Rate My Professor Teresa McCarty

McCarty's research focuses on Indigenous education, critical sociocultural studies of language planning and policy, Indigenous and minoritized language reclamation, and the ethnography of education in and out of schools. She currently leads a multiyear U.S.-wide study of Indigenous-language immersion schooling as principal investigator, funded by the Spencer Foundation. Her contributions to the field are recognized through numerous awards, including election to the National Academy of Education in 2019, the American Educational Research Association 12th Annual Brown Lecture in 2015, AERA Fellow status in 2009, and the George and Louise Spindler Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education in 2010. Notable publications include the co-authored book “To Remain an Indian”: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (2006, with K. Tsianina Lomawaima), edited volumes such as A World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies, and Prospects for Language Reclamation (2019, with S.E. Nicholas and G. Wigglesworth) and The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy as Social Practice (2018, with A.E. Castagno), and her 2018 Educational Researcher article delivering the Brown Lecture, “So that any child may succeed—Indigenous pathways toward justice and the promise of Brown.” McCarty has also served in prominent editorial roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Anthropology and Education Quarterly (2001–2006) and co-editor of the Language, Education and Diversity Book Series (2019–present).