PhD, Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Adrian H. Huerta, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boys and young men of color, college access and equity, and gang-associated populations. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, ECMC Foundation, Institute for Research on Poverty/JPB Foundation, and totals over $1.6 million dollars. His scholarship appears in Community College Review, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, Teachers College Record, The Urban Review, Urban Education, and other practitioner and scholarly journals.

He was selected as the winner of the prestigious Early Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in 2022, named a 2022-2024 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and is a past receipt of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship.

Expertise
Boys and young men of color | College access and equity | Gang youth | Urban Education

Extended bio and CV at USC Rossier