Faculty Directory

Authored Books

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., & Martinez, A. How Latinx Students鈥� Traverse and Transform Higher Education. (in press, Princeton University Press, expected publication date: 2027).
• Ginsberg, A., Gasman, M., & Castro Samayoa, A. (2023). For the love of teaching: How Minority Serving Institutions are transforming and diversifying teacher education. New York: NY: Teachers College Press.

Edited Books

• Castro Samayoa, A. & Gasman, M. (2019). New York, NY: Routledge.

• Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (2018). New York, NY: Routledge.

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., Boland, W. & Esmieu, P. (2018). New York, NY: Routledge.

Monograph

• Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (Eds.). (2018).听San Francisco, CA: Wiley Press.

Referred Articles

• Mu帽iz, R. &听Castro Samayoa, A. (in press). Generative AI and the Erosion of Democratic Critical Citizenship. Critical AI. []
• Gasman, M., Ekpe, L., Castro Samayoa, A., & Ginsberg, A. (2025). Experience and authenticity: Shaping the future of minority serving institution presidents. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 6(3), 25-57. doi.org/10.61882/johepal.6.3.25
• Mu帽iz, R. & Castro Samayoa, A. (2024). Co-optive Constitutionalism. Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy, 20(2),
• Creps, R.*., Zeng., B.*., Islem, S.*, Castro Samayoa, A., Boatman, A. (2025). Tech Equity: A Survival Analysis of an Undergraduate Computer Science Supplemental Education Program. Innovative Higher Education, 50, 1315-1334. doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09779-5
• Nguyen, BM., Castro Samayoa, A., Nguyen, T-H.P., Gutierrez, R., Kurland, W., Le, A., Lee, N. (2024). Toward reciprocal research partnerships in student affairs: Accounting for racialized power dynamics in Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Journal of College Student Development, 65(6), 627-644. doi.org/10.1353/csd.2024.a944811
• Gasman, M., Ekpe, L., Castro Samayoa, A. & Ginsberg, A. (2024). Exploring how emergent leaders strive for presidential roles at Hispanic Serving Institutions. Innovative Higher Education. doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09724-6 (IF: 2.2)
• Gasman, M., Ekpe, L., Ginsberg, A., Lockett, A.W., & Castro Samayoa, A. (2023). Why aspiring leaders choose to lead historically Black colleges & universities. Innovative Higher Education. doi.org/10.1007/s10755-022-09644-3 (IF: 2.2)
• Castro Samayoa, A., Nguyen, BMD, Lally, M*, & Pemberton, B*. (2022). Intertwined crises: California鈥檚 public universities鈥� responses to COVID-19 & anti-Asian animus, January 2020 鈥� June 2021. American Behavioral Scientist. (IF: 2.6)
• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., Benyehudah, K. & Fowlkes, A. (2022). Philanthropic support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies. 3(3), 38-53. doi.org/10.52547/johepal.3.3.38 (IF: n/a).
• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., Fowlkes, A. & Benyehudah, K. (2022). Hispanic Serving Institutions and Philanthropic Support: A Retrospective Overview, 2006- 2018. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. [advance online听version]: doi.org/10.1177/15381927221126616. (IF: 1.15)

Book Chapters

• Castro Samayoa, A. (2022). Minority serving institutions: Current policies and future actions. In N. Hillman & G. Orfield (Eds.) Civil rights & federal higher education (pp. 127-142). Harvard Education Press.
• Nguyen, B-M. D. & Castro Samayoa, A. (2021). Asian Americans in Education: How racial categorization obscures histories of intraethnic inequities. In F. English (Ed.) The Palgrave handbook of educational leadership and management discourse (pp. 1-14). Palgrave听Macmillan, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39666-4_96-1
• Castro Samayoa, A. (2019). Starting with sexuality: Conceptualizing (mis)translations of sexualities and genders as willful strategies of organizational survival at a Mexican university. In Nicolazzo, Z & Henderson, E. (Eds.). Starting with Gender: Concept and Methodology in International Higher Education Research. Routledge.
• Gasman, M., Nguyen, T-H., Castro Samayoa, A., & Corral, D. (2018). Critical Importance of Minority Serving Institutions and the risks of accountability measures which ignore their distinctive circumstances. In Gary Orfield & Nicholas Hillman (Eds.). College opportunity and accountability: The civil rights dimension. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.听
• Abiola, U., Gasman, M., Nguyen, TP., Castro Samayoa, A.,听&听Commodore, F. (2014). 鈥淗istorical and contemporary challenges of African American undergraduate students,鈥� In Joseph Devitas and Pietro Sasso (Eds.).听Today鈥檚 College Students. New York: Peter Lang.

Reports

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., & Martinez, A.* (September 2021). Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Newark, NJ.
• Castro Samayoa, A. & Mu帽iz, R. (September 2020). Scholarly Report. Association for Institutional Research. Tallahassee, FL.
• Nathenson, R., Castro Samayoa, A., & Gasman, M. (March 2019). Moving upward &outward: Income mobility at Historically Black Colleges. Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Newark, NJ.
• Boland, W. Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (July 2018). Penn Center for Minority Serving听Institutions, Philadelphia, PA.
• Castro Samayoa, A. (2018). Minority Serving Institutions under Trump鈥檚 presidency: Considerations for current policies and future directions. Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles. Washington, D.C.
• Boland, W. Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (July, 2018). Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (July 2017). Historically Black Colleges & Universities: Fostering familial learning environments for student success. In Eds. Espinosa, L., Turk, J. & Taylor, M. American Council on Education. Center for Policy Research & Strategy. Washington, D.C.
• Boland, W., Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., Hernandez, D., Mayo, S. & Jimenez, C. (February, 2017). . Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Philadelphia, PA.听

Boatman, A. (PI), Castro Samayoa, A., Rowan-Kenyon, H., Gates, E., & Samary, M. (2022-2024). Building a Data Repository, Landscape Analysis, Theory of Change & Quasi-Experimental Research on CodePath鈥檚 Effectiveness to Diversify Computer听Science. CodePath.Org. $999,719

Gates, E. (PI), Castro Samayoa, A., Mi, M., & Dao Tran. P. (2021-2024). SCENE:听Strengthening capacity for equity in New England evaluation collaborative. The Barr听Foundation: $60,000

Castro, Samayoa, A. (PI), Nguyen, B-M.D. & Nguyen, T. (2020-2023). Between the public听good & racialized animus: Public universities鈥� responses to influenza pandemics,听1957-2022. The Spencer Foundation Special Grant. $49,556.15

Castro, Samayoa, A. (PI). (2020-2021). Tracing the shifting rhetoric of ethnoracial听difference in federal responses to education, 1958-2018. HathiTrust Research听Center (HTRC) Advanced Collaborative Support Grant. [6-month technical听support granted for project]

Castro Samayoa, A. (PI) & Mu帽iz, R. (Co-PI) (2019-2022). What鈥檚 the worth of a legal听education today? Using normative case studies to examine Latinx students鈥櫶齛rticulations of the value proposition of law schools across differently-institutions.听The Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant. $49,958

Castro Samayoa, A. (PI), Mu帽iz, R. (Co-PI). (2019-2020). What鈥檚 it all for? Exploring how听Latinx students and university officials at differently-ranked law schools articulate听legal education's value through normative case studies. AccessLex Institute &听Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Research Grant. $49,978. RG-听27563.

Gasman, M. (PI) & Castro Samayoa, A. (Co-PI). (2016). Propelling More听Underrepresented Students toward Success in STEM Careers by Strengthening听Minority Serving Institutions. National Academy of Sciences. $133,000.

Gasman, M. (PI), Castro Samayoa, A. (Co-PI) & Esmieu. P. (Co-PI). (2016-2020).听Hispanic Serving Institutions: Pathways to the Professoriate. Andrew W. Mellon听Foundation. $5,100,000.

Gasman, M. (PI) & Castro Samayoa, A. (Co-PI). (2014-2016). Understanding Teacher听Education at Minority Serving Institutions and its Impact on Local Communities.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation. $750,000.听Gasman, M. (PI) & Castro Samayoa, A. (Co-PI). (2014-2015). Understanding Ph.D.听Pipelines for Latinos/as: The Role of Hispanic Serving Institutions. Andrew W.听Mellon Foundation. $100,000.

Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders, Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly Woodrow听Wilson National Fellowship Foundation), 2021

Diversity Scholar, Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional听Diversity, University of Michigan, 2019

American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship, 2018

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship semi-finalist, 2017 (withdrew from further听consideration due to faculty appointment)

Nordic Centre of Excellence Justice Through Education in the Nordic Countries Travel听Grant, 2016 (鈧�300)

Duberman-Zal Fellowship, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies in New York City,听2016 ($2,500)

Nordic Centre of Excellence Justice Through Education in the Nordic Countries Travel听Grant, 2015 (鈧�300)

Eric Rofes Travel Grant, Queer Studies Special Interest Group, American Educational听Research Association, 2015 ($300)

Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar, 2014

Eric Rofes Memorial Scholarship, The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating听Change, 2014