University of Wisconsin alumna Gisele Martinez Negrete has been named the recipient of the U.S. Hispanic Higher Education Association's 2024 Early Career Award, according to a University of Wisconsin press release.
This award is presented to a faculty member who has demonstrated dedication and commitment through action, research, and service to the Latinx higher education community. The results of this research will be presented to Martinez-Negrete at his AAHHE annual conference, March 13-15 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Martinez-Negrette received her doctorate from the University of California Graduate School of Education in 2019 and is currently an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to the release.
“This award means a lot to me as a Hispanic person living in the United States. It makes me feel like I'm supporting my community and that my work has meaning,” Martinez-Negrette said. said.
Martinez Negrete said her research focuses on three areas: multilingual education, sociolinguistics, and the intersection of language, schooling, and migration.
Through observations of both children and teachers, Martinez-Negrete studies how a variety of factors influence the educational trajectories of linguistically diverse students.
“Within these three specific elements, I look at how culturally and linguistically diverse students interact in modern learning environments,” said Martinez Negrete .
Martinez-Negrete said winning this award is most closely related to her research analyzing the impact of demographic change and social ideologies regarding immigration on opportunities for linguistically diverse people in U.S. schools. He said there was.
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Demographic shifts in places like the Midwest are impacting schools that were not prepared to accommodate linguistically diverse students, Martinez-Negrette said.
“I support teachers and I support school communities in meeting the academic needs of students who come to school,” she said.
Martinez-Negrete said she began her work in community engagement at the University of California, where she received the 2018 Distinguished Scholar Alumni Award from the Morgridge Center for Public Service. She believes that her job iswisconsin ideas,” uses research to support the public interest and the broader community.
“My time in Wisconsin deepened my understanding of the relevance of my research and its benefits,” Martinez-Negrette said. “When I left, I realized part of my mission was to make a difference to the school community who needed to know about the support I could provide through my work.”
