Staff and Affiliated Faculty
Professors Emilio Kourí and Friedrich Katz give a lecture on Mexican history.
Emilio Kourí, Director and Associate Professor of Latin American History
Emilio Kourí's main scholarly interest is in the social and economic history of rural Mexico since Independence. He is the author of A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico, which received the 2005 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) and the 2005 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize (Honorable Mention) from the American Society for Ethnohistory. His current research focuses on the idea of the "Indian pueblo" in nineteenth and twentieth-century Mexican thought, law, and political discourse. In addition to functioning as Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, Professor Kourí teaches seminars on land reforms, rural social movements, and the history of agrarian thought in the Department of History.
Julene Iriarte, Program Manager
Julene Iriarte received her B.A. in International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and a Master's in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. She joined the Katz Center in 2009, where she is responsible for the organization of conferences, symposiums, and outreach programming.
AFFILIATED FACULTY
Dain Borges, Professor of Latin American History
Raúl Coronado, Assistant Professor of English
Paul Friedrich, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Linguistics
Susan Gzesh, Director of Human Rights Program
John Lucy, William Benton Professor of Psychology
Robin Shoaps, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Alberto Simpser, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Mauricio Tenorio, Professor of Latin American History
