Dr. Lilia D. Monzó is a Professor at the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. She received the Ph.D. in Education from the University of Southern California in 2003 and followed that with a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Monzó is a Marxist-humanist, critical pedagogue whose scholarship and teaching confront intersectional systems of oppression as they exist within a racial-colonial and patriarchal global capitalist system. Dr. Monzó also draws on complimentary theoretical frameworks to guide her work including feminist, womanist, Chicana and standpoint theories, Critical race theories, decolonial theories, and sociocultural theory. Dr. Monzó engages in critical and decolonizing qualitative research, including critical ethnography, critical narrative and life history method and participatory action research to improve existing social and material conditions for participants while simultaneously working to develop a praxis of liberation and a more human society.

Dr. Monzó is appointed as to the faculty of the Ph.D. in Education program and teaches primarily in the Cultural and Curricular Studies (CCS) emphasis. Dr. Monzó engages a humanizing teaching pedagogy that rigorously prepare students to develop a critical analysis of society and education and a new socialist imaginary, and to engage in an ethical praxis of humanizing and decolonizing qualitative research. Dr. Monzó is the author of A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity, published in 2019.