OCCRL Staff and Affiliates
José Del Real Viramontes
Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside
José Del Real Viramontes is a Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Associate, in the Higher Education/Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a faculty affiliate with Project Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success (MALES) at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Cultural Studies in Education from the University of Texas at Austin. As a former community college transfer student, his research focuses on exploring the transfer receptive culture for Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x community college transfer students at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) and highlighting how Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x community college transfer students navigate and engage in the cultural production of the transfer receptive culture at PWIs.
Education
- Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction with Specialization in Cultural Studies in Education, University of Texas at Austin
- M.A., Curriculum and Instruction with Specialization in Cultural Studies in Education, University of Texas at Austin
- B.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies. University of California Los Angeles
- Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) Certified, Glendale Community College (CA)
Research Areas
- How Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x community college transfer students navigate and engage in the cultural production of the transfer receptive culture
- Transfer Receptive Culture for Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x community college students
- Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x students in the community college
- Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x transfer students
- Mentoring Chicana/o/x Latina/o/x students in higher education
Professional Associations
- Association for the Study of Higher Education
- American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
- American Educational Research Association
- American Educational Studies Association
- Association for the Study of Transfer Students
- National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
- National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
- Summer Institute for Latino Public Policy
- The Council for the Study of Community Colleges