Faculty

Patricia Baquedano-López, Ph.D. is Lab director. 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. 

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, Bolivia, and French.  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 faculty mentor of the STAR Program (Scholars Transitioning to Academic Research Institutions) of the national Literacy Research Association (2019-2021)  and of the Underrepresented Scholars Mentorship Program, University of California Humanities Research Institute (2022-2023 cohort).