Lucila Ek, Ph.D.

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Lucila Ek, Ph.D.

Dr. Bertha Perez Distinguished Endowed, Professor, Bicultural-Bilingual Studies

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Bio

Lucila del Carmen Ek was born in Yucatan, Mexico, and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of four. She received her Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from the University of California Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the intersections of language, literacy, and identity in Chican@/Latin@ immigrant communities. Language and literacy are productive lenses and important sites of inquiry because they tap into essential processes not only of growth, learning, and development but also of becoming, of constructing identities. Dr. Ek examines these processes within and across educational settings, both formal and informal, including schools, homes, and churches with the intent of bridging these spaces. Dr. Ek’s research also explores the heterogeneity of the Latino/a community using a linguistic lens that examines the varieties of Spanish and English spoken by Chicano/Latino communities which differ by nationality, generation, and geographical location.