Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos is the Goizueta endowed professor and executive director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education (CLASE) at the University of Georgia Mary Frances Early College of Education. He previously served as the Murchison endowed professor and chair at Trinity University, associate professor and founding director of the Latinx Education Research Center (LERC) at Santa Clara University, and associate professor and assistant professor at Arizona State University. He also served as senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and Visiting Scholar at both the USC Rossier School of Education and the Berkeley School of Education with a courtesy affiliation at Policy Analysis for California (PACE) in the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He specializes in education policy and finance equity for traditionally marginalized populations. He has over 60 publications and 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. Dr. Jiménez-Castellanos holds a PhD in education from Claremont Graduate University jointly with San Diego State University and earned a BA in liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies from California State University, Sacramento.

updated 2024