Congratulations Dr. Claudia Garcia-Louis! What a great honor. Thank you for all the important work you do.
Marco Cervantes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies
College of Education and Human Development
University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: marco.cervantes@utsa.edu
From: Laura Earleywine <Laura.Earleywine@utsa.edu> on behalf of Margo DelliCarpini <margo.dellicarpini@utsa.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 7:31 AM
To: "coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu" <coehd@lists.it.utsa.edu>
Subject: [Coehd] Congratulation to Dr. Claudia Garcia-Louis awarded the Ford Foundation 2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Claudia Garcia-Louis on being awarded the Ford Foundation 2020 Post-Doctoral Fellowship! Dr. Garcia-Louis notified Dr. Aleman and me of this amazing external recognition of her excellence and I want to share it broadly. Not only is this award highly prestigious and competitive, but in reviewing the Ford Foundation directory, Dr. Garcia-Louis is only the second UTSA faculty member, and first female , and first COEHD faculty member to receive the Ford Post-Doctoral Fellowship. To underscore the competitive nature of this honor, from 1980-2017 only 2% of these awards went to the field of education. This is a wonderful honor and recognition.
Dr. Garcia-Louis was awarded the fellowship for her research project, “ A Chicana Feminist Approach to Disaggregating Hispanic Ethnicity in Higher Education: An Analysis on Latina/o/x Students Sense of Belonging”. This work will assess “Latina/o/x student’s postsecondary education stagnation by considering how deculturalization, the imposition of a perpetual foreigner identity, and the homogenization of Hispanic ethnicity, at the K-12 level, influences their relationship with education in college.” Her work will have a direct impact on the type of work that is central to the UTSA and COEHD mission and have great impact on the field.
What an honor! Congratulations, Dr. Garcia-Louis!
Warm regards,
Margo
Margo DelliCarpini, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Strategic Educational Partnerships and Dean of the College of Education and Human Development
President's Distinguished Professor
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