Earl, Amanda K. (ake2112)

Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University

B.A., Brown University

Dr. Amanda K. Earl is a Lecturer in the International and Comparative Education program of the International and Transcultural Studies Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. From an interdisciplinary perspective, her research examines the relationships between formal schooling and the transmission and maintenance of nondominant languages, cultures, and ways of knowing. She uses qualitative and participatory methods to understand how educational policies and teaching practices impact the lives of young people and their families living and working in pluricultural communities, particularly those of rural, Indigenous, and immigrant students in Latin America and the US. Dr. Earl’s most recent studies have explored the dynamics and possibilities of intercultural higher education, based on community-engaged research carried out in the Huastecan region of Veracruz, Mexico. During the 2024-2025 academic year, in her role as Research Associate with the Latinidad Curriculum Initiative based at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at TC, Dr. Earl was the Editor of the strategic report The Need to Advance the Study of Latinidad in New York City Public Schools, funded by the New York City Council. The goal of this initiative is to create and promote curricular resources and lesson plans that highlight the contributions of Latinx communities to the history and social fabric of New York City. Before coming to TC, Dr. Earl worked as a middle and high school teacher (grades 6-12) in Philadelphia and in the field of college access in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education and an M.A. in International Educational Development, both from TC, and a B.A. in Classics from Brown University.