Latinx Faculty Members’ Funds of Knowledge: A Qualitative Study of Empowerment Agents’ Experiences and Practices

• In Event: Racialized Experiences in the Professoriate

Abstract

This manuscript details a qualitative study examining how Latinx faculty members’ educational and professional experiences shape their current practices in academia. Drawing on the theories of funds of knowledge and institutional/empowerment agents, this study recognizes and validates the experiences and contributions of Latinx faculty in creating equitable higher education institutions.

Author

• Marlon Fernandez Castro, Pennsylvania State University, Center for the Study of Higher Education