| Gonzalo Portocarrero | |
| Birth Name: | Gonzalo Javier Enrique Portocarrero Maisch |
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Lima, Peru |
| Death Place: | Lima, Peru |
| Alma Mater: | National University of San Marcos Pontifical Catholic University of Peru |
| Occupation: | Sociologist |
Gonzalo Portocarrero (December 3, 1949 – March 21, 2019) was a Peruvian sociologist, social scientist and essayist.
He was born in Lima, the third of four children of Félix Portocarrero Olave and Lucrecia Maisch Von Humboldt. He studied at the private school La Recoleta. He studied Sociology at the National University of San Marcos and Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.[1] He was a Master in Sociology from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) and doctor in the same specialty from the University of Essex (England).[1]
He was a visiting professor at universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela and the United Kingdom.[1] Until his death, he served as a professor at the Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.[2]
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Network for the Development of Social Sciences, dynamic intellectual space for Neo-Marxist discussion of the Peruvian problem. He was Dean of the Association of Sociologists of Peru. In 2008 he created the first program of Cultural Studies in Peru, culminating the research around these topics that began in the late nineties. His work is strongly influenced by the imprint left by the historian Alberto Flores Galindo. Among other distinctions, he was recognized as Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of the Center of Peru and was awarded the National Culture Award by the Ministry of Culture.[3]
On March 21, 2019, at the age of 69, he died from lung cancer.[4]