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Diego Galdo-González

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Diego Galdo-González is Lecturer in Latin American and Global Studies at CEDLA. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a BA in Sociology and a Research Master’s in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a coordinator for the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender & Sexuality and as a junior lecturer for the department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. 

RESEARCH INTEREST

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RESEARCH INTEREST

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His research interests lie at the intersection of sexual history, sexual cultures, and urban studies in Peru. He has published articles in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies and Argumentos, the journal of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.  His RM thesis traced the history of marica and queer pleasure in Lima between the 1950’s and 1980’s, and it received the II IHLIA Thesis Prize for the best thesis in field of LBGTQI+ history in Flanders and the Netherlands. Galdo-González’ work on the ball of La Lagunas has been awarded the honorable mention for the 2024 Gregory Sprague Prize from the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History. 
 

He recently received the Prince Bernhard Scholarship, which will allow him to conduct research on the history of queer beauty cultures in Peru. 

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Galdo-González, Diego. 2023. "The Ball of La Laguna: Class, Race, and Gender in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Cross-Dressing Ball in Lima, Perú." GLQ 29 (3): 353–385. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10437236

 

Galdo-González, Diego. 2022. "Lima: Ciudad de Maricones." Argumentos 3(1): 65-73. https://doi.org/10.46476/ra.v3i1.124

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