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Jillian Báez

New York, New York, United States

Associate Professor, Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Hunter College, CUNY; Doctoral Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center

Biography

Jillian Báez is an associate professor of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media and Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2018), recipient of the 2019 Bonnie Ritter Award for Outstanding Feminist Book at the National Communication Association.

Scholarly beginnings

A research idea

Envisioning possible futures in the field of communication and media studies

Learn more about Prof. Báez’s journey

Selected readings

• Báez, Jillian M. 2020. “Latinx Audiences as Mosaic.” In Race and Media: Critical Approaches, edited by Lori Kido Lopez, 218-229. New York: New York University Press.

• Avilés-Santiago, Manuel G., and Jillian M. Báez. 2019. “Targeting Billenials: Billenials, Linguistic Flexibility and the New Language Politics of Univision.” Communication, Culture & Critique 12(1): 128-146.

• Báez, Jillian M. 2018. In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship. University of Illinois Press (Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Series): Urbana, IL.

• Báez, Jillian M. 2018. “Charting Latinx Fandoms.” In The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa Click and Suzanne Scott, 271-279. New York: Routledge.

• Báez, Jillian, and Mari Castañeda. 2014. “Two Sides of the Same Story: Media Narratives of Latinos and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 31(1): 27-41.