Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez

Her teaching and research focus on Native American culture in addition the popular performance genres of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Broyles-González is a professor and chair of the department of Social Transformation Studies at Kansas State University.

Her research in Germany resulted in her doctoral dissertation on the German response to Latin American literature and the reception of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1979).

In addition, the settlement contained a court order securing permanent future protection for Broyles-González against gender, race and political discrimination within the university.

[2] In 1996, Broyles-González received the Lifetime Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.