Juan Carlos 

Mezo González

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Hello!

My name is Juan Carlos and I am a historian of sexuality, print culture, and visual culture in Mexican and transnational contexts. I earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto and I am a Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at York University.

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My current research focuses on the relationship between print media, images, and histories of gender, sexuality, race, and social movements. My first book, Borderlands of Desire and Liberation: A Transnational History of Gay Print Culture in North America, is forthcoming with Duke University Press (spring 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.

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