
Jonathan Rosa
Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Linguistics and of Anthropology
Graduate School of Education
Bio
As a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist, Jonathan Rosa's research theorizes the co-naturalization of language and race as a key feature of modern governance. Specifically, he analyzes the interplay between youth socialization, raciolinguistic formations, and structural inequity in urban contexts. Dr. Rosa collaborates with local communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. This community-based approach to research, teaching, and service reflects a vision of scholarship as a platform for imagining and enacting more just societies. Dr. Rosa's research has been published in scholarly journals such as Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Language in Society, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. In addition to his formal scholarly research, Dr. Rosa is an ongoing participant in public intellectual projects focused on race, education, language, (im)migration, and U.S. Latinxs, and his work has been featured in media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Linguistics
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Anthropology
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, Stanford University (2015 - Present)
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Latina/o Studies Program, Northwestern University (2015 - 2016)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2011 - 2015)
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Faculty Fellow, Latina/o Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University (2010 - 2011)
Program Affiliations
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Center for Latin American Studies
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (2010)
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M.A., University of Chicago, Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (2006)
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B.A., Swarthmore College, Linguistics and Educational Studies (2003)
Research Interests
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Diversity and Identity
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Immigrants and Immigration
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Literacy and Language
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Sociology
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Teachers and Teaching
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Dr. Rosa’s book, Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolingusitic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press), presents an ethnographic analysis of how administrators in a Chicago public high school whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rican seek to transform “at risk” Latinx youth into “young Latino professionals.” This intersectional mobility project paradoxically positions Latinx identity as the cause of and solution to educational underachievement. As a result, students must learn to be – and sound – “Latino” in highly studied ways. Students respond to anxieties surrounding their ascribed identities by symbolically remapping borders between nations, languages, ethnoracial categories, and institutional contexts. This reimagining of political, linguistic, cultural, and educational borders reflects the complex interplay between racialization and socialization for Latinx youth. The manuscript argues that this local scene is a key site in which to track broader structures of educational inequity by denaturalizing categories, differences, and modes of recognition through which raciolinguistic exclusion is systematically reproduced across contexts.
2020-21 Courses
- Introduction to Chicanx/Latinx Studies
CSRE 180E, EDUC 179E (Win) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Formations
EDUC 389A (Win) -
Independent Studies (11)
- Advanced Individual Work
STS 299 (Win) - Directed Individual Study
ANTHRO 96 (Spr) - Directed Reading
CHILATST 200W (Aut, Win) - Directed Reading
CSRE 200W (Aut, Spr) - Directed Reading
EDUC 480 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Reading
LINGUIST 397 (Aut, Win) - Directed Reading in Education
EDUC 180 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Research
EDUC 490 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Research in Education
EDUC 190 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Research
EDUC 140 (Win, Spr) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Win, Spr)
- Advanced Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Equity and Schooling
EDUC 299 (Aut) - Public Policy Institute
CSRE 220 (Aut) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- Equity and Schooling
EDUC 299 (Aut) - Introduction to Chicanx/Latinx Studies
CHILATST 180E, CSRE 180E (Win) - Public Policy Institute
CSRE 220 (Aut) - Semiotics for Ethnography
ANTHRO 366W (Win) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win)
2017-18 Courses
- Introduction to Chicanx/Latinx Studies
CHILATST 180E, CSRE 180E (Spr) - Public Policy Institute
CSRE 220 (Aut) - Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Formations
ANTHRO 320A, CSRE 389A, EDUC 389A, LINGUIST 253 (Spr) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win)
- Equity and Schooling
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Samuel Maull, Marva Shalev Marom, Karoline Trepper -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Sunny Trivedi -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Abiya Ahmed -
Doctoral (Program)
Neida Ahmad, Brian Cabral, Chance Carpenter, CoCo Massengale, Victoria Melgarejo Vieyra, David Morales, Alexandros Orphanides, Alé Romero, Sunny Trivedi
All Publications
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Raciontologies: Rethinking Anthropological Accounts of Institutional Racism and Enactments of White Supremacy in the United States
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
2019
View details for DOI 10.1111/aman.13353
View details for Web of Science ID 000504832000001
- Looking like a language, sounding like a race: Raciolinguistic ideologies and the learning of Latinidad Oxford University Press, USA. 2019
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Bringing Race Into Second Language Acquisition
MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
2019; 103: 145–51
View details for DOI 10.1111/modl.12523
View details for Web of Science ID 000456092700012
- Language and Social Justice in Practice Routledge. 2018
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Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective
LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY
2017; 46 (5): 621–47
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0047404517000562
View details for Web of Science ID 000417284600001
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Deprovincializing Trump, decolonizing diversity, and unsettling anthropology
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
2017; 44 (2): 201–8
View details for DOI 10.1111/amet.12468
View details for Web of Science ID 000404546100002
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Diaspora and language
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MIGRATION AND LANGUAGE
2017: 330–46
View details for Web of Science ID 000446897500019
- Do you hear what I hear? Raciolinguistic ideologies and culturally sustaining pedagogies Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world 2017: 175-190
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Standardization, Racialization, Languagelessness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies across Communicative Contexts
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
2016; 26 (2): 162-183
View details for DOI 10.1111/jola.12116
View details for Web of Science ID 000383263500003
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Racializing language, regimenting Latinas/os: Chronotope, social tense, and American raciolinguistic futures
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
2016; 46: 106-117
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.langcom.2015.10.007
View details for Web of Science ID 000368204700009
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Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education
HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
2015; 85 (2): 7–29
View details for Web of Science ID 000356399900001
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Invited Forum: Bridging the "Language Gap"
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
2015; 25 (1): 66-86
View details for DOI 10.1111/jola.12071
View details for Web of Science ID 000354725800004
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Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
2015; 42 (1): 4–17
View details for DOI 10.1111/amet.12112
View details for Web of Science ID 000349898500002
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Rethinking Gaps Literacies and Languages in Participatory Cultures
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY
2015; 58 (5): 372–74
View details for DOI 10.1002/jaal.368
View details for Web of Science ID 000348862600004
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On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
2014; 116 (1): 146–59
View details for DOI 10.1111/aman.12069
View details for Web of Science ID 000333215100019