Archive of Past Visiting Scholars

2017-2018

• Reynaldo Ortega, El Colegio de México
  Associate Researcher, Katz Center for Mexican Studies
  Research interests: comparative politics; transition to democracy, especially in Spain and Mexico; presidential elections; political party identities; Mexico-U.S. bilateral relations

2016-2017

• Erika Pani, El Colegio de México
  Tinker Visiting Professor
  Host: Department of History
  Courses: Revolutions, Constitutions and War: A Continent Transformed. The United States and Latin America, 1850–1880 (Fall 2016); From “Mestizaje” to the “Mexican genome”: Imagining Mexican Society during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Winter 2017)
• Joy Langston, CIDE
  Tinker Visiting Professor
  Host: Harris School of Public Policy
  Course: Clientelism and Elections in Latin America

2013-2014

• Judith Boruchoff
  Associate Researcher, Katz Center for Mexican Studies
  Research interests: transnationalism and globalization; Mexico-U.S. migration; anthropological perspectives on the State; the nature of political agency; material culture
• Berthold Molden
  Associate Researcher, Katz Center for Mexican Studies
• Óscar Javier Barrera Aguilera, El Colegio de México

2012-2013

• Martha Lilia Tenorio, El Colegio de México
  El Colegio de México Visiting Professor, Fall 2012
  Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

2011-2012

• Cesar Martinelli, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
  Host: Department of Economics
  Course: Topics in Political Economy

2010-2011

• Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist
  Tinker Visiting Professor
  Host: Department of History
  Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America (Fall 2010)
• Gerardo Esquivel, El Colegio de México
  Tinker Visiting Professor
  Host: Harris School of Public Policy Studies
  Courses: Economic Policy and Political Economy in Mexico (Fall 2010); The Empirics of Economic Growth (Winter 2011)
• Graciela Márquez
  El Colegio de México Visiting Professor
  Host: Department of History
  Course: The Economic History of Latin America Since Independence, 1820-2010 (Spring 2011)

2009-10

• Clara Bargellini
  Host: Department of Art History
  Course: New World Mission Art: art and architecture of Franciscan and Jesuit missions among the Amerindian peoples of northern New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Alma Guillermoprieto
  Host: Department of History
  Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America

2008-09

• Alma Guillermoprieto
  Host: Department of English
  Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America (Fall 2008)
• Fausto Hernandez-Trillo
  Host: Harris School of Public Policy Studies
  Course: Topics in Mexican Economic Public Policy (Fall 2008)

2006-07

• Anthony Stanton, El Colegio de Mexico
  Hosted by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
  Course: Poesía, Modernidad, e Historia: La Obra Inicial de Octavio Paz (1931-1958)
• Barbara Pfeiler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
  Host: Department of Comparative Human Development

2004-05

• Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de México
  Host: Department of History
  Courses: Political Order in Latin America (Winter 2005); Political Cultures of the Left (Spring 2005)

2003-04

• Jorge Durand, Universidad de Guadalajara
  Host: Department of Anthropology
  Course: Mexican Migration to the United States (Fall 2003)

2002-03

• Cuauhtémoc Cardenas
  Host: Department of History
  Course: Life/Presidency: Lázaro Cardenas (Spring 2003)

1998-99

• Javier Garciadiego Dantán, El Colegio de México
  Host: Department of History
  Course: War, Regions and Actors in the Mexican Revolution (Spring 1999)

1997-98

• Sergio Aguayo, El Colegio de México
  Host: Department of History
  Course: Violence and Resistance in Mexico, 1960-98 (Spring 1998)
• Mario Lavista, National Conservatory of Music, Mexico
  Host: Department of Music
  Course: Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Music (Spring 1998)

1996-97

• Federico Reyes Heroles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Este País, Editor
  Host: Department of History
  Fall 1996 Courses: Demythologizing Mexico; Origins of Authoritarian Culture
• Eugenia Meyer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of History
  Spring 1997 Courses: One Hundred Years of Mexican History: 1894-1994; Society and History in Mexican Cinema

1995-96

• Larissa Lomnitz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of Sociology
  Spring 1996 Courses: Contemporary Perspectives: Latin America and the Caribbean; Urban Social Structure in Latin America

1993-94

• Fernando Cortés Cáceres, Colegio de México
  Host: Department of Political Science
  Fall 1993 Courses: The Informal Sector in Latin America; The Political Dynamics of Economic Reform

1992-93

• Adolfo Aguilar Zinzer, Center for US Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of History
  Fall 1992 Courses: US-Mexican Relations; Contemporary Mexico

1991-92

• Guillermo de la Peña Topete, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social de Occidente (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico
  Host: Department of Anthropology
  Spring 1992 Courses: The Politics of Ethnicity: Latin American; Rural Mobilizations in Modern Latin America: Political-Anthropological Perspectives

1990-91

• Brígida von Mentz, Universidad Ibero-Americana, Mexico
  Host: Department of History
  Fall 1990 Courses: Social Classes in Mexico, Pre-Hispanic to the Revolution; Wealth and Power in Mexico

1989-90

• José Luis Reyna, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
  Host: Department of Sociology
  Fall 1989 Courses: Latin American Politics; Mexican Political System

1986-87

• Alicia Hernández, El Colegio de México
  Host: Department of History
  Spring 1987 Courses: Modern Mexican Political History; Topics in Mexican Military History, 1848-1920

1984-85

• Arturo Warman, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of History
  Spring 1985 Courses: Peasant Society in Twentieth-Century Mexico; New World Agriculture and the Formation of the World System

1983-84

• Enrique Semo Calev, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of History
  Fall 1983 Courses: The Mexican Political System; and Revolutions in Mexican History
• César Rodríguez Chicharro, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  Spring/Winter 1984 Course: Colonial Literature

1982-83

• Adolfo Gilly, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  Host: Department of History
  Fall 1982 Colloquium: The Mexican Revolution and Course: Ideology and State Forms in Modern Mexico