Rate My Professor Marta Sanchez

Dr. Marta Sánchez served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology, Foundations, and Secondary Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson College of Education. As an educational anthropologist, she was a faculty affiliate and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. She taught social foundations of education to preservice educators. Her research specializations encompassed education reform in México, experiences of Latino/a children, their families, and teachers in the New Latino South, bilingualism and cognition in young children, human rights challenges in transnational spaces, qualitative research methodological approaches, Mexican immigrant fathering, and Latina mothers’ experiences in their children’s schools in the geographies of the U.S. southeast. She held a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Sánchez authored the book Fathering within and beyond the Failures of the State with Imagination, Work and Love: The Case of the Mexican Father (2017). Notable publications include "Improving Young English Learners’ Language and Literacy Skills Through Teacher Professional Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial" (2017), "Madres para Niños: Engaging Latina Mothers as Consultees to Promote Their Children’s Early Elementary School Achievement" (2016), "Education Without Nationalism: Locating Leadership When Borders No Longer Hold" (2016), and "Professional Learning for ESL Teachers: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact on Instruction, Collaboration, and Cultural Wealth" (2024). She was the managing editor of The Urban Review, served as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership and the Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, and sat on the editorial board of the latter. Dr. Sánchez was co-Principal Investigator on Institute of Education Sciences grants, including R305B160015 to prepare undergraduate students from underrepresented groups for education research careers and R305A170182 to test professional development for teachers on communication and collaboration skills. She contributed to securing nearly $6 million in grants through the Research Institute for Scholars of Equity (RISE), enhancing equity-focused educational research.