Limarys Caraballo

Limarys Caraballo is Assistant Professor of English Secondary Education at Queens College-CUNY and consortium faculty in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. As Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, she co-directs Cyphers for Justice, an intergenerational program that supports art, research, and activism with youth and preservice educators. Limarys’ research interests include students’ multiple identities and literacies, academic achievement, youth participatory action research, and preparing teachers to teach English in diverse sociocultural contexts. As a former English teacher, administrator, and consultant in public and private secondary schools, she is especially interested in culturally sustaining and socially-just literacy curricula and pedagogies. Her research focuses on reframing deficit conceptions of lower-income students of color and advancing the theory and development of curricula, pedagogies in K-12 and teacher education that support the multiple identities and literacies of minoritized students.  

Dr. Caraballo was a Cultivating New Voices among Researchers of Color Research Fellow of the National Council of Teachers of English and an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Research Fellow. She has received the AERA Curriculum Studies Outstanding Dissertation Award and the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC) John Laska Dissertation Award, and most recently, the Queens College Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Review of Research in Education, Action Research, Urban Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing,Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, English Journal, and International Journal of Multicultural Education.