Claudia Cervantes Soon
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Mail code: 5411Campus: Tempe
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Situated at the intersections of educational anthropology, critical pedagogy, bilingual education, and Chicana/Latina feminisms, Dr. Cervantes-Soon's work examines the interplay of sociocultural factors including race, class, gender, language, and citizenship/immigrant constructs in her analyses of educational contexts. Through community engaged and critical ethnographic approaches, her research captures the relationships between the localized, nuanced, and grounded perspectives and the larger global, ideological, geopolitical, and economic forces shaping contexts and practices. Dr. Cervantes-Soon's work seeks to recognize the intersectional identities and subaltern knowledges that are often ignored by dominant discourses about minoritized and border/transborder communities. Her research focuses on two broad areas of inquiry: 1) Equity and social justice in bilingual education, and 2) Borderlands/transborder Mexicana/Latina youth literacies and critical pedagogies.
Dr. Cervantes-Soon's most recent research examines the inequalities persistent in two-way dual language education and the possibilities to reclaim a focus on critical consciousness and historically marginalized, culturally diverse, and lingustically minoritized populations in bilingual education. Her current research project, "Building Black and Brown Bridges of Solidarity through Dual Language Education," has been supported by a 2017 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her contributions to the field of bilingual education have been recently recognized by a 2019 Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association - Bilingual Education Research SIG. Dr. Cervantes-Soon's is also the author of "Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education of Times of Dystopia," which received a 2017 Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, and a 2017 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, one of the most important book awards in the social sciences.
- Ph.D. Curriculum & Instruction, Cultural Studies in Education, The University of Texas-Austin 2011
- Graduate Portfolios in Women's & Gender Studies and Mexican American Studies, The University of Texas-Austin 2011
- M.Ed. Bilingual Education, The University of Texas-El Paso 2004
- B.I.S. Bilingual Education, The University of Texas-El Paso 1998
BOOKS
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2017). Juárez girls rising: Transformative education in times of dystopia. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press.
ARTICLES
Palmer, D. K., Cervantes-Soon, C. G., Heiman, D. B., Dorner, L. (Forthcoming). Bilingualism, Biliteracy, Biculturalism…and Critical Consciousness for All: Proposing a Fourth Fundamental Principle for Two-Way Dual Language Education. Theory into Practice.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G., Dorner, L., Palmer, D. K. Heiman*, D., Schwerdtfeger, R. & Choi, J. (2017). Combating Inequalities in Two-Way Language Immersion Programs: New Directions for Bilingual Education. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 403-427.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2016). Mujeres truchas: Urban girls redefining smartness in a dystopic global south. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1-14.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. & Carrillo, J. F. (2016). Toward a pedagogy of border thinking: Building on Latin@ students’ subaltern knowledge. The High School Journal, 99(4), 282-301.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2014). A Critical Look at Dual Language Immersion in the New Latin@ Diaspora. Bilingual Research Journal, 37(1), 64-82.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2014) The U.S.-México bordercrossing Chicana researcher and the politics of identity and imperialism in critical ethnography. Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2012). Testimonios of life and learning in the borderlands: Subaltern Juárez girls speak. Equity and Excellence in Education, 45(3), 373-391.
Soto, L.D., Cervantes-Soon, C. G., Villarreal-Perales, E. & Campos, E. (2009). The Xicana sacred space: A communal circle of compromiso for educational researchers. Harvard Educational Review. 79 (5), 755-776.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. & Kasun, G. S. (2018). Transnational learners and TESOL. In J.I. Liontas & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.) TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Palmer, D. K., Cervantes-Soon, C. G., Heiman, D.* (2017). La condición académica del estudiante bilingüe: Cómo asegurar el éxito de los estudiantes bilingües emergentes a través del programa de doble inmersión. In L. A. Soltero & M. Guerrero (Eds.) Abriendo brecha: Antología crítica sobre la educación bilingüe de doble inmersión.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. & Turner, A. M.* (2017). Countering Silence and Reconstructing Identities in a Spanish/English Two-Way Immersion Program: Latina Mothers’ Pedagogies in El Nuevo Sur. In X. Rong & J. Hilburn (Eds.) Immigration and Education in North Carolina: The Challenges and Responses in a New Gateway State. Boston, MA: Sense.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. (2016). Testimonios of Life and Learning in the Borderlands: Subaltern Juarez Girls Speak. In D. Delgado Bernal, R. Burciaga & J. Flores Carmona (Eds.) Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice. New York: Routledge.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. & Carrillo, J.F (2015). Scholarship of Mind and Soul. In Hernandez, E. Murakami and G. Rodriguez (eds.) Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia, pp. 163-172. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Inc.
Cervantes-Soon, C. G. & Valenzuela, A. (2010). Subtractive Legislative Policy: The Plight of Bilingual Language Learners. Chapter prepared for B. Bustos Flores, R. Hernandez Sheets, and E. Riojas Clark (Eds.), Educar para Transformar: Teacher Preparation for Bilingual Student Populations, pp. 191-204. New York: Routledge.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
EPA 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
RDG 291 | Children's Literature |
BLE 413 | Language Arts in BLE/ESL Sett |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 522 | Bi/Multilingual Acq & Devlpmnt |
BLE 522 | Bi/Multilingual Acq & Devlpmnt |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
BLE 408 | Structured Eng Immersion (SEI) |
BLE 400 | Prin of Language Minority Educ |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
EPA 792 | Research |
DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
EPA 799 | Dissertation |
ELL 515 | Structured Engl Immersion (SEI |
ELL 515 | Structured Engl Immersion (SEI |
BLE 413 | Language Arts in BLE/ESL Sett |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
ELL 515 | Structured Eng Immersion (SEI) |
ELL 515 | Structured Eng Immersion (SEI) |
BLE 400 | Prin of Language Minority Educ |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 792 | Research |
EPA 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 522 | Bi/Multilingual Acq & Devlpmnt |
BLE 522 | Bi/Multilingual Acq & Devlpmnt |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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DCI 790 | Reading and Conference |
BLE 220 | Foundations of SEI |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 400 | Prin of Language Minority Educ |
EPA 691 | Seminar |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
BLE 522 | Literacy/Biliteracy Developmnt |
2017 C. Wright Mills Book Award Winner for “Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education Times of Dystopia”
2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award for book, “Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia”
2017 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
2017 Dean’s Office, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin: Summer Research Award
2015 American Association of University Women, American Fellowship/Publication Grant
2014 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Faculty Fellow
American Anthropological Association
-Council of Anthropology and Education
American Educational Research Association
-Bilingual Research SIG
-Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG
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