Juan Gomez-Quinones

Professor

Professor Gomez-Quinones specializes in the fields of political, labor, intellectual, and cultural history. From 1969 to the present he has taught university classes esch year and has delivered papers before professional historical societies in the United States and Mexico. During this time, he has completed several research projects, relating to political/labor history and public policy. Among his over 30 published writings are: Mexican American Labor 1790-1990, The Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940, Chicano Politics 1940-1990, Porfirio Diaz--Los Intellectuales, Sembradores, Ricardo Flores Magon and the PLM, Mexican Students for La Raza, "On Culture," "Antonio Caso and the Idea of Progress," "Toward a Perspective on Chicano History," "Chicano Labor Conflict and Organizing, 1900-1920," "Mexican Immigration to the United States," "Critique on the National Question," "The Relations Between the Mexican Community in the U. S. and Mexico," and "Questions Within Women's Historiography." He is completing Mexican Nationalist Formation: Discourse, Policy. and Dissidence. Current projects are studies on art and culture, on the mobilizations of the 60s and 70s decades, Mexican-African relations, an autobiography, and "Grester Mexican East Los Angeles."

Since 1969, Professor Gomez-Quinones has been active in higher education, culture promotion and Chicano Studies efforts. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and pursued his research at the University of Texas during 1972-1973. He trained in social analysis at the Newberry Library Community History Program, Chicago, 1975. Presently, he is Professor of History, UCLA. At one time he served as Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Gomez-Quinones was a founding co-editor of Aztlan, International Journal of Chicano Studies Research. He has also served on UC system and campus Committees and is a consistent supporter and contributor to the development of Chicano Studies, including co-founder of two programs and co-editor of the Plan de Santa Barbara. He has served on the social science advisory committee, The College Board/ETS, and as panelist or reviewer for the NEH & NEA. He is a published poet, 5th and Grande Vista, several critics have written on his work.

Dr. Gomez-Quinones has for many years been active in civic affairs. Apart from his academic interest, he is recognized as an able community organizer and planner. Some of his activities have been civil rights, electoral politics, labor, immigration, legal defense, youth leadership, UMAS-MECHA, The Congress of Mexican-American Unity, EICC, The Urban Coalition, and various community political efforts and publications efforts principally in Los Angeles. He has served as Member Board of Trustees, California State University and Colleges, commissioner, WASC Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities and as member of the board of directors of the following civic organizations: MALDEF, the Latino Museum, The Mexican Cultural Institute, OSIEC, and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Commission. He has also participated in several film media projects, and in radio and television programs.

Dr. Gomez-Quinones, born in Parral, Chihuahua, raised in East Los Angeles, attended Cantwell M.H. school, enrolled at UCLA, received his B.A. in literature, his M.A. in Latin-American Studies and the Ph.D in History at UCLA. His dissertation is titled, "Social Change and Intellectual Discontent: The Growth of Mexican Nationalism, 1890-1911". In 1965, Dr. Gomez-Quinones was editor of the Statistical Abstract of Latin America, and a teaching fellow at the UCLA history department, in 1965-1966. During 1966-1968, he was a Foreign Area Fellow sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, resident in Mexico city and Santa Monica. He has resided in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Diego, Austin, Chicago etc. In 1990 Professor Gomez-Quinones received the Scholar of the Year Award from the National Association of Chicano Studies at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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