Judith Landeros

Judith Landeros

Teacher Education

Assistant Professor

Office:  LWH 3008
Phone:  (773) 442-4556
Email:  jlanderos2@neiu.edu
Office Hours:  Vary by semester

Expertise

Cultural Studies, Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Early Childhood Education, Intergenerational Pedagogies, Mexican American & Latiné Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies

BLBC 339: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Diverse Classrooms
BLBC 341: Methods of Teaching in Bilingual Classrooms
BLBC 439: Cultural Diversity in Our Schools
BLBC 441: Methods for Teaching Content in Bilingual Classrooms
ECED 303A: Child Development for Early Childhood Educators

Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) Fellow, 2026

New York University Arts & Science Faculty First Look Fellow, 2023

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2023

National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, 2022

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, 2009

Research Interests

My research interests are at the intersection of bilingual/multilingual education, traditional healing knowledges, and girl’s and women’s health education.

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction, University of Texas at Austin, 2025
Cultural Studies in Education Concentration
Dissertation: Towards a Cuerpo-Territorio Health Education: Intergenerational Stories of Girls, Women and Elders

M.S.Ed., Early Childhood Education, Dominican University, 2013
Bilingual/ESL Certification

B.S. in Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, 2011
2nd Major: Latinx Studies

Selected Publications

Urrieta, L., Landeros, J. (2024). ¡Until the land title is in myhands, the land is not sold!: Land, Violence, and Indigenous Survivance in Michoacán, Mexico. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal.

Barillas-Chón, D., Landeros, J., & Urrieta, L. (2024). Critical Latinx Indigeneities: Love Letters to Chicanx and Latinx Studies. Journal of Latinos and Education.

Flores, T., Harvey-Torres, R., LaFuente, C., Landeros, J. (2023). Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers. The Reading Teacher Journal.

Urrieta, L., Landeros, J. (2022). “Hacer el hombre mas hombre”: Fundamental education, deficit perspectives, gender, and Indigenous survivance in Central Mexico. Comparative Education Review.

Barillas-Chón, D., Montes, P, Landeros, J. (2021). Presencing while absent: Indigenous Latinxs and education. In Handbook of Latinos and Education.

Landeros, J., Montes, P., Muñiz, J., Urrieta, L. (2020). Collective strength and agency: How El Paso Strong/Firme disrupts hate, fear, and white nationalism in the borderLands. In Disrupting Hate in Education: Teacher Activists, Democracy and
Global Pedagogies of Interruption.

Landeros, J. (2020). Story Weaving: Tejidos de Conocimientos que nos Conectan alTerritorio. In L. J. Pentón Herrera & E. T. Trịnh (Eds.), Critical Storytelling: Multilingual Immigrants in the United States. Sense Publishers.