Marjorie Becker

Marjorie Becker is Professor of History and English at USC. A Macon, Georgia native, she learned Spanish as a child, served in the Peace Corps in rural Paraguay, and holds a Yale doctorate. She is the author of Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz, Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan Peasants and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution, Body Bach, Glass Piano/Piano Glass, The Macon Sex School: Songs of Tenderness and Resistance. During the course of her career, she has won an array of awards.