Rosalind Horowitz, PhD

Ricardo Romo PhD Endowed Professorship

Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching; Department of Educational Psychology

Rosalind Horowitz has been a pioneer among the founders of UT San Antonio and its research infrastructure and is one of the university’s longest-serving faculty members, having served 45 years. She is a scholar of literacy, language development and communication and is a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching with a joint appointment in the Department of Educational Psychology.

Horowitz’s research interests include the influence of oral and written communication on the survival of a culture and community, how reading and writing influence critical thinking and identity, and the achievement gap in reading. She recently completed The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Writing, which included 77 research authors from across the globe.

Horowitz has presented her research internationally and she was recently a keynote speaker in Oeiras, Portugal, invited to speak by and to Portuguese government officials and CNN Portugal.

Passionate about creating research opportunities for students, Horowitz founded the Annual Research Colloquium in the university’s College of Education and Human Development. The event helps undergraduate and graduate students gain fundamental experience in developing and presenting original research. She will usher in the 18th Colloquium in February 2026.

Outside the university, Horowitz founded The San Antonio Literacy Project for at-risk youth in the city. She also founded and chaired both the Doctoral Student Cohort and the Special Interest Group for Russian Contributions to Language, Literacy, and the Psychology of Human Learning for the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Additionally, she has been a member of several divisions of AERA and served as a member of the AERA Executive Council which oversaw 140 special interest groups.

Horowitz earned her BA, MA and PhD at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, with graduate work at Harvard University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and in Russia and Ukraine.