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Ximena Zúñiga
Professor of Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Education/Degree:
1 Education (University of Michigan)
About
Ximena Zúñiga is a national leader of social justice education and critical approaches to dialogue across differences in higher education. She is co-editor of Multicultural Teaching in the University (Praeger, 1993) and Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 2001; 2010; 2013, 2018) and co-author of Intergroup dialogue in higher education: Meaningful learning about social justice (2007), Dialogues across Differences (Russell Sage, 2013) and Engaging Identity, Difference and Social Justice (Routledge, 2014).She teaches foundations and practice courses in social justice education for graduate students and a multi-section intergroup dialogue undergraduate course. She co-led the Five College intergroup dialogue faculty and staff initiative and consults regularly with college campus interested in intergroup dialogue practices with students, faculty and staff.
Current Work
Ximena Zúñiga research focuses primarily focuses on college student learning in social justice education and dialogues across differences. More recently, Dr. Zúñiga's research has examined: a) the impact of faculty and staff participation in intergroup dialogues focusing on gender, race/ethnicity, rank and class, and religion or spiritual affiliation on their personal and professional development, as well as on their capacity to create change in the workplace; and b) the post graduate impact of intergroup dialogue facilitation training on alums' personal and professional roles and activities.
Research Area Keyword(s)
anti-racist pedagogy, diversity and campus climate, intergroup dialogues, social justice education