Tricia Gallagher-Geursten

Biography

Dr. Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen received her doctoral degree in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University’s Teachers College.  She holds a Masters in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University and Bachelors in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego.  Tricia was a bilingual public elementary school teacher and a migrant education teacher in California.  Tricia has supervised and mentored student teachers in California, New York, and Utah.  As a teacher educator, Tricia has taught curriculum and pedagogy for K-12 ethnic studies, urban education, global bilingual education, foundations of multicultural education, methods and theory for teaching social studies, bilingual reading, bilingual science, integrated curriculum, English as a Second Language, and multicultural curriculum and teaching.  Tricia has been chair or co-chair of SDUSD's Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee for a decade and works with administrators and teachers to build their capacity to lead ethnic studies teaching and pedagogy with a community responsive and decolonial philosophy.

Research Interests

teacher education for ethnic studies, decolonial theory and practice in schooling, multilingual/multicultural education, and K-12 ethnic studies

Education

Ed.D., Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003

M. Ed., Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001

B.A., Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Selected Publications

Gallagher-Geurtsen, T. & Jaco, T. (in press). Students respond to the film, Fidelity at the Forefront. Critical Ethnic Studies, Forum, 9(1).

Gallagher-Geurtsen, T., Chung, L.M. & Forbes, C. (2023). Building comfort and pride and the borderlands of Spanish and English: A comparative case-study of three heritage language teachers’ raciolinguistic identities in an after school heritage language club. Spanish as a Heritage Language, 3(1), 73-102.

Montaño, T. & Gallagher-Geurtsen, T. (2022, March). Yes, Critical Race Theory should be taught in your school: Undoing racism in K-12 schooling and classrooms throughout CRT. UCLA Law Review Discourse, Law Meets World, 84, 69-98.

Gallagher-Geurtsen, T. (2016). San Diego’s Struggle for Ethnic Studies: The value for all of democratizing education. Center XChange, Summer 2016. Series Number: IP-WP-X054. University of California, Los Angeles. DOI: https://ucla.app.box.com/v/San-Diego-Ethnic-Studies

Gallagher-Geurtsen, T.M. (2021). Inviting decolonizing analysis through primary sources: Constructing an ethnic studies unit for language learners on the history of segregation in California schools.  In A. VandeHei Carter & C. Clark (Eds.), Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Literacy and Language Arts, Foundations of Multicultural Education Series, Volume 2. Lexington Books.

Gallagher-Geurtsen, T. (2012).  (Un)knowing Diversity: Researching Narratives of Neocolonial Classrooms through Youth’s Testimonios. Peter Lang: New York, NY.