Graduate Student Directory

Summary of Expertise

My research explores themes about queerness, gender performances, Indigeneity, migration, memory, Indigenous methodologies, and P’urhépecha communities in Diaspora in the United States.

Research Interests

Queer Identities, Gender and Sexualities, Memory, Indigeneity and Queer Performances, P’urhépecha Culture, and P’urhépecha Migrations and Diaspora in the United States.

Biography, Education and Training

• Ph.D. candidate in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
• M.A. Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2022
• M.E.H. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Michoacán, México, 2016
• B.A. in Middle School Education, Major in History, Normal Superior Juana de Asbaje, Zamora, Michoacán, México, 2012

Honors, Awards and Grants

Latin American and Latino Studies Future Faculty Program and UC Hispanic-Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative, Summer Publishing Institute. April 2023. 

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorific Mention. March 2023.

Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Graduate Student Research. Fall 2022.

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship, Research Working Group on The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation. 2022 – 2023.

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Professionalization Program. 2022 – 2023.

STARS Re-entry Scholarship, UCSC Women’s Club. Spring 2022.

University of California, Santa Cruz and Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. Winter 2022.

NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions. Spanish Paleography and Digital Humanities Institute Workshop. University of Texas, Austin. November 1 – December 17, 2021.

Los Angeles Review of Books, Publishing Workshop, UCSC/LARB Fellowship. Summer 2021.

Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, University of California, Santa Cruz, Graduate Pedagogy Fellow. Winter 2021.

Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant. 2020.

Eugene Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship. University of California, Santa Cruz. 2019 – 2024.

The Humanities Institute, Graduate Student Success Program Fellowship. University of California, Santa Cruz. 2019-2021.

Selected Publications

• Book
• GÓMEZ, Mario (Ed.), 2017. Entre el Recuerdo y la Memoria: Historias de Patamban, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. ISBN: 978-607-8116-85-0

• Book Chapters 
• GÓMEZ, Mario. 2021. “Un Ejercicio Pedagógico para Descolonizar la Enseñanza de la Historia,” pp. 89-117. In TREJO, Dení, & DOSIL, Francisco (Eds.), La escuela más allá de los pupitres: Experiencias de educación Histórica en Michoacán, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. ISBN: 978-607-542-187-2.
• GÓMEZ, Mario. 2019. “Una Propuesta Didáctica Alternativa para la Enseñanza de la Historia: Historias de Patamban,” pp. 129-138. In Rodríguez, María y Guerrero, Ma., (Comp.), Aportaciones a la Didáctica de la Historia, México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. ISBN: 978-607-27-1190-7
• GÓMEZ, Mario. 2017. “Del Aula a la Comunidad: Vamos pa’ fuera,” pp. 63-90. In ZAVALA, Ana, (Ed.), De la práctica a la escritura, trece ejercicios en torno a la práctica de la investigación y la de la enseñanza, México: Centro Latinoamericano de Economía Humana Uruguay; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. ISBN: 978-607-542-012-7

• Academic Journal
• GÓMEZ, Mario. 2018. “Entre el Recuerdo y la Memoria: Un Ejercicio Didáctico de la Historia en Patamban, en la Sierra P´urhépecha, Michoacán.” pp. 102-108. Nota crítica en Revista Diarios del Terruño. Reflexiones sobre Migración y Movilidad, México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa. ISNN: 2448-6876 

Selected Presentations

• “Queerness and Maringuía Danzantes in P’urhépecha Communities in Michoacán.” In panel Dancing with Life: Living Culture and Resistance among Indigenous Communities in Michoacán. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, College of Liberal Arts. University of Minnesota. October 12, 2023. 

• “Redefining Indigeneity, Colonial Violence, and Strategies of Resistance among Queer P’urhépecha People in Michoacán and the United States.” Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, October 13, 2022.

• “Ethnography, Identities, and Recollection of Indigenous Memories from a Decolonial Perspective.” Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colombia, March 16, 2022.

• “Poetry, Weaving my Ancestras Rebozos.” In Parákata Journeys Home: Queer P’urhépecha Artists and Scholars. Simon Fraser University, Cananda. September 10, 2021.

• “Between the School and the Community: A Didactic Proposal for Teaching Local History.” In Workshop Around the Teaching of History: Between Quarries. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Michoacán. April 05, 2017. 

• “Thinking Historically through Local History.” In the Presentation of Research Projects. Masters in Middle School Education. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Zamora, Michoacán. September 03, 2016.

Selected Performances

Poetry in English

• “Encounters with the Memory of My Abuelo.” Los Angeles Review of Books, PubLab Journal, July 2022. https://larbpublab.org/2022/07/21/encounters-with-the-memory-of-my-abuelo/

• “A Tzintzún Emerging.” Los Angeles Review of Books, PubLab Journal, August 2021. https://larbpublab.com/tzintzun-emerging/

Teaching Interests

Queer Epistemologies, LGBTQ+ Migrations, Memory, Indigenous Cosmologies, and Mexican History.