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2026 Texas Association for Bilingual Education (TABE) Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. María Fernanda Bruzón received First Place in the 2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Texas Association for Bilingual Education. She completed her dissertation, The Discourse of Multicultural Literacies by Novice Bilingual Teachers in Dual Language Classrooms, at the University of Texas at San Antonio as part of her Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language. Dr. Bruzón's research explores how novice bilingual teachers understand and enact multicultural literacies in dual language classrooms, highlighting their experiences and instructional practices. This recognition celebrates research developed at UT San Antonio and reflects a commitment to amplifying bilingual teachers' voices and advancing equitable educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Kinship Visits for Educational Futurities: Mapping Indigenous Educational
This project seeks to map Indigenous knowledge systems in Texas and how Land and kin relations shape how we think of ourselves, others, and the world around us. In doing so, we focus on the ways that language, culture, and contexts shape our knowledge systems, and document the different efforts to preserve intergenerational Indigenous teaching(s) and learning. Existing academic literature speaks to forms of violence against Indigenous peoples, including colonial education trauma, environmental racism, intellectual colonialism, cognitive imperialism, and epistemicide. The same is true for Texas. As Indigenous scholars, our project is guided by the Indigenous feminist methodology of visiting and aims to unsettle colonial educational narratives in Texas by mapping Indigenous curricular and pedagogical epistemologies across the state. We center Indigenous survivance and flourishing to learn from/with Land, kin, ceremony, and stories.
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
For one UT San Antonio student, a class assignment rooted in family, identity and healing became an award-winning piece of scholarship that affirmed her future in academia. Mexican American Studies student Abril “Andi” Garcia-Linn received top honors in the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Fredrick Cervantes Premio essay competition, in the undergraduate category.
