Welcome!

We have been developing and implementing a Creative Resistance research curriculum with undergraduates at two universities since 2019. At UPR, we offer a two-course sequence that provides undergrads with an original and individualized research experience that is integrated, meaning that it combines the creativity of the humanities and the critical research skills and techniques of the social sciences with a social justice lens.

The results of some of that work, including articles published with the undergraduates, can be found in this special issue of QSE.

At University of Arizona, we teach a “Participatory Action Research in Schools and Communities” class (TLS 418/518), which is a one semester course in which undergrads and grad students learn about PAR.

• Training in Creative Resistance pedagogy
• Collaboration with schools and postsecondary institutions to develop and implement Creative Resistance curricula
• Consulting with Hispanic Serving InstitutionsHSIs and MSIs and PWIs to transform their curriculum to enhance HSI servingness to meet the needs of diverse student populations
• Grant writing expertise

• We are a multi-institutional team of college and university scholars in fields ranging from education to cultural anthropology to sociology to higher education who also have experience as K-12 teachers with extensive knowledge of how to work as teachers and action-oriented researchers in under-resourced schools and communities in national and international contexts and with lower income students from underrepresented populations. We also have experience in translating and sharing academic expertise through arts-based outlets like public media and performance art, including radio, theater, poetry, and podcasts. Our combined expertise helps us to offer a unique integrated arts-based teaching and research program of inquiry.
• Together, we have implemented and supervised major grant-funded projects totaling more than $6 million.