From 1999 to 2004, Gil Conchas was a school-wide Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. At Harvard he was awarded a prominent National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and was an Associate with the notable National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education and Faculty Fellow in the Cesar Chavez Institute as San Francisco State University. At UC Irvine he was named Chancellor’s Fellow to recognize how his achievements in “scholarship evidence extraordinary promise for world-class contributions to knowledge, and whose patterns of contributions evidences strong trajectory to distinction.”