| Robert Franco, Graduate Assistant of History and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Please note: Robert has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. I am a historian of twentieth-century Mexico, with a speciality in politics, gender, sexuality, and culture. My dissertation explores the issues of homophobia, heterosexism, and antagonism towards sexual politics in Mexico's left-wing parties and organizations.
I graduated with a B.A. in History (summa cum laude and departmental honors) from the University of Pennsylvania where I was a Mellon-Mays Foundation and Penn Humanities Forum fellow. At Duke University, I am a Deans Graduate Fellow and received my M.A. in 2017. My primary advisor is Dr. Jocelyn Olcott.
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- Education:
MA | Duke University | 2017 |
BA | University of Pennsylvania | 2014 |
- Specialties:
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Latin America and the Caribbean
Women, Gender and Sexuality Labor and Working Class History Cultural History Emotions and Psychology of the Self
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
- Franco, R, Transgressing Che: Irina Layevska Echeverría Gaitán, Disability Politics, and Transgendering the New Man in Mexico, 1964–2001,
Radical History Review, vol. 2020 no. 136
(January, 2020),
pp. 75-97, Duke University Press [doi] [abs]
- Franco, R, “Todos/as somos 41”: The Dance of the Forty-One from Homosexual Reappropriation to Transgender Representation in Mexico, 1945–2001,
Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 28 no. 1
(January, 2019),
pp. 66-95, University of Texas Press [doi]
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