As part of their SSRC-funded Covid-19 research, Lu Liu and Marjorie Orellana study the role care and kindness played during the pandemic. Through an ethnographic diary-based study, they investigate how US families are navigating the pandemic and what they are learning from it. These families, they found, gained new insights into the importance of care, focusing on self-care, family-care, and community-care.
Lu Liu
Lu Liu is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on language policy and planning, language socialization, and the ethnographic study of education, with a geographical focus on the United States and China. She is particularly interested in family language policy and heritage language maintenance. Liu is the coauthor (with Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana and Sophia L. Ángeles) of “‘Re-inventing Ourselves’ and Re-imagining Education: Everyday Learning and Life Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic” in the Harvard Education Review (in press). She holds a PhD in education from UCLA.