Gabriella V. Sanchez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Bio
Gabriella V. Sanchez, PhD is a ninth-generation Tejana from Yanawana occupied San Antonio, TX. She completed her Ph.D. in Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies from Texas Woman's University, and M.A. in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies from UTSA.
Her research centers family and community archives as sites of ancestral, cultural, and experiential knowledge. She is currently expanding her dissertation research on the Sutton family and working with members of the family to document the club work and activism of Lillian Woodard Sutton-Taylor in San Antonio, Texas from 1940-1980.
Gabriella is Project Manager of La Crónica Tejana Storytellers Lab, a community-based oral history project, and is co-founder of mija archives, an experimental mija and mami collaboration. Mija Archives documents the memory keeping and storage methods created and practiced by Gloria V. Sanchez (Gabriella's mother). Gabriella is also Social Media Coordinator of Mujeres Actives en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) and Co-Chair of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Chicana Caucus.
Teaching
- Intro to Women's Studies (current)
- Intro to LGBTQ Studies (current)
- U.S. Women of Color (previous institution)
Research Interests
- Intersectional feminist theory
- Decolonial theory and research methods
- Chicana feminist archival theories and methods
- Community-centered oral history
- Family archives
- Homegrown archives
- Kitchen table cur(e)ations
Degrees
- Ph.D., Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies, Texas Woman's University, 2025
- M.A., Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2018
- B.A., English, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2016
- A.A, San Antonio College, 2015
Presentations
- Fernandez, S., Mendoza, S., Saldaña, L.P., Sanchez, G.V. (April 2025). “Remedying and Repairing the historical Record Through Chicanx/Latinx Feminist Archival Practices and Digital Humanities Pedagogies,” Panel presentation at National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), in Albuquerque, NM.
- Sanchez, G.V., Sanchez, Ramiro T. (November 2024). “Teach Me How to Remember You: Learning to Archive Like a Mija,” Panel Presentation at Mexican American Studies (MAS) Youth Conference, in San Antonio, TX.
- Alemán, S., Elenes, A., Mendoza, S., Sanchez, G.V. (April 2024). “The Light and Dark of Academic Atravesades,” Roundtable at El Mundo Zurdo, in San Antonio, TX.
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
- WoMentoring in Graduate Education Grant, Texas Woman’s University
Publications
- Sanchez, G.V. (2024). “Dance With Only Me, Forever,” En Vivo Desde San Anto! A MAS Zine Anthology of Live Music Memories, Art & Ephemera.
- Bravo, S., Sanchez, G.V. (2025). “Shoeboxes, Panty Drawers, and ‘The Bottom of the Colchón’: A Preface to Mija Archival Thought and Practice,” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS).
- Sanchez, G.V., Sandoval, V. (2025). “‘Do you know who WE are?!': Community Ex/Inclusion at the NACCS 2023 Annual Conference,” National of Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Annual Conference Proceedings.
