Juan Carlos is a historian of sexuality, race, and visual culture in Mexican and transnational contexts. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2014) and an M.A. (2016) and Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto (2022).

His research and teaching focus on Mexican, Latin American, LGBTQ+, and Indigenous history. He is currently writing a book that examines the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, print culture, and visuality in the Americas from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s.

In 2017, Juan Carlos assisted the Collaboratory in the digitization and processing of audio tapes and transcripts for the Foolscap Gay Oral History Project. He briefly rejoined the team in summer 2023 as our resident blogger.