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Fernando Pérez Montesinos


Assistant Professor


Contact Information

Email    fperez@history.ucla.edu
Office  5280 Bunche Hall
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Degrees

Ph.D., History (2015), Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

M.A. History (2009), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

B.A. Communication Studies (2006), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City

Selected Publications

"Geografia, politica y economia del reparto liberal en la meseta purepecha, 1851-1914," Historia Mexicana, 66.4 (April-June 2017): 2073-2149. http://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/3427/3209

"Land, Forest, and Pueblos in the Meseta Purepecha, 1869-1911." In: Jose Galindo, ed., Mexico in Focus: Political, Environmental, and Social Issues (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2014), 177-196.

"Las raíces locales de la participaci6n indígena en la vida nacional." In: Participaci6n indígena en Los procesos independencia y revolución (Mexico: CDI,2011), 61-76.

Research

Social, economic, and political transformations of Mexico and Latin America in the second half of the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on indigenous people, land tenure, land-use, commodities, and the environment. My current research project focuses on the Purépecha people of Michoacán, Mexico. It examines why and how long-standing patterns of communal landholding changed and delves into the history of railroad expansion and the rise of the timber industry in Mexico.