Franny Perez Ramirez, PhD Student and 2025 Graduate Student Exhibit Award Winner
This year’s Graduate Student Exhibit award winner and PhD student, Franny Perez Ramirez, dove into the complexity of how graduate teaching assistants’ identities shape how they teach their classes.
In her collage series based on qualitative research, “Layers of Self: Visual Narratives of Teaching,” she highlights themes of culture, belonging, identity negotiation, and pedagogy—revealing teacher identity as dynamic, contextual, and deeply personal.
Read more about the research and creative process behind the exhibit in Franny Perez’s blog.