Faculty Directory

Authored Books

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., & Martinez, A. How Latinx Students’ 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). A Primer on Minority Serving Institutions. New York, NY: Routledge.

• Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (2018). Contemporary Issues in Higher Education. New York, NY: Routledge.

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., Boland, W. & Esmieu, P. (2018). Educational Challenges at Minority Serving Institutions. New York, NY: Routledge.

Monograph

• Gasman, M. & Castro Samayoa, A. (Eds.). (2018). The Return on Investment for Minority Serving Institutions. San Francisco, CA: Wiley Press.

Referred Articles

• Muñiz, R. & Castro Samayoa, A. (in press). Generative AI and the Erosion of Democratic Critical Citizenship. Critical AI. [preview here]
• 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
• Muñiz, R. & Castro Samayoa, A. (2024). Co-optive Constitutionalism. Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy, 20(2), https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njlsp/vol20/iss2/4
• 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’s public universities’ responses to COVID-19 & anti-Asian animus, January 2020 – 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 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 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. 
• Abiola, U., Gasman, M., Nguyen, TP., Castro Samayoa, A., & Commodore, F. (2014). “Historical and contemporary challenges of African American undergraduate students,” In Joseph Devitas and Pietro Sasso (Eds.). Today’s College Students. New York: Peter Lang.

Reports

• Gasman, M., Castro Samayoa, A., & Martinez, A.* (September 2021). Forging a pathway to equity in the professoriate: Lessons from the Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) pathways program. Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Newark, NJ.
• Castro Samayoa, A. & Muñiz, R. (September 2020). The Value of Legal Education as a Continuum of Personal & Collective Gains: Insights from Administrators & Latinx Students across Differently-Ranked Law Schools. 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). Even more potential to serve: Florida’s Minority Serving Institutions. Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Philadelphia, PA.
• Castro Samayoa, A. (2018). Minority Serving Institutions under Trump’s 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). Even more potential to serve: Florida’s Minority Serving Institutions. 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 Pulling back the curtain: enrollment and outcomes at Minority Serving Institutions. 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). An unstoppable tidal wave of progress: Minority serving institutions in Texas. Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Philadelphia, PA. 

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’s Effectiveness to Diversify Computer Science. CodePath.Org. $999,719

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

Castro, Samayoa, A. (PI), Nguyen, B-M.D. & Nguyen, T. (2020-2023). Between the public good & racialized animus: Public universities’ responses to influenza pandemics, 1957-2022. The Spencer Foundation Special Grant. $49,556.15

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

Castro Samayoa, A. (PI) & Muñiz, R. (Co-PI) (2019-2022). What’s the worth of a legal education today? Using normative case studies to examine Latinx students’ articulations of the value proposition of law schools across differently-institutions. The Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant. $49,958

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

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

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

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

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

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

Diversity Scholar, Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional 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 consideration due to faculty appointment)

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

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

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

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

Fellow, Salzburg Global Seminar, 2014

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