Faculty Directory
Gabrielle Oliveira
Assistant Professor
Gabrielle Oliveira
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 115
Telephone: 617-552-8486
Email: gabrielle.oliveira@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado
- M.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Interests
Immigrant education across the globe with a focus on early childhood and K-12; Transnational motherhood and global parenting and the impacts on education achievement and school experience; Gender and education: how culture and identity influence education experiences in the US
Expertise
- Bilingualism & Immigration
Department
TESpECI Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Biography
Gabrielle Oliveira’s research focuses on immigration and mobility—on how people move, adapt, and parent across borders. Her expertise includes gender, anthropology, transnationalism, and bilingualism with a concentration on Latin America.
Merging the fields of anthropology and education through ethnographic work in multiple countries, Oliveira also studies the educational trajectories of immigrant and first-generation children.
Oliveira received her bachelor’s degree in her native Brazil and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, where she was also a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation.
Oliveira has served as a tutor and teacher of English and financial literacy for Latin American immigrants. She is a current manuscript reviewer at the Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education and the Journal of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She is also the co-founder of the group Colectiva Infancias, which develops free courses on the sociology and anthropology of children and migration in Latin America.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- (Forthcoming June 2018). “Motherhood Across Borders: Mexican Immigrants and their Children in Mexico and in New York City”. NYU Press.
- (Forthcoming). Bartlett, Lesley, Oliveira, Gabrielle & Ungemah, Lori. “Cruel Optimism:Migration and Schooling for Dominican Newcomer Immigrant Youth”. Anthropology and Education Quarterly. NYU Press. Box 115, 525 120th Street, New York, New York 10027 - 212-678-3190
- Michel, Sonya & Gabrielle Oliveira. (2017). “The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers”Chapter in Michel, Sonya & Ergas, Yasmin, eds. Reassembling Motherhood . New York: Columbia University Press.
- Oliveira, Gabrielle. (2017). “Caring for Your Children: How Immigrant Mothers ExperienceCare and the Ideals of Motherhood”. Chapter in Michel, Sonya & Peng, Ito. 2017. Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care.: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. Palgrave McMillan
- Oliveira, Gabrielle. (2017). "Between Mexico and New York City: Transnational Educational Aspirations and Social Trajectories of Separated Siblings" (Manuscript ID 0831). Anthropology and Education Quarterly.
- Anzures, Aldo, Rodrigo Mayorga, Gabrielle Oliveira, Lesley Bartlett, Cynthia Carvajal-Montes, Chelsea Kallery and Victoria Martinez-Martinez. 2016. “Negotiating Contradictions: Educación among Dominican Transnational Mothers in New York City”. Ethnography and Education. DOI:10.1080/17457823.2016.1253026.
- Bartlett, Lesley, Diana Rodriguez and Gabrielle Oliveira. 2015. “Migration and education: Sociocultural Perspectives”. Educação e Pesquisa., São Paulo, v.4.
Book Chapters
- Michel, Sonya and Gabrielle Oliveira. (forthcoming).“The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers”. In Sonya Michel and Ito Peng’s edited volume: Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. Palgrave- McMillan
- Oliveira, Gabrielle. 2013. “The Consequences of Mexican Maternal Migration on Children Left Behind.” Chapter in Bartlett, Lesley and Ghaffar-Kucher, Ameena, eds. Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion. New York: Routledge Press.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2015 Dissertation Finalist Council of Anthropology and Education – American Anthropological Association.
2013-2014 National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship.
2013 Summer Teaching Fellowship at Columbia University for class development: “Gender, Education and Development”.
2012 Cordier Fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
2012-2013 Teaching and Diversity Fellowship, Teachers College, Columbia University.
2012-2013 Dean’s Doctoral Research Fellowship, Teachers College, Columbia University.
2012 Dissertation Grant, The Myra Sadker Foundation.
2011-2012 International Student Grant, Department of International and Transcultural Studies and Teachers College, Columbia University.
2011 Research Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University Mexico and New York City.
2010-2011 Dean’s Research Grant, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.
2010 Research Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University Puebla and Hidalgo, Mexico.