Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour

Professional appointment: Full professor, College of Education, Autonomous University of Yucatan

Professional profile: In 1984, Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour began to work as an instructor for the college of Law at the Autonomous University of Yucatán. Since 1987, she became a professor for the College of Education at this university. Between 1994 and 2001, she worked in teaching, research and evaluation for the College of Education, the National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities, and the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In addition to the Fulbright Scholarship (1993-1996), she was selected as Bagley Scholar by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995-1996; 1996-1997) and received recognition from the University Council of Educational Administrators (2001), and from the American Educational Research Association (2001). She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (Level-III). Dr. Cisneros has presented and published the results of her research in Latin America, the United States and Europe.

Areas of scholarship:

• Leadership

• Evaluation and professional development

• Ethical and equity issues in research and evaluation with vulnerable groups

• Educational quality

Teaching foci: 

• Research Methodology

• Qualitative studies

• Evaluation research

• Administration and leadership theory

Selected publications:

Cisneros-Cohernour, E. J., Domínguez, J. G, Vega, J. I. & Quiñonez, S. (2025). Beyond the classroom: exploring teacher leadership in Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Teacher Leadership, Special issue, In press.

Achach-Sonda, Leydi y Cisneros-Cohernour, Edith. (2024). Factores asociados al liderazgo docente (Factors asociated to teacher leadership). CienciaUAT, 18(2). Pp. 19-42. https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/1747

Gonzalez-Gonzalez, R. J. & Cisneros-Cohernour, E. J. (2025).  Social justice, inequity, and coloniality: Emerging critical Issues in the evaluation of a program for training young researchers in the Mayan area of Mexico. En Melissa Rae Goodnight  & Rodney Hopson, Studies in Educational Ethnography. Case studies in educational ethnography and evaluation: Making transformative, intersectional, and comparative connections. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Alvarado, L. & Cisneros-Cohernour, E. J. (2024). Retos y desafíos en la labor del Líder Educativo Comunitario del Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo (CONAFE). Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 5, 4, 3821-3832.

Domínguez-Castillo, J. G., Cisneros-Cohernour, E. J., & Vega-Cauich, J. I. (2024). Elements, Contexts, and Attributes of Teacher Leadership Identified by College Professors in southeastern Mexico. International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 12(3), pp. 296-316 http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/ijelm.14591

Cisneros-Cohernour, E. J., Domínguez, J. G. & Vàzquez, I. (2024). Mujeres y educación superior a distancia: experiencias rurales y urbanas en la pospandemia. Apertura, 1, 56, 71.

Degrees: 

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; USA.

Master in Higher Education, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico

Law degree, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico.

Email address:

ecohernour@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-1519