Pedro Portes
Counseling and Human Development Services (Faculty)
Professor, Dist Chair & Executive Director
125F Aderhold
Phone: 706.543.5561
Email: portes@uga.edu
Pedro R. Portes is The Goizueta Foundation Distinguished Chair of Latino Teacher Education, Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, and the Executive Director of CLASE. A past Fulbright Scholar to Peru, Dr. Portes received the prestigious American Educational Research Association’s 2005 Research Award in Human Development and is the author of Making Kids Smarter (1998). He has published scores of research articles on human development, learning, home environment and intellectual growth. In April 2005, he authored Dismantling Educational Inequality: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap. Portes’ interests center on linking primary prevention practices to human development within a cultural-context perspective, improving teacher and counselor education, and educational policy. Portes joined the University of Louisville faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor in the department of educational and counseling psychology after serving as a counselor for adolescents and their families at several treatment facilities in Florida. He was made professor in 1995 and had been acting chairman of his department since 2003 prior to coming to UGA in July 2006. A native of Havana, Cuba, Portes received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from Florida State University. He received his master’s in counseling psychology from Nova University and a B.S. in psychology from the University of Iowa.