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Dr. Santiago is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education. She specializes in the teaching and learning of race/ethnicity in K-12 history classrooms, specifically how people in the U.S. collectively remember the experiences of communities of color, and the consequences of such depictions. Her current work centers on the production and consumption of Latinx social studies: what students, policy makers, and educators learn about Latinx communities, and how they conceptualize Latinx experiences.
Dr. Santiago won the 2019 National Council for the Social Studies Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award for her article in Cognition and Instruction.