Katz Center for Mexican Studies

Workshops

Beatriz Rojas (El Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora)

May 10, 2007 "The New Political History of Mexico."

Sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies

 

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Alan Knight, Oxford University Professor, is the author of The Mexican Revolution (2 vols, Cambridge, 1986) US-Mexican Relations, 1910-40 (San Diego, 1987); of the chapter on Mexico, 1930-1946, in The Cambridge History of Latin America (Vol. VII, 1990); and of two volumes of a three volume general history of Mexico, Mexico: From the Beginning to the Conquest, and Mexico: The Colonial Era (Cambridge, 2002). He has written several articles dealing with aspects of twentieth-century Mexico (state-building, popular movements, education and culture, current politics) and co-edited The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the 20th Century (1992). He is completing the third volume of the general history (Mexico Since Independence) and researching a socio-political study of Mexico in the 1930s.

April 5, 2007 “The Mentality and Modus Operandi of Anticlericalism.”

Sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop and the Katz Center for Mexican Studies

 

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William Beezley, University of Arizona Professor, is the author and co-author of numerous works including Judas at the Jockey Club: And Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico (1987), Genocide, Collective Violence, and Popular Memory : The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (2002), and The Oxford History of Mexico (2000 with Michael C. Meyer).

May 23, 2006 “How El Negrito Saved Mexico From The French:   The Popular Sources of National Identity.”

 

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Heather Fowler - Salamini, Caterpillar Professor of Latin American History at Bradley University, she is the co-author and author of Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990: Creating Spaces, Shaping Transitions (1994), Agrarian radicalism in Veracruz, 1920-1938 (1978), Adalberto Tejeda and the Veracruz Peasant Movement (1974).

May 9, 2006 “Uncovering Working-Class Women's Culture:   Dances, Bands, and Theatre.”