Professor Claudia L Galindo
Associate Professor · Tenure-Track
About
Professor Galindo teaches courses in inequality in education, immigration, and quantitative research methodology. She received her doctorate in educational theory and policy and comparative international education with a minor in demography from Pennsylvania State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at The Johns Hopkins University. Galindo conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates the fields of sociology of education, educational policy, developmental psychology, and immigration. She studies family and school factors that affect and can lead to improving the educational experiences of underserved students. Her research also examines Latina/o and immigrant children's well-being, especially their social-emotional functioning, cognitive development, and health.Research interests
Educational inequality and minority students’ school experiences; educational policy; sociology of education; immigration; sociology of the family; and research methods and statistics.Education
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Ph D, Educational Theory and Policy Studies, and Comparative and International Education (dual title)
— Pennsylvania State University (2005) LATINO STUDENTS’ MATH LEARNING TRAJECTORIES IN THE EARLY SCHOOL YEARS: THE ROLE OF ENGLISH ABILITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
- BA, Major in Humanities and Psychology — Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1996)