Gabriel Panuco-Mercado
Gabriel Panuco-Mercado is a Ph.D. student in history with a focus on late-twentieth century Mexican migration to the United States. He explores how gendered and racial shifts in post-IRCA migration reshaped migrants’ sense of belonging and relationship to racial capitalism in Mexico and the United States. His research draws extensively on oral history and is inspired by his upbringing in a working-class migrant community and his roles in tenant and domestic worker organizing.
He is an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow and a Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement (RAISE) Fellow. He co-founded and co-organizes the Mexican and Mexican American Studies Reading Group, the Latin American and Caribbean History Workshop, and the Global Studies in Migration and Diaspora Workshop.
As a proud first-generation college graduate, he is happy to extend the solidarity and mentorship that brought him to graduate school to other first-generation, low-income students.
