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Dr. Emma Perez is a Research Social Scientist at University of Arizona's Southwest Center as well as a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.  Perez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her first novel, Gulf Dreams (1996), is considered one of the first Chicanx queer/lesbian novels in print. Her second novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009) earned awards including the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009), Second place in Historical Fiction for the International Latino Book Awards, and General Fiction finalist for the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her novel, Electra's Complex (2015), is an academic mystery with a queer Chicanx history professor as protagonist. Previously published essays and poems are in a collection titled Queering the Border (2023). Her latest novel, Testimony of a Shifter (2023), details the lives of rebels resisting a corrupt global world order. 

Join us as we delve into conversation with Dr. Pérez about her contributions to our field and what's ahead!