Laura Alamillo

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About

Dean Alamillo is a scholar in the field of language, literacy and culture. She received her Ph.D. from the school of education at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to coming to Sonoma State, Dean Alamillo served two years as Interim Dean at Fresno State. Her service in the CSU system began in 2004 when she began as an Assistant Professor in the Language, Literacy, Bilingual and Special Education department. Dean Alamillo was instrumental in building graduate programs and key in supporting the teacher residencies in the Central Valley. She was responsible for starting one of the first bilingual, pre-schools offered at a CSU campus for children of student parents on campus. In addition to her work in the CSU system, Dean Alamillo published in 2018 a co-edited volume focusing on Chican@ children’s literature. 

Selected Publications & Presentations

Alamillo, L., Herrera, C., & Mercado-Lopez, L., Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's Literature, 2018, Rowman & Littlefield.

Herrera, L.Y., Soltero López, A.K., López, P.D., Alamillo, L., Noel, J., Cintrón, J., Berta-Avila, M., Figueroa-Ramírez, K., & Allender, D. (2022). Growing and nurturing future Latinx teachers in California, Hispanic serving institutions. In C.D. Gist & T.J. Bristol (Eds.), Handbook of research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers. American Educational Research Association.

Billen, M., Soltero López, A. K., Hart, S., Wahleithner, J. M., Horsley, H., Alamillo, L. If we want culturally sustaining teachers, we must be culturally sustaining teacher educators: Modeling culturally sustaining pedagogy in a teacher education residency program. Helfrich, S. R. & Hartman, S. L. (Eds.). Exemplary Clinical Models of Teacher Education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.