Sergio A. Gonzalez, Ph.D. (él/he/him)

“I HAVE COME to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood” (Lorde, 2007, p. 40). I write from the core of who I am: joto, Latinx, feminist, hijo de a first-generation Madre, and Mexican Immigrant Padre, Jotería scholar, and activist. As a scholar-activist, I focus on co-creating counternarratives of Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o individuals within higher education.


Currently, I am an assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. I received my Ph.D. in Higher Education & Student Affairs from Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Additionally, I earned an M.A. in Applied Gender Studies from CGU, an M.Ed. in Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs from the University of Southern California (USC), and a B.A. in Communication Studies from Manhattanville College. My transdisciplinary research is informed by Women of Color Feminisms, specifically Black and Queer feminist ideologies, Chicana/Latina feminisms, and Jotería Studies within higher education scholarship. My scholarship and leadership have been honored across different spaces, including the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) through awards such as the Gender and Sexuality Knowledge Community Intersectional Inclusion Award and the Latinx/a/o Knowledge Community Mena/Valdez Latinx Inclusion Award. Recently, I published the co-edited book "Queering Higher Education: The QTPOC Experience (1st Ed)" through Cognella Academic Publishing.

Blog

Ph.D., Higher Education and Student Affairs | Claremont Graduate University

M.A., Applied Gender Studies | Claremont Graduate University 

M.Ed., Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs | University of Southern California 

B.A., Communication Studies | Manhattanville College 

October 2023: Keynote Panelist-LGBTQIA2S+ Higher Education Research Symposium (Michigan State University)

October 2023: Pre-Conference - Critical Race Studies Education Association (CRSEA)

November 2023: CEP Mentor-Protégé Program

November 2023: Association For The Study of Higher Education (ASHE) - De Noche, De Dia, Arriba La Jotería: Methodological Futures of Jotería Studies in Higher Education

Conferences/Keynotes

SAG-CV-August-2022.pdf

Joteando y Mariconadas: Theorizing Queer Pláticas for Queer and/or Trans Latinx/a/o Research

Ch 12: Queer, Trans, and Brown in Higher Education: The Outsiders Within?

Not a Priority: Faculty Diversity in Law Schools

Queering Higher Education: The QTPOC Experience (First Edition)

Book Review: Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria Anzaldúa; Edited by AnaLouise Keating 

Centering Queer Latinx/a/o Experiences and Knowledges: Guidelines for using Jotería Studies in Higher Education Qualitative Research

Jotería Identity and Consciousness: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Undergraduate Queer Latinx Students

Imagining the Future of Jotería Studies as a Framework in the Field of Higher Education

Radical Jotería-Muxerista Love in the Classroom: Brown Queer Feminist Strategies for Social Justice

Ch 63: Jotería Pedagogy, Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education

Ch 66: Latinx, Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education

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