Gabriel Panuco-Mercado

Gabriel is a Ph.D. student of Latin American and U.S. Latinx history. He is interested in the twentieth-century gender and labor history of Mexico and its migrant communities in the United States. His research explores how Mexican women sustained and shaped their communities locally and translocally, as migrants in the United States, through quehaceres (household work), wage work, and economic ventures. Focusing on the close experiences of women from Jalisco and other Mexican states, he incorporates oral histories extensively while following a trajectory beginning with the Green Revolution and culminating with the North American Free Trade Agreement.

At Stanford, he is also 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 and the Latin American and Caribbean History Workshop.

As a proud first-generation college graduate, he is happy to extend the solidarity and learning that brought him to graduate school to other FLI (first-generation, low-income) students.