Cati V. de los Ríos

Cati V. de los Ríos is an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She applies critical, sociocultural, and translingual theories to examine the literacy and language practices of immigrant and bi/multilingual youth populations. Her ethnographic, community-based, and participatory research is situated at the axes of literacy studies, educational anthropology, civic and political learning, and ethnic studies, with an emphasis on studying the linguistic-semiotic repertoires that Latina/o/x youth and families deploy and develop across educational settings. de los Ríos's empirical work examines 1) secondary teachers' critical and translingual pedagogies in Ethnic Studies classrooms;  2) bi/multilingual youths’ cultural and creative expressivity with Mexican Regional Music; and 3) Latinx family and youth community engagement. Her scholarship highlights the diversity of resources (e.g. cultural, musical, and civic) that racialized bi/multilingual youth engage to participate intellectually and socially across educational contexts. 

de los Ríos is a former Spanish, ELD, and Ethnic Studies high school teacher. Her research has been recognized by The National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships); National Academies of Sciences/Ford Foundation (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships); and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Cultivating New Voices Fellowship. de los Ríos is the recipient of several national awards including Early Career Award from American Educational Research Association (AERA)'s Division G, Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing Special Interest Group, and Language and Social Processes Special Interest Group. She has also received the Early Career Achievement Award from Literacy Research Association (LRA);  Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy from LRA;  Promising Researcher Award from National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); Alan C. Purves Award from NCTE; and Janet Emig Award from NCTE. Her scholarship has been published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Applied Linguistics,  Harvard Educational Review; Reading Research Quarterly; Journal of Literacy Research; Research in the Teaching of English; Anthropology & Education Quarterly; Written Communication; and Learning, Media and Technology.

Degree(s)

2017, Ph.D./M.Phil., Teachers College, Columbia University

M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

Teaching Credential, Harvard Graduate School of Education

B.A., Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

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