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Boulder, CO 80309
Biography:
Andrea Dyrness is an Associate Professor in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies.
She is an anthropologist of education whose areas of interest include education and citizenship in Latin America and transnational Latinx migrant communities in the U.S. and Spain. Her research investigates how young people growing up in transnational communities, particularly in Latin American and Caribbean diasporas, learn to belong, participate and work for change in multiple national communities, and the spaces and practices that support their critical citizenship formation. Her latest book, Border Thinking: Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) was awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2020 by the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association. Dr. Dyrness is also the author of Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2011), and has published in Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, and other journals. She has been an Associate Editor for Anthropology & Education Quarterly and is currently an Associate Editor for AERA Open, the open access journal for the American Educational Research Association. Prior to coming to CU, Dr. Dyrness taught at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and has held fellowships and appointments in El Salvador (1998-99 and 2008-09), Spain (2013-14), and Denmark (2014).
Education
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Social and Cultural Studies in Education
MA, University of California at Berkeley, Social and Cultural Studies in Education
B.A., Brown University, Anthropology & Educational Studies