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Angela Valenzuela

Professor, Director of the TCEP & Associate Vice President for School Partnerships
Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Administration, Division of Diversity & Community Engagement
Cultural Studies in Education, Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP), Educational Policy & Planning Program, Public School Executive Leadership Program

Office: SZB 528L

Phone: (512) 471-7055
Fax: (512) 471-8592
E-Mail: valenz@mail.utexas.edu

Mailing Address

The University of Texas at Austin
Curriculum & Instruction
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0379
UTMailCode: D8000

Office Hours

By appointment only.

Profile

Angela Valenzuela is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A Stanford University graduate, her previous teaching positions were in Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas (1990-98), as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston (1998-99). Dr. Valenzuela is a mother of two children with research and teaching interests in the sociology of education, race and ethnicity in schools, urban education reform, and educational policy. She is the author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring (www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60016), winner of both the 2000 American Educational Research Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2001 Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. She is also editor of a volume titled, Leaving Children Behind: How Texas-style Accountability Fails Latino Youth (www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61006). She served as co-editor of the Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, as well as the Anthropology and Education Quarterly. A recent Fulbright Scholar, Valenzuela spent her 2007-08 academic year in Mexico where she taught in the College of Law at the University of Guanajuato in Guanajuato, Guanajuato and conducted research in the areas of immigration, human rights, and binational relations.  She is also the recipient of a Cissy McDaniel Parker Fellow.

Last Updated : December 2nd 2008, 11:21:07 AM