Cristina González

Cristina González is a professor emerita in the School of Education and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis. Her research and teaching have focused on medieval and early modern Hispanic literature, contemporary Hispanic culture, Latino identity, and the history and philosophy of higher education. Her broader academic interests include education policy and governance, educational leadership, graduate and undergraduate education issues, the history of Latinos in the U.S., the history of the University of California, minority leadership issues, the status of the Spanish language in the U.S., and women’s leadership issues. She has held several administrative positions, including senior advisor to the chancellor and dean of graduate studies at UC Davis, as well as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. González earned her licenciatura in Spanish from Universidad de Oviedo and her PhD in Spanish from Indiana University, Bloomington.

updated 2025