Dr. Adam Sawyer has extensive experience in education. He received his Doctorate of Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2010. He has taught at several universities in California and has published numerous articles on topics related to international and comparative education, immigration, and the experiences of Latino students.

1. DR. ADAM SAWYER
2130 Fair Park Ave. #308 ∙ Los Angeles, CA 90041 ∙ asawyer@soka.edu ∙ (617) 894-4780
EDUCATION
2010 Doctor of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
International Education Cambridge, MA
2003 Master of Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
Administration, Planning, Cambridge, MA
and Social Policy
1999 State of California San Francisco State University
Teaching Credential San Francisco, CA
Bilingual Multiple Subject (BCLAD)
Supplementary Authorization
In Spanish
1995 Bachelor of Arts Vassar College
History Poughkeepsie, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2015-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
and Societal Change, Soka University of America. Aliso
Viejo, CA
Courses include: Educational Leadership: Theory and
Practice (EDU 505); Policy and Law in Education (EDU
507); International and Comparative Education (EDU
504); Educational Research Methods I (EDU 508);
Educational Research Methods II (EDU 511)
April 2016-June 2016 Lecturer in Educational Leadership, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
Course: Student Achievement through Instructional
Leadership (EDD 731)
September 2014-June 2015 Lecturer in Elementary Education, California State
University, Bakersfield, CA.
Courses: Elementary Intern Teaching I and II (EDEL
445/446); Elementary/Secondary Student Teaching (EDEL
499/EDSE 599)
June 2010-June 2015 Assistant Professor, Bard College, Master of Arts in
Teaching Program, Tulare and Los Angeles, CA
Courses: Identity, Culture, and the Classroom (ED 512);
The Classroom Research Project (ED 518); Teaching As
Clinical practice for History/Social Studies Teachers

2. (HIS/ED 515-535)
September 2009- May 2010 Visiting Professor and Assistant Director for Initiatives
in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Bard College,
Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Delano, CA
2007-2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Comparative
Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.
La Jolla, CA
2006-2007 Instructor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Cambridge, MA
Courses: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and
International Education Policy; Introduction to
Comparative and International Education
2005-2007 Teaching Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Courses: Immigration, Education, and Identities in the
United States (Vivian Louie); Education Policy Analysis
and Research Utilization in Comparative Perspective
(Fernando Reimers);The Logic of Qualitative Research
(James Holland); Introduction to the Teaching Profession
(Katherine Merseth)
2004-2005 Research Assistant, Middle School Literacy Project,
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Principal
Investigator: Catherine Snow).
2004-2005 Research Assistant, Early Childhood Bilingual Education
Development Project, Harvard Graduate School (Principal
Investigator: Barbara Pan).
2003-2004 Academic Consultant and Teacher Educator, Secretaría
de Educación Pública-Programa Escuelas de Calidad,
Aguascalientes, Mexico
2002-2003 Research Assistant, Pathways for Student Success,
Harvard Graduate School of Education (Principal
Investigator: Pedro Noguera).
2001-2003 Board Member, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Board
of Directors, Los Angeles, CA
2000-2002 2nd/3rd Grade Spanish Bilingual Teacher, Camino Nuevo
Charter Academy, Los Angeles, CA

3. 1998-1999 2nd/3rd Grade Spanish Bilingual Teacher, Golden Gate
Academy, San Francisco, CA
1996-1998 2nd grade Spanish Bilingual Teacher, Brentwood Oaks
Elementary School, East Palo Alto, CA
1996-1998 Corps Member and School Site Coordinator, Teach For
America, Bay Area Region
1995-1996 Education Projects Assistant, Public Broadcasting
Service, Alexandria, VA
1994-1995 ESL Instructor, Poughkeepsie Continuing Education,
Poughkeepsie, NY (1994-1995).
PUBLICATIONS
Sawyer, A., Rosales, O., and Medina, O. (Under Review). Improving Schooling
Outcomes for Latinos in Rural California: A Placed-Based Approach to Farm
Workers History. Journal of Latinos and Education.
Sawyer, A. (Resubmitted for Review). Can Migrant remittances improve youth
schooling outcomes?: evidence from Mexico’s Mixteca Baja. Comparative
Education Review.
Sawyer, A. (2015). Outmigration, Remittances, and Schooling: A Boost or
Threat to Education for All in Mexico? Revista Latinoamericana de Educación
Comparada
Sawyer, A. (2015). Professional Development across Borders: Assessing the Value of
Binational Teacher Exchanges in Developing Educator Competencies in the New
Latino Diaspora. In E. Hamann, S. Wortham, & E. Murillo Jr. (Eds.), Revisiting
Education in the New Latino Diaspora. Charlotte, NC: Information Age
Publishing.
Sawyer, A. (2014). Is money enough?: The effect of migrant remittances on
parent educational aspirations and youth educational attainment in southern
Mexico. International Migration Review.doi: 10.1111/imre.12103
Sawyer, A. (2014). Professional development across borders: the promise of
U.S.-Mexico binational teacher exchanges. Teacher Education Quarterly. Fall
2014.
Jensen, B.T. & Sawyer, A. (Editors). (2013). Regarding Educación: Mexican-American

4. Schooling, Immigration and Binational Improvement. New York: Teachers
College Press. Foreword by Patricia Gándara & Eugene García.
http://store.tcpress.com/0807753920.shtml
Sawyer, A. (2013). The Schooling of Youth Impacted by Migration: A Binational Case
Study. In B. Jensen & A. Sawyer (Eds.), Regarding Educación:Mexican-
American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement. New York:
Teachers College Press.
Jensen, B.T. & Sawyer, A. (2013). Regarding Educación: A Vision for School
Improvement. In B. Jensen & A. Sawyer (Eds.), Regarding Educación:Mexican-
American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement. New York:
Teachers College Press.
Giorguli, S., Jensen, B., Bean, F., Brown, S., Sawyer, A., Zúñiga, V., Martínez Rizo, F.
(2013).The Educational Well-Being of Mexican Migrants in the United States
and Mexico. In A. Escobar Latapí, Lowell, L., & Martin, S. (Eds.) Binational
Dialogue for Mexican Migrants in the United States and Mexico: Final Report.
Washington, DC: The MacArthur Foundation.
Sawyer, A. (2010). In Mexico, mother’s education and remittances matter in school
outcomes. Migration Policy Institute: Migration Information Source. March,
2010.Available at:
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?ID=775
Sawyer, A. (2010) Money Is Not Enough: Remittances and other Determinants of Youth
Educational Attainment in a Southern Mexican Migrant-Sending Community.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Harvard University, Cambridge.
Sawyer, A., Keyes, D., Velásquez, C., Lima, G. & Batista, M. (2009). Going to School,
Going to El Norte: The Impact of Migration on the Education of Oaxacan
Students. In W. Cornelius, D. Fitzgerald, J. Hernández Díaz & S. Borger (Eds.),
Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and
California. San Diego CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies,
University of California, San Diego.
Sawyer, A. (2003). Effective policy or institutional gag order?: What Massachusetts
and the nation can learn from the Implementation of Proposition 227 in
California. Views Magazine of International Education, Harvard Graduate School
of Education, Spring 2003.
Works in Progress
Rosales, O., Sawyer, A., and Medina, O. California Manongs: the
genesis of the Filipino-American Studies curiculum in the Golden State. To be
submitted to the International Journal of Multicultural Education.

5. Sawyer, A. and Medina, O. Schooling persistence and border economics: Can migrant
remittances reduce high school dropouts in the US-Mexico Borderlands? To be
submitted to the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
“Binational Study on the Well-Being of Mexican Migrants in Mexico and the United
States.” MacArthur Foundation ($100,000), May 2011-January 2013.
“The Students We Share: New Research from Mexico and the United States” Binational
Conference Organizing Committee ($50,000), January, 2010.
Harvard Graduate School of Education Advanced Doctoral Grant ($12,000), recipient
2008-2009
Harvard University Ellis Scholarship ($12,000), recipient 2008-2009; 2009-2010
Comparative and International Education Society New Scholars Award, recipient 2009.
Harvard Graduate School of Education Qualifying Paper Passed with Distinction,
Professional Development Across Borders: Case Study of the Communities and Schools
in Guadalajara Binational Teacher Exchange. March 2008.
Ad-Hoc Committee: Dr. Fernando Reimers (Chair), Dr. Wendy Luttrell, and Dr. Patricia
Gándara
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego,
Visiting Research Fellowship ($22,050) recipient 2007-2008
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer
Travel Grant ($2500), recipient summer 2008
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Term-Time
Travel Grant ($1000), recipient 2007-2008
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer
Travel Grant ($1500), recipient summer 2007
Harvard University, Instituto Real Complutense Summer Travel Grant ($2500), recipient
summer 2007
Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer
Travel Grant ($1500), recipient summer 2006
Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean’s Fellowship ($14,000) recipient 2004-
2005; 2005-2006

6. Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean’s Summer Fellowship ($3000), recipient
2005
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Honored Teacher, recipient 2001-2002
CONSULTING PROJECTS
Survey Development and Training, Mexican Migration Field Research and Training
Project. (August 2016-Present). University of California at San Diego, Colegio Frontera
de la Norte, and Universidad Autónoma Baja California.
International Education Expert, Red Internacional de Expertos en la Educación. (June
2014-December 2014). Claremont Graduate University and Secretaría de Educación
Pública de Bogotá. Bogotá, Colombia.
Task Force Member, Binational Study on the Well-Being of Mexican Migrants in
Mexico and the United States. (May 2011-January 2013) Georgetown University
Institute for the Study of International Migration and Centro de Investigación y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social. Washington, DC and Mexico City, Mexico.
Consultant on Parent and Community Engagement, (Sept 2009-June 2012)
Paramount-Bard Academy, Delano, CA
UNIVERSITY COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT
Soka University of America
EDU 504: “International and Comparative Education”
EDU 505: “Educational Leadership: Theory and Practice”
EDU 507: “Policy and Law in Education”
EDU 508: “Educational Research Methods I”
EDU 511: “Educational Research Methods II”
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
EDD 731: “Student Achievement through Instructional Leadership”
Bard College
ED 512: “Identity, Culture, and the Classroom”
ED 518: “The Classroom Research Project”
HIS ED 515-535 “Teaching as Clinical Practice for History/Social Studies Teachers”
California State University, Bakersfield
EDEL 445/446: “Elementary Intern Teaching I and II”
EDEL 499/EDSE 599: “Elementary/Secondary Student Teaching”

7. Harvard Graduate School of Education
 “Global Migration, Transnationalism, and International Education Policy”
(Instructor)
 “Immigration, Education, and Identities in the United States” (Teaching Fellow
for Vivian Louie)
 “Education Policy Analysis and Research Utilization in Comparative Perspective”
(Teaching Fellow for Fernando Reimers)
 “The Logic of Qualitative Research” (Teaching Fellow for James Holland)
 “Introduction to the Teaching Profession” (Teaching Fellow for Katherine
Merseth)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Refereed)
Adam Sawyer, (Under Review) “Schooling persistence and border economics: Can
migrant remittances reduce high school dropouts in the US-Mexico Borderlands?”
Submitted for presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. March, 2017.
Adam Sawyer, Oliver Rosales, and Oscar Medina, (Under Review) "Improving
Schooling Outcomes for Latinos in Rural California: A Placed-Based Approach to Farm
Workers History” Submitted for presentation at the American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. April, 2017.
Adam Sawyer, “The View from El Otro Lado: Migration and the Schooling of those
Remaining Behind in Rural Mexico.” Presented at the Comparative and International
Education Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. March, 2016.
Adam Sawyer, “Building a Sense of Place: Context-specific Teacher
Preparation in the Land of Steinbeck.” To be presented at the Cultural Legacy of the
Grapes of Wrath: A Conference at CSU Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. November, 2014.
Adam Sawyer, “Is Money Enough?: The Impact of Remittances on Parent Educational
Aspirations and Youth Educational Attainment in a Rural Mexican Migrant-Sending
Community.” Presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Western
Region Conference, Westwood, CA. November, 2013.
Adam Sawyer, “’To Be a Man You Have to go to California:’The Role of Absent
Family Members in the Schooling of “Youth Left Behind” in a Rural Mexican Migrant-
Sending Community.” Presented at the 13th
Interamerican Symposium on Ethnography
and Education, Westwood, CA. September, 2013.
Bryant Jensen and Adam Sawyer. "Regarding Educacion: Mexican-American
Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement” Presented the American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. April, 2013.

8. Adam Sawyer, “No Basta El Dinero: Remesas y Otros Determinantes de Escolarización
de Jóvenes en una Comunidad Expulsora de Migrantes.” XI Reunión Nacional de
Investigación Demografica en México, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
(INEGI), Aguascalientes, Mexico. June, 2012.
Adam Sawyer, “The Central Valley 2nd
Generation Project: Towards a New Social
Contract in California’s Breadbasket.” Presented at the American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, April 2012.
Adam Sawyer, “Money is not Enough: Remittances and other Determinants of Youth
Educational Attainment in a Southern Mexican Migrant-Sending Community.” Presented
at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA,
April 2011.
Adam Sawyer, “Professional Development Across Borders: Assessing the Value of
Binational Teacher Exchanges in Developing Educator Competencies in the New Latino
Diaspora.” Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting,
New Orleans, LA, April 2011.
Adam Sawyer, “Do Remittances Increase High School Aspirations and Attainment for
Mexican Youth?: Evidence from Rural Oaxaca.” Presented at the American Educational
Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2010.
Adam Sawyer, “Do Remittances Improve Educational Opportunity for those that
Remain Behind? Evidence from Mexico's Mixteca Baja.” Presented at A World in
Motion: A Multinational Conference on Migration and Migration Policy, Maastricht,
Netherlands, February 2010.
Adam Sawyer. “Understanding of Scholastic Origins and Mutual Inter-Dependence: The
Case for Binational Research in Education.” Presented at Los Estudiantes Que
Compartimos/The Students We Share: New Research from Mexico and the United States,
Mexico City, Mexico, January, 2010.
Adam Sawyer, “Professional Development across Borders: A Case Study of the
Communities and Schools in Guadalajara Binational Teacher Exchange.” Presented at the
First Triennial Conference on Latino Education and Immigrant Integration, Athens, GA,
October 2009.
Adam Sawyer. “Professional Development across Borders: Case Study of the
Communities and Schools in Guadalajara Binational Teacher Exchange.” Presented at the
University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute (UC LMRI) Annual
Conference, Riverside CA, May, 2009.
Adam Sawyer, “Does Out-Migration Improve Educational Opportunity for those that
Stay Behind?: Evidence from Mexico’s Mixteca Baja.” Presented at the American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2009.

9. Adam Sawyer. “Does Out-Migration Improve Educational Opportunity for those that
Stay Behind?: Evidence from Mexico’s Mixteca Baja.” Presented at the New Scholar
Workshop of the 2009 Comparative International Education Society Annual Meeting,
Charleston, SC, March, 2009.
Adam Sawyer, David Keyes, Cristina Velásquez. “Going to School, Going to the
U.S.A.: The Impact of Migration on the Education of Oaxacan Students.” Presented at
the First Interdisciplinary Conference on Childhood and Migration, Philadelphia, PA,
June 2008.
Adam Sawyer, David Keyes, Cristina Velásquez, and Grecia Lima, “Going to School,
Going to the U.S.A.: The Impact of Migration on the Education of Oaxacan Students.
Presented at the First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin
America and the Caribbean, University of California, San Diego. May 2008.
Wayne A. Cornelius and Adam Sawyer. “Does Migration Impact Eductional Mobility?:
Evidence from a Oaxacan Sending Community and its U.S. Satellites.” Presented at the
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, March
2008.
Adam Sawyer, “US-Mexico Binational Teacher Exchanges: A Promising Professional
Development Innovation for Educators of Latino Newcomer Students?” Presented at the
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2007.
Adam Sawyer, “Professional Development Across Borders: Case Study of the
Community and Schools in Guadalajara Binational Teacher Exchange” Presented at the
Second US-Mexico Binational Symposium of Educational Research, Monterrey, Mexico,
March 2007.
Adam Sawyer, “Beyond One-country Solutions: A Brief History of the Binational
Migrant Education Program, 1976-2005.” Presented at the Latino Studies Research
Symposium, Harvard University, May 2005
Adam Sawyer, “Two Country Problems and Two Country Solutions: The Case for
Binational Cooperation in Education between the United States and Mexico.” Presented
at the Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA,
March 2005.
Adam Sawyer, “Two Country Problems and Two Country Solutions: The Case for
Binational Cooperation in Education between the United States and Mexico.” Presented
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference, February
2005.

10. INVITED SPEAKING ENGAGMENTS
Adam Sawyer. “The Teachers We Have, The Teachers We Need.” Panel Discussant. Los
Estudiantes Que Compartimos/The Students We Share: A California-Mexico Education
Symposium. Mexico City, MX. September 2016.
Adam Sawyer. “The Bilingual Advantage: Language Literacy and the U.S. Labor
Market” Panel Discussant. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, IL. April 2015.
Adam Sawyer. “Un Futuro Compartido: Connecting Educational Issues across the
Americas.” Presented at School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA. November 2014.
Adam Sawyer. “Going to School, Going to the U.S.A: Migration and Schooling in a
Southern Mexican Migrant-Sending Community.” Presented at College of Arts and
Sciences, American University, Washington, DC. May 2013.
Adam Sawyer and Bryant Jensen. "A Binational Approach to Mexican-American School
Improvement." Presented to Migration Seminar Series, UCLA Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA. March, 2013.
Bryant Jensen and Adam Sawyer. "Regarding Educacion: Mexican-American School
Improvement” Presented to Research Lecture Series, University of Southern California
Rossier School of Education, Los Angeles, CA. March, 2013.
Adam Sawyer, “Professional Development across Borders: The Promise of U.S.-Mexico
Binational Teacher Exchanges.” Presented at School of Educational Studies, Claremont
Graduate University, Claremont, CA. March 2012.
Adam Sawyer. “Going to School, Going to the U.S.A: Migration and Schooling in a
Southern Mexican Migrant-Sending Community.” Presented to The Ohio State
University Center for Latin American Studies Summer Institute, Columbus, OH. June,
2011.
Adam Sawyer and Bryant Jensen. “Regarding Educación: How and Why Frameworks
Matter.” Presented to Language, Equity, and Education Policy Working Group, Stanford
University School of Education, Stanford, CA. February, 2011.
Adam Sawyer. “Undocumented Students: An Education Policy Dilemma.” Presented at
Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island. October, 2010.
Adam Sawyer. “Does Migration Improve Educational Opportunity for those that Stay
Behind?: Evidence from Mexico’s Mixteca Baja.” Presented at the Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies Research Seminar Series, San Diego, CA, April, 2009.

11. Adam Sawyer. “Does Out-Migration Improve Educational Opportunity for those that
Stay Behind?: Evidence from Mexico’s Mixteca Baja.” Presented at the Mexico Hoy
Research Seminar Series, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. October, 2008.
Wayne A. Cornelius, Scott Borger, and Adam Sawyer. “Controlling Unauthorized
Immigration From Mexico: The Failure of “Prevention through Deterrance” and the Need
for Comprehensive Reform.” Presented at the Immigration Policy Center, Washington,
DC. June 2008.
Adam Sawyer and David Keyes. “Going to School, Going to the U.S.A.: The Impact of
Migration on the Education of Oaxacan Students.” Presented at the Center for
Comparative Immigration Studies Research Seminar Series, San Diego, CA, May 2008.
Adam Sawyer and Bryant T. Jensen. “An Overview of the Mexican Education System:
Its History, Triumphs, and Remaining Challenges.” Presented at the Center for US-
Mexico Studies Research Seminar Series, San Diego, CA, May 2008.
Fernando Reimers, Ernesto Treviño, and Adam Sawyer. “Adolescents, Immigration and
Reading Literacy in North America.” Presented at the seminar: Educación y Migración
México-Estados Unidos: Retos y Perspectiva, San Pedro, NL, México, December 2004.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Sawyer, A. (2013). Enhancing Relationships with Diverse Students and Parents through
the Acquisition of Spanish. Presentation to the administration and faculty of Paramount
Bard Academy, Delano, CA. February, 2013.
Sawyer, A & Horner, T. (2011). Meaningful and Caring Schol Partnerships with Parents
and Families. Presentation to the administration and faculty of Paramount Bard
Academy, Delano, CA. September, 2011.
Sawyer, A & Horner, T. (2011). A School-Wide Plan for the Creation of Meaningful and
Caring Partnerships with Parents, Families, and the Community. Presentation to the
Paramount Bard Academy Board of Directors, Delano, CA. October, 2011.
Sawyer, A. (2010). Promoting Literacy for Adolescent ELL Students. Presentation to the
administration and faculty of Paramount Bard Academy, Delano, CA. January, 2010.
INTERNAL LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Bard College
 Chair, English Language Learner CTC Compliance Curriculum Committee.
7/2013-6/2015

12.  Member, Student Admissions Committee. 4/2010-06/2014
 Chair, Social and Historical Foundations of Education faculty search committee.
Spring 2012.
 Member, Literature Education faculty search committee. Spring 2012, Spring
2011.
 Member, History Education faculty search committee. Spring 2012, Spring 2011.
 Member, Adolescent Literacy faculty search committee. Spring 2010.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
 Member, Doctoral Student Admissions Committee. Spring 2007
 Member, Master’s Student Admissions Committee (International Education
Policy Program). Spring 2006.
 Member, Doctoral Program Student Advisory Group. Sept 2004-June 2005.
EXTERNAL LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Task Forces and Commisions
Task Force Member, Binational Study on the Well-Being of Mexican Migrants in
Mexico and the United States. Georgetown University Institute for the Study of
International Migration and Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social. Washington, DC and Mexico City, Mexico. May 2011-January
2013.
Reviewing Activities
Reviewer, AERA Division L - Educational Policies and Politics, August 2016-Present
Reviewer, Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, September 2014-Present
Reviewer, International Migration Review, October 2014-Present
Reviewer, AERA Hispanic Research Issues SIG, July 2013-present
Reviewer, Multicultural Education Review, July 2013-present
Reviewer, Routledge Press, March 2013-present
Reviewer, Teacher Education Quarterly, January 2011-present
Reviewer, Comparative and International Education Society Annual Meeting, January
2005-present
Miscellaneous
Session Discussant, “The Teachers We Have, The Teachers We Need.” Los Estudiantes
Que Compartimos/The Students We Share: A California-Mexico Education Symposium.
Mexico City, MX. September 2016.
Session Discussant, “The Bilingual Advantage: Language Literacy and the U.S. Labor
Market.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
April 2015.
Session Chair, “Voices from the New American Mainstream: Lessons for the Teachers of
Today’s Immigrant Youth.” American Educational Research Association Annual
Meeting, Vancouver, BC, April, 2012.

13. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Founder and Co-Chair, Parents and Community Together (PACT) Committee for School,
Parent, and Community Partnerships. Paramount Bard Academy, Delano, CA. January
2010-June 2012.
Member, Board of Directors, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, Los Angeles, CA. 2000-
2002.
DOCTORAL AND MASTERS THESIS ADVISING
Committee Member, Dissertations Completed
 Lara, Hiram. “Factores endógenos y exógenos que dificultan la incorporación de
estudiantes de origen mexicanos en nivel superior en los Estados Unidos.” Centro
de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS).
Spring 2014.
Chair, Master Theses Completed
Soka University of America
 Samaniego, Stephanie. “The Negotiation of Western and Andean Worldviews in
Ecuador’s Intercultural Bilingual Education.” Spring 2016.
 Bridges, Jessica. “Education and Social Reproduction: A Case Study of Cuba and
Soka.” Spring 2016.
Bard College
 Canterbury, Philip. “Outsmarting the Bankers: Authentic Alternatives to Typical
Assessment Activities that Better Display Student Historical Thinking.” Spring
2013.
 Cazarez, Salvador. “Culturally Relevant Teaching: Beyond Race, Ethnicity, and
Language. Spring 2014.
 Fontejon, Walter. “Assessing Mathematical Proficiency.” Spring 2012.
 Ford, Cimberley. “Using Primary Sources in the History Classroom: The Effects
on Student Historical Thinking.” Spring 2013.
 Fragoso, Michael. “Assessment in Mathematics: Comparing Assessment
Strategies in Math Education.” Spring 2012.
 Flores, Jorge. “How to Link a Critical/Humanizing Pedagogy to Samuel
Wineburg’s Student Historical Thinking Model?” Spring 2014.
 Garay, Wendy. “Culturally Relevant Teaching in a Rural High School: Cultural
Relevancy in an 11th
Grade United States History Class.” Spring 2013.
 García Reyes, Noemí. “A Critical Analysis of Assessments within a Performance-
Based Educational System.” Spring 2011.
 Hall, Jordan. “Disciplinary Assessement: Using Differentiated Assessment in an
Eleventh-Grade U.S. History Classroom.”

14.  Heller, David. “A Document-Based Inquiry Approach to Teaching the
Countercultural Movement in 1960s America.” Spring 2011.
 Grigsby, Barbara. “Analysis of Assessment: Understanding Student
Performance.” Spring 2011.
 Hernández Avalos, Cristina. “Using Supplementary Materials in Primary
Language: Spanish Reading Study Guides in an Eighth-Grade U.S. History
Classroom. Spring 2012
 Kasimoff, Michael. “The Role of Vocabulary in Historical Understanding.”
Spring 2013.
 Miranda, Manuel. “Multiple Choice Testing and its Effectiveness as an
Assessment in History.” Spring 2011.
 Rosetti, Christina. “Text and Context: Literacy Strategies in a Culturally
Responsive Writing Workshop.” Spring 2012.
 Taylor, Morgan. “Which Write is Right?: Assessing the Merits of Authentic
Writing Assessment in Place of Essay Writing in the History Classroom.” Spring
2014.
 Tellis, Stephanie. “The Art of Culturally Relevant Teaching.” Spring 2012.
 Wilson, Matthew. “Encouraging Disciplinary Historical Thinking Amongst
English Language Learners in a Pre-determined Instructional Model. Spring 2012.
 Torres, Conrad. “My Name is Mr. Torres, not Señor Google.” Spring 2014.
 Zenteno Mena, Gerardo. “Formative Assessment.” Fall 2011.
Committee Member, Masters Theses Completed
 Garcia, Luz. “Estudiar en un Contexto de Migración: El Caso de los Jóvenes de
Tlacuitapa, Jalisco.” Spring 2010.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Educational Research Association
Comparative International Education Society

15. References
Dr. Fernando Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of International Education
Gutman 461
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-4817
reimerfe@gse.harvard.edu
Dr. Patricia Gándara
Co-Director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
University of California, Los Angeles
3329 Moore Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
(310) 267-4875
gandara@gseis.ucla.edu
Dr. Stephen Mucher
Director
Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program
2701 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90057
718-564-5952
Dr. Wayne A. Cornelius
Gildred Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
Mail Code 0548
La Jolla, CA 92093
858-822-4447
waynecornelius00@gmail.com