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Teresa L. McCarty holds the George F. Kneller Chair in Education Anthropology at UCLA, where she is also a distinguished professor. She is a social-cultural anthropologist with a focus on Indigenous education and the sociocultural studies of language planning and policy. McCarty's work centers on the reclamation of Indigenous and minoritized languages and the ethnography of education within schools, particularly regarding Indigenous perspectives. She serves as the principal investigator for a multi-year, U.S.-wide study of Indigenous-language immersion schooling funded by the Spencer Foundation. Her areas of expertise include education anthropology and community-based ethnographic research. McCarty has received numerous accolades for her contributions to educational anthropology and was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2019. She has published extensively on culturally relevant pedagogies and the role of education in Indigenous language revitalization.
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