Dr. Jillian Báez is a Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute and the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Trained as a media studies and cultural studies scholar, her research expertise lies in Latina/o/x media, transnational feminisms, and issues of belonging and citizenship. She is the author of In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media and Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2018) and Spanish Language Television: Cultural and Industrial Transformations (University of Texas Press, 2025).
