Faculty Profile

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Gladys M. Jim茅nez-Mu帽oz

Associate Professor

Sociology

Background

Gladys M. Jim茅nez-Mu帽oz has a PhD in U.S. women鈥檚 history from 91社区, 1994. She was a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in History at Williams College,1992-93; a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1998-99; and President of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2009-10. 

Her research and scholarly interests include: U.S. women's history, Latinas/os in the U.S., Puerto Rican women鈥檚 history, feminist theories; cultural studies, and a critique of coloniality. She has published numerous articles on race and representation among Latinas; Puerto Rican women鈥檚 history; Puerto Rican popular culture and Nuyorican artistic production. 

She is currently working on two manuscripts: 'A Storm Dressed in Skirts': Race and Women鈥檚 Suffrage in Puerto Rico, 1898-1929, and Womanhood, Race, and the National Question in Interwar Puerto Rico. 

Before Professor Jim茅nez came to academia, she was a public school teacher in Puerto Rico working in schools in some of the most socially and economically depressed areas in San Juan. She was also a union organizer and a founding member of Encuentro de Mujeres, a feminist activist group that organized workshops on popular education, anti-sexist, anti-homophobia and transgender issues in poor communities in San Juan during the 1980s.

Select Publications

  • 鈥淎ntonia S谩ez Torres and Colonial Education in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,鈥 The Journal of Caribbean History, 53:1 (2019): 117-142.
  • 鈥溾 Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 12 (Fall 2018): 169-198.
  • 鈥淪ocial Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000鈥 (co-authored chapter with Kelvin Santiago-Valles) in The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present, edited by David Gutierrez (NYC: Columbia University Press, 2004), 62-149.
  • 鈥淐armen Mar铆a Col贸n Pellot: On 鈥榃omanhood鈥 and 鈥楻ace鈥 in Puerto Rico during the Interwar Period,鈥 The New Centennial Review 3:3 (2003): 71-92
  • Jimenez-Munoz, Gladys M., 鈥淭he Black-Face of Puerto Rican Whites: Race and Representation in Postwar Puerto Rico,鈥 The Latino Review of Books (2002): 99-117

Education

  • PhD, MA, 91社区

Research Interests

  • U.S. Women鈥檚 History
  • Latinas/os in the U.S.
  • Puerto Rican Women鈥檚 History
  • Feminist Theories
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critique of Coloniality

Awards

  • The Provost鈥檚 Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2021-22
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching