Eric Macias Professorial Lecturer SOE Faculty

Degrees: PhD, SUNY at Albany
MA, SUNY at Albany
BA, Le Moyne College
Bio: Eric Macias (He/Him/El) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on minoritized and illegalized youth who have been pushed-out of the educational pipeline. His research and work often lay at intersection of migration, race/ethnicity, and education. He is also interested in topics such as immigrant youth and families, urban education, anti-racist education, race and ethnicity, critical ethnography, alternative education, critical pedagogy, Latinx studies, and youth studies. Dr. Macias is currently working on a book manuscript about undocumented immigrant youth who left school and the challenges of navigating different illegalities and creating a sense of belonging and socio-emotional wellbeing despite their criminalization in and out of school settings.

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