Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Faulstich Orellana)
Professor
Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Faulstich Orellana)
Office Hours
By appointment
Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Faulstich Orellana)
Professor
Marjorie Elaine (formerly Marjorie Faulstich Orellana) is a Professor of Education and Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute. Her research centers on the experiences of the children of immigrants in urban schools and communities, especially as language brokers. She conducts community-engaged research using ethnographic methods and discourse analysis, making connections from children's everyday lived experiences and school curricula.
Titles and Positions
- Professor of Education
- Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Language and Social Processes SIG of AERA, 2023.
- AERA Fellow, 2021.
- The Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Faculty Award for Applied Research in Learning and Achievement, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, 2017.
- Fulbright Specialist Roster, 2016-2021.
Education
- Ph.D, 1996. Education. University of Southern California
- BA, 1982. Psychology. Brown University
Select Publications
- Orellana, Marjorie Elaine Faulstich. (2019). Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research. New York: Routledge.
- García-Sánchez, Inmaculada and Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich (Eds.). (2019). Language and Social Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups. New York: Routledge.
- Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2016). Immigrant Youth in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Literacy and Love. New York: Routledge.
- Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. (2009). Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
