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. His current research focuses on the idea of the “Indian pueblo” in nineteenth and twentieth-century Mexican thought, law, and political discourse. He is also writing a book on the making of the ejido, Mexico’s sui generis postrevolutionary land reform institution. 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.

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Alberto Ortega Trejo is an artist and architectural researcher. He is a Lecturer at the Art History Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches architectural histories of the Colonial Encounter in North America and, Architecture Studio focused on public space interventions based on archival research. He contributes with planning and design for seminars and lectures at the Katz Center.

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