Estrella Torrez

Professor

Estrella Torrez, PhD is a community-based scholar of Latinx and Indigenous education. She is a Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches primarily in MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH). She is also a core faculty member in MSU’s Chicano/Latino Studies and American Indian and Indigenous Studies programs. As an engaged scholar, her transdisciplinary and intersectional teaching/scholarship/service revolves around the co-production of community-based knowledge and its recovery and resurgence. Much of this work purposely collaborates with undergraduate students and non-university community members and employs testimonios. Her research centers on equity and justice, particularly around language politics and community-based knowledge among rural Latinx and urban Indigenous communities. Her teaching focuses on community literacies, intergenerational community engagement, youth participatory action research, and language and culture.