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Racheal M. Banda, Ph.D.

Educational Credentials

• Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
• M.A., Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
• B.A., Graphic Design, St. Edward's University

Teaching Interests

Racheal Rothrock, Ph.D., specializes in cultural studies within education, providing her with an interdisciplinary, critical perspective as scholar and teacher educator. Her research focuses on issues of equity and justice through a sociospatial consideration of how "community" has been significant within the K-12 classroom and educational experiences of historically marginalized ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs.

Research Interests

Research draws upon critical sociospatial theories to take up issues of equity and justice within K-12 schooling and examine how "community" has been constructed and used.

Select Publications

• Banda, R. M. (2024). Seeing the Unseen: Critical Geospatial Mapping as a Pedagogical Tool to Center the Margins. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 26(1), 57–78. 
• Banda Rothrock, R. M. (2024). The “Community.” What is it Exactly? In L. Rychly (Ed.), What Do We Mean by That? Interrogating Familiar Expressions in Education. Myers Education Press.
• Banda, R. M. (2024). “This is an Injustice!”: A Story of Students’ Self-Advocacy Against Excessive Testing. Voices From the Middle, 31(4), 52-53. 10.58680/vm202431452
• Reyes, G., Banda (Rothrock), R. M., & Caldas, B. (2020). “We’re All in This Boat Together”: Latina/Chicana Embodied Pedagogies of Care. Journal of Latinos and Education, 1-16.