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Dr. Diego Román is an assistant professor of bilingual/bicultural education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to this appointment, he was an assistant professor of Bilingual Education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Román holds a B.S. degree in Agronomy from Zamorano University in Honduras and an M.S. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He also earned an M.S. degree in Biology, an M.A. in Linguistics, and a Ph.D. degree in Educational Linguistics, all from Stanford University. At the K–12 level, Dr. Román taught middle school science to English Learners and newcomer students for seven years, first in rural Wisconsin and then in San Francisco, California.