José Higuera López

José Higuera López is the Director of the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, housed at Lehman College. Born in Tijuana, México. Dr. Higuera López holds a BA in English Language Teaching, an MA in Education, and a PhD in Educational Management and Policy. In 2006, he was granted a Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship at the University of Arkansas and is a member of the Fulbright Association. Since 2016, Dr. Higuera López has successfully fundraised and secured multiple grants and awards that directly benefit thousands of New Yorkers every year by boosting enrollment of Mexican and Mexican-American students in CUNY, promoting equity and upward mobility through academic achievement, fostering research, and collaborating with community-based organizations and public institutions to support and empower all New Yorkers. In 2019, he founded the New York City International Book Fair (FIL Ciudad de Nueva York), whose mission is to position the Spanish language through literature and culture in the United States, disseminate academic and literary work published in Spanish in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and the United States.

He is also one of the editors of the Anthology of the FIL New York City, a project that gives visibility to emerging authors who write in Spanish, and a professor of the subjects: The Teaching Profession in Historical, Political and Sociocultural Contexts, Multilingualism in the Classroom, and Methodology of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ​​in the Faculty of Teaching and Educational Leadership at Lehman College.