LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Margaret A. (Greta) Gibson, Professor of Education and Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976), University of California, Santa Cruz.

A faculty member at UCSC since 1990, Gibson focuses her research on the school performance of immigrant and minority youth with particular attention to home-school-community relationships and to how school context and peer relations influence student participation and achievement in high school settings.

In addition to her ongoing research in several multiethnic high schools in California, Gibson has conducted field research in the U.S. Virgin Islands, northern India, and Papua New Guinea.

Major publications include: Accommodation without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High School (Cornell University Press, 1988), Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities (edited with John Ogbu, Garland, 1991), Ethnicity and School Performance: Complicating the Immigrant/Involuntary Minority Typology (Anthropology and Education Quarterly 28:3), and School Connections: U.S. Mexican Youth, Peers, and School Achievement (edited with P. Gándara and J. Koyama, Teachers College Press, 2004).

Gibson is one of the founding editors of Race Ethnicity and Education, and she currently serves on the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Transitions to College and its Working Group on Education and Migration.

Professor Gibson teaches courses in courses on the social and cultural context of education, immigrants and education, the anthropology of education, and qualitative research methods.

University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Education
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(831) 459-4740 Fax: (831) 459-4618

See also: http://anthro.ucsc.edu/permanent_faculty.shtml

Email: ggibson@ucsc.edu