Gabriel Pulido

Gabriel Pulido

  • Assistant Professor
  • B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
  • M.A., University of Northern Colorado
  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
  • GPulido477@wcupa.edu

Biography

Gabriel Pulido, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration department at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pulido earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education with minors in African American and Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Penn State University. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership from the University of Northern Colorado and a B.A. in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Latin American & Latino Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Pulido’s academic and creative writing often intersect and find a home at the center of healing. Centering joy, love, and resilience, he uses both creative and academic writing to work towards a collective liberation. When not writing, Dr. Pulido can be found near a body of water dreaming of becoming just as free.

Areas of Instruction

Dr. Pulido teaches graduate courses in Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration, particularly courses affiliated with the Master of Science in Higher Education Policy & Student Affairs and the Doctor of Education.

 Dr. Pulido’s principal specializations are in:

  • Higher Education & Student Affairs
  • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Arts-based Research Methods
  • Ethnography

He primarily teaches courses in:

  • College Student Career Development
  • Qualitative Research Methodologies
  • Gender and Sexuality in Higher Education
  • Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education

Publications and Professional Activities

Dr. Pulido’s selected publications include:

Serna, G.R., Guido, F.M., & Pulido, G. (Eds.) (2025). Administration, finance, and budgeting in higher education and student affairs: Integrating theory, research, and practice. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Inc.

Pulido, G. (2025, May). Special Issue on Poetry: as an unbounded possibility. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE).

Pulido, G., Orozco, R. C., Gonzalez, S. A., González, Á. d. J., Duran, A., Sérráno, B. C., Cataño, Y., Ortiz, G. C., & Mendoza, G. S. (2024). The story of the queer and trans Latinx/a/o higher education collective: Revealing the power of the group using queer pláticas. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000579

Orozco, R., Duran, A., Pulido, G. (2023). Creando mundos y futuros de jotería: Ofrendas of queertorship for and by queer and trans Latinx/a/o people. Journal of Latinos and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2023.2268732.

Pulido, G. (2023). Queer Heaven. Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine. December issue.

Pulido, G. (2023). First Night Home. Tendon Magazine. Special Issue on Injury.

Wright-Mair, R., Pulido, G. (2021). We deserve more than this: Spirit murdering and resurrection in the academy. Journal of Educational Foundations. Special Issue- Spirit Murdering: Terrains, Trenches, and Terrors in Academia

 

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