Cultural Studies
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

In 1982,  in Plyler v. Doe, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas  law denying school enrollment to undocumented immigrant  school children, thereby ensuring a free K-12 public education for all students regardless of immigration status. Today, some Americans want to overturn Plyler, and some scholars believe that the official opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, laid a foundation for an impending Plyler challenge. The Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) just released a new paper that reviews the Plyler decision, focuses on continuing barriers to education faced by undocumented students, and examines the potential impact of overturning Plyler. 

Tauheeda Yasin, PhD Cultural Studies ’20, is launching a two-year appointment as the Community Engaged Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, as the recipient of a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship.