Dr. Erika Mein is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Educator Preparation in the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso, and Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education. 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 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• BA in History, University of Virginia (1998)

• Shifting PreCalculus from Gatekeeper to Gateway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Mathematics Association of America (in press), Elsa Y. Villa, Lawrence M. Lesser, Erika L. Mein.
• 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.
• Latinx Students' Transition to College: When Readiness Meets Barriers Journal of Latinos and Education (2018), Christina Convertino, Erika L. Mein, .
• The role of bilingualism in shaping engineering literacies and identities Theory into Practice 56 4 (2017), Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca.
• Bridgework: Diversity and collaboration in an undergraduate pre-engineering course Mind, Culture, and Activity 24 4 (2017), Christina Convertino, Erika L. Mein.
• Academic biliteracy in college: borderland undergraduate engineering students’ mobilization of semiotic resources. In Academic biliteracies: Multilingual repertoires in higher education. Multilingual Matters (2017), Alberto Esquinca, Erika L. Mein, Elsa Y. Villa, Angelica Monarrez.

• 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.
• Words and Actions Matter: An Asset-Based Approach to Student Success (2020), Volume Virtual, Erika L. Mein, Luis Rodriguez.
• 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.
• Transforming Student Learning in Pre-Calculus at a Hispanic Serving Institution on the U.S.-Mexico Border. (2018), Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino, Elsa Y. Villa, Alberto Esquinca, Diana Camberos, Helena Mucino.
• Building a pathway to engineering: Identities and discourses of Mexican and Mexican-origin college students (2016), Volume Washington D.C., Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Angelica Monarrez, Claudia Saldana Corral.
• Understanding the embodied experience of crossing: “La Migra” in a freshman pre-engineering course (2016), Volume Washington D.C., Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino.
• Promising instructional practices with transfronterizo/a (border-crossing) students in higher education (2016), Volume El Paso, TX, Erika L. Mein.

• New Teacher Mentorship Pilot Program
• University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Teacher Preparation
• Broadening Participation in Engineering: A Qualitative Study of Latino/a Persistence in and Beyond the Degree
• Developing Metacognitive Learners to Persist and Achieve Timely Completion of Engineering