Juan Carrillo
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Mail code: 5411Campus: Tempe
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Juan F. Carrillo is an Associate Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and a recipient of the 2020 American Educational Research Association's Division G Early Career Award (Social Context of Education). He is a native of working-class communities in south Los Angeles, California and the son of Mexican immigrants from the state of Sinaloa. Carrillo was a high school social studies teacher in south Phoenix, Arizona and east Austin, Texas. His work in K-12 schools also extends into the realms of mentoring, chairing departments, and curriculum design, always with the aim of reaching students in-context.
Prior to joining ASU, Carrillo was an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Education (UNC). At UNC, he was the founding director of the Latin@/x Education Research Hub, the Chiron Award recipient for teaching excellence and service, a board member with the Scholars’ Latino Initiative (SLI), and a Thorp Faculty Engaged Fellow.
Carrillo's research draws from critical frameworks and qualitative methodologies such as narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and testimonios. His work looks at the role of agency in historically marginalized communities, with a particular focus on Latinx students. One of his focus areas is on the schooling trajectories of academically successful Latino males that come from working-class origins. Within this research strand, he covers issues of language, identity, intelligences, and agency in traditional gateway regions and cities and in rural and semi-rural spaces in the "New" Latinx south. Some of his current qualitative research looks at social movements in education and examines the role of basketball as a metaphorical and literal tool for exploring themes such as decoloniality, identity, fugitivity, and “borderlands play.” Part of this work centers the role of Latinx educators and community members in Arizona as they engage in various forms of collective action all while documenting critical takes on history, memory, language, civics, and public pedagogies. Further, his basketball related scholarship delves into how informal learning spaces (i.e. pickup hoops) may serve as pedagogical and philosophical sites of reimagination, community building, and learning for minoritized communities.
Carrillo's research has been funded by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation and his publications include the books, "Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle" and "Mentoring Students of Color: Naming the Politics of Race, Social Class, Gender, and Power" (lead editor) and various articles in journals such as The High School Journal, Harvard Educational Review, and Educational Policy.
Beyond traditional journal articles, Dr. Carrillo's work and schooling journey have been cited by USA Today and The Texas Observer. Drawing from his scholarship and in collaboration with Dr. Jason Mendez, he merged public media and community engagement to develop the national level web-based series and online magazine, “Block Chronicles" (www.blockchronicles.com). The work related to BC has been presented at national level conferences and BC has profiled individuals and communities in places such as Puerto Rico, California, New Mexico, New York, and Pennsylvania. This work has been produced in ways that are accessible across the world, offering long-term opportunities for collaborations across borders. Also, as a cultural studies in education scholar and as a passionate basketball fan, Dr. Carrillo has put together a column on his substack ("On Writing and Basketball"): https://juanfcarrillo.substack.com. Further, Carrillo's commitment to social embeddedness and his passion for engaging learning and learners across diverse settings and communities is a key part of his inspiration as he engages his role as the co-director of ASU's Storytelling Learning Futures Collaborative. He currently serves as an Associate Editor with The Urban Review journal and he is on the Educational Studies and Journal of Latinos and Education editorial advisory board.
- Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, Cultural Studies in Education, University of Texas at Austin 2010
- M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, Grand Canyon University 2002
- B.A. Sociology, Arizona State University 2000
Cultural Studies in Education, Latinx Education, Males of Color, Agency and Education, Sports and Education
Selected Publications
Carrillo, J.F., *Ender, T., & *Perez, J. (2017). Letters to our Children: Narrating Legacies of Love, Dissent, and Possibility. Journal of Latinos and Education, 5, 1-14.
Cervantes-Soon, C. & Carrillo, J.F. (2016). Toward a Pedagogy of Border Thinking: Building on Latin@ Students’ Subaltern Knowledge. The High School Journal, 99 (4), 282-301.
Carrillo, J.F. (2016). Searching for Home in Dixie: Identity and Education in the New Latin@ South. Educational Studies, 52 (1), 20-37.
Hughes, S., Dorsey, D.T., Carrillo, J.F. (2016). Causation Fallacy 2.0: Revisiting the myth and math of affirmative action. Educational Policy, 30 (1), 63-93.
Carrillo, J.F. (2013). I Always Knew I was Gifted: Latino Males and the Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligence. Berkeley Review of Education, 4 (1), 69-95.
Carrillo, J.F. (2013). The Unhomely in Academic Success: Latino Males Navigating the Ghetto Nerd Borderlands. Culture, Society, and Masculinities, 5 (2), 193-207.
Carrillo, J.F. (2010). Teaching that Breaks Your Heart: Reflections on the Soul Wounds of a First Year Latina Teacher. Harvard Educational Review, 80 (1), 74-80.
Books
Carrillo, J.F. (2016). Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Carrillo, J.F., *Parker, D., *Conder, T. (Lead editor, in press). Mentoring Students of Color: Naming the Politics of Race, Social Class, Gender, and Power. Sense Publishers.
*Collaborations with graduate students
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TEL 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 220 | Foundations of SEI |
2024 Fall
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 324 | Soc Studies/Diverse Lang Clsrm |
TEL 792 | Research |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
2024 Summer
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TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
BLE 408 | Structured Eng Immersion (SEI) |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 799 | Dissertation |
DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 220 | Foundations of SEI |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
DCI 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 324 | Soc Studies/Diverse Lang Clsrm |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 597 | Capstone |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 780 | Practicum |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
TEL 710 | Innov Disseminating Res |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
TEL 792 | Research |
ELL 515 | Structured Engl Immersion (SEI |
ELL 515 | Structured Engl Immersion (SEI |
2021 Fall
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BLE 324 | Soc Studies/Diverse Lang Clsrm |
2021 Summer
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ELL 515 | Structured Engl Immersion (SEI |
2021 Spring
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TEL 702 | Dynamic Contexts of Education |
TEL 702 | Dynamic Contexts of Education |
TEL 702 | Dynamic Contexts of Education |
2020 Fall
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TEL 713 | Advanced Qualitative Methods |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EPA 691 | Seminar |
2018 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Book of the Year Award. Contributing author in book, Moving Forward: Policies, Planning, and Promoting Access of Hispanic College Students.
2015 Faculty Affiliate, University of Texas at Austin, PROJECT MALES.
2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2014 UNC Chiron Award for Teaching Excellence and Service
2014 UNC Thorp Faculty Engaged Fellow
2014 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)/ Ford Foundation Faculty Fellow
2008 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow