Juan Pablo Mercado

Juan Pablo Mercado is a Lecturer at San José State University's Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and simultaneously teaches history courses at Chabot College. He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA, supervised by Professor Juan Gómez-Quiñones, with additional degrees in Mexican American Studies (M.A. from San José State University) and Chicano Studies (B.A. from UC Berkeley).

His research examines public art as a vehicle for transmitting social memory, particularly focusing on marginalized historical narratives. Mercado investigates how artistic expressions serve as sites of cultural preservation and counter-narrative formation for communities whose histories are often distorted or excluded from mainstream discourse.