Gabriel Pulido

Gabriel Pulido
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department: Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: GPulido477@wcupa.edu

Education

  • B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
  • M.A., University of Northern Colorado
  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests

Artistic PerformanceRetentionHigher EducationMentorshipRelationalityBelongingArts-Based MethodologiesActivismSocial Science Research

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Gabriel Pulido, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration department at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pulido earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education with minors in African American and Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. Additionally, he has an M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership and a B.A. in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Latin American & Latino Studies. Dr. Pulido’s academic and creative writing often intersect and find a home at the center of healing. Centering joy, love, and resilience, he uses both creative and academic writing to work towards a collective liberation. When not writing, Dr. Pulido can be found near a body of water dreaming of becoming just as free.

List of Publications

  • G.R. Serna, F.M. Guido, & G. Pulido. (Eds.) (2025). Administration, finance, and budgeting in higher education and student affairs: Integrating theory, research, and practice. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Inc.
  • Pulido, G. (2025, May). Special Issue on Poetry: as an unbounded possibility. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE).
  • Pulido, G., Orozco, R. C., Gonzalez, S. A., González, Á. d. J., Duran, A., Sérráno, B. C., Cataño, Y., Ortiz, G. C., & Mendoza, G. S. (2024). The story of the queer and trans Latinx/a/o higher education collective: Revealing the power of the group using queer pláticas. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000579
  • Orozco, R., Duran, A., Pulido, G. (2023). Creando mundos y futuros de jotería: Ofrendas of queertorship for and by queer and trans Latinx/a/o people. Journal of Latinos and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2023.2268732.
  • Wright-Mair, R., Pulido, G. (2021). We deserve more than this: Spirit murdering and resurrection in the academy. Journal of Educational Foundations. Special Issue- Spirit Murdering: Terrains, Trenches, and Terrors in Academia.