A Vital Matters Voice: Xóchitl M. Flores-Marcial
Xóchitl M.
Flores-Marcial
Associate Professor
Department of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge
BIOGRAPHY
Xochitl Flores-Marcial is an interdisciplinary historian and a UCLA Bruin (BA 2002, PhD 2015). She studies Indigenous intellectual and cultural history, focusing on the Zapotec society of Oaxaca, Mexico. Her book manuscript, A History of Guelaguetza in Zapotec Communities of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, traces the evolution of Guelaguetza as a Mesoamerican social network of collaboration and exchange from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Currently, she is a board member and contributor to the award-winning Ticha Project, an online Zapotec-language platform and digital text module. Flores-Marcial was also the principal consultant for production and development of the internationally acclaimed Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibit, Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in LA (Getty Foundation 2017-18), which highlighted the transnational experience of Indigenous Oaxacans. As a member of the Zapotec community of Oaxacalifornia, she actively uses her scholarly work with Indigenous languages to collaborate with community stakeholders, serving as a spokesperson and community leader both locally and abroad.
