Antonia Darder is currently with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is a Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies. She taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of California Irvine (2001-2002), a Professor of Education and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University (1990-2001) and at Pacific Oaks College where she developed the first graduate program in Bicultural Development. She has also taught at California Polytechnic University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a Distinguished Professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. Her current work focuses on comparative studies of racism, class and society. Her teaching examines cultural issues in education with an emphasis on identity, language, and popular culture, as well as the foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino/a studies, and social justice theory.
