College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Roberto Orozco

  • Assistant Professor

Roberto Orozco

Areas of interest

QTPOC in higher education
Jotería studies
Chicana Latina feminist methodologies
College student activism
College student development

Degrees

Ph.D., Higher Education, Rutgers University–New Brunswick (Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)
M.S., Higher Education, Florida State University
B.S., Marketing and International Business, Iowa State University
B.S., Psychology, Iowa State University

Biography

Profile

My research explores questions around race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality with relation to college student activism and student development, queer resistance and queer worldmaking in and outside of higher education contexts. I ground my work at the intersection of Jotería Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Chicana Latina Feminisms to examine the identity and socio-political consciousness of queer Latinx/a/o student activists in higher education. I am particularly interested in how queer Latinx/a/o college students engage in forms of resistance that allow for self-development and consciousness raising while building queer kinships and material possibilities rooted in community. 

Honors and Recognition

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Graduate School of Education Alumni Association’s Evelyn Headley Award for Outstanding Dissertation (2023)
  • American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Dissertation Competition, 2nd place, (2023)
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Ford Foundation (2021)
  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University and Louis Bevier Fellowship (2020)
  • American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Graduate Fellow (2020)

Professional Affiliations

  • Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
  • Association of Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship (AJAAS)
  • American Education Research Association (AERA)
  • National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)
  • National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS)
  • American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)
Publications

Pulido, G., Orozco, R., Gonzalez, S., Gonzalez, A., Duran, A., Serrano, B., Cataño, Y., Ortiz, G., & Santos Mendoza, G. (2024). The story of the Queer and Trans Latinx Higher Education: Revealing the power of the group using queer pláticas. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Orozco, R.C. (2024). Entre ser y no ser: Identity development negotiations of queer Latinx/a/o college student activists. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

Orozco, R.C., Duran, A., & Pulido, G. (2023). Creando mundos y futuros de Jotería: Ofrendas of queertorship for and by queer and trans Latinx/a/o people. Journal of Latinos and Education.https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2023.2268732

Camacho Jr., L., Sanchez, B., Abeyta, M., Gonzalez, S., Gonzalez, A., Orozco, R.C., Camarillo, N., Rodriguez, A., & Cataño, Y. (2023). Survival pláticas of Latinx/a/o scholars during a global pandemic. Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice.

Orozco, R.C. (2023). The Sense of Brown by Jose Esteban Muñoz (review). American Studies, 62(1-2), 171-172.

Gonzalez, A., Orozco, R.C., Gonzalez, S. (2023). Joteando y mariconadas: Theorizing queer pláticas for queer and/or trans Latinx/a/o research. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2023.2181433