Flores, Andrea

Andrea Flores

Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Education

Overview

Andrea Flores is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of education. Her research interests primarily center on how education shapes immigrant and immigrant descendants’ sense of self, transitions to adulthood, and social belonging in the United States.

Brown Affiliations

Education

Research Areas

On the Web

Siblings teaching siblings during COVID-19

Brain Drain and US Cities

New Book Network Interview on The Succeeders

Undocumented Youth in Private Colleges

Tennessee Voices, Episode 225: Andrea Flores, professor and author of 'The Succeeders'

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Wurtz, Heather, Andrea Flores, Sarah Willen, and Katherine Mason. "Engaging Immigrant Women in Online Journaling as a Mode of Research and Psychosocial Support: Lessons Learned." Practicing Anthropology, 2025.

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Flores A, Mason KA. "You would think she would hug me": Micropractices of Care Between First-Generation College Students and Their Parents During Covid-19." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, vol. 48, no. 1, 2024, pp. 91-112.

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Flores, Andrea. "About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee." PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2023, pp. 39-52.

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Flores, Andrea. "An Escalade, a Briefcase, and Respect: Latinx Youth’s Imaginings of Middle-Class Status and a Cosmopolitan Good Life in Nashville, Tennessee." Anthropologica, 2023.

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Flores, Andrea and Susan H. Ellison. "Money Lightens: Global Regimes of Racialized Class Mobility and Local Visions of the Good Life." Anthropologica, 2023.

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Flores, Andrea. "The Volunteer State: Latinx youth and the making of membership in Nashville, Tennessee." Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 2023.

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Flores, Andrea. "I’ve Lived Everything They Are Trying to Teach Me”: Latinx Immigrant Youth’s Ambivalent Educational Mobility in White Evangelical Universities." Social Sciences, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 7.

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Andrea Flores. The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America. University of California, 2021.

Andrea Flores, Kevin Escudero, Edelina Burciaga. "Legal‐Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality." Law & Policy, vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 12-33.

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Edelina Burciaga, Lisa Martinez, Kevin Escudero, Andrea Flores, Joanna Perez, Carolina Valdivia. "Migrant Illegality Across Uneven Legal Geographies: Introduction to the Special Issue of Law & Policy." vol. 41, no. 1, 2019, pp. 5-11.

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"The Descendant Bargain: Latina Youth Remaking Kinship and Generation through Educational Sibcare in Nashville, Tennessee." American Anthropologist, vol. 120, no. 3, 2018, pp. 474-486.

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"Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space by Faith G. Nibbs and Caroline B. Brettell, eds.,." Journal of Anthropological Research , vol. 73, no. 1, 2017, pp. 140-142.

"Forms of Exclusion: Undocumented Students Navigating Financial Aid and Inclusion in the United States." American Ethnologist, vol. 43, no. 3, 2016, pp. 540-554.

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Flores, Andrea. "Empowerment and Civic Surrogacy: Community Workers' Perceptions of Their Own and Their Latino/a Students' Civic Potential." Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 4, 2015, pp. 397-413.

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Flores, A., James, C. "Morality and ethics behind the screen: Young people's perspectives on digital life." New Media & Society, vol. 15, no. 6, 2013, pp. 834-852.

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James, C., Davis, K., Flores, A., Francis, J. M., Pettingill, L., Rundle, M., & Gardner, H. "Young people, ethics, and the new digital media: A synthesis from the GoodPlay Project." MIT Press, 2009.

Research

Research Overview

Andrea Flores conducts anthropological research in the United States focused on the intersection of education and immigration.

Research Statement

Her book The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California Press, Public Anthropology Series; winner 2022 Best Book Award, Council on Anthropology and Education) identifies how Latino youth who participated in a college readiness program in Nashville, Tennessee conceptualized the value of higher education for themselves, their families, and their communities in light of nativist hostility.

Her next book project Scientific Americans: Knowledge Migration in the Biological Century investigates how foreign-born life science PhDs make migration and professional decisions following their graduate and/or postdoctoral training in the United States.

In addition to Scientific Americans, Flores is collaborating with anthropologists Kate Mason (Brown) and Sarah Willen (University of Connecticut) on an NSF-funded study examining the educational outcomes and caretaking practices of first-generation college students and their families in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The project uses the Pandemic Journaling Project's platform, co-created by Mason and Willen, to follow the families over a two year period. In addition, Flores collaborates with Willen, Mason, and PSTC post-doctoral fellow Heather Wurtz on a Peterson Foundation-funded study on South Asian and Latinx immigrant women's experiences of the pandemic in New York City during Covid-19.

Funded Research

2022, Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Research Fund, “Understanding and Coping with the Long-term Mental Health Impact of Covid-19 among Immigrant Women in New York City,” with Kate Mason, Sarah Willen, and Heather Wurtz
2022-2025 NSF Senior Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Award, with Katherine A. Mason and Sarah Willen
2017-2018. Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association, with Lisa M. Martinez, Edelina Burciaga, Kevin Escudero, Joanna Perez, and Carolina Valdivia
2014-2015 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
2014-2015 Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship
2012-2013 Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Grant
2010-2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2015	PhD	Brown University
2011	AM	Brown University
2005	AB	Harvard University

Honors and Awards

2022, Outstanding Book Award, given by the Council on Anthropology of Education, for The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth are Transforming What it Means to Belong in America

2020, Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, for excellence in teaching, Brown University

2015, The Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University

2014, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention

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Collaborators

Name	Title
Escudero, Kevin	Assistant Professor of American Studies
Mason, Katherine	Associate Professor of Anthropology

Affiliations

Affiliations at Brown:

Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies

Population Studies and Training Center Center

Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy

Professional Society Affiliations:

American Anthropological Association

American Educational Research Association

The Society for Applied Anthropology

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Andrea Flores

Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Education

Overview

Brown Affiliations

Research Areas

On the Web

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Research

Research Overview

Research Statement

Funded Research

Background

Education and Training

Honors and Awards

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Collaborators

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Teaching

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