Nelson Flores

Nelson Flores is an associate professor in educational linguistics and affiliated faculty with the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. He is also the Director of the Ph.D. program in educational linguistics, the faculty advisor for the Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, the chair of the Penn Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty Development, Diversity and Equity and co-chair of the Penn GSE Subcommittee on Faculty and Student Diversity.

Dr. Flores has collaborated on several research projects focused on the education of racialized bilingual students in U.S. schools, including a study of students officially categorized as “Long Term English Learners” and a study of successful high schools serving large numbers of Latinx students. He also served as project director for the CUNY–New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals, a New York State Education Department initiative seeking to improve the educational outcomes of emergent bilingual students through an intensive seminar series for school leaders, combined with onsite support by CUNY faculty. He also oversaw the Philadelphia Bilingual Education Project that studied the history of bilingual education in Philadelphia while supporting the district in its expansion of dual language education through the providing of teacher professional development and program support. Most recently, he was a research associate with The Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), where he studied the historical development of and contemporary implementation of standards-based reform for students officially classified as English Learners.

Dr. Flores was the recipient of the 2022 AERA Early Career Award, 2020 Graduate Center of the City University of New York Graduate of the Last Decade, the 2019 James Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts, 2017 AERA Bilingual Education SIG Early Career Award, and a 2017 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.