Rosa Jiménez

Dr. Rosa M. Jiménez is an Associate Professor in the International and Multicultural Education Department at the University of San Francisco. Her research examines K-12 classroom pedagogies and theoretical principles necessary for conceptualizing and enacting critical language education and culturally responsive learning environments, especially with Latina/o and immigrant student populations. Dr. Jiménez has conducted classroom-based research in several K-12 contexts including the California Central Valley, Los Angeles, Arizona, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research stems from her life experiences as a daughter of working-class Mexican immigrants and from her work experiences as a social studies teacher of bilingual immigrant youth. Her research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation and the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation/Cultivating New Voices. Dr. Jiménez has over twenty years of experience working with K-12 public schools as a bilingual social studies teacher, literacy coach, and educational researcher.

• Critical language education
• Critical pedagogies & Ethnic/Cultural Studies
• K-12 Education of Latina/o immigrant youth & "English learners"
• Qualitative Research Methodologies

• PhD, Urban Schooling, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• MA, Latin American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Single Subject Teaching Credential (Social Studies/BCLAD), California State University, Dominguez Hills
• BA, U.S. History and Spanish, University of California, Davis

• Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

• 2014-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation
• 2012-2014 Cultivating New Voices Fellow, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• 2014 Faculty Fellow, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)/Ford Foundation

• Arriaga-Hernandez, B., Jimenez, R. M. & Bleasdale, J. (2024). Humanizing Care, Arts, Relationships and Empathy (CARE) in a Latinx immigrant community-based summer program. In Soto-Vigil Koon, D., Fuentes, E., Philoxene, D. (Eds.) (2024) Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands. Teachers College Press.
• Jiménez, R. M. (2022). Latina/o autoethnographies of migration as counterstories. Gist, C. D. & Bristol T. J. (Eds). The Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers. American Educational Research (AERA) Publishing.
• Jiménez, R.M & Okhremtchouk, I.S. (Eds.) (May 2021) Special Issue: Education Stakeholders Striving for Equity and Culturally Relevant Approaches. Taboo Journal of Culture and Education, 20(2), 4-162.
• Jiménez, R. M. (2020). “Mi clase es su clase” (My class is your class): A Latina Teacher’s Culturally Sustaining Approach to Teacher Leadership. Journal of Education Human Resources (JEHR) [Formerly Journal of School Public Relations (JSPR), Winter, 38(1), 106-138. 
• Okhremtchouk, I.S., Jiménez, R.M. & Levine, J. (Eds.) (2020). Special Issue Series: Leadership for Social Justice and Equity in Educational and Community Contexts. Journal of Education Human Resources (formerly Journal of School Public Relations), Vol. 38(1) Winter; Vol. 38(2) Spring; Vol 38 (4) Fall.
• Jiménez, R. M. (2019 Online; 2020 In print). Community cultural wealth pedagogies: Cultivating autoethnographic counternarratives and migration capital. American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), 57(2), 775-807.
• Jiménez, R. M. (2016). “Nuestro camino es más largo” (Our journey is much longer): A testimonio of immigrant life in the Central Valley and the road towards the professoriate. [In Fuentes, E. H. & Pérez, M. A. (Eds). Special Issue: Testimonio as radical storytelling and creative resistance. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal (AMAE), 10(2), 65-79.
• Okhremtchouk, I. & Jiménez, R. M. (2013). “I Live in a Curled World…” Stories from immigrant students and their teacher. In Lester J. N., & Gabriel R. (Ed.) Performances of Research Critical Issues in K-12 Education.New York: Peter Lang.