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Michelle J. Bellino is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's Marsal Family School of Education. She focuses on the intersections of education, youth, and civic development, especially in contexts impacted by armed conflict and forced displacement. Her research explores the experiences of violence, asylum, and peace processes and their influence on young people's participation in schools and society, affecting their future aspirations and educational access. Through ethnographic methods and youth participatory action research, she empowers young people to construct understandings of justice and injustice, which shapes their evolving identity as civic actors in both local and global contexts. Bellino emphasizes teaching in pluralistic societies and encourages critical inquiry and perspective-taking among her students. She is the author of 'Youth Postwar Guatemala: Education Civic Identity Transition' and has co-edited works on education, identity, and conflict. Her contributions to the field and impactful research have been recognized with various awards, including the Council on Anthropology Education's Outstanding Book Award for her publication in 2018.
University of Michigan, Marsal Family School of Education • Ann Arbor, MI
Teaching and researching youth civic development and education in contexts of conflict.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science