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.

• Fulbright Scholar Award - Fulbright (04/25/2025)
• External Evaluators Board of Directors, Member- - Vicerectorate of Research- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (11/07/2017)
• Outstanding 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 music en la frontera: Translanguaging and multimodal assemblages in a community-based violin education program Language and Education (2025), Maria T. De La Piedra, Sarah J. Johnson.
• 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.

• Learning music en la frontera: Translanguaging and multimodal assemblages in a community-based violin education program. (2024), Volume Tampa, FL, Maria T. De La Piedra.
• El translenguaje como una práctica bilingüe hacia la equidad en el salón de música. Paper presented at the , Bogotá, Colombia. (2024), Volume Bogota, Colombia, Maria T. De La Piedra.
• Translanguaging and Equity en las Fronteras (2023), Volume El Paso, Maria T. De La Piedra, Katherine Mortimer, Daniel B. Heiman, .
• 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.

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