Regina Cortina

Regina Cortina is Professor of Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her most recent book, Indigenous Education Policy, Equity, and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America (2017, Palgrave), is a comparative study of policies designed to increase the educational opportunities of Indigenous students, protect their rights to an education inclusive of their cultures and languages, and improve their education outcomes. The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America (2014, Multilingual Matters), her previous book, examines unprecedented changes in education across Latin America that resulted from the endorsement of Indigenous peoples’ rights through the development of intercultural and bilingual education. Among her other major publications are Women and Teaching: Global Perspectives on the Feminization of a Profession (2006, Palgrave), Immigrants and Schooling: Mexicans in New York (2003, Center for Migration Studies), and Distant Alliances: Promoting Education for Girls and Women in Latin America (2000, Routledge). Professor Cortina has a Ph.D. in Education, a master’s degree in International and Comparative Education, and a master’s degree in Political Science, all from Stanford University; and a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Since the spring of 2009, she has served as Director of the Program in International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was elected Vice-President of the Comparative and International Education Society in 2016 and will become President-Elect in March 2017, then President in March 2018.