Lucas Ramos

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Lucas René Ramos is an undergraduate senior from South Florida who studies history with a minor in Italian Language & Culture. In his time at Princeton, his work initially spoke to American 1960-1980 LGBTQIA+ histories, but his focus shifted to topics regarding queer theory, anti-gender campaigns, re-appropriation, otherness, Italian fascism, Puerto Rican studies, the “new man” phenomenon, transnationalism, semiotics, and nationalism. These studies brought Lucas to create a documentary while studying an ex-slaughterhouse-turned-LGBTQ-nightclub in Rome, documenting its use of animal imagery to reconfigure its city’s fascist past. He has also undergone independent research in Rome on Italian fascist architecture and its relationship to contemporary myth-making and its anachronisms. His current work, “Fascist Mickey,” explores the purification strategies used by the fascist regime on Topolino (Italian Mickey Mouse) comic strips, which had attempted to recreate Mickey as an Italian human (Tuffolino). Beyond the Mellon, Lucas worked in various parts of the Student Government including as a Senate-elected member, as well as the Princeton Latinos y Amigos. Lucas has been accepted to Columbia University’s Ph.D in Modern European History. 

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