Dr. Gonzalez' most recent book is a co-edited anthology with Tommy DeFrantz (Black Performance Theory, Duke University Press, 2014) that theorizes black performance in the new millennium. Her monograph Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (2010) is published by the University of Texas Press and is the result of a 2007 post-doctoral research fellowship in "Race, Politics, and Performance" at the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (University of Texas at Austin). Other publications include articles about intersections between theatre and dance ("Negotiating Theatrics: Dialogues of the Working Man," The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, 2015), maritime culture ("Megaship Economies and Transnational Maritime Performance," Theatre Research International, 2014), utopia in Urban Bush Women performance (Modern Drama, 2004), archetypes of African identity in Central America ("Mambo and the Maya," Dance Research Journal, 2004), and the pedagogy of teaching African American drama (Theatre Topics, 2009).Gonzalez is also a director and writer who has staged dozens of productions. Her directing and choreography has appeared on PBS national television and at Dixon Place, The Workshop Theatre, HereArts, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Ballet Hispanico, and other venues. She has been awarded a residency at Rockefeller's Bellagio Center (2003) and has completed three Senior Scholar Fulbright grants. Gonzalez earned her PhD in theater/performance studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997). She is an executive board member of the National Theatre Conference, an Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and a member of The Dramatists Guild, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS). Currently, Dr. Gonzalez is a member of the executive committee of the University of Michigan Press.