Stephen May University of Auckland, New Zealand
Stephen May is a professor of education in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an international authority on language rights, language policy, bilingualism and bilingual education, and critical multicultural approaches to education. Additional research interests are in the wider politics of multiculturalism, ethnicity and nationalism, social theory (particularly the work of Bourdieu), sociolinguistics, and critical ethnography. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, along with numerous books, including his critical ethnography Making Multicultural Education Work (1994). His most recent books are The Multilingual Turn (2014) and Language and Minority Rights (2nd ed., 2012). He is editor-in-chief of the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd ed., 2017) and founding editor of the journal Ethnicities. His home page is http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/stephen-may
