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Juan Carlos 

Mezo González

Hello!

My name is Juan Carlos and I am a historian of sexuality, gender, and Mexican cultural production. I earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto and I am currently a Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at York University. In July of this year, I will join Mount Royal University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities.

My current research focuses on the relationship between print media, images, and histories of gender, sexuality, race, and social movements in Mexican and transnational contexts. My first book, Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America, is forthcoming with Duke University Press (January 2026), and my scholarship on gay print culture has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, including Historia Mexicana and Hispanic American Historical Review. My new project examines the figure of the devil in the popular culture of modern Mexico, with a particular focus on graphic arts, periodicals, films, digital media, and queer cultural production.

Browse through this website to learn more about my research, teaching, and publications, and get in touch if you would like to chat!

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Education

Ph.D., History, University of Toronto

M.A., History, University of Toronto

B.A., History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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