Student - College of Education

Angela Maria Villamizar

Assistant Instructor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Field Supervisor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction, Bilingual/Bicultural Education, University of Texas at Austin, expected 2027
M.Ed. in Education, University of Notre Dame, 2021
B.A. in International Relations/Non-Governmental Organizations & Social Change, University of Southern California, 2019

Email: avillamizar@utexas.edu
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Angela Maria Villamizar is a 4th year doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, studying Bilingual/Bicultural Education. She received her BA in International Relations and Non-Governmental Organizations & Social Change from the University of Southern California and earned her Master's in Education from the University of Notre Dame. Originally from Chicago, Angela has taught in bilingual and monolingual elementary, high school, and undergraduate classroom settings in Texas and California. Her research interests include the development of the bilingual/bicultural identities of K-6 students and teachers in the United States and the connection between care and activism in the bilingual classroom. The daughter of immigrants from Colombia and the Philippines, Angela is committed to embracing a human-centered, anti-racist liberatory lens in her scholarship.

Cinthia S Salinas (Supervisor)
Dr. Salinas is a member of the Social Studies Education program area and is an affiliate faculty member in the Bilingual/Bicultural and the Cultural Studies in Education program areas. Her focus in the social studies includes critical historical inquiry in elementary bilingual and secondary education late arrival immigrant ESL classroom settings, as well as broader understandings of citizenship. Her work also examines social studies teachers' enactment/countering of curriculum through narratives that include civic identities, agency,...

Paty Abril-Gonzalez (Committee Member)
Studies long-term relationships with Latinx bilingual students and teachers using arts-based biliteracy approaches to affirm and amplify silenced perspectives, build connections, and develop bilingualism and biculturalism.

Carlos Nicolas Gómez Marchant (Committee Member)
Investigates intersections of race, language, and mathematics through the experiences of Latinx students learning and doing mathematics.

Valdivia Rodríguez, M. & Villamizar, A. (2026). A Bilingual Literacy Program for Rural Women in Peru. Literacy pedagogies in global contexts: Indigenous, translingual and cross-cultural perspectives: Information Age Publishing.

Kowalski, M. J., Lichon, K., Villamizar, A. M. T. & Corpora, F. J. (2025). The Impact of the Church Sexual Abuse Crisis: Pastor Perceptions and Responses. SN Social Sciences.

Villamizar, A. (2023). Review of the book "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black & Latinx Literatures". E3W Review of Books, 23.

Lichon, K., Moreno, I., Villamizar, A. M. & Arana, K. (2022). Fortalecer Raíces y Formar Alas: Empowerment, Advancement, and Retention of Latinx Educators and Leaders in Catholic Schools. Journal of Catholic Education, 25(2), 44–64.