Rossina Zamora Liu

Rossina Zamora Liu is an assistant professor in the Urban Education specialization at the University of Maryland. She has an MFA from the renown Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and a PhD from the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, both from The University of Iowa. As a critical race and publicly engaged literacy educator, writer, and ethnographic researcher, she has worked with local artists, musicians, film makers, and b-boys of Color on community-based projects; first-generation college student athletes; high-school/middle-school students in urban and rural communities; and community college students. She has facilitated art-based counterstorytelling workshops at homeless shelters, the Veterans Affairs, and various public literacy spaces. Her work focuses on antiracist, social justice education; systems of white supremacy and anti-Blackness in school and society; critical ethnographic methodologies; counterstorytelling in pedagogical and research methods; and cross-racial solidarity and coalition building among Asian American, Black, and non-Black communities. She received the J. Michael Parker Award from the Literacy Research Association for her ethnographic essay on humanizing the witnessing of trauma narratives. She is co-author of a forthcoming book Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege: A Racial-Spatical Framework for Psychology (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), a guest co-editor for a special issue, “Anti-Blackness in English Curriculum, Practice, and Culture,” in English Teaching: Practice & Critique (fall 2021), and a guest co-editor for a forthcoming special issue, “Race(ing) towards Futurity: Black and Latinx Youths’ Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies,” in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She is recipient of the 2021 College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award (University of Maryland) and the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award (University of Iowa). She is the elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and serves on the American Folklore Society Executive Board.  She is affiliate faculty of the Asian American Studies Program (UMD) and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (UMD).