Dr. Teresa Mccarty

Professor

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Biography

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.

Research Interests

Awards

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Fellow, Center Advanced Studies in Social Behavioral Sciences

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Elected Member

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Distinguished Teaching Award

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AERA 12th Annual Brown Lecture in Educational Research

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National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar

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George Louise Spindler Award

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Elected Fellow

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President

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Outstanding Book Award

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Elected Fellow

Requirements for University of California Los Angeles

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
Verbal
Required:160
Quantitative
Required:160
Analytical Writing
Required:5
Overall
Required:5
TOEFL
Total
Required:87
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree Strong background in Economics and Mathematics
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.