DANIEL P. GAMEZ
Departments of History & American Indian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
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curriculum vitae
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024-2026 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of History & American Indian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
2022-2023 Research Assistant
Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia
2019-2021 Graduate Academic Assistant
The Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
2018-2020 Chief Shop Steward and Geography Department Representative
Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 2278
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DEGREES
2024 PhD, Geography, The University of British Columbia
(Co-supervisors: Juanita Sundberg and Jim Glassman)
2020 MA, Geography, The University of British Columbia
(Co-supervisors: Jim Glassman and Trevor Barnes)
2016 BA, Political Science and Public Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
(Supervisor: Stefan Gandler)
Languages:
Spanish (native); English (full professional proficiency); Nahuatl (basic proficiency); French (basic proficiency).
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
2024 Daniel P. Gámez. “Who is this ‘we,’ Mestizo? The telluric politics of Latin American nation-states”.
Ethnic Studies Review. revise and resubmit.
2024 María Belén Noroña, Daniel P. Gámez, Inari Sosa, and Fernanda Rojas-Marchini.
“Towards hemispheric conversations in the Americas: Internal colonialism and efforts to decolonize the self in Abya Yala”. Antipode. (Forthcoming).
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
Encyclopaedia Articles
2020 Hanson, Eric, Daniel P. Gámez, and Alexa Manuel.“The Residential School System”.
Indigenous Foundations.
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/residential-school-system-2020/
Articles in Edited Anthologies
2011 Daniel Pérez Gámez and Carlos Quio Linares “El mal, cristianismo, Ilustración” (Evil, Christianity and Enlightenment).
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/
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 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. http://openinsight.com.mx/index.php/open/article/view/106
2013 Daniel Pérez Gámez. Review of Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator. Open Insight, Vol. IV, No. 5 (January 2013): 215-221. http://openinsight.com.mx/index.php/open/article/view/71
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
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 “‘Come and see what we requested, it belongs to us’: Colonial and post-colonial
Nahua land titling in the Anahuac.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, United States, May 23-26, 2025.
2025 “Pitfalls of Liberation: Global Internal Coloniality between Abya Yala and Black Radical Movements.”
International Studies Association, Chicago, United States, March 2-5, 2025.
2024 “Governing by Duplicating: Bureaucracy and the Flesh in the Anahuac.”Historical Materialism, 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 Studies Association, 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.
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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 Modern State in Sixteenth Century central Mexico,"
MA thesis, Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia.
https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0385503
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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 (CAD $2,400)
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FUNDED RESEARCH
2022-3 Research Assistant, “The politics of post-migration,” Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia, Principal Investigator: Dr. Markus Hallensleben.
2019-21 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 Investigator: Dr. Dory Nason, Supervisor: Dr. 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 (CAD 140,525), Principal Investigator:
Dr. Jim Glassman.
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EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2023 Assistant Editor, EuropeNow, Special feature, The Politics of Postmigration (Issue 51)
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JOURNAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES
2023 Peer Reviewer, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2022 Peer Reviewer, Geoforum
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TEACHING
Undergraduate
(as Teaching Assistant)
University of British Columbia (2017-)
University of British Columbia (2017-)
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URST200/GEOG250: Cities (September-December 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022) Instructor: Elvin Wyly
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GEOG122: Geography, Environment and Globalization (September-December 2020) Instructors: Juanita Sundberg and Rafi Arefin
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GEOG352: Urbanization in the Global South (January-April 2019) Instructor: Siobhán McPhee
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GEOG310: Environment and Sustainability (January-April 2019) Instructors: Karen Bakker and Alec Blair
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GEOG352: Urbanization in the Global South (May-August 2018) Instructor: CharlesGreenberg
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GEOG122: Geography, Modernity & Globalization (January-April 2018) Instructors: Jim Glassman and Trevor Barnes
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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 /
terra@history.ucla.edu
Jim Glassman Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia,
140F-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada / 604-822-1892 /
Juanita Sundberg Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia,
134-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada / 604-822-0894
Coll Thrush Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia,
Buchanan Tower 1222, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Kim Beauchesne Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies,
University of British Columbia, Buchanan Tower 717,
1873 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
Stefan Gandler Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences,
Autonomous University of Queretaro, Cerro de las Campanas University Center,
Queretaro, 76010 Mexico /+52 (442) 192 12 65
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