Allie Jane Bruce is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research is located at the intersection of visual literacy, early childhood, and race & racism; she is interested in how young children process and make meaning of racial content and messaging in picture books.<\/p>\n
Before beginning her PhD, Allie was the children\u2019s librarian at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City. There, she co-developed the Loudness in the Library curriculum, which empowers middle school students to think critically about identity and bias. Allie served on the 2016 Newbery Committee for the most distinguished contribution to children\u2019s literature and numerous other children\u2019s literature award committees. She also cocreated the blog Reading While White: Working For Racial Diversity and Inclusion in Books for Children and Teens<\/em>.<\/p>\n Advisor: <\/strong>Katherine Frankel<\/p>\n Pronouns<\/strong>: she\/her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15491,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/59596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/59596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84937,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/59596\/revisions\/84937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}