Professor
Ximena Zúñiga Ph.D., Professor, Department of Student Development – Social Justice Education concentration – University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an engaged scholar in 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), Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 2001; 2010; 2013, 2018, and forthcoming) and Engaging Identity, Difference and Social Justice (Routledge, 2014), and co-author of Intergroup dialogue in higher education: Meaningful learning about social justice (2007) and Dialogues across Differences (Russell Sage, 2013). Beyond her various book chapters, she published articles in the Journal of Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Journal of Equity and Excellence in Education, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice among others. She teaches foundations and practice courses in social justice education and intergroup dialogue pedagogy. Her current research examines the impact of engaging in intergroup dialogue and transformative racial justice practices on higher education faculty and staff professional and action roles. She currently serves as American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Senior Scholar, and Chancellor Leadership Fellow at The University of Massachusetts Amherst.She has co-led several intergroup dialogue and racial justice initiatives in higher education, nationally and internationally, with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, Ford Foundation, Obama-Singh Higher Education Initiative, the Massachusetts Department of Higher of Education. She received the ACPA Lifetime Achievement Award in March of 2020, and the ACPA Outstanding Social Justice Collaboration in March 2022 for the Building Capacity for Transformative Racial Justice Practices initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is binational and lives and works in the unceded homelands of the Pocumtuc Nation on the land of the Norrwutuck community.
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About Ximena Zúñiga
Ximena Zúñiga Ph.D., Professor, Department of Student Development – Social Justice Education concentration – University of Massachusetts Amherst, is an engaged scholar in 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), Readings for Diversity and Social Justice (Routledge, 2001; 2010; 2013, 2018, and forthcoming) and Engaging Identity, Difference and Social Justice (Routledge, 2014), and co-author of Intergroup dialogue in higher education: Meaningful learning about social justice (2007) and Dialogues across Differences (Russell Sage, 2013). Beyond her various book chapters, she published articles in the Journal of Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Journal of Equity and Excellence in Education, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice among others. She teaches foundations and practice courses in social justice education and intergroup dialogue pedagogy. Her current research examines the impact of engaging in intergroup dialogue and transformative racial justice practices on higher education faculty and staff professional and action roles. She currently serves as American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Senior Scholar, and Chancellor Leadership Fellow at The University of Massachusetts Amherst.She has co-led several intergroup dialogue and racial justice initiatives in higher education, nationally and internationally, with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, Ford Foundation, Obama-Singh Higher Education Initiative, the Massachusetts Department of Higher of Education. She received the ACPA Lifetime Achievement Award in March of 2020, and the ACPA Outstanding Social Justice Collaboration in March 2022 for the Building Capacity for Transformative Racial Justice Practices initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is binational and lives and works in the unceded homelands of the Pocumtuc Nation on the land of the Norrwutuck community.
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