George Bunch

George C. Bunch is a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned a PhD in educational linguistics from Stanford University and is an experienced K-12, adult education, and teacher educator. His research focuses on language and literacy challenges and opportunities for linguistic minority students in K-12 and higher education and on policies and practices designed to serve such students.

Bunch is a former National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, and he received the 2017 Midcareer Award from the Second Language Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. He also received a Spencer Foundation Midcareer Grant to serve as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching during the 2017–18 academic year. Bunch’s book with Aída Walqui, Amplifying the Curriculum: Designing Quality Learning Opportunities for English Learners, was published in 2019 by Teachers College Press. Bunch is a co-principal investigator of a three-year study funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences and led by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, that examines the education of English Learners in community colleges in a large midwestern city.