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Eréndira Rueda

Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies

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Eréndira Rueda is Associate Professor of Sociology. She also teaches in the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and American Studies (AMST) Multidisciplinary Programs. She received her BA in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and her MA/PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a UC ACCORD Fellow and a Spencer Foundation Fellow.

Her primary areas of research and teaching are the sociology of education, immigration, and childhoods. She is the co-editor of Academic Belonging in Higher Education: Fostering Student Connection, Competence, and Confidence (2023). Her work has appeared in journals such as Children and Society, the Journal of Latinos and Education, and Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education. She has also contributed to edited volumes such as Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism (2023), Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on Difference (2018), and The Education of the Hispanic Population (2013).

Professor Rueda directs the Transitions Research Team, which is comprised of first-generation, low-income (FLI) Vassar students engaging in participatory action research on issues pertaining to inclusion and belonging on campus.

BA, University of California-San Diego; MA, PhD, University of California-Berkeley

At Vassar since 2007

Contact

errueda@vassar.edu

845-437-5511

Blodgett Hall
Box 519

Hours

By appointment only; please email errueda@vassar.edu to arrange

Departments and Programs

Latin American and Latinx Studies

Sociology

Courses

EDUC 386 Ghetto Schooling
LALS 386 Ghetto Schooling
SOCI 151 Introductory Sociology
SOCI 386 Ghetto Schooling

Grants, Fellowships, Honors, Awards

Candice Lowe-Swift and Erendira Rueda Received an AALAC Award for “Beyond Inclusion and Belonging”
Candice Lowe-Swift, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Erendira Rueda, Associate Professor of Sociology, received an Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges award for “Beyond Inclusion and Belonging: Telling Future Histories of Classrooms from 2050,” a multi-institution workshop animated by the question, “What more is needed, beyond current DEIB efforts, to make our colleges nurturing and supportive places to learn?”

In the Media

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Vassar Institute Signature Program Explores Ways Education Can Better Serve Students and the Greater Community

Students, faculty, staff, and administrators from nearly a dozen institutions recently gathered to explore questions about the future of belonging and mattering in higher education. They tackled topics ranging from ancestral intelligence to AI.

Vassar’s Newest First-Generation and Low-Income Students Take Flight

Vassar greeted 165 first-generation and low-income first-year students at the weeklong FLI Foundations orientation program.

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Vassar Awards Grants for Six Signature Programs to be Held at the New Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts

The Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts, scheduled to open in the fall, will host a series of symposiums during the 2024–25 academic year that address multifaceted issues of local, national, and global concern, College officials announced this week.

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Erendira Rueda wearing a red shirt standing in front of a bookcase.

Credit

Grace Adams Ward ’24/Vassar College