2026 Teresa L. McCarty: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	40	5324	4938	2518	2292	175	7804

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Teresa L. McCarty is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a predominant emphasis on linguistics and language, health, education, literature and literary theory, and sociology and political science as subfields.

The scientist's recent publications cover diverse topics related to Indigenous education, language revitalization, and multilingual development. Selected titles include "A Viable Path for Education"-Indigenous-Language Immersion and Sustainable Self-Determination (2021, Journal of Language Identity & Education), New Speakers of Irish in the Global Context: New Revival? (2023, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development), "You Should Know the Name of the Wind Where You Live"-Relationality and Relational Accountability in Indigenous-Language Education (2022, Comparative Education Review), Culturally Responsive, Sustaining, and Revitalizing Pedagogies: Perspectives from Native American Education (2021, The Educational Forum), and The holistic benefits of education for Indigenous language revitalisation and reclamation (ELR²) (2020, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development).

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Sheilah E. Nicholas
Tiffany S. Lee
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Joaquín Noguera
Angelina E. Castagno

Teresa L. McCarty has published multiple articles in several academic venues, notably:

Journal of American Indian Education
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Journal of Language Identity & Education
Comparative Education Review
The Educational Forum

Their main fields of research include social sciences, addressing key themes such as multilingual education and policy, Indigenous health, education, and rights, second language learning and teaching, Indigenous and place-based education, educator training and historical pedagogy, global education and multiculturalism, and migration, education, and Indigenous social dynamics.

Significant topics covered across their work are:

Multilingual Education and Policy
Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Second Language Learning and Teaching
Indigenous and Place-Based Education
Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
Global Education and Multiculturalism
Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics

In recognition of their scholarly contributions, Teresa L. McCarty was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009.

Best Publications

To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education

K. Tsianina Lomawaima;T. L. McCarty

993
Citations
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools

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571
Citations
Critical Culturally Sustaining/Revitalizing Pedagogy and Indigenous Education Sovereignty

Teresa L. McCarty;Tiffany S. Lee

547
Citations
When Tribal Sovereignty Challenges Democracy: American Indian Education and the Democratic Ideal:

K. Tsianina Lomawaima;Teresa L. McCarty

353
Citations
Revitalising Indigenous Languages in Homogenising Times.

Teresa L. McCARTY

304
Citations
Invited Forum: Bridging the “Language Gap”

Netta Avineri;Eric Johnson;Shirley Brice-Heath;Teresa McCarty

265
Citations
Ethnography and language policy

Teresa L. McCarty

264
Citations
A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling

Teresa L. McCarty

215
Citations
Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy

Bertha Pérez;T. L. McCarty

197
Citations
Classroom Inquiry and Navajo Learning Styles: A Call for Reassessment

T. L. McCARTY;Stephen Wallace;Regina Hadley Lynch;Ancita Benally

192
Citations
“Sounding American”: The consequences of new reforms on English language learners

Kris D. Gutiérrez;Jolynn Asato;Mariana Pacheco;Luis C. Moll

169
Citations
Changing the Culture of Schooling: Navajo and Yup'ik Cases

Jerry Lipka;Teresa L. McCarty

162
Citations
Schooling, resistance, and American Indian languages

Teresa L. McCARTY

162
Citations
Indigenous Youth as Language Policy Makers

Teresa L. McCarty;Mary Eunice Romero-Little;Larisa Warhol;Ofelia Zepeda

159
Citations
Reclaiming the Gift: Indigenous Youth Counter-Narratives on Native Language Loss and Revitalization

Teresa L. McCarty;Mary Eunice Romero;Ofelia Zepeda

152
Citations
Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: A Reconsideration of the Roles and Responsibilities of Schools

Teresa L. McCarty;Sheilah E. Nicholas

139
Citations
KEY CONCEPTS IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION: IDEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL, AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS

Teresa L. McCarty

123
Citations
Indigenous youth and multilingualism: Language identity, ideology, and practice in dynamic cultural worlds

Leisy Thornton Wyman;T. L. McCarty;Sheilah E. Nicholas

122
Citations
Bilingual/bicultural education at peach springs: A Hualapai way of schooling

Lucille J. Watahomigie;Teresa L. McCarty

114
Citations
Language, literacy, and power in schooling

Teresa L. McCarty

106
Citations
Indigenous Community-based Language Education in the USA

Teresa L. Mccarty;Lucille J. Watahomigie

99
Citations
Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas

Serafín M. Coronel-Molina;Teresa L. McCarty

94
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy H. Hornberger University of Pennsylvania

James J. Collins MIT

Bonnie Nardi University of California, Irvine

Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley

Gene V. Glass Arizona State University

Elinor Ochs University of California, Los Angeles

Guadalupe Valdés Stanford University

Ofelia García City University of New York

Mark Nichter University of Arizona

Eric Johnson Columbia University

External Links

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