Susana L. Gallardo

Susana L. Gallardo is an Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) in the WGSS program within the Department of Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University. She is still adjusting to the tenure-track after working as an Adjunct Lecturer for the last 20 years (SJSU’s 2022 College of Social Science Lecturer of the Year). Susana's interdisciplinary research and teaching engage questions around Chicana feminisms, women of color feminisms, cultural citizenship, and the way women of color shape and are shaped by their religious traditions. Susana has published articles in Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Women’s Activism and Feminism in the Chicano Movement Era (eds. Blackwell, Cotera and Espinoza, UT Press 2019); Are All the Women Still White? Race, Shifts, and Critical Interventions in Feminist Studies (ed. Janell Hobson, SUNY Press, 2016) and Mothers' Lives in Academia (eds. Castaneda and Isgro, Columbia Univ Press, 2013). She is currently working on a book manuscript about the history of a unique Chicana/o Catholic feminist community in San Jose around Our Lady of Guadalupe Church during the Chicano movimiento of the 60s and 70s. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.