Ramón Gutiérrez

Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of United States History and the College in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. Gutiérrez's research centers on race and ethnicity in American life, Chicano and Latino studies, Indian-White relations in the Americas, the social and economic history of the Southwest, colonial Latin America, and Mexican immigration. He serves as affiliated faculty in the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, faculty affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, faculty board member of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and executive committee member of the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences. Gutiérrez joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2007 as the Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College. Professor Gutiérrez has retired and no longer directs BA theses or accepts new graduate students.

His major publications include the monograph New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), and the award-winning When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991), which examines colonial New Mexico society. Other key works are Cuando Jesús llegó, las madres del maíz se fueron: Matrimonio, sexualidad y poder en Nuevo México, 1500-1846 (Fondo de la Cultura Económica, 1993); Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges, coedited with Patricia Zavella (University of Illinois Press, 2009); and Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush, coedited with Richard Orsi (University of California Press, 1998). Gutiérrez has guest-edited journal issues on race and immigration in the American city (Du Bois Review, 2013), Asian American sexualities (Amerasia Journal, 2011), Islam and sexuality (Social Identities, 2012), race and sexuality in American history (Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2011), and Latin American sexualities (Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2007). He has contributed chapters to volumes such as The Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America and Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States, and articles on topics including panethnicity, mestizaje, and Latino welfare state experiences.

Professional Email: rgutierrez@uchicago.edu