DANIEL P. GAMEZ
University of California, Los Angeles
History & American Indian Studies
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curriculum vitae
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2024-present University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Mentor: Kevin Terraciano
EDUCATION
2024 PhD, Geography, The University of British Columbia
2020 MA, Geography, The University of British Columbia
2016 BA, Political Science and Public Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
PUBLICATIONS
❖ Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
2025 Daniel P. Gámez. “Who is this ‘we,’ Mestizo? The telluric politics of Latin American nation-states”. Ethnic Studies Review. (Revise and resubmit)
2025 Daniel P. Gámez, Belén Noroña, Inari Sosa-Aranda, and Fernanda Rojas-Marchini. “Towards hemispheric conversations in the Americas: Internal colonialism and efforts to decolonize the self in Abya Yala”. Antipode. Vol. 57, No. 1, 120-146. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13110
2023 Daniel P. Gámez. “States as Colonial Projects: Unevenness, Combination and Race through the lens of Abya Yala”. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Vol. 36, No. 2, 203–219.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2021.1879017
❖Encyclopedia Entries
2020 Hanson, Eric, Daniel P. Gámez, and Alexa Manuel.“The Residential School System”.
Indigenous Foundations.
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/residential-school-system-2020/
❖Book Chapters
2011 Daniel Pérez Gámez and Carlos Quio Linares “El mal, cristianismo, Ilustración” (Evil, Christianity, andEnlightenment). Los Nuevos Círculos del Nuevo Infierno (The New Circles of New Hell). Ed. Ramón del Llano Ibáñez and Lucía Molatore. Querétaro: Miguel Ángel Porrúa/Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 2011. 115-128. https://maporrua.com.mx/product/nuevos-circulos-del-infierno-los/
❖Articles & Essays
2025 Sergio Beltrán-García, Elis Mendoza, and Daniel P. Gámez. “Chinampa Veneta: A Scenography of Extractivism at the Venice Biennale”. PLATFORM.
❖Research Reports
2015 Natalia Stengel, Alin Castellanos, Diana Erika Ibarra Soto, and Daniel Pérez Gámez. Diagnóstico Situacional de la Trata de Personas en Querétaro (Situational Analysis of Human Trafficking in Querétaro). Querétaro: Center for Advanced Social Research, 2015.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/54534230/diagnostico
❖Reviews
2023 Daniel P. Gámez. 9 Congreso Internacional de Geografías críticas. Investigaciones Geográficas, No. 112. https://doi.org/10.14350/rig.60830
❖Book Reviews
2018 Jacob Forrest and Daniel P. Gamez. Review of Michelle Murphy, The Economization of Life. Society and Space (April 2018):
https://societyandspace.org/2018/04/10/the-economization-of-life-by-michelle-murphy/
2014 Daniel Pérez. Review of Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times. Open Insight Vol. V, No.7 (January 2014): 385-392. https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v5i7.106
2013 Daniel Pérez Gámez. Review of Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator. Open Insight, Vol. IV, No. 5 (January 2013): 215-221. https://doi.org/10.23924/oi.v4i5.71
❖Work in Progress
“City of god, City of capital: Labor discipline and Indigenous racialization in the making of colonial Mexico City”. (Journal Article)
“Infrastructural containment, State violence, and the Imperial boomerang”. (Magazine article)
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 “Traversing Colonial Boundaries, enacting Indigenous mobile sovereignty and autonomy.”Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Oklahoma City, United States, June 26-28, 2025.
2025 “Come and see what we requested, it belongs to us’: Colonial and postcolonialNahua land titling in the Anahuac.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, United States, May 23-26, 2025.
2025 “Relational Territories of Abya Yala: Methodologies and Practices for Futures Otherwise. ” American Association of Geographers, Detroit, United States, March 24-28, 2025.
2025 “City of god, City of capital: Imperial urbanism and labor discipline in the making of colonial Mexico City.” American Association of Geographers, Detroit, United States, March 24-28, 2025.
2025 “Pitfalls of Liberation: Global Internal Coloniality between Abya Yala and BlackRadical Movements.” International Studies Association, Chicago, United States, March 2-5, 2025.
2024 “Governing by Duplicating: Bureaucracy and the Flesh in the Anahuac.” HistoricalMaterialism, London, UK, November 7- 10, 2024.
2023 “The Many Masks of Extractivism.” Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, Canada, May 24-27, 2023.
2023 “The subaltern internationalism of Indigenous Republics.” International StudiesAssociation, Montréal, Canada, March 15- 18, 2023.
2021 “Diálogos abigarrados: Desentramando el colonialismo en América”. Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Conference, May 26-29, 2021.
2021 “Entangled dialogues: Situating colonialism(s) and racial formations across Abya Yala/Turtle Island”. American Association of Geographers, Virtual Conference, April 7-11, 2021.
2019 “The Mestizo State: Indigeneity, ‘Spiritual Disease,’ and the Political Means of Production in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.” Historical Materialism, London, UK, November 7-10, 2019.
2019 “After the Altepetl: Indigenous Struggle and Colonization in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico: A Case of Modern State Formation and Uneven and Combined… Development?” Uneven and Combined Development for the 21st Century, Glasgow, Scotland, September 5-7, 2019.
INVITED RESEARCH TALKS
2025 (May) Lacustrine Urban Ecologies: Nahua Earthworks and Imperial Urbanism in the Anahuac-Mexico City. Department of Global & International Studies. University of California, Irvine.
2025 (April) Imperial Urbanism: Environmental violence and Nahua autonomy in the Anahuac-Mexico City. Department of History. University of California, Los Angeles.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, & PANELS
2025 Climate Solutions Symposium. Pennsylvania State University, May 16-20, 2025.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Dr. Alexander C. E. Aylett Graduate Research Award in Environmental Studies (CAD $2,150)
2023 Latin American Landscapes Seed Grant, The University of British Columbia (CAD$2,000)
2020-3 President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, The University of British Columbia (CAD $3462.88)
2019 Larry Bell Urban Research Award, The University of British Columbia (CAD $3,100)
2019 Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), The University of British Columbia (CAD $107,000)
2018 Robert S. Wyly Scholarship in Urban Studies, The University of British Columbia (CAD $1,000)
2017 International Tuition Award, The University of British Columbia (CAD $6,400)
2017 Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, The University of British Columbia (CAD $28,400)
2011 National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions/Santander
Bank Exchange Scholarship, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MXN $25,000)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2024-present Postdoctoral Scholar, “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses,” Center for Early Global Studies, University of California-Los Angeles, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, Principal Investigators: Zrinka Stahuljak and Shannon Speed.
2022-2023 Research Assistant, “The politics of post-migration,” Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia, Principal Investigator: Markus Hallensleben.
2019-2021 Graduate Academic Assistant, “Our Calls to Action: Supporting UBC faculty, students and staff for engagement with the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC),” The Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia, Principal Investigators: Dory Nason, Janey Lew.
2018 Research Assistant, “Geopolitical economies of urban-industrial development in East Asia and North America,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant, Principal Investigator: Jim Glassman.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of California, Los Angeles
2025-present Co-organizer, Indigenous Material and Visual Culture Working Group
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS LEADERSHIP
2018-2020 Chief Shop Steward and Geography Department Representative
Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 2278
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2023 Assistant Editor, EuropeNow, Special feature, The Politics of Postmigration (Issue 51)
JOURNAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2025 Peer Reviewer, Antipode
2023 Peer Reviewer, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2022 Peer Reviewer, Geoforum
THESIS AND DISSERTATIONS
2024 “Republic of Atlapulco: The politics of autonomy in the Mexican metropolis,” PhD dissertation, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia.
https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0445062
2019 “After the Altepetl: Indigenous Struggle and the colonial origins of the ModernState in Sixteenth Century central Mexico,” MA thesis, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0385503
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of British Columbia (Graduate Student Instructor)
❖ Cities (September-December 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)
❖ Geography, Environment and Globalization (September-December 2020)
❖ Urbanization in the Global South (January-April/May-August 2019)
❖ Environment and Sustainability (January-April 2019)
❖ Geography, Modernity & Globalization (January-April 2018)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association of Geographers
International Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
REFERENCES
Kevin Terraciano Robert N. Burr Endowed History Department Chair and Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, 6265 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States / 310-825-4601 /
Juanita Sundberg Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 134-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada / 604-822-0894 /
Jim Glassman Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 140F-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada / 604-822-1892 /
Coll Thrush Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower 1222, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada.
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