Kenji Hakuta

Kenji Hakuta is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. As of July 1, 2003, he assumes a new position as Founding Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts at the University of California, Merced. He is an experimental psycholinguist with research interests in bilingualism, second language acquisition, and education. He has chaired a committee for the National Research Council on the education of language minority students, and has served on a number of NRC committees on education. He chaired the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board through the life of the last re-authorization of OERI at the U. S. Department of Education, and presently serves on the Boards of the Spencer Foundation and the Educational Testing Service.