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Academic Fellow Timothy Monreal

Timothy Monreal
Assistant Professor, California State University, Bakersfield

Dr. Timothy Monreal is an assistant professor of Teacher Education at California State University, Bakersfield. Tim's research explores the intersection of space, place, and Latinx teacher identity and subjectivity with a focus on the United States South. Additionally, he has a broader research interest in Social Studies teaching and curriculum (particularly Latinx history), teacher education, and post-qualitative research methodologies. He applies and develops Chicanx, post-structural, post-humanist, and (relational) spatial theories with these topics to acknowledge and open up, more just possibilities and potentialities. In additional to many book chapters, Dr. Monreal's work has appeared in journals such as Latino Studies, Educational Policy, Urban Review, Journal of Latinos and Education, Current Issues in Comparative Education, and The Middle Grades Review. He was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow and a Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Fellow. Prior to earning his doctorate in Social Foundation of Education at the University of South Carolina he was a middle school teacher for more than 10 years. He is currently working on his first book about teaching with Latinx films.