Dr. Stephany Cuevas (she/her/hers)
- Education:
- University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts
Harvard University, Master of Education
Harvard University, Doctor of Education
Video Profile
Biography
Dr. Stephany Cuevas is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. She teaches in the Integrated Educational Studies (IES) program.
Dr. Cuevas' interdisciplinary research and practice focus on Latinx family engagement in students' higher education aspirations. Central to her research is the notion that Latinx students do not experience education in isolation, as sole compartmentalized, individual students. She considers it imperative to consider the significant and central role families have in shaping Latinx students' educational experiences. Her current research explores how family engagement shifts and changes as first-generation students advance in and complete their post-secondary trajectories.
For the past 10 years, Dr. Cuevas has worked to support underrepresented students, their families, and the educators who work with them; she is committed to work that actively seeks to expose and combat issues of inequality. Dr. Cuevas also works with different school districts, individual schools, out-of-school organizations, and nonprofit community organizations across the United States, offering trainings and curriculum, professional development sessions, and doing evaluation work on topics relating to family engagement in education, postsecondary access and success for first-generation students, and supporting immigrant and undocumented families. She uses her research training and skills to develop research-based materials and products.
Dr. Cuevas is the author of Apoyo sacrificial, sacrificing support: How undocumented Latinx parents get their children to college (Teachers College Press) and a co-author of Everyone Wins! The Evidence for Family-School Partnerships and Implications for Practice (Scholastics). Her scholarship has also appeared in the Journal of Higher Education, the Harvard Educational Review, and the Journal of Latinos and Education. Her research has been recognized by the Family-School-Community Partnerships Special Interest Group at American Education Research Association (AERA), the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education, and the Association for the Study of Higher.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Brillante, P., Chen, J., Cuevas, S., Hoffman, E.B., Mindes, G., Dundorf, C., Meier, D.R., & Roy, R. (Eds.). (2023). Casebook: Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
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Cuevas, S. (April 2023). Becoming an ally: Partnering with immigrant families for student success. Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Mapp, K., Henderson, A., Cuevas, S., & Franco, M.C. (2022). Everyone Wins! The Evidence for Family-School Partnerships and Implications for Practice. Scholastics.
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Cuevas, S. (March 2022). [ Review of the book Navigating the American education system: Four Latino success stories, by M.P. Vargas]. Teachers College Record. ID Number: 24017.
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Cuevas, S. (2021). Apoyo sacrificial, sacrificing support: How undocumented Latinx parents get their children to college. Teachers College Press.
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Cuevas, S. (2021). Ever-present “illegality:” How political climate impacts undocumented Latina/o parents’ engagement in students’ post-secondary access and success. Journal for College Access. 6(2), 45-64.
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Cuevas, S. (2021). Building and resisting: Interviewing undocumented immigrants in the Trump era. Afro-Hispanic Review.
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Kramer, J.W., Cuevas, S., and Boatman, A. (2021). Cyclical assumptions and actions: Faculty attitudes toward technology-driven instruction in developmental mathematics. Education Policy Analysis Archives.
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Cuevas, S. (2020). From spectators to partners: The significant role of self-efficacy in Latinx immigrant parental engagement in post-secondary planning. Journal of Latinos in Education, 1-17.
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Cuevas, S. (2019). Ley de la vida: Latina/o immigrant parents experience of their children’s transition to higher education. The Journal of Higher Education. 91(4), 565-587.
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Cuevas, S. (2019). “Con mucho sacrificio, we give them everything we can”: The strategic sacrifices of undocumented Latina/o parents. Harvard Educational Review, 89(3), 473-496.