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Eric Macias Professorial Lecturer SOE Faculty

Contact
Eric Macias
SOE | Online Partner Programs (OLP)
4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW 437
Spring Valley Building
Degrees
PhD, SUNY at Albany
MA, SUNY at Albany
BA, Le Moyne College

Bio
Eric Macias (He/Him/El) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on minoritized and illegalized youth who have been pushed-out of the educational pipeline. Dr. Macias received his PhD from the University at Albany (SUNY). His research and work often lay at intersection of migration and education. He is also interested in topics such as immigrant youth and families, urban education, anti-racist education, race and ethnicity, critical ethnography, alternative education, critical pedagogy, Latinx studies, and youth studies. Dr. Macias is currently working on a book manuscript about undocumented immigrant youth who left school and the challenges of navigating different illegalities and creating a sense of belonging and socio-emotional wellbeing despite their criminalization in and out of school settings.
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • EDU-734 Education Policy Analysis

  • EDU-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment

  • EDU-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment

Summer 2025

  • EDU-880 Dissertation of Practice Sem

Fall 2025

  • EDU-709 Developing Knowledge Review

  • EDU-798 Residency Seminar in Education

  • EDU-798 Residency Seminar in Education

  • EDU-798 Residency Seminar in Education