Edited Works: Refereed Chapter Contributions (Selected: Since 2010)
May, S., Slembrouck, S., & Van Avermaet, P. (in press). The legacy of Jim Cummins: Stages of theoretical-conceptual debate and impact on practice, with comparative perspectives from New Zealand and Flanders. In R. Kubota & S. Taylor (eds.) Uniting theory and practice: Jim Cummins' contributions to transformative pedagogy as justice for minoritized students. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
May, S. (in press). Multilingualism and language rights. In C. Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics 2nd ed. Cambridge MA.: Blackwell.
May, S. (in press). Minorities, language, and education in the era of ‘superdiversity’. In S, Dubinksy et al. (eds.), Cambridge handbook of language and political conflict, Cambridge University Press.
May, S., & Park, M Y (2026). Linguistic racism and discrimination in higher education. In L. Veliz, P. Meighan, W. Shah & X. Gao (eds.), Handbook on racial and epistemic inequity in applied linguistics. New York: Routledge.
May, S., Keegan, P., & Park, M Y (2026). Countering colonialingualism and promoting Indigenous language revitalization in higher education. In P. Meighan, P., & L. Veliz (eds.) Countering colonialingualism in language education: Research practices and pedagogies from the Global South. New York: Routledge.
May, S. (2025). The multilingual turn, language policy, and English as a ‘world language’. In A. Selvi & N. Galloway (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of English as an international Language (pp. 77-90). New York: Routledge.
May, S., (2024). Indigenous language and education rights. In. C. McKinney, P. Makoe, & V. Zavala (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism. 2nd ed. (pp. 127-143). New York: Routledge.
Sleeter, C., & May, S. (2024). Critical multiculturalism: An introduction. In C. Sleeter, Critical multicultural education: Theory and practice (pp. 13-24). Teachers College Press.
May, S. (2023). Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and in/equity in education: Charting the field. In S. May & B. Caldas (Eds.), Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education. Multilingual Matters
May, S. & Caldas, B. (2023). Introduction: Contextualizing and reimagining critical ethnography in education. In S. May & B. Caldas (Eds.), Critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education. Multilingual Matters.
May, S. (2023). Sociolinguistic and political theory perspectives on language rights. In T. Skutnabb-Kangas & R. Phillipson (Eds.), The handbook of linguistic human rights (pp. 39-54). Wiley-Blackwell.
May, S. (2022). The multilingual turn, superdiversity, and translanguaging: The rush from heterodoxy to orthodoxy. In J. MacSwan (Ed.), Multilingual perspectives on translanguaging (pp.343-355). Multilingual Matters.
Trinick, T., & May, S. (2021). Indigenous languages, standardisation, and curricular development: The case of the Māori language mathematics lexicon. J. Bellamy & W. Bennett (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of language standardization, Cambridge University Press.
May, S. (2021). Rethinking the principle of linguistic homogeneity in the age of superdiversity. In Y-Y. Tan & P. Mishra (Eds.), Language, nations, and multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian ideal. Routledge.
May, S.. & Dam, L. (2020). Essentialism and critical multiculturalism. Critical whiteness studies in education encyclopedia (pp. 179-187). Brill/Sense Publishers.
May, S.. & Fitzpatrick, K. (2019). Critical ethnography. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Cernat, J. Sakshaug, & R. Williams (Eds.), Sage research methods foundations. Sage Publications.
May, S. (2019). Majorities and minorities in language policy and language rights. In J. Darquennes, J. Salmons & W.Vandenbussche (Eds.), The handbook of language contact (pp. 370-384). Mouton de Gruyter.
May, S. (2018). Unanswered questions: Addressing the inequalities of majoritarian language policies. In L. Lim, C. Stroud, & L. Wee (Eds.), The multilingual citizen: Towards a politics of language for agency and change (pp.65-74). Multilingual Matters.
May, S. & Hill, R. (2018). Language revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand. L. Hinton, L. Huss, & G. Roche (Eds.), TheRoutledge handbook of language revitalization. Routledge.
May, S. (2017). Language rights and language repression. In J. Tollefson & M. Perez Milans (Eds.), TheOxford handbook of language policy and planning. Oxford University Press.
May, S. (2017). Surveying language rights: Interdisciplinary perspectives. In S. May (Ed.), Language Rights. Routledge.
May, S. (2017). National and ethnic minorities: language rights and recognition. In S. Canagarajah (Ed.), TheRoutledge handbook of migration and language (pp. 149-167). Routledge.
May, S. (2017). Bilingual education: What the research tells us. In O. García, A. Lin, & S. May (Eds.), Bilingual/multilingual education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd ed., pp. 81-100). Springer.
May, S. (2017). Language education, pluralism and citizenship. In T. McCarty & S. May (Eds.), Language policy and political issues in education.Encyclopedia of language and education (3rd ed., pp. 31-45). Springer.
Skutnabb-Kangas, S., & May, S. (2017). Linguistic human rights in education. In T. McCarty & S. May (Eds.), Language policy and political issues in education.Encyclopedia of language and education (3rd ed., pp. 125-141). Springer.
May, S. (2016). Language, imperialism and the modern nation-state system: Implications for language rights. In O. García & N. Flores (Eds.), TheOxford handbook on language and society(pp.35-53). Oxford University Press.
May, S. (2016). Globalization, language(s) and mobility. In B-A. Wickstrom & M. Gazzola (Eds.), Theeconomics of language policy. MIT Press.
May, S. (2015). The problem with English(es) and linguistic (in)justice. In H. de Schutter & D. Rochibaud (Eds.), Linguistic justice: Van Parijs and his critics. Routledge.
May, S. (2015) Interpreting language policy using political theory. In F. Hult & D. Cassels Johnson (Eds.), Research methods in language policy and planning (pp. 45-55). Wiley-Blackwell.
May, S. (2014). Overcoming disciplinary boundaries: connecting language, education and (anti)racism. In R. Race & V. Lander (Eds.), Advancing race and ethnicity in education(pp. 128-144). Palgrave Macmillan.
May, S., & Dam, L. (2014). Bilingual education and bilingualism. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press.
May, S. (2014). Disciplinary divides, knowledge construction and the multilingual turn. In S. May (Ed.), The multilingual turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL and bilingual education (pp. 7-31). Routledge.
May, S. (2014). Introducing the “multilingual turn”. In S. May (Ed.), The multilingual turn: Implications for SLA, TESOL and bilingual education (pp. 1-6). Routledge.
Hill, R. & May, S. (2013). Balancing the languages in Māori-medium education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In V. Zenotz, D. Gorter & J. Cenoz (eds.),Minority languages and multilingual education (pp. 171-189). Springer.
May, S. (2012). Multilingualism and language rights. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Blackwell.
May, S. (2012). Critical multiculturalism and education. In J. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of diversity in education. Sage.
May, S. (2012). Language rights: Promoting civic multilingualism. In M. Martin-Jones, A. Blackledge, & A. Creese (Eds.), Routledge handbook of multilingualism (pp. 131-142). Routledge.
May, S. (2012). Educational approaches to minorities: context, contest, and opportunities. In A. Yiakoumetti (Ed.), Harnessing linguistic variation to improve education (pp. 11-44). Peter Lang.
May, S. (2011). Language rights: The forgotten dimension of human rights. In T. Cushman (Ed.), Handbook of human rights (pp. 311-323). Routledge.
Hill, R., & May, S. (2011). Exploring biliteracy in Māori-medium education: An ethnographic perspective. In T. McCarty (Ed.), Ethnography and language policy (pp. 161-184). Routledge.
May, S. (2011). Bourdieu and language policy. In M. Grenfell et al. (Eds.), Bourdieu, language and linguistics (pp. 147-169). Continuum.
May, S. (2010). Aotearoa/New Zealand. In J. Fishman & O. Garcia (Eds.), Handbook of language and ethnicity (pp. 501-517). Oxford University Press.
May, S. (2010). Curriculum and the education of cultural and linguistic minorities. In B. McGraw, E. Baker, & P. Peterson (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education(3rd ed., pp. 293-298). Elsevier.
May, S. & Sleeter, C. (2010). Introduction. Critical multiculturalism: theory and praxis. In S. May, & C. Sleeter (Eds.), Critical multiculturalism: Theory and praxis (pp. 1-16).Routledge.