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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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Mauricio Tenorio’s main scholarly interest is in the political and cultural histories of Mexico and Latin America of the 19th and 20th centuries. His most recent book, La paz. 1876, was published in 2018 by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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Alberto Ortega Trejo is an artist and designer. He is a Lecturer at the Art History Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and contributes with planning and design for seminars and lectures at the Katz Center. He is an IDEAS Fellow at the Society of Architectural Historians under the mentorship of Spyros Papapetros.

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