About Dr. Gordillo
Dr. Gordillo is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies and American Studies departments at WSUV. She’s the author of forthcoming book Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties. Dr. Gordillo's research focuses on gendered historical processes of Mexican immigration between the United States and Mexico. Gordillo is primarily interested on how transnational gendered experiences are produced and reproduced in transnational circuits. Her research also investigates the history of immigration law and its direct impact on transnational fields. Dr. Gordillo recently published her article entitled "The Bracero, the Wetback and the Terrorist: Mexican Immigration, Legislation and National Security" in A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality. Her latest research is on the history of Mexican immigrant women, immigration law in the United States and ideas of national security since 1942. In addition, Dr. Gordillo has been invited by Universities in the United States to present/perform her book manuscript entitled Memoirs de una Wetback a collection of short stories based on the immigrant experience. These border-crossing anecdotes are grounded on oral histories collected while conducting research on immigration in Mexico and the United States. Dr. Gordillo also lectures on Chicana Resistance and Empowerment as well as on Latin American and Latina/o Art of Resistance.