Juan Pablo Gomez-Lacayo

Research & Instruction Librarian, Latin American Library

Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Memory Studies

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Ohio State University, Latin American Cultural and Literary Studies, 2014
  • M.A. Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLASCO), Social Sciences, 2008
  • B.A. Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Law, 2005

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 2022-2023
  • Researcher & Professor, Interdisciplinary Institute of Social Sciences (IICS-UCA), Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), 2018-2022
  • Researcher & Professor, The Institute of Nicaraguan and Central American History (IHNCA-UCA), 2011-2017
  • Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Ohio State University, 2012-2014
  • Researcher, The Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala (AVANCSO), 2007-2010

Distinctions

  • Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Fellow, 2019-2021
  • Latin American Council of Social Sciences, 2014
  • Tinker Foundation, 2014

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Nicaragua
  • Guatemala

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Memories and Critical History: Documenting the Past in Nicaragua and El Salvador.”The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century. Eds Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List, University Press of Florida.
  • 2022. “Politica, afectos y memoria. El diario de Vidaluz Meneses durante la guerra de los ochenta en Nicaragua.” Escrituras en femenino en las literaturaas centroamericanas, Una cuenstion de genero? Eds. W. Makenbach & M. Perkowska
  • 2021. “Olvidar, usar, disputar. Reflexiones sobre los procesos de memoria en/sobre Nicaragua.” with Barbeyto, A; Martinez, R; Jaen, M; D’Leon, W; Martinez, E. Revista de Estudios Psicosociales Latinoamericanos, 4: 135-157.
  • 2021. “Como hablas de los años 80? Sujeto, memoria y tiempo pasado en Vidaluz Meneses” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies /Revue canadienne des etudes latino-americaines el caraibes, 24,: 3 470-487
  • 2020. “Autoritarismo, violencia y elites en Nicaragua. Reflexiones sobre la crisis (2018-2019) .” with Monte, Antonio, Anuario de estudios Centroamericanos, University de Costa Rica, 46: 1-29
  • 2015. Autoridad/Cuerpo/Nación: Batallas Culturales en Nicaragua (1930-1943). Managua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamerica, Universidad Centroamericana (IHNCA-UCA)