Maria Malagón, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR
VICE CHAIR OF SOCIOLOGY
(She/Her/Ella)
CONTACT INFORMATION
mmalagon@fullerton.edu
Voice: 657-278-8364
Fax:657-278-2001
Dept: 657-278-3531
DEGREES
2011, Ph.D., Social Sciences & Comparative Education, University of California, Los Angeles
2005, M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
2004, B.A, University of California, Irvine
Languages
Conversational in Spanish
BIOGRAPHY
Maria C. Malagón is the daughter of Mexican migrants and grew up in Buena Park. She received her Ph.D in 2011 in Social Sciences and Comparative Education, specializing in Race and Ethnic Studies at UCLA and completed a postdoctoral position with UC/ACCORD’s Pathways to Postsecondary Success project in 2013. From 2010-2015, she was an adjunct faculty in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department here at CSUF. Her research interests examine various segments along the Latina/o educational pipeline, specifically by using feminist analysis to interrogate how discourses of racialized femininities and masculinities manifest in educational policy and practice. She has a professional background in gender education programs, high school outreach, and juvenile “delinquency” prevention and intervention programs. Her published work can be found in several education, social justice and legal studies journals. She is currently working on a book that explores the experiences of Mexican American girls in a California reformatory school during the 1940s. Dr. Malagón has a very strong commitment to teaching and to students. Her teaching philosophy and style revolves around a social justice informed pedagogy. She sets high expectations for academic rigor and engagement, encouraging and supporting critical thinking by developing a curricular and pedagogical practice that draws from diverse lived experiences.
RESEARCH AREAS
Chicana and Women of Color Feminist Epistemologies
Critical Race Theory & Latina/o Critical Theory
Racialized Masculinities in Education
Remedial and Alternative Education
Sociology of Education
Urban Youth Identity and Resistance
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Sociology of Education
Writing for Sociology Students
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Calderon, D., D. Delgado Bernal, L. Perez Huber, M.Malagón, V. Velez. (2012). A Chicana feminist epistemology in education revisited: Building on ideas a generation later.” Harvard Educational Review, 82(4), 513-539.
Oseguera, L. & M. Malagón (2011). For-profit colleges and universities and the Latina/o students who enroll in them. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 10(1), 66-91.
Malagón, M. & C. Alvarez. (2010). Scholarship girls aren’t the only Chicanas that go to college: Former Chicana continuation high school students disrupting the educational achievement Binary. Harvard Educational Review, 80(2), 149-173.
Malagón, M. (2010). All the losers go there:Challenging the deficit educational discourse of Chicano racialized masculinity in a continuation high school. The Journal of Educational Foundations, 24(1/2), 59-76.
Malagón, M., L. Perez Huber, V. Velez. (2009). Our experiences, our methods: Using ‘grounded theory’ to inform a critical race theory methodology in educational research.” Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 8(1).
Perez Huber, L. C. Benavides Lopez, M. Malagón, V. Velez, D. Solórzano. (2008). Getting beyond the ‘symptom,’ acknowledging the ‘disease’: Theorizing racist nativism.” Contemporary Justice Review, 11(1), 39-51.
Perez Huber, L., & M. Malagón. (2007). “Silenced struggles: The experiences of Latina and Latino undocumented college students in California.” Nevada Law Journal, 7(3), 841-861.
Reports Published
Malagón, M., L.Alonso, R.N. Johnson, Y.L. Shek (2013). Inside the basic skills classroom: The student experience in California community college developmental education. Pathways to Postsecondary Success. UC/ACCORD Policy Report. Number 12
Perez Huber, L., M. Malagón, D. Solorzano. (2009). Struggling for opporutnity: Undocumented AB540 students in the Latina/o education pipeline. 2009 Latina/o Education Summit Report. CSRC Research Report. Number 13.
Perez Huber, L., O. Huidor, M. Malagón, G. Sanchez, D. Solórzano. (2006). Falling through the cracks: Critical transitions in the Latina/o educational pipeline. 2006 Latina/o Education Summit Report. CSRC Research Report. Number 7.