PhD, Education, University of California, Los Angeles

Adrian H. Huerta, Ph.D., is a tenured, associate professor of education and population & public health sciences at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on boys and young men of color, college access and success, gang-involved populations, the high school-to-college transition and student parents. His research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the ECMC Foundation, the College Futures Foundation, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Institute for Research on Poverty/JPB Foundation and other organizations, totaling over $2.8 million. His scholarship appears in Community College Review, Journal of College Student Development, Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, Teachers College Record, The Review of Higher Education, The Urban Review, Urban Education and other practitioner and scholarly journals.

He was selected as the winner of the prestigious Early Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in 2022, named a 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, a 2024 co-winner of the Anna Julia Cooper Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association and a past receipt of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship. He earned his PhD in Education from UCLA.

Expertise
Boys and young men of color | College access and success | Gang-involved populations | Student Parents | Urban Education

Extended bio and CV at USC Rossier