Glenda M. Flores
Dr. Glenda Marisol Flores is an Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research agenda centers on the social mobility patterns of Latinas/os into the middle class and their workplace experiences in the white-collar world, especially in teaching and medicine. Her first book Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture won the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association. Her research has been published in several venues, such as Gender & Society, Sex Roles, Gender, Work and Organization, and The Journal for STEM Education Research. She is a co-principal investigator of a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation-funded project that seeks to improve STEM success among minoritized students. Her new book-length project is based on interviews with over seventy Latina/o/e physicians in California and is titled The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine (UC Press, 2025). Dr. Flores received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California. Her work has been featured on several platforms, such as DIVERSITY in Education Magazine, BOLD Latina, and Reddit Science.
Website: https://sites.uci.edu/glendaflores/
