Diane Nevárez earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy, with a focus on Teacher Education, from the University of Southern California. She is currently in her second year as an Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at California State University, Stanislaus.  Prior to arriving at Stan State, she was a lecturer for the University of California at Irvine (2016-2021), where she taught in the undergraduate Education Sciences program and the Master’s in Teaching program.  In 2021, she received the UCI School of Education’s Dean’s Honoree award for excellence in teaching. 

 Diane’s research investigates and highlights Chicanx/Latinx teacher candidates’ cultural and linguistic strengths, which, when recognized, can be leveraged to support their development as critical pedagogues and their work with Chicanx/Latinx P-12 students. Her most recent publication can be found in the AERA Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers. 

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Publications

Mendoza Nevárez, D. (2022). Towards recognizing and leveraging Latinx teacher candidates' community cultural wealth. In Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, Eds. Bristol, T. & Gist, C.

Mendoza Nevárez, D. (2021, November 9). Op-Ed: UC churns through a quarter of its lecturers a year. Why I was forced to move on. Los Angeles Times.

Mendoza Nevárez, D. (Under review). Invisible labor, collective grief, and community uplift: A Chicana contingent faculty member teaching through the pandemic. Multicultural Perspectives.

Mendoza Nevárez, D. and Nevárez, A. (Under review). Chicanx Faculty and Students Navigating Whitestream Institutions through Reciprocal Authentic Care. Palgrave MacMillian, Eds. Byfield, L., and Kaya, J.

Leathers, S. L., Mendoza Nevárez, D., Arteaga, N., Kohli, R., and Pizarro, M. (Under review). Claiming space to (re)generate: Teacher educators of Color and the emboldened whiteness of teacher education. Journal of Education Sciences.