Luis Urrieta, Jr.
Associate Professor
Curriculum & Instruction
Cultural Studies in Education
Office: SZB 528G
Phone: (512) 232-4129
Fax: (512) 471-8460
E-Mail: urrieta@mail.utexas.edu
Mailing Address
The University of Texas at Austin
Curriculum & Instruction
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0379
UTMailCode: D5700
Office Hours
Currently On Leave for Academic Year 2009-2010
Profile
Dr. Luis Urrieta, Jr. is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education and Mexican American Studies. Dr. Urrieta's research interests center around 1) cultural and racial identities, 2) agency as social and cultural practices, and 3) social movements related to education. He is specifically interested in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigenous cultures and identities, activism as a social practice in educational spaces and in collective movements, and in oral and narrative traditions in qualitative research. Luis Urrieta received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. He has been recognized as a fellow by the American Educational Research Association, the Spencer Foundation, the Lee Hage Jamail Regents Chair in Education (UT), and most recently by the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Commission (2009-2010). In 2009, Dr. Urrieta published Working from Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools with the University of Arizona Press, (http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid2082.htm) Dr. Urrieta has also published several book chapters as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Terminal Degree
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Representative Publications
Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 34(2); Citizenship Normalizing and White Pre-service Social Studies Teachers. Urrieta, L Jr. & Reidel, M. (2008) pp91-108
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education; Community Commitment and Activist Scholarship: Chicana/o Professors and the Practice of Consciousness; L. Urrieta Jr. and Lina R. Méndez Benavidez, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 222-236 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/jhhe_communitycommit.pdf
The Urban Review; Figured Worlds and Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue; L. Urrieta Jr., Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 107-116 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/figuredworlds_intro.pdf
The Urban Review; Identity Production in Figured Worlds: How some Mexican Americans become Chicana/o Activist Educators; L. Urrieta Jr., Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 117-144 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/identityproduction.pdf
CIMEXUS, Revista de Investigaciones Mexico-Estados Unidos; The Immigration Debate in the United States: Historical Trends, Migration, and Educational Issues; J. Vega and L. Urrieta Jr., Vol. 1, No. 1, julio-diciembre 2006, pp. 63-78 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/cimexus_immigration.pdf
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Community identity discourse and the heritage academy: colorblind educational policy and white supremacy, Vol. 19, No. 4, July-August 2006, pp. 455-476 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/TQSE_A_vol19no4aug06.pdf
Racism and Antiracism in Education (E. W. Ross [Ed.]); Avoidance, anger, and convenient amnesia: White supremacy and self-reflection in social studies teacher education, Vol. 4, 2006, pp. 279-299 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/avoidance.pdf
Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity; "Playing the Game" Versus "Selling Out": Chicanas and Chicanos Relationship to Whitestream Schools, In Alexander, B. K., Anderson, G. L., and Gallegos, B. P. (Eds.) 2005, Chapter 9, pp. 173-196 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/performance_Theories.pdf
The Social Studies; The Social Studies of Domination: Cultural Hegemony and Ignorant Activism, Vol. 96, No. 5, September/October 2005, pp. 189-192 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/socialstudiesofdomination.pdf
The Urban Review; Assistencialism and the Politics of High-Stakes Testing, Vol. 36, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 211-226 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/urbanreview.pdf
Theory and Research in Social Education; Dis-connections in "American" Citizenship and the Post/neo-colonial: People of Mexican Descent and Whitestream Pedagogy and Curriculum, Vol. 32, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 433-458 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/theoryresearch.pdf
Educational Studies; Las Identidades También Lloran, Identities Also Cry: Exploring the Human Side of Indigenous Latina/o Identities, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2003, pp. 148-168 http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/edstudies.pdf
Urrieta, Luis and Martinez, Olivia (2002); Journal of Latinos and Education, 1(1), pp. 69-72; Review of La Otra Conquista by Salvador Carrasco (writer and director) http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/files/ci/publications/urrieta/laotraconquista.pdf
Research Interests and Expertise
Identity, Agency, and Social Movements in Education with a focus on Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Indigenous (Purepecha) formal and informal education, Native Research Methodologies, Citizenship and Social Studies Education
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