Rate My Professor Blanca Caldas

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Education Anthropology Linguistics Curriculum and Instruction Language Education Literacy Education Primary Education Teacher Education - Elementary Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics Cultural Anthropology Ethnic and Multicultural Studies English as a Second Language

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5.04/23/2026

Always patient, kind, and understanding.

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Blanca Caldas Chumbes is an Associate Professor in Multilingual Education and Elementary Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She earned her Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Texas at Austin in the Bilingual/Bicultural Program of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, with a graduate portfolio in Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies. Her dissertation, Performing the Advocate Bilingual Teacher: Drama-based Interventions for Future Story-making, received the Activist Research Grant Initiative Award sponsored by multiple centers at the University of Texas at Austin, including the Social Justice Institute, the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin America, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds an M.Ed. in Bilingual Education from Boise State University, where she co-founded the Literacy sin Fronteras Initiative to address achievement gaps among Latino English language learner students through biliteracy camps. She received her B.A. in Education from Universidad Federico Villarreal. Prior to her academic career, she worked as an ESL/EFL teacher for 11 years.