Martha Gonzalez will lecture during the week of March 10-14, 2025.

A highly regarded scholar, Grammy-award-winning musician, and community activist, Martha Gonzalez’s research lies at the intersection of Chicana feminist theory, Chicana music, transnational musical dialogues, performance studies, ethnomusicology, and feminist development theory.

Her scholarship articulates the various ways in which Chicano/a, Latino/a and other communities of color (in the U.S and transnationally) utilize music and other forms of creative expression as necessary dialectic tools toward various social justice ends. Professor Gonzalez is a 2022 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She is also the lead singer, songwriter, and percussionist for East Los Angeles’s rock band Quetzal.