Illana Lancaster

Assistant Professor
School of Education, Teaching and Health

• IIllana Lancaster started her career in education as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in a semi-rural community junior secondary school in Botswana. Since then Illana has taught high school English and ESL in Washington, DC, community college in suburban Maryland, and university in Istanbul, Turkey. She managed a resident teacher Masters Certification program in Prince George’s County, Maryland for several years before coming to SETH. Illana earned her doctorate in International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008. Her doctoral research explores the raced, classed, and gendered experiences of high school students with school-related violence in Johannesburg, South Africa. Illana is passionate about urban education in the USA and internationally. She continues to explore issues of equity and access and is currently working on projects focusing on mobilities, critical geography, and teacher nostalgia. Most recently, Illana traveled to Cuba in October to learn more about the values and dispositions Cuban teacher educators cultivate in their pre-service teachers.

• Degrees

  PhD, Education Policy and Leadership, International Education Policy (2008) University of Maryland, College Park, M.Ed., Secondary Education, English and ESL (2000) George Washington University, Washington, DC