Phillip B. Gonzales, Professor & Associate Dean
(Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 1985)
Office: SSCI 1054
(505) 277-3465
Fall 2008 Office Hours: by appointment
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Phillip B. Gonzales, Professor & Associate Dean(Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 1985) Office: SSCI 1054 (505) 277-3465 Fall 2008 Office Hours: by appointment |
Phillip B. Gonzales received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He joined the faculty of the sociology department at UNM in 1987. From 1997 to 2003, he also served as director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute at UNM.
Professor Gonzales' research interests center largely on ethnopolitical identity, ethnic social movements, and minority group activism, particularly as these are manifest among Mexican Americans in the Southwest. His most recent book, Forced Sacrifice as Ethnic Protest: The Hispano Cause in New Mexico and the Racial Attitude Confrontation of 1933, applies social science concepts and a case study to identify a particular type of protest event that ethnic minorities in the United States occasionally mount, particularly against liberal regimes in public institutions. He is currently conducting research on the "politics of statehood," in particular, the collective efforts of Hispanics to assure equal representation and participation in New Mexico's electoral system between 1890 and 1935.