Postdoctoral Scholar at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles
About
Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno is a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. In July 2021, Dr. Chávez-Moreno will join the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies Faculty as an assistant professor. Her research focuses on Chicanx/Latinx education, in particular teaching, literacy, language, and racialization. Dr. Chávez-Moreno’s dissertation research won five 2019 Outstanding Dissertation Awards: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G Social Contexts in Education; AERA Bilingual Education Research Special Interest Group (SIG; 1st place); AERA Latinx Research Issues SIG; American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (3rd place); and National Association of Bilingual Education (Honorable Mention). Dr. Chávez-Moreno’s work has been published in the Journal of Teacher Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Peabody Journal of Education, and the Handbook of Research on Teaching (5th edition).
Current Work:
Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno examines how schooling teaches about race and makes Latinidad. She connects these theorizations with questions about educational equity, particularly in the areas of language and literacy.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Chicanx/Latinx education; critical race & ethnic studies intersection of race & language; critical literacy; urban schooling
