alan eladio gómez is a historian, Southwest Borderlands Scholar and associate professor of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is also an affiliated faculty member with the School of Transborder Studies and the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts.
Gómez is the author of "The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico: Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics & Latin American Social Movements" (University of Texas Press, 2016). His research has also been published in Radical History Review, Latino Studies, Kalfou, African Identities, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, and edited volumes "Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison in the United States" (Palgrave, 2009), and "Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico: Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982" (Routledge, 2011). A second book manuscript, 'With Dignity Intact': Rebellion, Justice, and Power in the U.S. Federal Prison System, 1969-1974" (under contract, University of Nebraska Press) is on its way, as well as a manuscript, "Autonomy, Ungovernability and the Everyday Politics of the UNAM Strike, 1999-2000."
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Texas-Austin
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Texas-Austin
Publications
Alan Eladio Gomez. Puente de Crystal (Crystal Bridge): the Multiple Feminist Insurgencies and Radical Border Imaginations of Magdalena Mora. African Identities (2013).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Por la reunificación de los Pueblos Libres de América en su Lucha por el Socialismo": The Chicana/o Movement, the PPUA and the Dirty War in Mexico in the 1970s". Challenging Authoritarianism: Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982 (2011).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Troubadour of Justice: An Interview with raúlrsalinas.". Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prisons in the United States (2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas’: Chicanos, Puerto Rican Independentistas, and the Prison Rebellion Years at Leavenworth, 1969-1972.". Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prisons in the United States (2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Feminism, Torture, and the Politics of Chicana/Third World Solidarity: An Interview with Olga Talamante". Radical History Review (2008).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Nuestras vidas corren casi paralelas'‘: Chicanos, Independentistas, and the Prison Rebellion Years in Leavenworth, 1969-1972. Latino Studies (2008).
Alan Eladio Gómez. Troubadour of Justice: An Interview With Raulrsalinas. Latino Studies (2008).
Alan Eladio Gómez. Resisting Living Death at Marion Federal Penitentiary, 1972. Radical History Review (2006).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Beyond Suffering, Freedom: Prison Rebellions and Political Imagination of Dignity". American Studies Association Annual Conference (Nov 2011).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Incarcerating Arizona: Enclosures, Border Wars and Human Detention". "Subjugated Histories, Decolonizing Practices Conference" Future of Minority Studies Conference (Feb 2011).
Alan Eladio Gómez, Edward Escobar and David Manuel Hernández. Divided America: Debates over Immigration and Social Justice in Modern America. Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (Aug 2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. Speaking White Supremacy in the Classroom. Law and Society Annual Conference, Denver, CO (May 2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. "Low Intensity War/Low Intensity Education". 40th Anniversary of El Plan de Santa Barbara, Univerisity of California at Santa Barbara (May 2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. Why Inter-Ethnic Activism Still Matters. East Coast Chicano/a Student Forum - Cornell University (Apr 2009).
Alan Eladio Gómez. The Neo-Deal: Marketing Death and the Sociological Imagination of US-ian Culture. Sociology Department, Ithaca College (Apr 2009).
