

Research Bio
Professor Patricia Baquedano-López is faculty at the Berkeley School of Education. She is a linguistic anthropologist of education interested in hemispheric and transregional Indigenous and Latine migration and diaspora. She investigates the relationship between migration, academic development, and educational policy. Her most recent projects examine the academic support and development of young students of the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California (funded by the Spencer Foundation) and a study of return migration and transnational families (funded by UC MEXUS-CONACyT). She is affiliated faculty (below-the-line) in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of LInguistics.
Research Expertise and Interest
migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography