Michel Estefan

Michel Estefan is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the sociology department at the University of California, San Diego. His teaching and writing combine philosophical humanism, sociological theory, and the scholarship of teaching and learning to produce systematic frameworks for critically understanding and addressing some of the most daunting challenges facing instructors and students in today’s higher education landscape. His published work has appeared in Teaching Sociology, Sociological Focus, TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, First Publics, Inside Higher Ed, and Teaching/Learning Matters, and has been featured multiple times in The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

He has trained close to 2,000 graduate students, faculty, lecturers and postdocs across the University of California and California State University systems on various aspects of teaching and pedagogy. His teaching and mentoring have been recognized with awards from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, SAGE publishing, and the Teaching and Learning Section of the American Sociological Association.