Professor
Associate Dean, Faculty & Academic Affairs
Golden Eagle Foundation Faculty Research Fellow
Campion Hall Room 101
Telephone: 617-552-1760
Email: alemanan@bc.edu
ORCID
Doctoral Proseminar in K-16 Administration
Philosophy and theory of higher education; teaching and learning, particularly the impact of race, culture, and gender on college teaching and learning; feminist theory and pedagogy.
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Ana M. MartÃnez-Alemán researches topics at the forefront of higher education and campus culture. Her book Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture was the first to explore social media’s impact on campus. Currently, she examines online racialized aggression, and how students of color and first-generation students use technology. Her most recent book explores student sexual violence activism and institutional practice.
The author or coauthor of six books and dozens of publications, she has also delivered more than 100 talks. Since 2002, she has edited the Educational Policy journal and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Journal. MartÃnez-Alemán and her coauthors received the 2016 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award for their book Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education and the 2019 AERA Division J, Outstanding Publication Award, and 2018 Outstanding Publication Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education for Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First-Generation College Students.
MartÃnez-Alemán is Professor of Education and has served as the Associate Dean of Faculty and Academics since 2017. She joined the Lynch School in 1998 and served as department chair for the Educational Leadership and Higher Education Department from 2007 to 2017. In 2023, MartÃnez-Alemán serves as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2022-2023. In 2016, MartÃnez-Alemán was elected Vice President of Postsecondary Education (Division J) at the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
MartÃnez-Alemán earned a doctorate in higher education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the State University of New York, Binghamton.
MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M. & Marine, S. B. (Forthcoming, 2023). Voices of Campus Sexual Violence Activists: #MeToo and Beyond. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rowan-Kenyon, H., MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M, & Savitz-Romer, M. (2018). Technology and engagement: Making technology work for first generation college students. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M. & Bensimon, E. M., & Pusser, B. (Eds.), (2015) Critical approaches to the study of higher education**. Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press.
MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M., Barone, N., & Rowan-Kenyon, H. T. (2021). Cultural Mistrust and Social Media Relationships. SAGE Open, 11(4), 21582440211056625.
Rowan-Kenyon, H. T., McCready, A. M., Barone, N. I., & MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M. (2021). Does Experiencing Racialized Aggressions on Social Media Influence Perceptions About the Campus Racial Climate? Research in Higher Education, 1-21
McCready, A. M., Rowan-Kenyon, H. T., Barone, N. I., & MartÃnez-Alemán, A. M. (2021). Students of Color, Mental Health, and Racialized Aggressions on Social Media. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 58(2), 179-195.
Rowan-Kenyon, H. T., McCready, A. M, MartÃnez-Alemán, A.M. & Barone, N.* (2021). Measuring racist aggressions on social media and the effects on U.S. college students of color: An instrument validation, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/07481756.2020.1827437
Unangst, L.*, & MartÃnez-Alemán, A.M. (2021). Identity studies and diverse °¬¿ÉÖ±²¥support: Considering German higher education with a postcolonial lens. Social Inclusion, 9(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i3.4139
*Doctoral student