Pamela J. Fuentes is a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. She received a PhD from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2015, an MA in Mexican History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008) and BA from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on modern Mexican history, with […]
Casey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, […]
María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni served as Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2014. She received a PhD (2008) and an MA (2005) in History from El Colegio de Michoacán and a BA in Culture Science from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on the political culture, […]
Fernando Peréz-Montesinos received his M.A. in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Fernando writes, “My heart… remained with the history of indigenous people in modern Latin America. I thus embarked on a study of the Purépecha people of Michoacán (central-west Mexico) and examined how they coped with and contributed to shape a century-long process (1800-1914) of major land […]
Hinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge new forms of Hindu identity, furnish Hinduism with a purportedly more coherent and monotheistic form, engage in debates on American multiculturalism, and partake of the […]
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University. At the heart of his work are the imagination, sensibilities, and emotions that make the stories people tell themselves about their past to give meaning to their world. He has published extensively on modern German and European history, on […]
Seventy years after the end of the war, the liberation of the camps is still relatively understudied by historians. In this lecture, Dan Stone will give an overview of the different sorts of liberation experienced by the victims of Nazism and explain the importance of the liberation and what followed for understanding the history of […]
John Laslett is an Emeritus Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on United States History: American labor and social movements; U.S., Asian, Black and Mexican immigration; and comparative Euro-American history.
Maureen C. Miller, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley - “Feuding Popes and Emperors: Characterizing the Investiture Conflict.” This lecture will argue for an updating of the conceptualization of the ‘crisis of church and state’ in the context of recent work on violence and conflict in Medieval Europe.
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He is the author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale University Press, 2015), the co-editor Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire: New Views on Environmental […]
John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science. This lecture shows how Communism and Islam played a crucial, constitutive role in the making of the Indonesian "Revolusi," suggesting the essentially cosmopolitan nature of its origins and its emancipatory energies. John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London […]
