LATINA/O Scholar Office Hours @ NASPA
Interested in pursuing a master's doctoral degree? Seeking support as you finish your doctorate? Interested in incorporating research into your practice?
Sign up for the inaugural NASPA
Latina/o Faculty Office Hours.
This year, we are offering oppourtunities to talk with eight Latina/o tenure-track faculty from across the country about graduate school, research, and surviving and thriving in your journey to the doctorate. We are here to listen and support.
Listed below are the 2014 participating faculty.
Office hours will be offered on Monday and Tuesday during the NASPA Conference in the Faculty Lounge - 326 Convention Center. Please sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/noskysw
LATINO SCHOLAR COLLECTIVE
Meet the Scholars
Michelle Espino, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Assistant Professor, Higher Education, Student Affairs, & International Education Policy
Michelle Espino is a first-generation college student from El Paso, Texas. She earned her bachelor's degree in International Relations from St. Mary's University (TX), her master's in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University, and her Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Arizona. Prior to her faculty role, Dr. Espino worked in student activities, fraternity/sorority life, and social justice leadership. She served as a past co-chair of the NASPA Latina/o Knowledge Community and is currently serving on the board of the NASPA Women's Center, and the board of Gamma Sigma Alpha academic Honorary.
Dr. Espino's contributions to the field of student affairs administration and higher education focus on understanding how institutional cultures, policies, and practices as well as community contexts affect and inform educational achievement, outcomes, and experiences along the P-20 pipeline for racial/ethnic minorities, particularly for the Latina/o population.
Ignacio Hernandez, Ph.D., California State University, Fresno
Assistant Professor, Educational Research and Administration
Dr. Ignacio Hernández is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Research & Administration at California State University, Fresno. Originally from Los Angeles County, Ignacio is a community college transfer student who completed a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Counseling with an emphasis in Student Development in Higher Education from California State University, Long Beach. He earned his Ph.D. in Education from Iowa State University.
Dr. Hernandez's research examines Latina/o leaders in higher education, historic missions of community colleges in the modern context, and educational access and opportunity.
Email:
ihernandez@
csufresno.edu
Phone:
(909) 576-1320
Website:
http://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/educ-research-admin/ed-ldshp-a.html
Susana Hernández, Ph.D., California State University, Fresno
Assistant Professor, Educational Research and Administration
Dr. Susana Hernandez is an Assistant Professor in the Higher Education, Administration, and Leadership Pathway in the Department of Educational Research & Administration at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Hernández’s research examines educational opportunity in discourse and policy. Her work disrupts traditional and conventional policy analyses and raises imperative understandings of how educational opportunity is constructed. Her work has examined in-state resident tuition policies that affect undocumented students as well as how federal policy discursively shapes Latino educational opportunity and equity. Dr. Hernández has held several student affairs positions within the Hispanic Serving Institution Office at CSULB as well as in admissions and student outreach programs at UC Irvine. In her professional capacities, she worked with high school, undergraduate, and transfer students throughout the state of California to promote higher education and educational opportunity.
Dr. Susana Hernandez's research interests include: educational opportunity in discourse and policy, (im)migrant students, undocumented students, and critical policy analysis.
Email:
suhernandez@
csufresno.edu
Phone:
(310) 686-7770
Website:
http://www.fresnostate.edu/kremen/departments/era.html
Email:
Judy.Kiyama@du.edu
Phone:
(303) 871-3753
Website:
http://morgridge.du.edu/programs/higher-education/
Judy Marquez Kiyama, Ph.D., University of Denver
Assistant Professor, Higher Education
Dr. Judy Marquez Kiyama is an Assistant Professor in the Higher Education program at the University of Denver’s Mogridge College of Education. Dr. Kiyama worked in Student Affairs at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the University of Arizona for 8 years before moving into her faculty role. Dr. Kiyama graduated from the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Higher Education.
Dr. Kiyama’s research examines the role that families and communities play in developing college-going cultures for Latina/o youth. Kiyama’s community-based approach to research engages asset-based frameworks to understand collective knowledge and resources present in communities.
Email:
phdgamma@gmail.com
Phone:
(307) 399-1174
Website:
http://www4.uwm.edu/soe/academics/admin_leadership//
Susana Muñoz, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Assistant Professor, Higher Education
Dr. Susana Muñoz is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Administrative Leadership department. Prior to her professorship, Dr. Muñoz served as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Rendón and as a Lecturer in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University. She also brings 13 years of student affairs experience in multicultural affairs, greek life, diversity and leadership training, TRiO programs, and residence life.
Dr. Susana Muñoz's scholarly interests center on the experiences of underrepresented populations in higher education. Specifically, she focuses her research on issues of access, identity, and college persistence for undocumented Latina/o students, while employing perspectives such as Latino critical race theory, Chicana feminist epistemology, and college persistence theory to identify and deconstruct issues of power and inequities as experienced by these populations. She utilizes multiple research methods as mechanisms to examine these matters with the ultimate goal of informing immigration policy and higher education practices.
Anna Ortiz, Ph.D., California State University, Long Beach
Professor & Department Chair, Educational Leadership
Dr. Ortiz grew up in Northern California with her father’s Mexicano family and her mother’s Portuguesa family close by. She was fortunate that her father’s immigrant family stressed education and that he connected with others in their small community to gain the capital needed to go to college in the 50’s. He and her uncle paved Dr. Ortiz's way. Her educational background: B.S., Human Development, UC Davis; M.A., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Ohio State; Ph.D., Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Michigan State University; Associate & Full Professor at Cal State Long Beach.
Dr. Ortiz's research interest include: Latino and Latinas in Higher Education; Multicultural Education; Professional Issues for Student Affairs Administrators; and Faculty Development
Email:
tozuna@uta.edu
Phone:
(210) 385-3071
Website:
http://www.uta.edu/coehp/_downloads/educleadership/phdapplicationinformationcurrent.pdf
Taryn Ozuna, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Dr. Taryn Ozuna is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She is also affiliated with the Center for Mexican American Studies at UTA and the Center for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Texas at Austin and her Masters and Bachelors degrees from Baylor University.
Dr. Ozuna’s research interests focus on the educational experiences of Latino students as they access, transition, and enroll in Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), particularly Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Her dissertation was a qualitative investigation of the first-year experiences and perceptions of sense of belonging among Mexican American students enrolled in a Historically Black University in Texas.
David Perez II, Ph.D., Miami University
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership
Prior to earning his Ph.D. in Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University, Dr. Pérez served as a student affairs professional in residence life at Syracuse University and New York University. Dr. Perez was a Posse Scholar at Vanderbilt University where he earned his B.S. in Human and Organizational Development and M.Ed. in Educational Leadership & Administration. Collectively, these experiences inform his research agenda, which centers on increasing the educational attainment and achievement of Latino males in higher education. He is the proud husband of Gabriela Bermudez and father to Immanuel D. Pérez.
Dr. Pérez is currently conducting a national study on Latino males in higher education. Although his research focuses on increasing the educational attainment and achievement of Latino males, he is equally interested in research on student engagement, racial and gender inequity in higher education, and campus climate. In 2014, NASPA recognized Dr. Pérez as an Emerging Scholar for his scholarly contributions.
Email:
ddzerquera@usfca.edu
Phone:
(954) 292-4300
Website:
http://www.usfca.edu/soe/programs/leadership/ol_ma_hesa/
Desiree Zerquera, Ph.D., University of San Francisco
Assistant Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs Program, Department of Leadership Studies
Dr. Zerquera is from Miami, FL, studying mathematics and Educational Leadership at the University of Florida before attending Indiana University to pursue my Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs. I have worked as a researcher, student affairs practitioner, and higher education administrator. USF’s HESA program is focused on developing student affairs practitioners who are social justice advocates and prepared to address issues of inequity through their work. I am grateful to be a part of a program that allows me the opportunity to create spaces for critical understandings of issues of equity and oppression integrated throughout the curriculum.
Dr. Zerquera researches how inequalities structure the experiences of underrepresented students in accessing and succeeding in higher education; organizational theory; public policy; financial aid; and Latino student experiences.