Lilia Monzo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

E-mail: monzo@chapman.edu
Phone: 714-628-2758
Fax: 714-744-7035

Lilia D. Monzó joins our faculty in the 2008-09 academic year as an Assistant Professor in the department of Elementary Education. She received her Ph.D. in the area of Language, Literacy, and Learning from USC in 2003 and subsequently completed three years of postdoctoral studies at UCLA. Her research goals aim at understanding how the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts under which Latino immigrant children learn impacts their opportunities for success, however they define this, and their opportunities to gain access to institutions of power in our society. Her research agenda includes the study of Latino immigrant communities, families, and the schools and teachers that serve them, with a special focus on the process of cultural and linguistic negotiation, the impact of race, class, and gender, and the role of language ideologies and ethnic identity in this process. Her doctoral dissertation, an ethnography of Latino immigrant families in the process of cultural production, won the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year award from the American Education Research Association, Division G (Social Context of Education). Lilia has a number of publications in academic journals. She has previously taught courses on language development, cultural diversity, and ethnographic methods. She has previous experience working with and mentoring pre-service teachers and masters and doctoral-level students. Lilia is a Latina who was raised in the linguistically and culturally different worlds of home and school and brings with her a borderlands perspective that allows for new insights into teaching and research. Lilia is especially interested in supporting and developing efforts at diversifying schools of education and the teaching force, in particular. Prior to entering the doctoral program at USC, Lilia was a bilingual teacher and worked in a variety of bilingual programs in California’s urban schools.

Curriculum Vita