Rate My Professor Raúl Fregoso Bailón

Raúl Olmo Fregoso Bailón is an assistant professor of Equity and Diversity in Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Education and Human Development. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and joined the University of Nevada, Reno as new faculty in 2024. Prior to this appointment, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching center on educational foundations, with a focus on the decolonial turn and Latin American epistemologies. Fregoso Bailón investigates the intersections of epistemologies from teachers, students, and metaphorical knowledge, highlighting the significance of Normalistas-teachers in shaping students' lives, stories, and narratives as non-canonical educational foundations. His scholarship aims to advance Latin American philosophy of education by recognizing teachers and students as public intellectuals. Employing an interdisciplinary lens that incorporates the decolonial turn, coloniality of power, philosophy of liberation, critical theory, theology of liberation, dependency theory, and cultural studies in education, Fregoso Bailón contributes meaningfully to the field.

Fregoso Bailón's publications feature in esteemed venues such as the Handbook of Theory and Research in Cultural Studies and Education (Springer, 2019), Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education (Brill, 2019), Bilingual Research Journal, Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, Policy Futures in Education, Contextualizaciones Latinoamericanas, Revista Tempos e Espaços em Educação, Pléyade Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Intercultural Studies. Notable works include 'Against coloniality: Toward an epistemically insurgent curriculum' (Policy Futures in Education, 2019), 'Epistemologies with no name: Normalistas-teachers and their metaphorical knowledge' (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2025), and 'Normalistas-Teachers and Coloniality of Power in Mexico' (Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2025). He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education and serves as Chair of the Critical Peace Education Special Interest Group (SIG 074) of the American Educational Research Association for 2025-2026. Fregoso Bailón collaborates with the Latino Research Center on projects including Latinx Faculty Research Needs and Latin-American Teachers' Narratives. He teaches courses such as EDUC 447: Parent Involvement and Family Engagement and EDLE 761: Gender Issues in Education, and has presented public lectures like 'Epistemologies of power from normalistas and indigenous teachers from the global south' in 2025.