Deena González is senior university fellow and professor of history at Gonzaga University. Born in Hatch, New Mexico, Professor González received her PhD in history from UC Berkeley, representing one of the first Chicana graduate students in the program. In her career, she held faculty positions at Pomona College and Loyola Marymount University, and served as associate provost of faulty affairs at Loyola before joining the administration of Gonzaga as provost and senior vice president in 2019. She is the author of “Malinche As Lesbian: A Reconfiguration of 500 Years of Resistance” (1991); Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 (1999); “Gender on the Borderlands: Re-textualizing the Classics,” (2003); and coeditor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (4 volumes, 2005); and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, & Social Movements (2 volumes, 2015). She is a founding member of the scholarly organization Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), and co-editor of the Chicana Matters Series at University of Texas Press. In this interview, Professor González discusses: her family background and upbringing; her educational journey from high school and the University of Mexico to graduate school at UC Berkeley; her growing activism at Berkeley and in the field for Chicana representation; her experience in the profession; her reflections on the development of Chicana/o Studies during the early years and how the field evolved over the decades; the struggle of Chicanas to gain equal footing in the fields of history and Chicana/o studies; the reception of Chicana/o studies at the universities she served; her experience as a Chicana in university administration; as well as her thoughts on important works and high points in the field over the last fifty years.