Tiffany González

Dr. Tiffany González is an assistant professor of Modern US history. Her research centers on the 20th century in the U.S., emphasizing U.S. politics, Chicana-Latina/o history, women & gender, US-Mexico borderlands, and social movements. Her current book manuscript-in-progress, “Representation of Change: How Chicanas Reshaped the American Political Process in the Late Twentieth Century,” is under contract with UNC Press with the Latinx Histories Series. This book is a revised version of her dissertation, which won the OAH Lerner-Scott Prize for best PhD dissertation in U.S. women’s history in 2022. Her next book projects include a biography of former Texas State Representative Irma Rangel, the first Mexican American woman legislator, who served office from 1977 to 2003, co-editing an anthology with Danielle Olden, and a cultural history of Latinx politics.