Susan M. Green

Susan Green is Professor of Multicultural and Gender Studies, specializing in Chicanx and Latinx Studies, at California State University Chico. She did her studies in the Chicano Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, the oldest Chicano Studies Department in the Midwest. She spent a semester at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government studying Leadership and Organizing with Marshall Ganz. She has served as Chair of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), and as a Board member of the California Faculty Association (CFA), and the California Teachers Association (CTA). She has received the NACCS Student Premio, the CTA Cesar Chávez Si Se Puede Human Rights Award, the CSU Chico Walk the Line Award, the Chico State Civically Engaged Scholar Award and received a commendation from the California State Senate in 2021 for her work.

Courses taught at Chico State

• CHLX 157 - Introduction to CHLX Studies
• CHLX 235 - Mexican American History
• MCGS 155 - Introduction to Intersectional Ethnic Studies
• MCGS 300 - Ethnic Studies Methodology
• Research Interest; Ongoing Research
• Chicanx Nationalism
• Labor History
• Educational policy

Publications

• NACCS@40: Conference Proceedings. Susan Green, editor. 2012. • “Chef: A Bildungsroman for our Mixed Race Reality.”
• NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings: Chicana/O In/Civilities: Contestacion and Lucha Cornerstones of Chicana/Chicano Studies San Jose CA: SJSU Scholarworks, 2015.
• “Chapter 9 - Changing Agricultural Labor Laws in California: The Struggle for SB1736,” Chican@ Critical Perspectives and Praxis at the Turn of the 21st Century: Selected Papers From the 2002, 2003, and 2004 NACCS Conference Proceedings. NACCS 2006. 173-181
• "We hear it is raining in Willmar": Mexican and Somali Migrants to West Central Minnesota Susan Marie Green. Amerikastudien / American Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1, Internationalizing U.S. History (2003), pp. 79-95