Susan Roberta Katz is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Hungary in Spring 2003. Her doctoral dissertation, Where the Streets Cross the Classroom: Latino Students’ Perspectives on Cultural Identity in City Schools and Neighborhood Gangs (UC Berkeley, 1994) won first place in the 1996 Outstanding Dissertation Competition of the National Association of Bilingual Education. This research study was based upon her many years of teaching in San Francisco public schools.
Professor Katz’s scholarly publications have appeared in such journals as Teachers College Record, Urban Education, Social Justice, and English Education. Her most current research involves graduates of the Gandhi School in Pécs, Hungary, the only college preparatory school for Roma students in the world.
Professor Katz is on the editorial boards of the journals, Social Justice, Intercultural Education, and Multicultural Education.