Victoria Olivo
Victoria Olivo
College Of Education And Human Development
Student and Academic Success
Lecturer
CAB 206
210-784-2412
volivo@tamusa.edu
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Biography
Dr. Victoria Barbosa Olivo earned her B.A. with highest honors in Psychology and Womens Studies, then received her M.S. in Psychology and M.A. in History at The University of Texas at San Antonio. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with a concentration in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University.
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- Olivo, V. B. (2025). The University of Texas at El Paso: A Historical Counternarrative to US Higher Education in the 20th Century. P. A. Sasso, D. Dos, & M. D. Nour (Eds.), Blurring Boundaries and Binaries: Belonging, Gender, & Mixed Heritage in Higher Education in the United States, 81-100.
- Olivo, V. B., & Prieto, K. (2025). “We Exist:” A Narrative Exploration of Plurisexual Christian Student Identity. Journal of Bisexuality, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2025.2453848
- Prieto, K., & Olivo, V. B. (2024). “We Don’t Do That:” Negotiating Graduate Education as a Bisexual+ Student. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education, 1(2), 4. https://doi.org/10.60808/m91m-w002
- Olivo, V. B., Prieto, K., Copeland, O. (2024). You Can Stand Under My Bi+ Umbrella: Exploring Students’ Chosen Plurisexual Identity Labels in A. Herridge & K. Prieto (Eds.), Perspectives on Transforming Higher Education and the LGBTQIA Student Experience. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2853-8.ch005
- Maxwell, A., & Olivo, V. B. (2023). Sensegiving doesnt always make sense: Framing the implementation of performance-based funding in Ohio. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2023.2255295
- Prieto, K. & Olivo, V. B. (2022). “Low key from the university”: Making sense of researcher positionality and professional identity as bi+ women in academia. In A. Duran, T.J. Jourian, R. Miller, & J. Cisneros (Eds.), Narrating the insider/outsider paradox as LGBTQ+ educators in higher education and student affairs. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003255284
- Olivo, V. B., & Cepeda, R. (2021). A call for the examination of multiracial students in Minority Serving Institutions. New Directions for Student Services, 2021(174), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.1002/ss.20383
- Núñez, A. M., Rivera, J., Valdez, J., & Olivo, V. B. (2021). Centering Hispanic-Serving Institutions’ strategies to develop talent in computing fields. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2020.1842582