Saul Barrera is a doctoral student in the Cultural Studies of Education program at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. His research focuses on Mexican and Mexican American identity, Mexican American theories, and resistance as an agency. Saul serves as a Graduate Assistant for the Terry Scholars and Dean of Students and as an Academic Support Specialist in Athletics. He has co-authored publications on culturally relevant social studies and resistance strategies in education and has received several prestigious scholarships, including the Bascombe Royall and Frances Fallon Fuller Scholarship and the Richard A. Porky Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Teacher Education. Saul holds an M.A. in Psychology from Carlow University and a B.S. in Psychology from Union Commonwealth University, Kentucky. A proud Chicano from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Latinx Critical Race Theory, Folk Knowledge, Mexican American Theories, Latino Men, Resistance, Agency
Graduate Assistant, Terry Scholars, Dean of Students(2024 - Present)
Academic Support Specialist, Athletics, (2024 - Present)
Graduate Assistant/Mentoring Site Coordinator, Project Males, College of Education(2023 - 2024)
Monreal, T., Tirado, J. & Barrera, S. (2024). De Los Abajos: Rasquache Movidas Toward Critical, Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Social Studies. Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Social Studies (pp. 211–223): Teachers College Press.
Monreal, T. & Barrera, S. (2024). We take your game and flip the script: Rasquache resistance against divide and conquer. Resisting divide and conquer strategies in education: Pathways and possibilities (pp. 225–242): Myers Education Press.
Bascombe Royall and Frances Fallon Fuller Scholarship, College of Education (2024)
Richard A Porky Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Teacher Education, College of Education (2024)
Equity Fellow, College of Education (2023)
Texas New Scholars Recruitment Fellowship, College of Education (2023)
Navigating Educational Systems: Embracing The Charismatic Rascal Mindset, Texas Association for Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE), Georgetown,TX (2025)
We Take Your Game and Flip the Script: Rasquache Resistance Against Divide and Conquer, American Education Studies Association (AESA), Greenville,SC (2024)
De Los Abajo:Rasquache Movidas Toward Critical, Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Social Studies, American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA. (2024)
Navigating Educational Systems: Embracing The Charismatic Rascal Mindset, presented at the Texas Leadership Scholars Program Conference hosted by The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (2024)
Navigating Educational Systems: Embracing The Charismatic Rascal Mindset, presented at the Texas Student Leadership Summit hosted by The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. (2024)
