Rate My Professor Elizabeth Stackhouse

Dr. Elizabeth Stackhouse serves as Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Urban Education within the College of Public Service at the University of Houston-Downtown. With a Ph.D. and over 15 years of experience as a Bilingual Special Education teacher in Title I schools, she applies her practitioner background to her multifaceted role in teaching, administration, and research focused on urban education challenges, particularly supporting emerging bilingual students and preparing highly qualified teachers for critical shortage areas such as bilingual and ESL education.

Stackhouse co-investigated the successful $2,588,121 U.S. Department of Education Title V grant awarded in 2023 for the five-year “Pathways to Teaching in Critical Areas of Need (PTCAN) Program,” alongside Dr. Ron Beebe, Chair of Urban Education. This initiative provides training and wraparound services to pre-service teachers, placing certified educators who reflect the demographics of underserved Houston-area students into high-need classrooms to enhance academic outcomes. Her research agenda emphasizes the production of effective educators to impact student trajectories, exemplified by her leadership of the 2023 Youth Teams in Education Research (YTER)–TEXAS team at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting. The project, “When It Personally Matters—Engaging Emergent Bilingual Students in Education Research: Investigating the Trajectories of Long-Term Emergent Bilinguals in High School,” engaged high school students in scholarly inquiry. Stackhouse also contributes to institutional governance as a faculty member on the Institutional Review Board through August 14, 2026, and the Academic Calendar Committee. She has participated as a Vital Voices speaker and contributed to hosting the 24th Annual TXName Conference at UHD.