Social Sciences Division
Ph.D. candidate
Graduate
Anthropology Department
Psychology Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Crown College Faculty Wing
211
By Appointment
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
- 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
I am a scholar of queerness, gender and sexuality, migration, indigeneity, memory, Latinx studies, queer Indigenous performances, and P’urhépecha Studies.
Critical Indigenous Studies, Queer Indigenous Theory, Gender and Sexualities, Migrations Studies, Indigenous Danzas and Performances, Local Memory, Queer Archives, Indigenous Feminisms, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous P’urhépecha Queerness, P’urhépecha Culture and Migration, P’urhépecha Studies, Decolonial and Critical Pedagogies.
Queer Indigenous Histories, Queer Epistemologies, Queer Migrations, Latin American and Latino Studies, Memory, Indigenous Cosmogonies, Mexican History, Queer Ethnographic Methodologies.
· Lionel Cantú Memorial Award. Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Latin American and Latino Studies, and Sociology Department.University of California, Santa Cruz. June 2024.
University of California, President Postdoctoral Fellowship. Finalist. April 2024
· Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas. Research Travel Grant. December 2023.
· 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.
· Crossing Latinidades Mellon Professionalization Program. 2022 – 2023.
· Prestigious Eugene Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship. University of California, Santa Cruz. 2019 – 2024.
· University of California, Santa Cruz and Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. Winter 2022.
· University of California, Santa Cruz, The Humanities Institute. Graduate Student Success Program Fellowship. 2019-2021
· Tinker Foundation. Field Research Grant. Winter 2020.
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. [Link will be available again soon]
Media and TV Interventions
“Latino studies graduate student focused on history, roots” By Lisa Renner, University of California, Santa Cruz, News Center. November 13, 2019. https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/11/lals-mario-gomez.html
“Indispensable Difundir la Historia Local para Transformar las Sociedades.” By Boletines Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Dirección de Comunicación Social. Number 567. August 16, 2018. https://www.comunicacionsocial.uam.mx/boletinesuam/567-18.html
“En Michoacán, Noche de Muertos, Eternamente Tradición, Camécuaro 2013.” In Altorre Noticias, Local TV News of the state of Michoacán. Morelia, Michoacán, México. October 28, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYT1Rbnwoc
“Juchari Erekani: Queer P’urhépecha Voices in Contemporary Queer Mesoamerica,” Performance presented along with Dr. Gabriela Spears-Rico and Dr. Fabian Romero. In Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS). Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México. June 25, 2024.
“Queerness Emerging and Women Forces,” Roundtable Juchari Erékani: Queer P’urhépecha Interventions. In National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Conference. San Francisco, California. April 26, 20224.
“Queer P’urhépecha Poetical Intervention,” Performance Panel Insurgent Kinship: Queer P’urhépecha Poetry and Performance as Resistance. In Association for Jotería Arts, Activism & Scholarship Conference (AJAAS). California State University, Los Angeles. February 16, 2024.
“Poetry, Conversations with my Homeland and my P’urhépecha Abuelo,” Panel Decolonial Affirmations of P’urhepechecidad: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Organization of American Historians (OAH). March 31, 2022. [Recorded presentation]
“Reencuentros con la Memoria de mi Abuelo,” Abiayala Working Group Flor y Canto, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). June 17, 2021. [Virtual Presentation]
Poetry, A Tzintzún Emerging.” In Queer & Feminist Embodied Indigeneity: Decolonial Affirmations of P’urhepechidad Roundtable. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). June 14-21, 2021. [Virtual Presentation]
“Ser Michoacano-P’urhépecha, Migrante y un Espíritu Libre”: Construyendo Posibilidades para una Vida Digna.” In Association for Jotería Arts, Activism & Scholarship Conference (AJAAS). Portland State University. October 12, 2019.
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“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.
Books
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. (Ed.). 2024. Entre el Recuerdo y la Memoria: Historias de Patamban. Segunda Edición. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. [Translated into P’urhépecha by Ismael García Marcelino and English by Bradley Levinson]
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. (Ed.). 2017. Entre el Recuerdo y la Memoria: Historias de Patamban. Primera Edición. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. ISBN: 978-607-8116-85-0
Book Chapters
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2021. “Un Ejercicio Pedagógico para Descolonizar la Enseñanza de la Historia,” pp. 89-117. In TREJO, Dení, and 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 ZAMORA, Mario A. 2019. “Una Propuesta Didáctica Alternativa para la Enseñanza de la Historia: Historias de Patamban,” pp. 129-138. In RODRÍGUEZ, María, and GUERRERO, Ma., (Comp.), Aportaciones a la Didáctica de la Historia, México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. ISBN: 978-607-27-1190-7
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 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 and Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. ISBN: 978-607-542-012-7
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2017. “Anécdotas de un Arriero: Rutas, Mercancías y Dinámica Familiar,” pp. 25-32. En Relatos de mi pueblo, México, H. Ayuntamiento de Tangancícuaro 2015-2018 and Secretaría de Cultura del estado de Michoacán.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 2015. “La Producción de la Cultura Local y la Reproducción de la Cultura Nacional: La Escuela como Escenario de Conflicto,” pp. 1364-1376. In TREJO, Dení and MARTÍNEZ, Juana, (Comp.), La Historia Enseñada a discusión “Retos epistemológicos y perspectivas didácticas”, México: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2015. ISBN: 978-607-487-972-8
Peer Review Journals
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario. 2024. “Breaking Queer Silences, Building Queer Archives, and Claiming Queer Indigenous P’urhépecha Methodologies.” In RAMIREZ, Renya and ORONA, Brittani R., (Eds.), Special issue on Native/Indigenous Family Studies in the Americas. Genealogy Journal 8, no. 4: 123. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040123
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. Forthcoming. “Those who are like that. Performing Queer Belonging through P’urhépecha Indigenous practices of El Costumbre.” Wicazo Sa Review. Vol. 39, no. 1&2.
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. Forthcoming. “An Indigenous P’urhépecha Woman Record: Recordando el Pasado de Mamá Lupe.” Pasados: Recovering Histories, Imagining Latinidad.
Co-authors: SPEARS-RICO, Gabriela, ROMERO, Fabian, GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A, and AMEZCUA AGUILAR, Vicky. “Reclaiming the Queer P’urhépecha Archive: Anti-Gay Colonial Violence, Embodied Indigenous Witnessing and Living Two-Spirit Testimonios.” Feminist Anthropology. [In Review]
GÓMEZ ZAMORA, Mario A. 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
“Foro Internacional de Estudios de Género y Diversidad. Ser LGBTTQ+. Una Reflexión en Perspectiva Binacional.” Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), San Antonio, Texas. July 25, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cfeleZm1I&t=337s