Census Bureau. Her current research focuses on ideologies of language, race and nation in the U.S.; language policy and language access in multilingual societies; the sociopolitics of language education; critical approaches to teaching Spanish as a heritage language; and multilingual surveys. Leeman’s recent publications include a study of the discursive role of Spanish in the racialization of Latinos in the U.S. Census; an analysis of accent discrimination in Arizona educational policy; and an examination of competing constructions of limited English proficiency in federal language policies.