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Jackson Matos

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  • Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education
  • Director of Middle, Secondary and the Arts Teacher Licensure Programs
Jackson Matos, in 2024

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Jackson Matos is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Education. Matos is interested in the role of equality and liberation in learning communities, and his research focuses on social justice in education. Juan, Puerto Rico. His publications include work on the assets Latinx students, families, and communities bring to education, the strengths of transgender parenting and teaching, and social justice practices in classroom settings.

Areas of Expertise

Latinxs in education, women's education, social justice education, LGBT2Q issues in education

Education

  • Ed.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • B.A., M.A.T., Smith College

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Blue Lyons - the class of 2028 - at 果冻传媒 College's Convocation in September 2024

鈥淭aking the stage at last鈥 at Convocation 2024

This year, Convocation celebrated the start of the Mount Holyoke College academic year and the 10-year anniversary of its inclusive admission policy.

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How schools and parents can help prevent bullying

Mount Holyoke Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education Jackson M. Matos weighs in on Care.com about how adults can prevent bullying.

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Ready to teach

When Ansley Keane graduates from Mount Holyoke in May of 2023, she will be ready to teach history to children 鈥 including the child of the director of undergraduate early childhood and elementary licensure programs at the College.

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Recent Grants

Received a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for their project, "Comparison of Educational Values of Irish Mothers in Ireland to Educational Values of Puerto Rican Mothers in Puerto Rico." 

Recent Publications

Matos, J. M. (2024). 鈥淚f it鈥檚 not one thing, it鈥檚 your mother!鈥: My origin story as a researcher. In E. B. King, Roberson, Q., & Hebl, M. (Eds.). Research on Social Issues in Management: Perspectives on International Research (Volume 5). Information Age Publishing.

Stewart, D., Myeong, H., Silver, E., King, E., Matos, J., Thomas, H., Hebl, M. (2024). Discrimination in organizations on the basis of race/ethnicity/color. Special Issue: Diversity in Organizations. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60(101909), 1-6.

Matos, J. M. (2024). Pedagogies of the home and terquedad in transgender parenting and teaching. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education.

Matos, J. M. (forthcoming). Social justice dialogues in the classroom: Having and holding difficult conversations. Routledge.

Matos, J. M. (2024). Est谩s en su Casa: 鈥淔reedom Dreaming鈥 Liberation for Latinx Students in Residence Halls, Journal of College and University Student Housing, 50(3), 68-81.

Recent Honors

Was a Hispanic Heritage Month speaker at San Bernadino Valley College. Matos offered a virtual reading from their book, La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success.

Was invited to be a Wesleyan University College of Education Colloquium speaker to read from her book La familia: And other secret ingredients to Latinx student success on April 14, 2021.

Was elected to the South Hadley School Committee in the local election on April 13, 2021.

Was invited to speak at the UMass Amherst College of Education with Carmen Yul铆n Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the Mount Holyoke College STEM program in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 31, 2021. 

Presented research on facilitating dialogues on race in college courses at the POD Network Conference, November 13-17, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA.

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