Intersectional Challenges and Imperatives in the Study of Social Movements

Celeste Montoya is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies. She is co-editor for the American Political Science Review and for the Temple University Press book series Intersectionality. Professor Montoya's research primarily focuses on the ways in which women and racialized communities mobilize to enact change, with a particular focus on Latinas and other women of color. She is interested in how marginalized groups work within and outside of political institutions, domestically and transnationally. Her work emphasizes intersectionality as a phenomenon as well as an approach. She has published on social movements, gender violence, voting rights, and political representation. Her most current and ongoing work focuses on US Latina political leadership and activism.

UMN Political Science PhD candidate Daniela Sepúlveda Soto will serve as discussant.