Juan F. Carrillo
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Courses Taught: Social Context (EDUC-517)
E-Mail: juancfile@yahoo.com
Juan F. Carrillo was born and raised on welfare in the barrio communities of south Los Angeles. He is the son of Mexican immigrants and was the first person in his family to attend college. In 1994 he left Compton, California to pursue his undergraduate and graduate education at various institutions of higher education throughout the United States.
He was a high school teacher in the urban, working class communities of south side Phoenix, Arizona and east Austin, Texas. He has taken on various roles such as the chair of a high school social studies department and he was part of high school redesign committees. He has served as a mentor to many students of color at various levels of schooling, primarily inspired by his passion for creating a pipeline of Latina/o organic intellectuals inside and outside of academia. As a university instructor, his courses largely focus on the social and cultural foundations of education. Much of his pedagogical approach, which emphasizes a Freirian lens, has resulted in stellar recognition by his students and administrators.
His research interests are in the areas of urban education, multicultural education, critical perspectives on intelligence and gifted education, schools as sanctuaries, and Latino masculinities. One of his current projects involves the development of a Latina/o-centric framework of gifted education. He is also putting together a manuscript for a book on Mexican origin scholarship boys and continues to write reflective essays on the psycho-spiritual (and cultural) costs and gains of the schooling process.
His life has come full circle as he now joins the MAT faculty at USC. He has published his work in various journals and books that reflect the working class experience of Latino students. His contributions have been published in the Journal of Latinos and Education, Handbook of Latinos and Education, the Harvard Educational Educational Review, and in the book, Trajectories: The Social and Educational Mobility of Education Scholars from Poor and Working Class Backgrounds.
