Research Interests
Maribel Santiago
Dr. Maribel Santiago is an Associate Professor of Justice and Teacher Education. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the department of American Ethnic Studies. Dr. Santiago specializes in the teaching and learning of race/ethnicity in K–12 history. Her work centers on the production and consumption of Latinx social studies: what students, policymakers, and educators learn about Latinx communities, and how they conceptualize Latinx experiences.
Her experiences growing up in Los Angeles as the daughter of Zapoteco/Oaxaqueño immigrants where she experienced anti-indigeneity and witnessed anti-blackness, inform Dr. Santiago’s commitment to centering historically marginalized histories. She is part of an emerging collective of social studies education scholars complicating notions of Latinidad that omit Indigenous and Black Latinx histories. As part of this effort, Dr. Santiago leads the History TALLER (pronounced tah-yĕr) research group dedicated to exploring the Teaching and Learning of Language, Ethnicity, and Race (TALLER).
Dr. Santiago earned a Ph.D. in History/Social Studies Education and an M.A. in History, both from Stanford University. She also received the 2019 National Council of the Social Studies Exemplary Research Award for her article in .
Santiago, M., and Tadashi, D. (2025). . Boston, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Santiago, M., & Dozono, T. (2024). . Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Santiago, M., & Dozono, T. (2022). . Theory & Research in Social Education, 1-23.
Santiago, M. (2020). Teachers College Record, 122(8), 1-30.
Santiago, M. (2019). . Cognition and Instruction. 37(1).
Santiago, M. (2019). . In M. Gross & L. Terra (Eds), Teaching and learning the difficult past: Comparative Perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge.
Santiago, M. (2019). . Journal of Social Studies Research.
Santiago, M. (2019). . Multicultural Education Review.
Santiago, M. (2017). . Theory & Research in Social Education, 45(1), 43-74.
