Melissa Mesinas,
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor
Dance
Academic History
- B.A. Scripps College
- Ph.D. Stanford University
Academic Focus
My primary areas of research are culture and education; individual and contextual factors that relate to sociocultural development; the development of Latinx and immigrant-origin students; and identity.
Courses Taught
- Child Development
Work
- Casanova, S., Mesinas, M., & Martinez-Ortega, S. (2021). Cultural knowledge as opportunities for empowerment: Learning and development for Mexican Indigenous youth. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 1-15.
- Martínez, R. A., & Mesinas, M. (2019). Linguistic motherwork in the Zapotec diaspora: Zapoteca mothers’ perspectives on Indigenous language maintenance. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 13(2), 122-144.
- Urrieta Jr, L., Mesinas, M., & Martínez, R. A. (2019). Critical Latinx indigeneities and education: An introduction. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 13(2), 1-14.
- Mesinas, M., & Perez, W. (2016). Cultural Involvement, Indigenous Identity, and Language: An Exploratory Study of Zapotec Adolescents and Their Parents. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 38(4), 482-506.