Rate My Professor Erika Doran

Erin Doran, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) College of Education, a position she assumed in 2024, and she also serves as Program Coordinator for the Doctoral Program. A Tejana born and raised in El Paso, Texas, she earned her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2015, M.A. in History in 2008, and B.A. in History in 2006. Her professional career includes an appointment as Associate Professor at Iowa State University School of Education from 2016 to 2024, where she earned tenure in 2022. Earlier roles encompass adjunct instructor at Northeast Lakeview College from 2009 to 2016, and positions such as undergraduate Orientation Leader and Supplemental Instruction Leader at UTSA's Tomas Rivera Center for Student Success.

Dr. Doran's academic interests and research specializations encompass Latinx students' experiences in community colleges, especially those in developmental education, community college faculty teaching and professional development, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. An engaged scholar, she belongs to the Council for the Study of Community Colleges, Association for the Study of Higher Education, and American Educational Research Association. Her contributions have earned accolades such as the NASPA Community Colleges Division Research and Scholarship Community College Award (2024), Barbara K. Townsend Emerging Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (2022), Best Paper Award from AERA's Online Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (2022), Council for the Study of Community Colleges Dissertation of the Year Award (2016), and Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award from the Association for Institutional Research (2014), with grant support from the National Science Foundation and Spencer Foundation. Key publications include forthcoming "Histories of Hispanic-serving institutions in digitized archives" (American Historical Review, 2026, co-authored with Kevin Bazner), "Selena epistemology and survival in the academy" (University of Texas Press, 2026, co-authored with Cristobal Salinas), "Role Mapping as a Tool for Reflection: Unexpected Faculty Development Insights from Community College Faculty" (Journal of Faculty Development, 2025, co-authored with Amanda Latz and Zoe Thornton), and works in Race Ethnicity and Education, The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, College Composition and Communication, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College. She contributes to the field as an editorial board member for The Review of Higher Education, Community College Review, The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, and New Directions for Community Colleges, and Associate Editor for The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Her scholarship is cited 857 times on Google Scholar.