Gloria Vaquera specializes in Race and Ethnicity and Sociology of Education. She did her undergraduate work at Western Michigan University and received her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Mexico. Over the past 15 years, she has worked from various vantage points (community organizer, mentor, instructor, administrator, and researcher), on the issue of Latina/o educational attainment. Thus, her interest in this field is informed from first-hand experiences as well as traditional academic training.
Dr. Vaquera had been teaching full time at John Carroll University since 2004. She regularly teaches the following courses :
SC 101: Introduction to
Sociology |
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SC 255: Prejudice and Discrimination |
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SC 355: Comparative Race
and Ethnic Relations |
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SC 399: Latina/o Transnational
Experience |
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SC 460: Social Research
Methods |