Héctor Carrillo : Department of Sociology

Héctor Carrillo

Professor of Sociology and Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies

hector@northwestern.edu
(847) 467-0516
1808 Chicago Ave, Room 101
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Area(s) of Interest

Sexualities, Migration and transnationalism, Genealogy and archival documents, Race/Ethnicity, Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS.

Relevant Links

Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

Latina and Latino Studies Program 

The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

Biography

Professor Carrillo has a joint appointment in the Sociology Department and the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. He has affiliations with Latina/o Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Science and Human Culture, Institute for Policy Research (IPR), and Institute for Gender and Sexual Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH).

He also serves as co-director of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN), which promotes interdisciplinary research and education on sexuality.

He is the author of two books: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which received awards from three American Sociological Association (ASA) sections (Latina/o Sociology, Sex and Gender, and International Migration) and the 2020 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.

His current research investigates amateur genealogists’ interaction with archival documents, and the social implications of the proliferation of genealogy as a global phenomenon. He is also completing research on the sexualities of straight-identified men who are sexually interested in both women and men.

Carrillo is a past chair of the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the ASA and served as a senior editor of Theory and Society. He has a history of involvement in HIV/AIDS community-based organizations.