (2018). Teacher identity work in neoliberal schooling spaces. Teaching and Teacher Education, (72), 98-106.

Wessels, S., Trainin, G., Reeves, J., Catalano, T., & Deng, Q. (2017). Preservice teachers’ confidence and attitudes toward teaching English learners. Teacher Education and Practice, (30)3, 443-461.

Varghese, M. M., Motha, S., Park, G., Reeves, J. & Trent, J. (2016). In this issue.  TESOL Quarterly, 50, 545-571. 

Areas of Expertise

• English Learners
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Teacher Identity
• Teacher Development

Honors and Recognition

• Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad, U.S. Department of Education grant winner (2019 – 2023). Education fever: Lessons for Great Plains K-12 teachers in Korea’s education system. (2019 - 2023). Principal investigator. Award of $87,351. Dr. Reeves led 12 Nebraska teachers on a 4 week travel study of Korean language, culture, and educational system.
• 2015, Donald R. and Mary Lee Swanson Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2011, College of Education and Human Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award
• 2011, Teacher Education Interest Section (TEIS) Chair elect, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• 2006, Schooling in Nebraska’s demographically transitioning communities, $15,000 Grant Funding, Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Project Co-director with Edmund T. Hamann
• 2005, Monolingual Teachers, Multilingual Students, $2,850 Competitive research grant proposal, Project director, Office of the Vice President for Research, Auburn University
• 2003, Preparing all teachers to work successfully with English language learners, $1,995.85 College of Education National Advisory Council, Auburn University

Experience

• 2005-Present, Associate Professor (promoted 2011), Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
• 2002-2005, Assistant Professor and ESL Education Program Coordinator, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
• 1999-2002, Teaching Associate and Intern Supervisor, Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• 2000-2001, ESL Instructor, English Language Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• 2000-2001, Freelance Item Writer, Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC), Princeton, New Jersey
• 1997-1999, Visiting Lecturer of ESL, Department of English Education, Chunchon National University of Education, Chunchon, South Korea
• 1991-1993, High School ESL Teacher, Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET), Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Memberships

• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) [Affiliate memberships: KOTESOL, AMTESOL, MidTESOL]
• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• American Association of Educational Research (AERA)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Southeast Conference of Language Teachers (SCOLT)