Ofelia García

Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs of Urban Education and of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dean of the School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, and Professor of Education at The City College of New York.

Her best-known include Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective; Translanguaging; Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Li Wei) and The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society (with N. Flores & M. Spotti).

Garcia has been the General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and the co-editor of Language Policy (with H. Kelly-Holmes). She was co-principal investigator of City University of New York-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals from its inception in 2011 until 2019.

Her more recent awards include the Charles Ferguson Award in Applied Linguistics from the Center of Applied Linguistics in 2017, The Graduate Center Excellence in Mentoring Award in 2018, and AERA’s Division G, Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education Research Lifetime Excellence Award in 2019.