Noguera, Pedro 1959-

(Pedro A. Noguera)

PERSONAL:

Born August 7, 1959, in New York, NY; son of Felipe (a policeman) and Millicent Noguera; married Patricia Voltaire, June 6, 1982; children: Joaquin, Amaya, Antonio, Naima. Ethnicity: "Afro-Latino." Education: Brown University, B.A. and teaching credential, 1981, M.A., 1982; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., 1989.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY. Office— Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, Steinhardt Graduate School of Education, New York University, 726 Broadway, 5th Fl., New York, NY 10003; fax: 212-995-4198. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Public schoolteacher, beginning 1981; University of California, Berkeley, lecturer in ethnic studies and peace and conflict studies, 1986, lecturer in Afro-American studies, 1989, assistant professor, 1990-96, associate professor of social and cultural studies and director of Institute for the Study of Social Change, 1996-2000; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools, 2000-03; New York University, New York, NY, professor of teaching and learning and social science and humanities, 2003—, and executive director of Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at Steinhardt Graduate School of Education. Diablo Valley College, lecturer, 1989; Columbia University, Sussman Visiting Professor of Education, 2003; speaker at other institutions, including University of Southern California, Mount Holyoke College, Colorado College, Brown University, Stanford University, and University of San Francisco; conference and workshop participant. Springborg Noguera (consultants in organizational development), co-owner and principal, 1990-98. South Berkeley Youth Project, director, 1985-86; Office of the Mayor, Berkeley, executive assistant, 1986-88; Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings, codirector; member of board of directors, Berkeley Community Foundation and South African Education Fund; Centers for Disease Control, member of youth violence prevention task force.

MEMBER:

American Educational Research Association (chair of committee on ethics in research and human rights, 1993-95), American Sociological Association, Caribbean Studies Association (president, 2005-06), Pacific Sociological Association (member of executive committee, 1998-2000).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Travel grant for Belize and El Salvador, Tinker Foundation, 1984; Fulbright fellowship, 1987; grant from San Francisco Foundation, 1992; Presidential School Improvement Award, 1992; Eisenhower Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Award, 1993; Icon Award for Community Service, city of Berkeley, CA, 1994; research award from California Wellness Foundation, 1995; Distinguished Service Award, Berkeley Public Education Foundation, 2000; Centennial Medal, Philadelphia University, 2001; honorary doctorate, University of San Francisco, 2002; Eugene Carothers Human Relations Award, 2005; additional research funding from UNESCO, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Carnegie Foundation, National Science Foundation, Schott Family Foundation, and Nellie Mae Foundation.

WRITINGS:

(Under name Pedro A. Noguera) The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada from 1951-1991, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1997.

(Under name Pedro A. Noguera) City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education, Teachers College Press (New York, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Jean Yonemura Wing) Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 2006.

(Editor, with Shawn Ginwright and Julio Cammarota) Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth, Routledge (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, edited by Michael Sadowsky, Harvard Education Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003; What They Don't Learn in School, edited by Jabari Mahiri, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2003; Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood, edited by Niobe Way and Judy Chu, New York University Press (New York, NY), 2004; Holding Accountability Accountable, edited by Ken Sirotnik, Teachers College Press (New York, NY), 2004; and The Future of Latinos in the United States, edited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo, Basic Books (New York, NY), 2005. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Social Justice, Education Leadership, Sage Journal of Race Relations, Teachers College Record, Sociology of Education, School Administrator Journal, Education and Urban Society, Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, Journal of Negro Education, and Theory into Practice.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

School Administrator, May, 2004, William James Leary, review of City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education, p. 63.