Maria del Socorro Gutiérrez Magallanes

María del Socorro “Coco” Gutiérrez Magallanes is a MexChicana scholar whose interdisciplinary work bridges the social sciences and humanities. Her research focuses on race, gender, class, and ethnicity, as well as social movements, visual culture, critical pedagogies, literature, identity, and politics across Latin American, Chicanx, Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities. Known for her innovative and collaborative approaches, Coco integrates these methods into her research, teaching, and activism.

She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Spanish Literary & Cultural Studies from Occidental College (as a James Irvine Scholar), an M.A. in Latin American Studies, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UNAM. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including support from the James Irvine Foundation, UNAM, CONACYT, and SEP.

Coco has been a visiting scholar and researcher at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and the University of Buenos Aires, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Puebla (BUAP), where she co-organized the Latin American and Chicanx forum Image, Memory, and Archive. She is currently engaged in a long-term research project with Las Maestras Center on Chicanx and Indigenous Thought and Art Practice, the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), and the Feminist Archive at the Davidson Library.

At UCSB, she teaches in the Feminist Studies Department and is deeply committed to advancing Women of Color Feminisms and transnational feminist networks.