Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos is the Goizueta Endowed Professor and executive director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education at the Mary Frances Early College of Education, University of Georgia. He previously served as the Murchison Endowed Professor and Chair at Trinity University; associate professor and founding director of the Latinx Education Research Center at Santa Clara University; and associate professor and assistant professor at Arizona State University. He has also been a senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and visiting scholar at both the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, with a courtesy affiliation at PACE in the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Jiménez-Castellanos specializes in education policy and finance equity for traditionally marginalized populations. He has over 60 publications and has received several prestigious awards, honors, and grants, including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship, AERA Early Career Award, and AESA Book Critics Choice Award. He began his professional career as an urban bilingual school teacher and is a son of Mexican migrant farmworkers. Jiménez-Castellanos received his PhD in education from Claremont Graduate University jointly with San Diego State University.

updated 2024