Gabriel Panuco-Mercado

Gabriel is a Ph.D. student in Latin American history. He is interested in the gender, food, and labor history of rural Mexico and its migrant communities during the mid and late twentieth century. His research explores how women from rural Jalisco 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 sugar-producing Región Valles, 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. 

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.