Greses Pérez

Greses Pérez is the McDonnell Family Assistant Professor in Engineering Education in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Tufts University. She also holds secondary appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Education. Her scholarship focuses on the relationship between the language and cultural practices of communities and engineering practices. Through her work, she supports minoritized students who experience a cultural and linguistic mismatch between the ways of knowing and speaking in their local contexts and those in the technical and scientific disciplines. Greses is the Co-PI of two NSF grants and the PI of a NSF CAREER grant all focused on investigating the link between disciplinary epistemologies and practices and community resources of Black, Latinx/e and Afro-Latinx/e people. One of such projects specializes in the critical study of climate technologies in connection with the health and well-being of multilingual and multicultural communities. Synthesizing expertise in climate technology, science communication, and multilingual education, she engages communities in investigating, designing, and communicating critical environmental knowledge about community-based technological systems. These experiences and expertise have prepared her for transdisciplinary research at the intersection of sociocultural issues and engineering with a focus on community engaged research and practice. She earned a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design with a focus on Engineering Education from Stanford University. She also holds two master's degrees in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) and in Education Policy & Leadership from Southern Methodist University (SMU), as well as a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).