Chicana/o History; 20th Century United States; Public Art;
Labor History; Oral History
Education
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of California Los Angeles
M.A., Mexican American Studies, San José State University
B.A., Chicano Studies, University of California Berkeley (with honors)
Bio
Juan Pablo earned his Ph.D. from the History Department at UCLA under the direction
of Professor Juan Gómez-Quiñones. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees
in Chicano Studies from UC Berkeley and San José State University, respectively. His
research focuses on the uses and function of public art. Specifically how public art
can transmit social memory and serves as an important site of remembering for individuals
and communities whose history often times gets distorted, marginalized or omitted.
Dr. Mercado lectures in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at San José State
University while also working as a faculty member at Chabot College in the History
Department where he teaches Chicana/o History, Early American and 20th Century U.S.
History.