Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

315 Portola Plaza, Box 951559, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1559

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Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

Assistant Professor, Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education

Laura C. Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prof. Chávez-Moreno researches, writes, and teaches about Chicanx/Latinx education. She works at the intersections of education, pedagogy, language, literacy, and ethnic studies, particularly Chicanx/Latinx Studies. Her research has been published in top-tier journals such as Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, American Educational Research Journal, Research in the Teaching of English, and Journal of Teacher Education. Her book, “How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America” will be released on October 1st, 2024, by Harvard Education.

Departments

Titles and Positions

Assistant Professor, Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; School of Education; Curriculum & Instruction
  • Graduate Certificate, Boston College; School of Education; Curriculum & Instruction
  • MA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; School of Education; Literacy, Language, & Culture
  • BS in Education, Northern Arizona University; College of Education; Spanish, Secondary-level Education, and Latin American Studies

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

  • 2023 Alan C. Purves Award from the National Council for Teachers of English for her article in Research in the Teaching of English, “The continuum of racial literacies: Teacher practices countering whitestream bilingual education.”
  • 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Fellow of 2020–2022 cohort of NCTE Research Foundation’s Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color
  • Recognized with awards from American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G Social Contexts in Education; AERA Latinx Research Issues Special Interest Group (SIG); AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG; American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education; and National Association of Bilingual Education.

Select Publications

  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (Forthcoming on October 1st). How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America. Harvard Education Press. https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/9781682539224/how-schools-make-race/
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2023). Examining race in LatCrit: A systematic review of Latinx critical race theory in education. Review of Educational Research. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543231192685
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2022). Critiquing racial literacy: Presenting a continuum of racial literacies. Educational Researcher (51)7, 481-488. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X221093365
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2022). The continuum of racial literacies: Teacher practices countering whitestream bilingual education. Research in the Teaching of English, 57(2), 108-132. Recognized with the 2023 Alan C. Purves Award.
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2021). Dual language as white property: Examining a secondary bilingual-education program and Latinx equity. American Educational Research Journal, 58(6) 1107-1141. doi: 10.3102/00028312211052508
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2021). U.S. empire and an immigrant’s counternarrative: Conceptualizing imperial privilege. Journal of Teacher Education, 72(2) 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487120919928
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2024). A Literature Review of Raciolinguistics in Dual-language Bilingual Education: A Call for Conceptualizing Racialization. In J. Friere, C. Alfaro, & E. de Jong (Eds.), The Handbook of Dual Language Bilingual Education (pp. 254–265). Routledge.
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2022). Race reflexivity: Examining the unconscious for a critical race ethnography. In S. May & B. Caldas (Eds.), Critical Ethnography, Bi/Multilingualism, Race(ism) and Education, p. 91-107. Multilingual Matters.
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2021). Racist and raciolinguistic teacher ideologies: When bilingual education is “inherently culturally relevant” for Latinxs. The Urban Review, 54(4) 1-22.
  • Chávez-Moreno, L. C. (2021). The problem with Latinx as a racial construct vis-à-vis language and bilingualism: Toward recognizing multiple colonialisms in the racialization of Latinidad. In E. G. Murillo, Jr., et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Latinos & Education (2nd ed., pp. 164-180). Routledge.