Luis Urrieta

Luis Urrieta, Jr. holds the Charles H. Spence, Sr. Centennial Professorship in Cultural Studies of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He is (by courtesy) affiliated faculty with the Center for Mexican American Studies, the Lozano Long-Benson Institute of Latin American Studies, and the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program. Dr. Urrieta's research interests include: identities and agency as social and cultural practices, movements related to education, and learning in family and community contexts. Dr. Urrieta is the author of the award winning, Working from Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools with the University of Arizona Press (2009) and co-editor (with George Noblit) of Cultural Constructions of Identity: Meta-ethnography and Theory (2018) with Oxford University Press. As the son of Mexican migrants from rural Michoacán, his motivation for advocacy and work with bicultural and bilingual communities stems from his family experiences dealing with the perceptions and often hostility toward Indigenous migrants, especially undocumented migrants. His professional and academic work in education have been dedicated to raising awareness and valuing Latina/o immigrant family and community knowledge as well as the importance of nourishing and supporting strong ethnic and linguistic identities in Latina/o/x children and youth, while promoting and creating the conditions for high academic achievement.