Professor of Education
School of Education, Room 340
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-7946
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: ruben.donato@colorado.edu

Ruben Donato is professor of education and chair of the Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice program. Dr. Donato is an educational historian, and his research interests range from the educational histories of Mexican Americans in the American Southwest to current educational policy issues that affect Latinos in the United States. His teaching interests are in the areas of history of American education and educational foundations.

Dr. Donato is a member of numerous professional organizations in education and has served as chair for Division F (history and historiography) for the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Education:
PhD Education (history), Stanford University, 1987
MA History, Stanford University, 1985
BA History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1979