Gonzalo Guzmán

Dr. Gonzalo Guzmán is from Wapato in the Yakima Valley of Washington state. His research focuses on the racialization and educational histories of Latina/o/x communities in the Mountain States and Pacific Northwest of the US. His scholarship has appeared in the History of Education Quarterly, Journal of Latinos and Education, Reviews in American History, Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, Critical Readings on Latinos and Education, and Annals of Wyoming. Additionally, his research and commentary has been featured in Colorado, Washington, and Wyoming NPR and PBS affiliate stations, as well as the National Park Service. He is currently finalizing his first book manuscript tentatively titled: Education for a New Race: Making Whites and Schooling the Mexican in Greater Juan Crow.

Teaching: EDUC 180 (Education & Society), EDUC 240 (Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Education), EDUC 290 (Black & Latinx Educational Histories), EDUC 312 (History of US Schooling), EDUC 380 (Research Methods in Education), EDUC 460 (Senior Capstone: Education & Social Change)

Recent Scholarship:

Gonzalo Guzmán (2026), “Castañeda v. Granger Public Schools (1973): Cementing El Movimiento in the Yakima Valley, Washington, 1969-74” in the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal

Gonzalo Guzmán & Karla García (2026), “Tenemos que luchar por lo que es justo y necesario/ “We were doing what was necessary”: La Escuelita and Enacting Chicana/o Studies in Whiteness, 1969-70 “ in the Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal

Gonzalo Guzmán (2026), “Segregated Schools for Mexican Americans” in Wyoming’s History in 76 Objects & Places

Gonzalo Guzmán (2026), “Educational History and the Long El Movimiento,” in Reviews in American History

Gonzalo Guzmán (2025), “‘We the Taxpayers of Washington State’: El Movimiento, Schooling Reform, and Contested Racial Hierarchies in the Pacific Northwest, 1968-74,” in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Gonzalo Guzmán, et al. (2023), “Mexican American Educational History a Moment of Recognition” in the Teachers College Record

Noteworthy Publications:

Gonzalo Guzmán (2021), “’Things change, you know’: Schools as the Architects of the Mexican Race in Depression-Era Wyoming,” in the History of Education Quarterly

Gonzalo Guzmán, Ruben Donato, & Jarrad Hanson (2017), “Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912–1914” in the Journal of Latinos and Education

For more on Dr. Guzman’s scholarship, community collaborations, and teaching please see his website.