Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

E-Mail: stantons@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3485
Office: WPH 1002 D
Expert Directory: http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/experts/1026.html

Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar is Associate Professor of Education in the Division of Learning and Instruction, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology. In 2004, Dr. Stanton-Salazar will be a research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is also Associate Director of USC's Center for American Studies and Ethnicity. Prior to coming to USC, Professor Stanton-Salazar was at UC San Diego where he taught courses related to the study of educational institutions and urban families. His research interests center around the social networks and academic achievement strategies of minority and immigrant urban youth. His new book, Manufacturing Hope & Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth, is published by Teachers College Press, and now available. He also has several journal articles and chapters in edited books that have been recently released , including "The Network Orientations of Highly Resilient Urban Minority Youth," in The Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education (2000, Vol. 32, 3), co-authored with Stephanie Spina; "Defensive Network Orientations as Internalized Oppression: How Schools Mediate the Influence of Social Class on Adolescent Development," in the edited volume, Social Class, Poverty, and Education (2001), by Routledge Falmer; "The Mexican American Second Generation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," ), co-authored with David López, in the edited volume, Ethnicities: Coming of Age in Immigrant America (2001), by UC Press & Russell Sage; and "The Help-seeking Orientations of White and Latino High School Students: A Critical-Sociological Investigation," co-authored with Lisa F. Chávez and Robert H. Tai, in Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal (Volume 5, 49-82). He recently served as program chair for the annual meeting of the Sociology of Education Association in Monterey, California (February 22-24, 2002).