Gregoria "Goya" Olson

Bio/CV: 
Gregoria's research focuses on trans/queer of color and Latine & Caribbean archives, aesthetics, performance, activism, and digital media. Drawing from a range of archives, Goya's doctoral project, "Degenerates: Queer Performance in Panamá's Archives," attends to non-normative and queer Panamanian performativity and publics during and post U.S. occupation, including two contemporary trans/cuir collectives formed in Panama City. 
Gregoria was the recipient of the Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Program Predoctoral Fellowship (2023-2024) and the UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (2024-2025).
Research interests: 

Latine & Caribbean Studies, Trans/Queer of Color Critique, Trans/Queer Diaspora Studies, Archival Studies, Performance Studies, Media Studies, Geography

Role: 
COURSES ASSISTED:

Ethnic Studies 10AC: History of Race & Ethnicity in the North American West (Fall 2019)

Ethnic Studies 11AC: Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Fall 2020) (Summer Session 2025)

Chicano Studies 50: Introduction to Chicano History (Fall 2021)

Ethnic Studies 10AC: History of Race & Ethnicity in the North American West (Spring 2022)

COURSES OFFERED:

Ethnic Studies 103: Latine & Caribbean Erotics, Archives, and Acts (Spring 2024)