Cristina Lash, Stanford GSE Doctoral Candidate in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education, has graciously agreed to give her job talk, “Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-first Century”, to the GSE community, on Friday 24th, from 12 – 1:30 PM, in Cubberley 114. In this talk, Lash draws on ethnographic and interview data from a diverse middle school to show how schooling institutions can reproduce a multiracial image of the American nation by assimilating with their minority student populations. Last year K.C. Busch presented and Professors Nicole Ardoin and Sarah Levine, and the students attending the session gave her immediate feedback on the presentation. K.C. and the students found it to be very valuable. This year we plan on having three faculty members (Ben Domingue, Jennifer Langer-Osuna, and Peter Williamson) attend and give feedback. The session is open to all GSE students and is a valuable opportunity to learn about what makes a great job talk. Lunch provided with RSVP on the EdCareers Database, by Wednesday, February 22.