Antonio Duran

Antonio Duran, PhD (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education, as well as a 1L JD student at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. His research agenda addresses how issues of inequity shape institutions of higher education and what practitioners, faculty, and students do to resist them. He is especially interested in applying frames that expose how intersecting systems of oppression affect multiply minoritized people and their navigation of these social institutions. As a JD student, he strives to explore how research informs legal practice (and vice-versa) to advance equity and justice. 

Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Duran found a love for higher education during his years as an undergraduate student at New York University. It was at NYU that he first encountered questions of what it meant to be a first-generation queer Latino cisgender man in educational settings and in society broadly. He discovered that educators could create environments for students to explore who they were and to learn how they can contribute to a more socially just world. After his time at NYU, he was lucky to receive his master's degree in student affairs in higher education from Miami University and his doctorate in higher education and student affairs from The Ohio State University.