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Sonia Nieto
Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture in the
School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters, Lesley University, 1999
Honorary Doctorate, Intercultural Relations, Bridgewater State College, 2004
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Research Areas:
Sonia Nieto’s research focuses on multicultural education and the education of Latinos, immigrants, and other students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Activities & Honors:
Researcher, teacher, lecturer, and writer, Sonia Nieto has taught students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, and she worked at the university level preparing teachers and teacher educators for over thirty years. She serves on several national advisory boards that focus on educational equity and social justice, including Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) and Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), as well as on the editorial advisory boards of numerous educational journals. She is also Editor for the Language, Culture, and Teaching Series from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. Her many awards for scholarship, advocacy, and activism include the 1989 Human and Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the 1996 Teacher of the Year Award from the Hispanic Educators of Massachusetts, the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education, the Excellence in Education Award from Boricua College, the 2003 Críticas Journal Hall of Fame Spanish-Language Community Advocate of the Year Award, the 2005 Outstanding Educator from the National Council of Teachers of English and, most recently, the 2006 Enrique T. Trueba Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship, Mentorship, and Service, as well as two awards from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at the 2006 annual meeting: the Distinguished Career Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, and the Senior Scholar Award for Research on the Social Context of Education from Division G. She was an Annenberg Institute Senior Fellow from 1998-2000 and she was awarded a month-long residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in 2000.
Selected Publications:
• Nieto, Sonia, ed. (2005). Why We Teach. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Nieto, Sonia. (2004). Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education,
4th ed. New York: Allyn & Bacon.
• Nieto, Sonia. (2003). What Keeps Teachers Going? New York: Teachers College Press.
• Nieto, Sonia,ed. (2000). Puerto Rican Students in U.S. schools. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Nieto, Sonia. (1999). The light in their eyes : creating multicultural learning communities. New York: Teachers College Press. |
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