Rachel González-Martin (she/her) is a career folklorist and associate professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas where she currently serves as the department’s inaugural undergraduate advisor. She is affiliate faculty of the Center for Women and Gender Studies, Latino Media and Arts Studies, and the Center for Global Business. She is the author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities (2019). She directs the Intersectional Humanities Initiative in the College for Liberal Arts. Rachel is the current outgoing editor of the journal Western Folklore. She frequently serves as a section convener for the Chicana/o Section, and the Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano, and Caribeño Sections. She has assumed a variety of roles in her time as a member of AFS, including a term on the AFS nominating committee, as chair and member of the Cultural Diversity Committee, and as selection member of the Elli Köngas Miranda prize, and Zora Neale-Hurston prize committees. Her earliest role in the society was as a member for the Graduate Student Advisory committee while completing her Ph.D. in Folklore at IU. She hopes to continue to serve the society by sharing her ideas and experiences as queer, Latina first-generation scholar and also as a member of the AFS executive board.
