Faculty

Patricia Baquedano-López, Ph.D. is the Lab director and is a full professor. In her work she examines the intersection of language and race in education. She is affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Linguistics. She is co-founding and core faculty member of the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization, a program specialization for doctoral students from any field who are interested in language revitalization. 

Professor Baquedano-López was born in Yucatan. In addition to being bilingual in English and Spanish, she has formally studied Maya from Yucatan, Quechua from Cochabamba in Bolivia, and French.  She brings to her work a rich international experience having lived and/or conducted research in Mexico, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, France, and the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at UCLA working under the supervision of Professor Elinor Ochs (Linguistic Anthropology). 

In 2021, Professor Baquedano-López received the Charles A. Ferguson Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Center for Applied Linguistics and Stanford University. She is co-author of 3 books and her work has appeared in a variety of journals and edited volumes.

She received the 2005 Inaugural Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award from the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly and the 2023 Outstanding Mentor Award from the American Educational Research Association (Division G: Social Contexts of Education). She was selected as faculty mentor for the STAR Program (Scholars Transitioning to Academic Research Institutions) of the national Literacy Research Association (2019-2021)  and for the Underrepresented Scholars Mentorship Program, University of California Humanities Research Institute (2022-2023 cohort).