CONTRIBUTOR:

Teresa McCarty

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor of Education, Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology

DEPARTMENT:

Education & Information Studies

INSTITUTION:

University of California, Los Angeles

BIOGRAPHY:

Teresa L. McCarty is an educational anthropologist and applied linguist who lives and works in the homelands of the Gabrielino-Tongva, Tovaangar. At the University of California, Los Angeles, she is Distinguished Professor and G.F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, and Faculty in American Indian Studies. A member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, she is the former editor of the American Educational Research Journal and Anthropology and Education Quarterly and the current coeditor of the Journal of American Indian Education. Her books include A Place To Be Navajo—Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling, “To Remain an Indian”—Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (with K.T. Lomawaima), Language Planning and Policy in Native America, Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism (with L.T. Wyman and S.E. Nicholas), Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas (with S.M. Coronel-Molina), The Anthropology of Education Policy (with A.E. Castagno), and Critical Youth Research in Education—Methodologies of Praxis and Care (with A.I. Ali). She teaches courses in ethnography and qualitative methods, and is currently engaged in a multi-university, US-wide study of Indigenous-language immersion schooling funded by the Spencer Foundation of Chicago, Illinois.