Edgar Diaz

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Assistant Professor


Edgar Díaz

Contact Information

Office Location: EDUC 377
Phone: 435-797-0386
Email: edgar.diaz@usu.edu
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Educational Background

PhD, Language and Literacy Learning in Multilingual Settings (LLLMS), University of Miami, 2022
“Far Less is Known”: A Three-Article Dissertation Exploring the Perceptions and Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Educators in California and Florida
MS, Education and Social Change, University of Miami, 2015
BA, Sociology, (History), University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011
Single Subject Teaching Credential in Social Studies Pre-K-12 , California Commission on Teacher Credentialing , 2022
General Education Limited Assignment Multiple Subject Teaching Permit , California Commission on Teacher Credentialing , 2022
Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development Permit (CLAD), California Commission on Teacher Credentialing , 2022
Professional Certification in Social Studies Grades 6-12 , State of Florida Department of Education , 2020

Awards

Applied Educator of the Year , 2026

School of Teacher Education & Leadership, Utah State University


    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Diaz, E., (2025). In the Heights (2021): Hollywood or history: An inquiry-based strategy to learn about Latinx communities and history in the classroom. Emerald
  • de Oliveira, L.C, Axelrod, D., Diaz, E., Smith, S.L, Vicentini, C., (2021). Virtual collaborations to disseminate and publish research results. : Getting English language teachers research ready.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Diaz, E., Arnold, K., Deroo, M.R, (2026). “I hate slavery, too”: A systemic functional linguistics analysis of PragerU’s history-based children’s programing. Critical Discourse Studies
  • Diaz, E., Wadhwa , K., (2026). “African slavery was becoming an essential part”: Examining language, agency, and power in the representation of enslavement U.S. history textbooks. Linguistics and Education, 94, 1-15.
  • Diaz, E., (2026). A practitioner’s perspective on teaching AP comparative government and politics. The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal, 6:1, 30-39.
  • Diaz, E., (2026). “I’m rare in this space”: A case study of the perceptions and realities of a Black gay male elementary teacher. , 27:1, 1-27.
  • Suarez, M.I, Strunk, K., Furr, K.N, Tuxbury, K.L, Justus-Smith , C., Nicolai, K.D, Racelis, T.L, Frierson, M., Diaz, E., Boateng, O., Grigg, J.P, (2025). QuantCrit at the intersections: A systematic review of gender and sexuality in QuantCrit research. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Butler, T., Diaz, E., (2025). Bridging theory and practice: Applying systemic functional linguistics to U.S. history textbooks. Iowa Journal for the Social Studies, 33:1, 4-25.
  • Wadhwa, K., Diaz, E., (2023). Rifts in representation: A linguistic analysis of STEM identity in a 9th grade world history textbook. Social Studies Journal, 43:1, 17-33.
  • Diaz, E., (2021). Constructing cohesive meaning: A textual analysis of diseases in an 11th-grade U.S. history textbook. International Journal on Social and Education Sciences , 3:1, 197-215.
  • de Oliveira, L.C, Smith, S.L, Axelrod, D., Diaz, E., Vicentini, C., (2021). Supporting academic language development for multilingual learners across content areas through the identification of textual features. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 9:17, 227-242.
  • Deroo, M.R, Diaz, E., (2021). “They enjoyed little political power:” Representations of immigrant experience in an 11th-grade U.S. history textbook. Linguistics and Education, 64, 1-10.
  • Cavendish, W., Barrenechea, I., Young, A.F, Diaz, E., Avalos, M.A, (2020). Urban teachers’ perspectives of strengths and needs: The promise of teacher responsive professional development. The Urban Review, 53, 318-333.
  • Diaz, E., Deroo, M.R, (2020). Latinxs in contention: A systemic functional linguistic analysis of 11th-grade US history textbooks.. Theory & Research in Social Education, 48:3, 375-402.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

TEAL 7200 - Advanced Review of Cultural Studies Research, Fall 2025
SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Fall 2025
USU 1010 - University Connections, Fall 2025
SCED 5810 - Social Studies Teaching Methods, Spring 2025
SCED 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Spring 2025
SCED 3550 - Teaching Social Studies in the Middle Grades, Spring 2025
SCED 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Fall 2024
SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Fall 2024
TEAL 7810 - Research Seminar, Summer 2024
SCED 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Spring 2024
SCED 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Fall 2023
SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED, SCED 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500, 3500 - Teaching Social Studies, Fall 2023