Education
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2023 Ph.D., Chicana and Chicano Studies
Dissertation: Flirting with Sexual Economies: An Ethnographic Study of Latinas in Digital Sex Work
Committee: Chela Sandoval (chair), Micaela Díaz-Sánchez, Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies), Eddy Alvarez Jr. (Chicanx Studies, CSU Fullerton)
2017 M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies
Dossier Papers: “Relational Sexuality: Living the Politics of the Woman/Female Dichotomy” and “Dismantling Power; Consummating Manhood: Masculinity, Male Emotional Vulnerability and the Female Body”
California State University, Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA
2015 B.A., Humanities, and Communications, Chicana/o Studies Minor: Spanish Languages and Culture
Study abroad: CSU International Program, Florence, Italy 2012-2013
Thesis: “Theorizing Sexuality: Living the Virgin-Whore Continuum”
Academic Appointments
2025-Present Professor (Assistant) of Ethnic Studies, Merced Community College.
2023-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Latino Studies, Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University.
2021 UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship Program (UCSB) Exploring and Preparing for the Professoriate Summer Institute
2021 Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (UCSB) Education and Outreach Summer Internship
Publications
2026 Garcia-Gonzalez, Aracely “¡VIVE LALEXPO!: Model, Studio, and Management Dynamics in Colombia’s Largest Live Webcam Expo Event (Accepted in the "Digital Sex Work” special issue in the journal of Porn Studies)
2025 Garcia-Gonzalez, Aracely. “Spicy Mami, Hot Tamale”: Cardi B and sex worker consciousness. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2025.2532868
2024 Garcia-Gonzalez, Aracely “Doing Racialized Gender: Performing The Latina Body in Online Sex Work." Research Handbook on the Sociology of Gender. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802206692.00030
Theses
2023 García-González, Aracely. “Flirting with Sexual Economies: A Study on The
Latina Body in Popular Culture and Online Sex Work Industries.” Doctoral
dissertation: Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21x356wg
Reviews
2025 García-González, Aracely. Review of Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex.
‘Colonial Residue on the Body: Making Sense of Puta Life.’ WSQ: Women’s
Studies Quarterly 53:3&4, 195-199.
2022 García-González, Aracely. Review of Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics
of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez, Diálogo 25(1) 179-180
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