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Serafín M. Coronel-Molina, Associate Professor in Literacy, Culture and Language ºÚÂí´ÅÁ¦ at the School of ºÚÂí´ÅÁ¦, has been named an Bicentennial Professor by the IU Office of the Bicentennial.

Bicentennial Professors are part of the university’s . These professors will deliver four to five lectures throughout Indiana during the 2019-2020 school year.

“I felt very humbled, honored, excited and thankful to be selected to serve as an Indiana University Bicentennial Professor,” Coronel-Molina said. “It has not been an easy journey to get here. To achieve what has been a life-long dream, I have had to struggle through a labyrinth of profound and complex struggles in my life. This is in large part because I am an Indigenous scholar who comes from an isolated, remote area of the South American Andes, where abject poverty is the norm.”

Coronel-Molina’s background has influenced his work as a member of the faculty at the School of ºÚÂí´ÅÁ¦.

“As a researcher and educator, my work is about making linguistic, ethnic, and cultural borders visible, so people can apprehend them and decide whether to embrace them or not. I strive to have a positive impact on undergraduate students who have seldom experienced this kind of cultural and linguistic ‘uprootedness,’” Coronel-Molina said. “In my classes, I always inject cross-cultural, cross-linguistic awareness to provide them with real-life examples, and not just quotes taken from books. At the same time, I am a living example to domestic and international graduate students of what is possible in crossing linguistic and cultural borders. I am always available and eager to mentor them on their own journeys.”

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