Daniel Solorzano

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Daniel Solorzano is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His faculty appointment is in the division of social sciences and comparative education. He also has a joint appointment as professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department. Solorzano is the associate director of the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD), an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research center devoted to a more equitable distribution of educational resources and opportunities in California’s public schools and universities. He is the associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. His teaching and research interests include critical race and gender studies of underrepresented minority undergraduate and graduate students in the United States.

Solorzano received his undergraduate degree in sociology and Chicano studies and a master of urban education from Loyola University in 1972 and 1974. He went on to obtain his master of arts and doctorate in the sociology of education from Claremont Graduate School in 1986. Upon graduation, he received three postdoctoral fellowships from the Tomas Rivera Center for Policy Studies in Social and Family Policy (1986), the Educational Testing Service in Educational Policy (1987) and the Ford Foundation in Sociology (1988). Over his 32-year career Solorzano has taught in the California Community College (East Los Angeles College, Santa Monica College), California State University (California State University Northridge, California State University Bakersfield) and University of California (UCLA) systems.