Gilberto Q Conchas

Gilberto Q. Conchas is the Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Endowed Chair in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and coauthor of over a dozen books--including The Color of Success ; Streetsmart Schoolsmart ; Cracks in the Schoolyard ; Educational Policy Goes to School ; The Complex Web of Inequality ; The...See more

Gilberto Q. Conchas is the Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Endowed Chair in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and coauthor of over a dozen books--including The Color of Success ; Streetsmart Schoolsmart ; Cracks in the Schoolyard ; Educational Policy Goes to School ; The Complex Web of Inequality ; The Chicana/o/x Dream ; Race Frames in Education ; and Repertoires of Racial Resistance . Dr. Conchas has been a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of California at Irvine and visiting professor at the University of Southern California, San Francisco State University, University of Washington, University of Barcelona, and the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. He was also Senior Program Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See less