Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Berkeley School of Education. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist and as an applied linguist, she is a scholar with a long-standing interest in the language practices and education of racialized and minoritized students in schools. Her most recent projects address practices of transnational Indigenous sovereignty, return migration, and education in the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California. Professor Baquedano-López is formally affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Linguistics. She is co-founding and core faculty member of the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization. She was Chair of the Center for Latino Policy Research (prior to its transition to the Latinx Research Center) from 2007-2009 and from 2014-2017. She is the recipient of the 2021 Charles A. Ferguson award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Center for Applied Linguistics and Stanford University. In 2023 she received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G, Social Contexts of Education. From 2017-2023 she was a faculty mentor in the William T. Grant Scholars Program.Professor Baquedano-López was an inaugural recipient of the Graduate Assembly's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award  at UC Berkeley (2005).

Professor Baquedano-López has collaborated with researchers in Mexico, France, and Sweden on issues of language maintenace, migration, and education. Her research projects have been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, UC MEXUS-CONACyT, the National Science Foundation, the France-Berkeley Fund, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Theory into Practice, the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education journal, the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, the Annual Review of Anthropology, the Bilingual Research Journal, Estudios Fronterizos, the Journal of Mind, Culture, and Activity, Linguistics and Education, the Review of Research in Education, and Text and Talk among others and in a variety of edited volumes. Professor Baquedano-López is a former Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and she was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. She was co-founding editor of the journal Language, Culture, and Society (John Benjamins) and served as general editor from 2018-2024.  She is co-author of An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be (2024), On Becoming Bilingual: Children's Experiences Across Homes, Schools, and Communities (2023) and co-editor of U.S. Latinos and Education Policy: Research-Based Directions for Change (2014).  Her current book project addresses transnational Indigenous sovereignty across time and space focusing on Maya families and youth living between Yucatan and California and contributes to theorizing a "languaging" aesthetics that bridges, resists, and transforms linguistic and educational spaces.