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Ana M. Martínez-Alemán researches topics at the forefront of higher education and campus culture. Her book Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture was the first to explore social media’s impact on campus. Currently, she examines college students’ political engagement, and online racialized aggression. Her most recent book explores student sexual violence activism and institutional practice.

The author or coauthor of seven books and dozens of publications, she has also delivered more than 100 talks. Since 2002, she has edited the Educational Policy journal and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Journal. Martínez-Alemán and her coauthors received the 2016 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award for their book Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education and the 2019 AERA Division J, Outstanding Publication Award, and 2018 Outstanding Publication Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education for Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First-Generation College Students.

Martínez-Alemán is Professor of Education and has served as the Associate Dean of Faculty and Academics since 2017. She joined the Lynch School in 1998 and served as department chair for the Educational Leadership and Higher Education Department from 2007 to 2017. In 2023, Martínez-Alemán served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2016, Martínez-Alemán was elected Vice President of Postsecondary Education (Division J) at the American Educational Research Association (AERA).Martínez-Alemán earned a doctorate in higher education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the State University of New York, Binghamton.