Faculty Profiles

Dr. Duarte, a former 8th and 9th grade humanities teacher, received their PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Their research engages critical policy analysis to examine the effects of neoliberal educational policies such as standardized assessment, evaluation, and school choice on leaders, teachers, and students in historically underserved schooling systems. Additionally, their research centers the identities and experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in educational leadership and policy. They have also published on the utility of Queer theory to blur binary research traditions through critical mixed methods and critical quantitative methodologies.

Selected Publications

• Duarte, B.J. (2024). Resisting normality through a non-binary quantitative method. Educational Studies. 60(1), 41-55.
• Duarte, B.J. (2024). “Disrupting the Binary: Critical Mixed-Methods as Academic Resistance” In M. D. Young and S. Diem (Eds.), Handbook of Critical Education Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Emerging Approaches. Routledge.
• Duarte, B.J. (2022). The effects of school choice competition on an underserved neighborhood public school. Educational Policy, 56(1-2), 100-113.
• Duarte, B.J. (2021). Situating Subjectivities in the Macrosocial Policy Context: Critical/Queer Multifocal Policy Research. Journal of Education Policy, 36(5), 691-707.
• Duarte, B.J. (2021). “Part of their chemistry”: The reproduction of neoliberal governmentality in principal and teacher subjectivities. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 52(3), 233-267.
• Duarte, B.J. (2020). Forced Back into the Closet: A (Queer) Principal’s Attempt to Maintain Queer Erasure”. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 23(4), 20-34.

• EDST 59100 — Research in Ed. Leadership
• EDST 61400 — Leadership for Community Collaboration & Development
• EDST 61500 — Educational Policy & Decision Making