Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Silvia Bettez

Professor, Department of Education Leadership and Cultural Foundations

Email: scbettez@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.256.0516
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Appointed through Spring 2025

Silvia Bettez teaches about issues of social justice in a graduate program including classes such as Teaching Social Justice, Educational Sociology, Passionate Pedagogies, and Culturally Responsive Leadership. Her scholarship centralizes social justice with a focus on fostering critical community building, teaching for social justice, and promoting equity through intercultural communication and engagement. She has published articles in Educational Studies, Equity and Excellence in Education, Educational Foundations, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. In 2012, she published a book titled But Don’t Call Me White: Mixed Race Women Exposing Nuances of Privilege and Oppression Politics (Sense Publishers).