Dr. Erika Mein is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Education and Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research focus on disciplinary literacies in secondary and postsecondary contexts, with a particular emphasis on the literacies and identity development of emergent bilingual and Latinx students.

• Ph D in Reading/Writing/Literacy, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• BA in History, University of Virginia (1998)

• Asset-based strategies for engagement and belonging at an open-access, research-intensive Hispanic-Serving Institution Routledge (2023), Erika L. Mein, Luis Rodriguez.
• Shifting Pre-Calculus from Gatekeeper to Gateway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Mathematics Association of America MAA Notes 96 (2023), Elsa Y. Villa, Lawrence M. Lesser, Erika L. Mein.
• Identity and Persistence among Latinx Engineering Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (2022), Erika Mein, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• The uses of engineering notebooks among pre-engineering students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 66 2 (2022), Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino.
• The affordances and constraints of social networks among Latina engineering students (2021), Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Elsa Y. Villa, Angelica Monarrez.
• Identity capital and persistence among Latinx engineering/Computer Science undergraduates on the US-Mexico border. Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (American Society for Engineering Education) (2021), Erika L. Mein, Al Esquinca, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• Latinx students’ sense of belonging in Engineering and Computer Science at an HSI Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (American Society for Engineering Education) (2021), Alberto Esquinca, Erika L. Mein, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• Latina undergraduates in engineering/computer science on the US-Mexico border: Identity, social capital, and persistence (2020), Erika L. Mein, Helena Mucino Guerra, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Building a pathway to engineering: Identities and discourses of Mexican and Mexican-origin college students Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 19 1 (2020), Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Angelica Monarrez, Claudia Saldana Corral.
• Key sociocultural influences shaping Latinx students’ pathways to engineering/CS: An ethnographic lens American Society for Engineering Education (2019), Erika L. Mein, Helena Mucino Guerra.

• Strengthening the Hispanic Teacher Pipeline through Region-Wide Partnerships (2022), Erika Mein, Joyce Asing-Cashman, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Teacher Preparation for Emergent Bilinguals (2022), Erika Mein, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Leveraging assets to overcome barriers: Latinx persistence in engineering/CS (2021), Volume Virtual, Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• University of Texas El Paso and El Paso Independent School District: Sustainable + Affordable Teacher Residency (2020), Volume Virtual, Clifton S. Tanabe, Erika L. Mein, Tamekia Brown.
• Community college-university partners in teacher preparation: EPCC and UTEP (2020), Volume Virtual, Erika L. Mein, Castanon-Williams Isela, Alyse Hachey, Joyce G. Asing Cashman, Haley Richardson.
• Findings from a Pre-Calculus Intervention to Shift Pre-Calculus to a Gateway Course (2020), Elsa Y. Villa, Maria C. Mariani, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Nada F. Al-Hanna.
• Latinx persistence in undergraduate engineering/CS: Identity and institutional resources (2020), Volume [canceled], Erika L. Mein, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• Using an identity lens to explore Latinx pathways into and through STEM (2020), Volume [canceled], Erika L. Mein.
• Examining the Integration of Cooperative Learning into a College-Level Pre-Calculus Workshop on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2019), Volume Toronto, CA, Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Elsa Y. Villa, Sarah Hugs, McKay Mike.

• Augustus F. Hawkins Center of Excellence for Hispanic Teacher Preparation at UTEP: Strengthening the Hispanic Teacher Pipeline through Systems-Level Transformation (US Department of Education Hawkins Program)
• UTEP's Miner Teacher Residency and Mentorship Program: Providing High-Quality Preparation and Induction for Latinx Teachers to Serve Students of Color (US Department of Education TQP)
• Grow Your Own Teacher Preparation Program (El Paso Community Foundation)
• Raising Texas Teachers Partner Program (Charles Butt Foundation)
• New Teacher Mentorship Pilot Program (El Paso Community Foundation)
• University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Teacher Preparation (US PREP/Gates Foundation)
• Broadening Participation in Engineering: A Qualitative Study of Latino/a Persistence in and Beyond the Degree (National Science Foundation)