Judit Moschkovich

University of California, Santa Cruz

Distinguished Professor

Judit Moschkovich is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics Education in the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She uses socio-cultural approaches to study mathematical thinking, learning, and classroom discourse, particularly in linguistically diverse settings. Her publications examine how language and interaction impact students’ mathematics learning, document the strengths bilingual Latine learners use in mathematical discussions, and contradict deficit views of these students. Her work has emphasized equitable participation in mathematics classrooms, especially for students who are bilingual or learning English. She received a B.S. in physics (University of Minnesota) and taught mathematics at San Francisco State University. She completed her PhD in Education at UC Berkeley and received NAEd/Spencer Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships. She was a researcher at the Institute for Research on Learning and TERC. In addition to articles in mathematics education and learning sciences journals, she edited Language and Mathematics Education: Multiple Perspectives and Directions for Research (2010) and co-edited Mathematics Education and Language Diversity (2016). She is an AERA Fellow (2018) and received the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from SIG-RME (AERA). She was PI on the NSF grant “Mathematical discourse in bilingual settings” and Co-PI for CEMELA (Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as). She served on the Consensus Committee for the NRC volume “English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives: A Report from the NASEM” (2019). She is currently co-chairing EMERG (Equity in Math Education Research Grant). Originally from Argentina, she came to the U.S. at 14; Spanish is her first language.