Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Gloria González-López holds the C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair #1 in U.S.-Mexico Relations and is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a first-generation college student and a member of an extended family with a long history of transnational Mexico-U.S. migration.

She is the author of Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico (NYU Press, 2015) and Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives (University of California Press, 2005); she has published her academic work extensively in Spanish. She is also a couples and family therapist by training and has worked with Latina immigrant women with histories of sexual violence. She is a consultant for professionals working in sexual violence eradication, prevention, and treatment programs at grassroots organizations and academic institutions in Mexico. Because of the kindness and generosity of students, colleagues, mentors, and supervisors, she received the 2021 Simon-Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2022 Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, both from the Sexualities Section and the Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association, respectively.