Eliana Castro
Assistant Professor of Secondary Education and Curriculum and Instruction
PRONOUNS she/her
- Ph.D., Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education, Michigan State University
- Doctoral certificates in Urban Education and Chicanx/Latinx Studies
- M.A.T., Secondary History and Social Studies, Brown University
- B.A., Education and Human Development, Brown University
BIO
Dr. Eliana Castro joined ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 2021. Her research interrogates race, racism, and racialization in education settings. She recently launched a research collaborative knowns as Race, Racism, and Racialization in Education ("R3 in E") to bring scholars together in this endeavor. She also has 15 years of teaching experience, including high school history/social studies in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and curriculum and instruction/teacher preparation courses in Michigan and Vermont.
Dr. Castro focuses on the teaching and learning of race, racism, and other issues of power, identity, and institutions, particularly in secondary history/social studies classrooms. Her recent and ongoing scholarship examines how U.S. and world history curricula can promote nuanced representations of intersectional racial/ethnic identities, such as Afro-Latinidad. In 2024, she was award a CESS Innovation Grant to support one such investigation.
Dr. Castro’s research has been published in prominent outlets such as the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education. As a doctoral student, Castro’s publication in the Journal of Research on Leadership Education, entitled ‘Twelve Years Unslaved: Lessons from Reconstruction and Brown for Contemporary School Leaders’, was selected as the journal’s Article of the Year (2019).
Courses
- Secondary Social Studies Methods
- Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment in Secondary Education
Publications
Awards and Achievements
Graduate Student Fellow, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2019
Area(s) of expertise
- Race and Racism
- Teacher Education
- Secondary Education
- History/Social Studies Education
- Curriculum and Instruction
Bio
Dr. Eliana Castro joined ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 2021. Her research interrogates race, racism, and racialization in education settings. She recently launched a research collaborative knowns as Race, Racism, and Racialization in Education ("R3 in E") to bring scholars together in this endeavor. She also has 15 years of teaching experience, including high school history/social studies in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and curriculum and instruction/teacher preparation courses in Michigan and Vermont.
Dr. Castro focuses on the teaching and learning of race, racism, and other issues of power, identity, and institutions, particularly in secondary history/social studies classrooms. Her recent and ongoing scholarship examines how U.S. and world history curricula can promote nuanced representations of intersectional racial/ethnic identities, such as Afro-Latinidad. In 2024, she was award a CESS Innovation Grant to support one such investigation.
Dr. Castro’s research has been published in prominent outlets such as the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Race Ethnicity and Education. As a doctoral student, Castro’s publication in the Journal of Research on Leadership Education, entitled ‘Twelve Years Unslaved: Lessons from Reconstruction and Brown for Contemporary School Leaders’, was selected as the journal’s Article of the Year (2019).
Courses
- Secondary Social Studies Methods
- Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment in Secondary Education
Publications
Awards and Achievements
Graduate Student Fellow, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2019
Areas of Expertise
- Race and Racism
- Teacher Education
- Secondary Education
- History/Social Studies Education
- Curriculum and Instruction