Professional Bio
Dr. Glenda Marisol Flores holds B.A.’s in Chicano/Latino Studies and Spanish Language and Culture (w/an Education Emphasis) from UCI, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Southern California. She also holds a Gender Studies certificate.
Dr. Flores’s ethnographic investigations of Latina/o/x professionals has been published in some of the top journals in the field such as, Qualitative Sociology, City and Community, Ethnography, Gender & Society, Sex Roles, and Gender, Work and Organization. She has also published on Latinos in the STEM fields in Latino Studies, the Journal for STEM Education, and for the IBM Corporation. Her book, Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture was published by NYU Press. Her book was awarded the American Sociological Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the section on Race, Gender and Class and received an honorable mention from the section on Latina/o Sociology. You can order a copy here. Dr. Flores is currently Co-PI on a nearly three million dollar HSI-NSF grant and captured the student voice of students enrolled in various STEM majors in order to help faculty create more inclusive classroom spaces. You can learn more about the project here.
Her research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the FORD Foundation, the Myra Sadker Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. Her research was highlighted on NBC Latino and received more than 64,000 upvotes on Reddit Science.
Her new book project is a qualitative investigation of Latina/o/x physicians and is titled, The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine. This research has been supported by the UC/ACCORD organization, a SPIRIT grant from the Office of Inclusive Excellence, and an Associate Professor Research Award from the School of Social Sciences. She was also the recipient of the highly coveted and prestigious, Hellman Fellowship.
Throughout the academic year she teaches “Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies”, “Chicano/Latinos and Labor”, “Intersections in Education”, “Gender and Ethnicity: Chicana/Latinas in the U.S.”, and “Theoretical Issues and Foundations in Chicano/Latino Studies”. She has also taught graduate seminars internationally such as “Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives Regarding Migration”, and “Intersections between Gender, Race, Age and Ethnicity” at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos in Cuernavaca, Mexico. More recently, she has taught for the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC).
For her teaching and service she has been recognized with the Dean’s Honoree for Teaching Excellence from the School of Social Sciences and the Dynamic Womxn of the Year Award.
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