Luz Maria Gordillo left her native Mexico City to be the first person in her family to attend college.
That determination has led Gordillo to a remarkably varied career that continues with her taking on the new role of assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence in WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS).
“As a woman, gender divisions were difficult and I was always pushing the envelope,” said the professor from the Department of History at WSU Vancouver.
The assistant dean position will be half of her job, while she remains as campus director of faculty equity and outreach at Vancouver and in her history department faculty role. Combining her research interests in history and science, she is currently working on her new book, titled “Patients, Philanthropists, and Fieldworkers: The Hidden History of Women and Eugenics.”