Rossina Zamora Liu is an assistant professor in the Urban Education specialization at the 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频. She has an MFA from the renowned Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and a PhD from the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, both from The University of Iowa. As a critical race educator, writer, and ethnographic researcher, she has worked with local artists, musicians, film makers, and b-boys of Color on community-based projects; first-generation college student athletes; high-school/middle-school students in urban and rural communities; and community college students. She has facilitated art-based counterstorytelling workshops at shelters for individuals experiencing housing insecurities, the Veterans Affairs, local high schools, and community centers. Her work focuses on racial and social justice education; systems of white supremacy and anti-Blackness in school and society; critical ethnographic and art-based counterstorytelling methodologies; and critical racial consciousness among Asian American, Black, and other non-Black young people. She is co-author of a forthcoming book Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege: A Racial-Spatial Framework for Psychology (Oxford University Press), a guest co-editor for a special issue, 鈥淩ace(ing) towards Futurity: Black and Latinx Youths鈥 Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies,鈥 in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (2023), and a guest co-editor for a special section, 鈥淎nti-Blackness in English Curriculum, Practice, and Culture,鈥 in English Teaching: Practice & Critique (2021). Her publications can be found in Educational Researcher, American Psychologist, The Urban Review, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Asian American Studies, and other prominent journals and handbooks. She is recipient of the J. Michael Parker Award from the Literacy Research Association for her ethnographic essay on humanizing the witnessing of trauma narratives, and the 2021 College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award (沈芯语老师家访麻花视频) and the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award (University of Iowa) for her teaching and mentorship excellence. She is the program chair of the Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and serves on the Journal Editorial Board of Race, Ethnicity, and Education and Journal of American Folklore. She is affiliate faculty of the Asian American Studies Program (沈芯语老师家访麻花视频) and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (沈芯语老师家访麻花视频).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books Authored
Liu, W.M. & Liu, R.Z. (forthcoming). Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege: A Racial-Spatial Framework for Psychology. Oxford University Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
Liu, R. Z., Liu, W. M., Charity, C. J., Le, V. B., Payne, R. L., Escobal, L. D., Nguyen, J., Tran, I., & Nguyen, S. (2025). Our stories of origins: Decolonial healing through zines and zine-making. American Psychologist, 80(4), 655鈥669.
Liu, R. Z., Shockley, E. T., Curry, D. G., & Conley, C. M. (2025). Educational equity through a critical race perspective of antiracism and intersectionality: Disrupting colorblind ideologies in school leaders鈥 praxis. The Urban Review, 1-26.
Liu, R.Z., Liu, W.M., Wong, J.S., & Shin, R.Q. (2023). Anti-Black racism and Asian American local educational activism: A critical race discourse analysis. Educational Researcher, 0013189X231151939.
Liu, W.M., Liu, R.Z., Shin, R.Q. (2023). Understanding Systemic Racism: Anti-Blackness, White Supremacy, and Racial Capitalism and Re/Creation of White Space and Time. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Wong, J.S. and Liu, R.Z. (2022). Between empirical data and anti-Blackness: A critical perspective on anti-Asian hate crimes and hate incidents. Journal of Asian American Studies special issue: "Dimensions of Violence, Resistance and Becoming: Asian Americans and the 'Opening' of the COVID-era"
Guest co-Editorships
Turner, J.D., Liu, R.Z., & Griffin, A.A. (2023). Guest co-editors special issue: Race(ing) towards Futurity: Black and Latinx Youths鈥 Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Jones, S.P. & Liu, R.Z. (Nov/Dec 2021). Guest co-editors special section: 鈥淎nti-Blackness in English Curriculum, Practice, and Culture.鈥 English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
Perspectives, Opinions, and Letters
Liu, R.Z. & Brown, T. (2023). The College Board鈥檚 Rotted Roots. (OpED). The Baltimore Banner.
Grants
Other Funded Projects
Dr. Rossina Zamora Liu teaches the following courses in the College of Education: Critical Race Theory; Race and Whiteness in Education; and Critical Perspectives in Ethnographic Research Methods. She also created and teaches the undergraduate iSeries course, Critical Race Counterstorytelling.