Cati de los R铆os (Ph.D. 鈥�17), a graduate of TC鈥檚 English Education Program, has received two 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Awards from the American Educational Research Association 鈥� one from the Hispanic Research Special Interest Group and one from the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group.
De los R铆os鈥檚 dissertation, which is titled 鈥淟iteracies of Power: Exploring Multilingual and Multiliterate Practices in a Secondary Chicanx/Latinx Studies Course,鈥� also won prestigious dissertation fellowships in 2016 from both the Ford Foundation and The National Academy of Education/Spencer. It is among the first yearlong ethnographic classroom studies in California examining Common Core State Standards-aligned literacy learning within a high school A-G accredited ethnic studies course.
De los R铆os currently is Assistant Professor of literacy and language at University of California, Riverside, but this summer will become an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, where both her mother and grandmother studied. In a recent Facebook post, de los R铆os wrote:
DOUBLY OUTSTANDING De los Ríos was honored by two different AERA special interest groups.
鈥淚 am excited to share that I鈥檒l be starting at UC Davis next fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor through a unique interdisciplinary initiative, Hiring and Investment Program (HIP), that recruits faculty that transcend the bounds of traditional disciplines and extend their range into new critical areas. My line is with the School of Education and the Department of Chicana/o Studies. What makes this such an emotional move is that this institution radically transformed the lives of my mother (a Founding UCD MEChista and c/o 1973), my abuela Cati, and so many other women in my family.
鈥淚n 1948, my maternal grandparents (both from campesino/farmworker families) migrated from Chihuahua, Mexico to Woodland and then to Davis, California. My abuelita Cati, a normalista who saw literacy as a process of freedom and social inclusion, left her home in search for more opportunities. My abuelita Cati and her mother (also a normalista) sacrificed so much for their daughters and the generations that came after them.鈥�
Click to read about TC scholars being honored at this year鈥檚 AERA meeting, held in New York City, and for a listing of all TC presentations.