Marjorie Elaine
Professor
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She was the Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute from 2022-2025 and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of International Migration from 2015 through 2021. Her research centers on the experiences of immigrant youth in urban schools and communities, including as language and cultural brokers for their families. She was selected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2021 and is a past president of the Council of Anthropology and Education. She was a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993. Her Substack column can be found here.
Departments
Programs
Areas of Expertise and Advising Interests
- Advanced Qualitative Methods
- Community Engagement
- Language, Literacy, and Learning
- Learning Sciences
- Schooling and Immigration
- Teaching, Curriculum, and Pedagogies
Other Affiliations
Research Centers
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
- John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award, Language and Social Processes SIG of AERA, 2023.
- AERA Fellow, Elected 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, 2016-2022.
- 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, 2013-14.
- 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
- Mahmood, Mara, Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich, and Cano, J. (Eds.) (2024). University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education: Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal. Palgrave Macmillan. (Available Open Access.
- Elaine, Marjorie. (2024). On epistemology in researching the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, and the language arts. Research in the Teaching of English, 58 (4): 429-441.
- Ángeles, Sophia, Bach, Katherine, and Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2023). Connecting mind, heart, culture and activity in an undergraduate education service-learning course. Mind, Culture and Activity.
- Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich, Priscilla Liu and Sophia Ángeles. (2022). “Re-inventing ourselves and re-imagining education: Everyday learning and life lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Harvard Educational Review.
- 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. (2016). Immigrant Youth in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Literacy and Love. New York: Routledge.
- Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich and Phoenix, Ann. (2016). Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time. Childhood, 24(2): 183-196. 0907568216671178.
- Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- 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.