Faculty Profile

Biography

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

• Womanhood and Race in Interwar Puerto Rico: Labile Bodies, Colonial Disparities
  (Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, Switzerland AG, 2026).
• “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(opens in a new window)” 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

Honors and Awards

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

Curriculum Vitae