Giazú Enciso Domínguez

Giazú Enciso Domínguez serves as Assistant Professor of Critical Social Psychology in the College of Human Sciences and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Previously, she held visiting scholar and postdoctoral positions at City University of New York institutions. A feminist scholar and activist born in Mexico, Dr. Enciso holds a Ph.D. and Master's in Social Psychology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is affiliated with APA Divisions 35 (Psychology of Women) and 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods), and the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Master of Science in Research in Social Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Enciso's research centers on affect and emotions, gender, diversity in higher education, and feminist critical perspectives. She employs qualitative methodologies to investigate intersections of body and language within power structures. Her work challenges patriarchal and neoliberal frameworks in academia, emphasizing student-centered pedagogy and activist scholarship.

Her 2013-2021 publications reveal consistent exploration of the affective turn in social sciences, with emphasis on polyamory, non-monogamous relationships, and pandemic impacts. Using feminist lenses, she examines gendered emotional experiences (e.g., guilt in motherhood) and academic labor under neoliberalism. Her qualitative studies span higher education dynamics, body politics, and crisis-induced social transformations.

As founder of the Critical Interdisciplinary Studies Research Group, Dr. Enciso mentors undergraduate and graduate students in collaborative research. Her student-centered philosophy empowers learners as active participants in knowledge production, reflecting her commitment to transformative education.

She established the Critical Interdisciplinary Studies Research Group – an undergraduate/graduate collective conducting critical analyses of social structures through feminist and qualitative frameworks.