Dr. Julissa Muñiz will share her work at an upcoming Education, Culture and Society (ECS) Colloquium: “Hidden in Plain Sight: A Critical Ethnography of the Logics, Leaders, and Learners in a Juvenile Detention Center.” Monday, February 6, 2023, 10:00 – 11:15am, PCPSE, 133 S 36th St. (between Walnut and Sansom), The Forum (Second Floor). Faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. Please check the GSE event page for any updates on this talk.
Dr. Muñiz is a Provost’s Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Educational Psychology and the Texas Center for Equity Promotion. She earned her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University. Her dissertation study, titled I don’t think no kid should be here: A critical ethnography on identity development, teaching, and learning in the carceral context, explores teaching, learning, and identity development in the carceral context with an interest in understanding how incarcerated students both live and learn while in confinement.