Background
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz has a PhD in U.S. women’s history from Binghamton University, 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’s history, feminist theories; cultural studies, and a critique of coloniality. She has published numerous articles on race and representation among Latinas; Puerto Rican women’s history; Puerto Rican popular culture and Nuyorican artistic production.
She is currently working on two manuscripts: 'A Storm Dressed in Skirts': Race and Women’s Suffrage in Puerto Rico, 1898-1929, and Womanhood, Race, and the National Question in Interwar Puerto Rico.
Before Professor Jiménez 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
- “Antonia Sáez Torres and Colonial Education in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico,” The Journal of Caribbean History, 53:1 (2019): 117-142.
- “Race and Class among Nacionalista Women in Interwar Puerto Rico: The Activism of Dominga de la Cruz Becerril and Trina Padilla de Sanz” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 12 (Fall 2018): 169-198.
- “Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000” (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.
- “Carmen María Colón Pellot: On ‘Womanhood’ and ‘Race’ in Puerto Rico during the Interwar Period,” The New Centennial Review 3:3 (2003): 71-92
- Jimenez-Munoz, Gladys M., “The Black-Face of Puerto Rican Whites: Race and Representation in Postwar Puerto Rico,” The Latino Review of Books (2002): 99-117
Education
- PhD, MA, Binghamton University
Research Interests
- U.S. Women’s History
- Latinas/os in the U.S.
- Puerto Rican Women’s History
- Feminist Theories
- Cultural Studies
- Critique of Coloniality
Awards
- The Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2021-22
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
