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Teresa L. McCarty

Distinguished Professor and George F. Kneller Chair of Education and Anthropology
Teresa L. McCarty, Distinguished Professor of Education and George F. Kneller Chair of Education and Anthropology
Teresa L. McCarty
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Teresa L. McCarty
Distinguished Professor and George F. Kneller Chair of Education and Anthropology

I am a social-cultural anthropologist who lives and works in Tovaangar, the homelands of the Gabrielino-Tongva. As an educator and researcher, I honor the sovereignty of the Tongva people and my responsibility to learn from and with the Indigenous peoples of this place. At UCLA, I am the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, and Faculty in American Indian Studies. My research, teaching, and community-based work center on Indigenous education, critical sociocultural studies of language planning and policy, Indigenous and minoritized language reclamation, and the ethnography of education in and out of schools. I am currently principal investigator on a multiyear, multimethod, U.S.-wide study of Indigenous-language immersion schooling funded by the Spencer Foundation.

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Positions

  • Distinguished Professor of Education
  • George F. Kneller Chair of Education and Anthropology

Education

  • Ph.D., Social-cultural Anthropology, Arizona State University
  • M.A., Social-cultural Anthropology, Arizona State University
  • B.A., Anthropology, The Ohio State University

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

  • 2021-2022 - Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University
  • 2019 - Elected to the National Academy of Education
  • 2016 - Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Education, UCLA
  • 2015 - AERA 12th Annual Brown Lecture in Educational Research, for "producing significant research related to equality in education"

Publications

  • McCarty, T.L., & Brayboy, B. McK. J. (in press, 2021). Culturally responsive, sustaining, and revitalizing pedagogies: Perspectives from Native American education. In G. Ladson-Billings (Guest Ed.), Three decades of culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogy. Special Issue, The Educational Forum, 85(4).
  • Ali, Arshad I., & McCarty, T.L. (Eds.). (2020). Critical Youth Research in Education—Methodologies of Praxis and Care. New York, NY: Routledge. View Here
  • McCarty, T.L. (2020). The holistic benefits of education for Indigenous language revitalisation and reclamation (ELR2). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. View Here
  • McCarty, T.L., Nicholas, S.E., & Wigglesworth, G. (Eds.). (2019). A World of Indigenous Languages—Politics, Pedagogies, and Prospects for Language Reclamation. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. View Here