Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana

Marjorie Elaine

Moore Hall 1032A
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521

P: (310) 206-5375

W: marjoriefaulstichorellana.com

Office Hours

Tuesdays 1-2 pm
Wednesdays 3-4 pm and by appointment

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Marjorie Elaine

Professor

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is Professor of Urban Schooling, Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration, and Co-Director of Faculty for the Teacher Education Program. Her research centers on the experiences of immigrant youth in urban schools and communities, including as language and cultural brokers for their families. She is the author of Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth and Cultures (Rutgers University Press, 2009), Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love (Routledge, 2016), a 2019 co-edited volume (with Inmaculada García-Sánchez): Language and Cultural Processes in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019), and Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart, and Activity for Transformative Social Research (Routledge, 2019). She is a past president of the Council of Anthropology and Education and was a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993.

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Titles and Positions

  • Professor, Urban Schooling
  • Co-Director of Faculty, Teacher Education Program
  • Associate Director, Center for the Study of International Migration
  • Founding Director, Bruin Club After-School Program

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

  • AERA Fellow, 2021.
  • The Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Faculty Award for Applied Research in Learning and Achievement, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2017.
  • Fulbright Specialist Roster, 2016-2021.
  • Mentoring Award. Division G, American Educational Research Association, 2015.
  • Distinguished Teaching Award. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2013.
  • President. Council on Anthropology and Education, American Anthropological Association, 2013-2014.
  • European Social Research Council/Social Science Research Council Collaborative Visiting Fellowship. University of London, Thomas Coram Research Unit, 2008-2009.
  • Haytin Award for Research at University Elementary School, 2007.
  • National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001.

Select Publications

  • Orellana, Marjorie Elaine Faulstich. (Forthcoming). With love and respect for young people: What I learned with and from Barrie about ethnographic approaches to the study of childhoods. In Oeur, F. B. and Pascoe, C. J. (Eds.) Gender Replay: Reflections on Youth, Gender and Feminism. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Phoenix, Ann and Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2021). Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual. Children and Society.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Elaine Faulstich. (2019). Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research. New York: Routledge.
  • García-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich (Eds.). (2019). Language and Social Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups. New York: Routledge.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2017). Solidarity, transculturality, educational anthropology, and (the modest goal of) transforming the world. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 48(3): 210-220.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2016). Immigrant Youth in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Literacy and Love. New York: Routledge.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich, Reynolds, Jennifer, Dorner, Lisa and Meza, María. (2003). In other words: Translating or “para-phrasing” as a family literacy practice in immigrant households. The Reading Research Quarterly, 38(1): 12-34.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2001). The work kids do: Mexican and Central American immigrant children’s contributions to households and schools in California. Harvard Educational Review, 71(3): 366-389.
  • Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich and Thorne, Barrie. (1998). Year-round schools and the politics of time. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 29(4), 1-27.