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Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Mel M. Engman
Queen's University Belfast
2
Camilo Andrés Rodríguez-Nieto
University of the Coast
3
Verónica Vázquez Vidal
Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo
4
Grace A. Gomashie
Western University
5
David W. Barillas Chón
University of Northern Colorado
6
Mariano Esteban Romero Torres
Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
7
Nuria Ciófalo
Pacifica Graduate Institute
8
Cecilia Padilla‐Iglesias
University of Zurich
9
Melissa Mesinas
Scripps College
10
José María López Valdez
Liupanshui Normal University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers
Nature Human Behaviour|2024
35 cit.
2
Onto-semiotic analysis of Colombian engineering students’ mathematical connections to problems-solving on vectors: A contribution to the natural and exact sciences
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education|2024
15 cit.
3
Educación inclusiva e integración en las escuelas normales públicas y privadas de México
Revista Científica de Salud y Desarrollo Humano|2024
14 cit.
4
Mathematical connections promoted in multivariable calculus’ classes and in problems-solving about vectors, partial and directional derivatives, and applications
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education|2025
7 cit.
5
Toward decolonial community psychologies from Abya Yala
American Journal of Community Psychology|2024
6 cit.
6
Naturaleza y papel de las conexiones en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las matemáticas
Avances de Investigación en Educación Matemática|2024
6 cit.
7
The potential of ethnomathematical and mathematical connections in the pre-service mathematics teachers’ meaningful learning when problems-solving about brick-making
Infinity Journal|2025
6 cit.
8
Adecuaciones Curriculares Al Plan De Estudios Para Fortalecer Las Competencias De Egreso Del Estudiante Normalista
Emergentes - Revista Científica|2024
5 cit.
9
Hunter–gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues
Evolutionary Human Sciences|2024
4 cit.
10
Critical Latinx Indigeneities: Love Letters to Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Journal of Latinos and Education|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Casey J. Roulette
Google (United States)
2
Andrew Dayton
University of California, Santa Cruz
3
Laurie Monti
University of Arizona
4
Marisa Elena Duarte
Arizona State University
5
Lucía Alcalá
California State University, Fullerton
6
Angélica López Fraire
University of California, Santa Cruz
7
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
Vigo (Poland)
8
Michaela ZieMendorff
Unknown
9
Anna Meiser
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Ecuador
10
María José Pastor Alfonso
University of Alicante

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Studying Executive Function in Culturally Meaningful Ways
Journal of Cognition and Development|2023
60 cit.
2
Examining raciolinguistic struggles in institutional settings: A duoethnography
Linguistics and Education|2022
59 cit.
3
Creating positive learning communities for diasporic indigenous students
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development|2022
52 cit.
4
Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions
British Journal of Developmental Psychology|2022
23 cit.
5
“You sway on the waves like a boat in the ocean”: The effects of interrupted education on Ukrainian higher education refugee students in Poland
Cogent Education|2023
17 cit.
6
Social-emotional learning in ESOL with ninth-grade newcomers
ELT Journal|2023
17 cit.
7
Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-19
Evolution Medicine and Public Health|2023
14 cit.
8
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home
Infant and Child Development|2022
11 cit.
9
Strength in storytelling: Peacebuilding via wordless books
TESOL Journal|2023
11 cit.
10
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping
Infant and Child Development|2023
11 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Barbara Rogoff
University of California, Santa Cruz
2
Artïn Göncü
University of Illinois Chicago
3
Nicolas Chevalier
University of Edinburgh
4
Frederick Erickson
University of California, Los Angeles
5
Patricia M. Greenfield
University of Hawaii System
6
Kendall A. King
University of Minnesota
7
Michael A. Little
Binghamton University
8
Patricia A. McAnany
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9
John Richard Stepp
University of Florida
10
Peter H. Raven
Missouri Botanical Garden

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION
Evolution|1964
3.8k cit.
2
Cultural Ways of Learning: Individual Traits or Repertoires of Practice
Educational Researcher|2003
2.1k cit.
3
Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution
Evolution|1964
1.8k cit.
4
Global State of Biodiversity and Loss
Annual Review of Environment and Resources|2003
1.3k cit.
5
Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental Movements
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|1974
1.3k cit.
6
ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS
Evolution|1971
1.2k cit.
7
General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology
American Anthropologist|1973
952 cit.
8
Firsthand Learning Through Intent Participation
Annual Review of Psychology|2002
924 cit.
9
Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2020
917 cit.
10
Developing understanding of the idea of communities of learners
Mind Culture and Activity|1994
915 cit.

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