Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today's Teachers (PDF)

Lata Murti is Associate Professor of Sociology for Brandman University, and winner of the 2015 Brandman Faculty of the Year Award. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California in 2010. Her dissertation, With and Without the White Coat: The Racialization of Southern California's Indian Physicians, won the 2015 Dissertation.Com Annual Excellence Award and has been published as both an electronic and paperback book. Dr. Murti has also published several peer-reviewed articles as well as creative and online pieces, including an article on men in early childhood education for the American Sociological Association.

Glenda M. Flores is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino studies (w/courtesy Sociology) at the University of California, Irvine. Her areas of expertise include Latina/o Sociology, Work and Occupations, Middle-Class Minorities, the Intersection of Race, Gender and Class, Education, and Qualitative Methods. Her ethnographic investigation of Latina professionals, in particular Latina teachers, has been published in Qualitative Sociology, City and Community, Ethnography and Gender, and Work and Organization. She has also published on Latinos in STEM in Latino Studies and for the IBM Corporation. Her book, Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture was published by NYU Press.