Gabriela González |
Gabriela González received her B.S. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in History from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. Dr.González teaches courses on U.S. history, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, Latina/o history, and women's history. A course on transborder societies that Dr. González seeks to develop will focus on comparing and contrasting the history of the U.S.-Mexican border and its peoples with other borderlands societies around the world. Dr. González's research centers on transborder activists in South Texas from 1900 to 1960. Her book in progress, based on her dissertation, examines how grassroots activists created a political culture and identity influenced by transnational cultural, political and intellectual currents and designed to address the two greatest challenges facing Mexican-origin people in the United States: racial discrimination and severe poverty. Dr. González has published some of her work on transborder activism. A 2003 article appearing in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s History focused on Carolina Munguía and Emma Tenayuca. Currently Dr. González is working on an article about the role of Leonor Villegas de Magnón and other fronterizos (borderlands activists) in the Mexican Revolution. The article will be published in Feminist Studies in 2006. Two encyclopedia entries: one on Jovita Idar and a second one on the Pecan Shellers' Strike will appear in the forthcoming Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez-Korrol.
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