Guillermo Paez Gallardo (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Irvine. His dissertation, Demolition Men: Precarity, Illegality, and Masculinity at a Latino Workplace, explores how undocumented migrant men navigate an informal and high-risk occupation. Using ethnographic and qualitative methods, Guillermo researches migrant work life at the intersection of race, illegality, and gender. He draws on three years of fieldwork laboring alongside migrant men to understand their struggles with workplace injuries and deaths, exploitation, and the threat of deportation.

Guillermo has a MA and BA in Sociology from UC Irvine. At UC Irvine he’s been part of campaigns and mentorship programs to support undocumented and marginalized students.