Honors & Awards

  • EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship, Stanford University (2024)
  • RISE: Representation, Inclusion, Support and Empowerment Fellowship, NAFSA: Association of International Educators (2023)
  • Sociology Field Group Honors Senior Thesis, Pitzer College (2016)
  • Undergraduate Research Fellowship, American Education Research Association (2016)
  • Jill Ford Harmon Endowed Scholarship, Pitzer College (2014)
  • Arnaldo Rodriguez Scholarship, Pitzer College (2012)
  • Evan Foster Scholarship, Pitzer College (2012)

Education & Certifications

  • M.A., Claremont Graduate University, Higher Education & Student Affairs (2018)
  • B.A., Pitzer College, Sociology (2016)

Contact

  • Academic
    mjme@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Graduate School of Education Position: Graduate

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 3096

All Publications

  • Critical Survey Research HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH Perez, W., Espinoza, R., Melendrez, M., Young, M. G., Diem, S. 2024: 612-629

    View details for DOI 10.4324/9781003141464-36

    View details for Web of Science ID 001069399500037

  • Learning How to Drive: Rites of Passage in Being and Becoming (A Collaborative Autoethnography <i>Not Just About Driving</i>) CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES Alexander, B., Carroll, J., Perez, W., Melendrez, M., Flaherty, J., Espinoza, R., DeSilva, C., Axtell, J. 2023; 23 (4): 354-373

    View details for DOI 10.1177/15327086231162073

    View details for Web of Science ID 000967562400001

  • Undocumented American Students: How Fear of Deportation and Societal Marginalization Complicate Their Identity Pathways Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education Perez, W., Melendrez, M. J., Espinoza, R. 2020: 66-74