Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz

Title:

Professor

Email:

zaguirre-munoz@ucmerced.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Education, 2000 — University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. in Psychology, 1992 — University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. in Spanish, 1992 — University of California, Santa Barbara

Awards:

2020-23 — Bilingual Education Research SIG Chair Elect/Program Chair, Chair,Past Chair, American Education Research Association
2018-20 — Division C, Section 1e Engineering & Computer Science Co-Chair, Chair, American Education Research Association
2015 — President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech University
2014 — Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech University College of Education
2013 — Plains Capitol Bank Local Impact Research Awards, Plains Capitol Bank, Lubbock, TX
2012 — Integrated Scholar Honoree, Texas Tech University
2011 — American Education Research Association Second Language Research SIG Mid-Career Award Runner Up, American Education Research Association
2011 — College of Education Outstanding Researcher Award, Texas Tech University
2010 — 2010 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award, Texas Tech University
2010 — Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA),Handbook of Latinos in Education (HLE), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, New Jersey
2009 — Best Paper Award for the International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications section on the Application of Education Technologies/Education and Bilingual Training Systems, EISTA
2008 — Distinguished International Scholar for Research on Equity and Opportunity to Learn, University of San Carlos, Guatemala
2008 — Top 20 Hispanics of 2008 Designee, Lubbock Hispanic Magazine, Lubbock, Texas
2006 — Division C, Literacy and Language Arts Section Chair,American Education Research Association

Discipline:

Cognitive and Information Sciences