Biography
Ramón Antonio MartÃnez is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø University. His research explores the intersections of language, race, and ideology in K-12 public schools, with a particular focus on literacy learning among multilingual children and youth, and the preparation of teachers to work in multilingual settings. In addition to his long-term, community-engaged, and ethnographically informed research, Dr. MartÃnez actively supports pre-service teachers through his ongoing work in the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Teacher Education Program (STEP). His scholarship has been published in journals such as Anthropology & Education Quarterly, International Multilingual Research Journal, Language Policy, Linguistics and Education, Modern Language Journal, Research in the Teaching of English, and Review of Research in Education. Dr. MartÃnez earned his Ph.D. from the Division of Urban Schooling in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Other titles
Program affiliations
CTE
CTE: Literacy, Language, and English Education
SHIPS (PhD)
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
SHIPS (PhD): Anthropology of Education
SHIPS (PhD): Educational Linguistics
(MA) STEP
º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Achievement | Diversity and Identity | Educational Policy | Immigrants and Immigration | Literacy and Language | Poverty and Inequality | Sociology | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Ahmad, N. B., & Martinez, R. A. (2025). Reproduction or reinvention: whither the bilingual renaissance? INTERNATIONAL MULTILINGUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL.
Martinez, R. A. (2024). On the necessity (and insufficiency) of ethnographic perspectives: Towards an inter-scalar approach to research on " academic language" ". LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION, 84.
Munoz-Munoz, E. R., Martinez, R. A., & Rosa, J. (2024). Misma Direccion, Distinto Sentido: Reconceptualizing Problems and Possibilities in Educational Language Learning. EQUITY IN MULTILINGUAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES, 143, 100–111.