Andrea Flores

Andrea Flores is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of education. Her research interests primarily center on how education shapes immigrant and immigrant descendants’ sense of self, transitions to adulthood, and social belonging in the United States.

Teaching Overview

Flores teaches undergraduate courses in education that draw from ethnographic perspectives and are topically focused on inequality, racial and ethnic identity, and youth. In her classes, Flores aids students in developing their skills as critical writers and interpreters of the world.

Teaching

• Introduction to Education and Society: Foundations of Opportunity and Inequality
• New Faces, New Challenges: Immigrant Students in U.S. Schools
• New Faces, New Challenges: Immigrant Students in U.S. Schools
• Adolescence in Social Context
• The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Education

• 2015 Ph.D. in Anthropology, Brown University
• 2011 A.M. in Anthropology, Brown University
• 2005 A.B. in Anthropology, Harvard University

Honors and Awards

• 2022, Outstanding Book Award, given by the Council on Anthropology of Education, for The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth are Transforming What it Means to Belong in America
• 2020, Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, for excellence in teaching, Brown University
• 2015, The Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University
• 2014, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention