Publications
Garza, Alma Nidia and Jean VanDelinder. 2020. “Scripted Schooling: Determining When Cultural Retooling is Worth the Academic Payoff.” British Journal of Sociology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1735998
Garza, Alma Nidia and Andrew S. Fullerton. 2018. “Staying Close or Going Away: How Distance to College Impacts the Educational Attainment and Academic Performance of First-Generation College Students.” Sociological Perspectives 61(1): 164-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121417711413.
Ashar, Sameer M., Edelina Burciaga, Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, Alma Garza and Stephen Lee. 2016. “Navigating Liminal Legalities Along Pathways To Citizenship: Immigrant Vulnerability and the Role of Mediating Institutions.” UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-05; Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship Research Paper No. 2733860. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2733860.
In-Progress
Garza, Alma Nidia. “Cultural Sidelining: How Campus Cultures Across University Contexts Shortchange Working-Class, Hispanic Students.” Revise & Resubmit.
Garza, Alma Nidia. “Mobility That Restrains: Stratified Course Instruction in the College Classroom.”
Garza, Alma Nidia. “Social Capital and its Differential Returns: Assessing Racial-Ethnic Disparities in College Enrollment Through an Intersectional Lens.”
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