Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez
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Yolanda Broyles-González is a Yaqui-Chicana professor, writer, and activist. Her teaching and research focus on Native American culture and the popular performance genres of the US-Mexico borderlands.[1] She is a professor and chair of the department of Social Transformation Studies at Kansas State University.
Broyles-González attended the University of Arizona for her undergraduate degree and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a doctorate from Stanford University. Using the German Academic Exchange Service she was able to do research at four German universities about popular culture, gender, oral tradition.
Academic career
Broyles-González is a professor and chair of the department of Social Transformation Studies at Kansas State University.
Her research in Germany resulted in her doctoral dissertation on the German response to Latin American literature and the reception of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1979). Broyles-Gonzalez has written multiple books, which focus on empowering women and native heritage.
In 1991, began pressuring the University of California, Santa Barbara "to create the first Chicana/o studies doctorate program in the nation".[2]
In May 1996, Broyles-González filed a lawsuit against the University of California Santa Barbara and its regents that challenged the unequal payment of women and minorities within the university. The lawsuit resulted in an order for the university to pay in excess of $100,000 in damages and attorney fees. In addition, the settlement contained a court order securing permanent future protection for Broyles-González against gender, race and political discrimination within the university.[2]
In the early 2000s, Broyles-González worked in the Department of Mexican-American studies at the University of Arizona.[3]
In 2013, Broyles-González was named head of the Department of Ethnic Studies at Kansas State University.[4]
Awards
In 1996, Broyles-González received the Lifetime Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. This award recognizes her "multiple and invaluable scholarly contributions and her advocacy for the Chicana/o Studies discipline."[citation needed]