Bio

Marie Himes is the Director of the New Literacies Collaborative and a Research Scholar at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University. Himes works with the New Literacies Collaborative to analyze the intersectionality of literacy, evolving technologies, and media across research, policy, and practice. Prior to joining the Friday Institute, Himes taught middle and high school English, history, and social studies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Germany. Himes earned her MEd in curriculum and instruction and her BAs in international politics and international studies with a minor in German from the Pennsylvania State University.

Publications

• Facilitator positioning work in a Chinese-U.S. high school virtual exchange: “a way to learn about themselves in the world” , Quality Education for All (2026)
• Interdisciplinary project based-inquiry: Empowering students to solve global problems , Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education (2025)
• Toward an equitable implementation of the science of reading: K-5 teachers' sensemaking and support needs , Teaching and Teacher Education (2025)
• Exploring associations between teacher perceptions of working conditions and immediate professional plans at a Chinese internationalised school , Journal of Research in International Education (2024)
• Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global , CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL LITERACIES (2023)
• Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global during a Pandemic: A New Learning Ecology Perspective , Education Sciences (2023)
• Teaching K-8 English Learners Literacy and Academic Content: Educator Beliefs and Discursive Engagement in an Online Teacher Professional Development Course , American Journal of Distance Education (2023)
• Supporting Students’ Science Content Knowledge and Motivation through Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global in a Cross-School Collaboration , Education Sciences (2022)
• “We Are the Future”: Critical Inquiry and Social Action in the Classroom , Journal of Literacy Research (2021)
• Going Global With Project‐Based Inquiry: Cosmopolitan Literacies in Practice , Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2019)