Christina Gomez

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; MBA, Chicago Booth, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; BA, University of Chicago. 

Christina Gómez's research has concentrated on racial identity construction in the United States, discrimination, and immigration. She is the author of numerous articles that focus on skin color discrimination, construction of Latino identity, politics of bilingual education, and experiences of undocumented students in higher education. She has received many prizes and fellowships, including a Henry Luce Foundation Scholars Fellowship, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Faculty of the Year Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019).

Books

• Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories, edited book with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, Cornell University Press, December 2013.
• Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Successful Latino College Students Tell Their Stories, edited book with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, Cornell University Press, May 2007.

Articles and Chapters

• “How We Get the Work Done: The Invisible Workforce in Art & Design,” in Teaching Labor History in Art and Design: Capitalism and the Creative Industries edited by K. Pyun and V. Quan, Routledge Press (forthcoming) .
• “Finding América: Creating Space and Place for Latinx Children’s Books,” in The Life & Literary Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez’s, edited by J. Metcalf and B. Olguín, Edinburgh University Press Ltd (forthcoming) .
• “Constructive Disequilibrium and Transformative Pedagogy: Developing Global Citizens in Faraway Spaces,” with A. Nalani and A. Garrod, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, December 2021.
• "Out for Immigration Justice: Thinking through Social and Political Change," with D. Diaz-Strong, M. Luna-Duarte, E. Meiners in Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change, edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Routledge Press, Fall 2013.
• "Too close to the work/There is nothing right now," with E. Meiners, M. Luna-Duarte, and D. Diaz-Strong, in Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Research with Youth and Communities, edited by Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn, Sage Publications, Spring 2013.
• "Telling Our Stories, Naming Ourselves: The Lost María in the Academy," in Transforming the Ivory Tower, edited by Brett Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico, University of Hawaii Press, 2012.

• "Undocumented Latino Youth: Strategies for Accessing Higher Education," with D. Diaz-Strong, M. Luna-Duarte, E. Meiners in Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys: Invisible No More, edited by Pedro Noguera, Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus, Routledge Press, Fall 2011.

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Christina Gómez's research has concentrated on racial identity construction in the United States, discrimination, and immigration. She is the author of numerous articles that focus on such topics as skin color discrimination, construction of Latino identity, politics of bilingual education and experiences of undocumented students in higher education. She has received many prizes and fellowships, including a Henry Luce Foundation Scholars Fellowship, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Faculty of the Year Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019).