I am a Peruvian educational anthropologist. I joined the faculty at UTEP in 2004. Prior to that (2000-2004), I worked in the Programa de Educacion Intercultural Bilingue en Escuelas Rurales Cercanas a la Ciudad implemented by the Asociacion Pukllasunchis in rural and Quechua-speaking communities in the Peruvian Andes (Cusco, Peru). I completed a Ph.D in Multilingual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.

• External Evaluators Board of Directors, Member- - Vicerectorate of Research- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (11/07/2017)
• Otstanding Service as Chair of the Department of Teacher Education - UTEP, College of Education (05/15/2015)
• Excellence in Scholarship - College of Education, UTEP (05/01/2010-05/31/2010)
• Excellence in Teaching - College of Education, UTEP (05/01/2008-05/31/2008)
• Outstanding Dissertation Award - Council of Anthropology and Education (12/01/2005-12/31/2005)
• University Fellowship - University of Texas at Austin (01/01/2001-12/31/2001)
• University Fellowship - University of Texas at Austin (01/01/1999-12/31/1999)
• University Tuition Fellowship - University of Texas at Austin (01/01/1998-12/31/1998)
• Good Neighbor Scholarship - University of Texas at Austin (01/01/1997-12/31/1997)
• Good Neighbor Scholarship - University of Texas at Austin (01/01/1996-12/31/1996)

• Ph D in Multilingual Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2003)
• MA in Curriculum Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1998)
• BA in Social Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1994)

• Learning about translanguaging in two bilingual teacher preparation programs Language and Education (2023), Blanca E. Araujo, Maria T. De La Piedra, Alberto Esquinca.
• Emergent Bilinguals’ Participation in Multilingual Engineering Learning Ecologies Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (2023), Alberto Esquinca, Maria T. De La Piedra, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Engineering Design in Dual Language: How Teachers Leveraged Biliteracy Practices to Add Engineering Disciplinary Literacy Practices Bilingual Research Journal (2021), Alberto Esquinca, Maria T. De La Piedra.
• Mexican-heritage children’s learning of ballet folklórico: Herencia, familia, y orgullo Anthropology and Education Quarterly (2021), Sarah J. Johnson, Maria T. De La Piedra, Alejandra Sanmiguel Lopez, Maria Perez.
• Translanguaging and other forms of capital of transfronterizxs in DL programs: Lessons from la frontera. Multilingual Matters (2021), Maria T. De La Piedra, Alberto Esquinca.
• Maestras transfronterizas Peter Lang (2021), Maria T. De La Piedra, Blanca E. Araujo.
• Understanding the Latinx Experience: Developmental and Contextual Influences Teachers College Record (2019), Maria T. De La Piedra, Blanca Araujo.
• Cruzar Fronteras em espaços acadêmicos: Transgressing “the limits of translanguaging.” Applied Linguistics Review (2019), Brendan O'Connor, Katherine Mortimer, Bartlett Lesley, Maria T. De La Piedra, Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes, Gabriela Novaro, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Char Ullman.

• Translanguaging and Equity en las Fronteras (2023), Volume El Paso, Maria T. De La Piedra, Katherine Mortimer, Daniel B. Heiman, .
• La mariposita ¿Lo recuerda?: Metaphoric storytelling and the affective and moral dimensions of professional vision (2023), Volume Chicago, IL, Sarah J. Johnson, Maria T. De La Piedra, Alejandra Sanmiguel López, Claudia Saldaña.
• “¿Una gallina miss?”: Bilingual storytelling and touch as a pedagogical structure in young children’s learning of the violin (2022), Volume Seattle, Sarah J. Johnson, Maria T. De La Piedra, Claudia Saldana Corral, Alejandra Sanmiguel López.
• Embodied and multilingual pedagogies for children’s cultural learning in ballet folklórico (2021), Volume Baltimore, MD, Sarah Jean Johnson, María Teresa de la Piedra, Alejandra Sanmiguel-López, María Pérez-Piza.
• Transcultural Production of Schooling among Transfronterizx Students (2019), Volume Boston, MA, Maria T. De La Piedra, Christina Convertino.
• Border-crosser’s expertise: Testimonios of exclusion, inclusion, and agency that span national borders (2019), Volume Boston, Maria T. De La Piedra.
• Transcultural production of schooling among transfronterizxs. (2019), Volume Boston, Maria T. De La Piedra, .
• Educating across borders. Keynote address. (2019), Volume El Paso, TX, Maria T. De La Piedra.

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