Elsa Gonzalez, PhD
Program Director
National Science Foundation
Dr. Elsa Gonzalez currently serves as Program Director at the National Science Foundation for the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) program and for the Excellence Awards in Science and Engineering (EASE). She is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the University of Houston.
Dr. Gonzalez is the Regional Editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), and Board Member of the Journal of Hispanic in Higher Education. She is the author of over hundred publications, her research interests include issues in higher education such as underrepresented students, Latinx students, access, resilience, retention, and graduation in STEM fields; HSI institutions; higher education leadership and methodological issues in cross-language qualitative methodology.
She was selected as Energy Fellow for the UH Energy initiative of the University of Houston and nominated by the AERA – Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender SIG, for the Mid-Career Award, in April 2018,
Previously, she held faculty positions in TAMU-Corpus Christi and Texas A&M University. She received her MBA from the National University of Mexico (UNAM), and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (College Station).
Dr. Gonzalez has professional and academic leadership experience as bilingual scholar in higher education institutions in Mexico, Spain, USA, and China. In 2020, she was awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – with a CAREER grant award for her project: CAREER: Broadening Participation in STEM: A Qualitative Analysis of Resilience Experiences and Strategies of Latina STEM Majors in HSIs. She is the author of the book "An Asset-Based Approach to Advancing Latina Students in STEM: Increasing Resilience, Participation, and Success", the book was awarded as the 2022 Book of the Year by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE).
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