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Eric Van Young

Eric Van Young focuses on colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on Mexico. His thematic interests include rural history, peasant movements and political violence, cultural history, historiography, and biography. Currently, he is in the research phase for a biography of Lucas Alaman, 19th-century Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, and historian, within the larger context of post-independence political culture. He has chaired the Department of History (2000-2004) and served as Interim Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities for 2007-2008.
  • B.A. with Honors, History, University of Chicago, 1967
  • M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
  • Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1979-1980
  • Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, 1980-1982
  • Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego, 1982-1984
  • Associate Professor, UCSD, 1984-89
  • Professor, UCSD, 1989--;
  • Distinguished Professor, UCSD, 2009--;
  • Chair, Department of History, UCSD, 2000-2004
  • Associate Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1997-2001
  • Interim Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities, UCSD, July 2007-December 2008 

A historian of colonial Mexico by training, Eric Van Young has written on rural economic history (especially the history of haciendas) and regions in Mexico. In the mid-1980s his interest turned to the history of popular groups in the Mexican independence struggle (1810 - 1821), on which he published a book in 2001. His major current research project is a biography of Lucas Alamán (1792 - 1853), one of the great statesmen and public intellectuals of 19th-century Mexico and Latin America, arguably Mexico's greatest 19th-century historian and the architect of Mexican conservatism, as well as one of the great early promoters of the country's modernization and industrialization. Research on Alamán continues in Mexican archives and other repositories (Carso [formerly Condumex], the Archivo General de la Nación, Benson Latin American Collection-UT Austin, etc.) and the writing is well advanced.  He is also writing a synoptic/interpretive history of Mexico, 1750-1850, under contract to Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers.

I. Books

Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1810. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981; a second edition (in paperback), enlarged with a new introduction by the author and a preface by John Coatsworth, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2006.

La ciudad y el campo en el México del siglo XVIII: La economía rural de la región de Guadalajara, 1675-1820. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1990. (Spanish translation of Hacienda and Market)

La ciudad y el campo en la historia de México, co-edited with Ricardo Sanchez and Gisela von Wobeser; 2 vols. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1992.

Colección Documental de la Independencia Mexicana, edited, and with an introduction (Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1998).

La crísis del orden colonial: Estructura agraria y rebeliones populares en la Nueva España, 1750-1821. Mexico City: Alianza Editorial, 1992.

Mexican Regions: Comparative History and Development, edited, and with an introduction. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1992.

The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810-1821. Stanford University Press, 2001; Spanish translation from Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2006, now in third edition.

From Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World, edited with Joseph Esherick and Hasan Kayali (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

Mexican Soundings: Essay in Honour of David A. Brading, co-edited with Susan Deans-Smith; London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 2007.

Economía, política y cultura en la historia de México: Ensayos historiográficos, metodológicos y teóricos de tres décadas. San Luis Potosí (Mexico): El Colegio de San Luis/El Colegio de Michoacan, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2010.

Writing Mexican History. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic (1750- 1850), Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, Publishers (in progress).

II. Articles in Scholarly Journals and Book Chapters

"Urban Market and Hinterland: Guadalajara and is Region in the Eighteenth Century," Hispanic American Historical Review, 59 (1979): 593-635. Published in Spanish as "Hinterland y mercado urbano: El caso de Guadalajara y su región," Revista Jalisco, 2 (1980): 73-95.)

"Un homicidio colonial," Boletin del Archivo Historico de Jalisco, 3 (1979): 2-4.

"Guadalajara Preindependiente," Chapter 12 in Historia de Jalisco, Vol. 2: De finales del siglo XVIII a la caída del federalismo, 295-323; gen. ed. José María Muriá, 4 vols. (Mexico City: Secretar ía de Educaci ón Pública/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1981).

"Comentario sobre Andres Lira Gonzalez, 'La propiedad comunal indigena en los alrededores de la Ciudad de Mexico,'" in Despues de los latifundios (La desintegracion de la gran propiedad agraria en Mexico), ed. by Heriberto Moreno Garcia (Mexico City: El Colegio de Michoacan, 1982), 105-109.

"Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda," Latin American Research Review, 18 (1983); 5-61. (A Spanish translation of this article has appeared in Historias, 12 (1987), the journal of the Dirección de Estudios Históricos of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico; and the same translation is anthologized in Enrique Cárdenas, ed., Historia económica de México, Serie de Lecturas de El Trimestre Económico, [Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 1989], 376-438.)

"Conflict and Solidarity in Indian Village Life: The Guadalajara Region in the Late Colonial Period," Hispanic American Historical Review, 64 (1984): 55-79.

"Prologo" to Maria Guadalupe Rodriguez Gomez, Jalpa y San Juan de los Otates, dos haciendas en el Bajio colonial (Leon, Mexico: El Colegio del Bajio, 1984), 15-19.

"The Age of Paradox: Mexican Agriculture at the End of the Colonial Period, 1750-1810," in Nils Jacobsen and Hans-Jürgen Puhle, eds., The Economies of Mexico and Peru in the Late Colonial Period, 1769-1820 (Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1986), 64-90. Also anthologized in John Lynch, ed., Latin American Revolutions, 1808-1826: Old and New World Origins (Norman and London:University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 103-114.

"Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?: Symbols and Popular Ideology in the Mexican Wars of Independence," Proceedings of the 1984 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, vol. 1: 18-35 (Las Cruces: Center for Latin American Studies, New Mexico State University, 1984).

"Zinacantan Revisited: The Empirical, the Narrative, and the Contingent in Robert Wasserstrom's Class and Society in Central Chiapas," Peasant Studies, 12 (1985): 101-111.

"Recent Anglophone Historiography on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850)," Hispanic American Historical Review, 65 (1985): 725-743.

"Comentario sobre Christon I. Archer, `Los dineros de la insurgencia, 1810-1821,'" in Repaso de la Independencia, ed. by Carlos Herrejon Peredo (Guadalajara: El Colegio de Michoacan, 1985), 56-65.

"Man, Land, and Water in Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 1 (1985): 396-412.

"Millennium on the Northern Marches: The Mad Messiah of Durango and Popular Rebellion in Mexico, 1800-1815," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 28 (1986): 385-413.

"The Grey Legend: A Review of the Cambridge History of Latin America, vols. 1 and 2: Colonial Latin America, edited by Leslie Bethell," Southeastern Latin Americanist, 29 (1986): 21-30.

"L'enigma dei re: messianismo e rivolta populare in Messico, 1800-1815" ["The Riddle of the Kings: Messianism and Popular Rebellion in Mexico, 1800-1815"], Rivista Storica Italiana, 99 (1987), 754-786.

"Moving Toward Revolt: Agrarian Origins of the Hidalgo Revolt in the Guadalajara Region, 1810," in Friedrich Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988) 176-204. (Published in Spanish as "Hacia la insurreccion: Origenes agrarios de la rebelion de Hidalgo en la region de Guadalajara," in F. Katz, ed., Revuelta, rebelion y revolucion: La lucha rural en Mexico del siglo XVI al siglo XX, 2 vols. [Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1990], 1: 164-186.)

"Haciendo historia regional. Consideraciones metodológicas y teóricas," Anuario del IEHS/Tandil [Argentina], No. 2 [1987], 255-282). (Re-printed in Pedro Perez Herrero, ed., Region e historia en Mexico (1700-1850). Metodos de analisis regional [Mexico City: Instituto Jose Maria Luis Mora and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, 1992], 99-122; English version, "Doing Regional History: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations," Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook, 1994, vol. 20, 21-34 [volume editor David Robinson]).

"Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era," Past and Present, No. 118 (Feb., 1988), 120-156. Excerpted in John C. Chasteen and Joseph Tulchin, eds., Problems in Modern Latin American History: A Reader (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1994), 14-20.

"Sectores medios rurales en el México de los Borbones: El interior de Guadalajara en el siglo XVIII," HISLA--Revista Latinoamericana de Historia Económica, 8 (1986), 99-117.

"A modo de conclusión: El siglo paradójico," in Arij Ouweneel and Cristina Torales, eds., Empresarios, indios y estado. Perfil de la economía mexicana (siglo XVIII) (Amsterdam: Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, 1988), 206-231. (Re-published in a Mexican edition under same title by Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 1994, 319-354.)

"Quetzalcóatl, King Ferdinand, and Ignacio Allende Go to the Seashore; or, Messianism and Mystical Kingship in Mexico, 1800-1821," in Jaime E. Rodríguez, ed., The Independence of Mexico and the Creation of the Federal Republica (Los Angeles: Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989), 109-127.

"Agustín Marroquín: The Sociopath as Rebel," in Judith Ewell and William Beezley, eds., The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century (New York: Scholarly Resources, 1989), 17-38. Reprinted in William H. Beezley and Judith Ewell, eds., The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1997), 3-25 (one-volume edition of previously published two-volume series).

"Material Life," in Louisa Schell Hoberman and Susan Migden Socolow, eds., Rural Society in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 49-74.

"The Raw and the Cooked: Popular and Elite Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821," in Mark D. Szuchman, ed., The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values and Attitudes in the 18th-19th Centuries (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1989), 75-102. (Re-printed in Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller, eds., Indian Community of Colonial Mexico: Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organizations, Ideology and Village Politics [Amsterdam: CEDLA, 1990], 295-321.)

"Conclusions," in Susan Ramirez, ed., Indian-Religious Relations in Colonial Spanish America (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, Latin American Series, 1989), 87-102.

"Introduccion," in Van Young, La crisis del orden colonial: Estructura agraria y rebelion popular en la Nueva Espana, 1750-1821 (Mexico City: Alianza Editorial, 1991), 9-17.

"To See Someone Not Seeing: Historical Studies of Peasants and Politics in Mexico," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 6 (Winter, 1990), 133-159.

"Prologo," to Sanchez, Van Young, and von Wobeser, La ciudad y el campo en la historia de Mexico, ix-xii.

"Mentalities and Collectivities: A Comment," in Jaime E. Rodriguez, ed., Patterns of Contention in Mexican History (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1992), 337- 353.

"El sociopata: Agustin Marroquin," in Felipe Castro Gutierrez, Virginia Guedea, and Jose Luis Mirafuentes Galvan, eds., Organizacion y liderazgo de los movimientos populares novohispanos (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1992), 219-253.

"Agrarian Rebellion and Defense of Community: Meaning and Collective Violence in Late Colonial and Independence-Era Mexico," Journal of Social History, 27 (1993), 245-269. (Published in Spanish as: "Rebelion agraria sin agrarismo: Defensa de la comunidad, significado y violencia colectiva en la sociedad rural mexicana de fines de la epoca colonial," in Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and Leticia Reina, eds., Indio, nacion y comunidad en el Mexico del siglo XIX [Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, 1993], 31-61; and abbreviated Spanish version published as:"Rebelion agraria sin agrarismo a fines del periodo colonial," in Ricardo Avila Palafox, Carlos Martinez Assad,and Jean Meyer, eds., Las formas y politicas del dominio agrario: Homenaje a Francois Chevalier [Guadalajara: Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992], 147-157.)

Brief articles "Ejido," "Pedro Garibay," "Isla de Mescala," "Francisco Javier Venegas," and "Chito and Julian Villagran" in Barbara A. Tenenbaum, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Latin American History, 5 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), respectively in: 2:471, 3:34, 3:590, 5:377, 5:418.

Articles "Latin American regionalism," "Haciendas/Encomiendas," and "Rancheros" in Peter Stearns, general editor, Encyclopedia of Social History (Garland Publishing Company, 1993), 315-17, 403-04, 616-17.

"The State as Vampire: Hegemonic Projects, Public Ritual, and Popular Culture in Mexico, 1600-1990," in William H. Beezley, Cheryl A. Martin, and William E. French, eds., Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Mexican Street Culture (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1994), 343-374.

"The Cuautla Lazarus: Double Subjectives in Reading Texts on Popular Collective Action," Colonial Latin American Review, 2 (1993), 3-26. Published in Spanish as: "El Lazaro de Cuautla. Dobles subjetivos al leer textos sobre la accion popular colectiva," in Historia y Grafia (Mexico City), 5 (1995), 165-194.

"Dreamscape with Figures and Fences: Cultural Contention and Discourse in the Late Colonial Mexican Countryside," in Serge Gruzinsky and Nathan Wachtel, eds., Le Nouveau Monde--Mondes Nouveaux: L'experience americaine (Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1996), 137-159; published in Spanish as: "Paisaje de ensueno con figuras y vallados: Disputa y discurso cultural en el campo mexicano de fines de la colonia," in Jane-Dale Lloyd and Laura Perez Rosales, eds., Paisajes rebeldes: Una larga noche de rebelion indigena (Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1995), 149-179.

"In the Gloomy Caverns of Paganism: Popular Culture, Insurgency, and Nation-Building in Mexico, 1800-1821,”in Christon I. Archer, ed., The Birth of Modern Mexico, 1780-1824 (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003), 41-65.

"Religion and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1810-1821," in Steve Kaplan, ed., Indigenous and Popular Responses to Western Christianity (New York: New York University Press, 1995), 144-173.

"Identidad y mesianismo (conversacion con Eric Van Young)," Ojarasca, no. 24 (September, 1993), 9-15 (interview by Antonio Ibarra).

Articles "Land-Labor Regimes: Colonial," "Rural Resistance and Rebellion: Colonial," "Jose de la Cruz," "Pedro Celestino Negrete," and "Villagran Family,” in Michael Werner, ed., Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997).

"Making Leviathan Sneeze: Recent Work on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution," Latin American Research Review, 34 (1999), 143-165.

"Presentacion" for the book of Neus Escandell-Tur, Produccion y comercio de tejidos coloniales: Los obrajes y chorrillos del Cusco, 1570-1820 (Cusco, Peru: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos "Bartolome de Las Casas," 1997), 9-20.

"La otra rebelion: Un perfil de la insurgencia popular en Mexico, 1810-1815," in Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and Romana Falcon, eds., Los ejes de la disputa. Movimientos sociales Y actores colectivos en American Latina, siglo xix (Madrid, AHILA-Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2002), 25-55.

"The `New Cultural History' Comes to Old Mexico," Hispanic American Historical Review, 79 (1999), 211-248.

"Los sectores populares en el movimiento mexicano de independencia: Una perspectiva comparativa," in Victor Manuel Uribe-Uran and Luis Javier Ortiz Mesa, eds., Naciones, gentes y territorios: Ensayos de historia e historiografia comparada de America Latina y el Caribe (Medellin, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2000), 141-174.

"Prologo," to Maritza del Rocio Arauz Castro, Jipijapa y Montecristi: Economia y estratificacion social, segunda mitad del siglo XVIII (Guayas, Ecuador: Archivo Historico de Guayas, 1998).

"Popular Religion and the Politics of Insurgency in Mexico, 1810-1821," in Austen Ivereigh, ed., The Politics of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London: 2000), pp. 74-114.

Contribution to column "Breakthrough Books," Linguafranca, October, 1998, p. 16.

"From the Mundane to the Messianic: The Poetics of Writing Popular Religion” (commentary on Paul Vanderwood’s The Power of God Against the Guns of Government [1998]), Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 15 (1999), 345-357.

Articles "Independence" and "Messianism and Millenarianism" in David Carrasco, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 3 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 2: 38-42, 2: 287-291.

"Woodrow Wilson Borah (1912-1999)" (an obituary), Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 16 (2000), 227-237.

“The Indigenous Peoples of Western Mexico from the Spanish Invasion to the Present,” in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2, edited by R.E.W Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 136-186.

“Conclusion: Was There an Age of Revolution in Spanish America?”, in Victor Uribe-Uran, ed., State and Society in Spanish American during the Age of Revolution (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2001), 219-246.

“‘To Throw Off a Tyrannical Government’: Atlantic Revolutionary Traditions and Popular Insurgency in Mexico,” in Michael A. Morrison and Melinda S. Zook, eds., Revolutionary Currents: National Building in the Transatlantic World, 1688-1821 (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), 127-171.

“De tempestades y teteras: Crisis imperial y conflicto local en Mexico a principios del siglo XIX,” in Elisa Servin and Leticia Reina Aoyama, eds., Crisis, reforma y revolucion. Mexico:Historias de fin de siglo (Mexico City: Editorial Taurus, 2002), 161-208.

“Confesion, interioridad y subjetividad: sujeto, accion y naracion en los inicios del siglo XIX en Mexico,” Signos Historicos: Revista Semestral (Mexico: UAM/Iztapalapa), 8 (July-December 2002): 43-59.

“Ascenso y caida de una loca utopia: Estudio introductorio,” in “Para una historia de la psiquiatria en Mexico,” special number of Secuencia: Revista de historia y ciencias sociales, 51 (2001), 11-29. (An expanded version is “Ascenso y caida de una loca utopia: El Manicomio General en la Ciudad de Mexico a comienzos del siglo XX,” in Diego Armus, ed., Avatares de la medicalizacion en America Latina (Buenos Aires: Lugar Editorial, in press).

"Beyond the Hacienda: Agrarian Relations and Socioeconomic Change in Rural Mesoamerica: A Commentary,”special number of Ethnohistory, vol. 50, no. 1 (Winter, 2003), 231-245.

“La pareja dispareja: Algunos comentarios sobre la relacion entre historia cultural e historia economica,” Historia Mexicana, vol. 52, no. 3 (Jan.-March, 2003), 831-870.

“Una entrevista con Eric Van Young”, by Agueda Jimenez Pelayo, Espiral: Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad, vol. 9 (Sept.-Dec. 2003), 241-264.

“Two Decades of Anglophone Historical Writing on Colonial Mexico: Continuity and Change since 1980,” Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 20, no. 2 (Summer, 2004), 275-326 (A Spanish translation is in preparation for publication by El Colegio de Mexico, 2005.)

“De aves y estatuas: respuesta a Alan Knight,” Historia Mexicana, vol. 54, no. 2 (Oct.-Dec. 2004), 517-573.

“Los indigenas monarquicos...eran mayoria,” Nexos 297 (Sept. 2002), 47-49.

“Brading’s Century: Some Reflections on David A. Brading’s Work and the Historiography of Mexico, 1750-1850,” in Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young, eds., Visons and Revisions in Mexican History: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading (London: Institute of American Studies, University of London, in press).

“A Nationalist Movement without Nationalism: The Limits of Imagined Community in Mexico, 1810-1821,” in David Cahill and Blanca Tovias, eds., New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule (Brighton [U.K.]: Sussex Academic Press, in press for 2005).

“The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821,” in Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young, eds., Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, in press).

“Revolution and Imagined Communities in Mexico, 1810- 1821,” in Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona, eds., Nationalism in the New World. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006, 184-207.

“The Historiography of Rural Latin America, Colonial Period,” in José Moya, ed., The Oxford Companion to Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 309-341.

“De razones y regiones,” in Gladys Lizama Silva, ed., Historia regional: El centro occidente de México: siglos xvi al xx. Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2007, 13-33.

“Comment on Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, ‘Eating Like an Indian: Negotiating Social Relations in the Spanish Colonies,’” Current Anthropology 46:4 (Aug.-Oct. 2005), 568-569.

“Contrabandistas y bandoleros criminales en México, 1810-1821: Insurgencia y crimen a la luz de las ideas de Eric Hobsbawm,” in Gumersindo Vera Hernández, José R. Pantoja Reyes, María Xóchitl Domínguez Pérez, and Orlando Arreola Rosas, eds., Los historiadores y la historia para el siglo XXI: Homenaje a Eric J. Hobsbawm. Mexico City: Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2007, 271- 304. (The same essay, in a new Spanish translation, was published in Revista 20/10: Mexico y sus revoluciones, no. 3, primavera 2009, 13-49.

“1810-1910: Semejanzas y diferencias,” Historia Mexicana, 49:1, July-September 2009, 389-441. (The same essay appeared in a shorter version in Clara García Ayluardo and Francisco J. Sales Heredia, eds., Reflexiones en torno a los centenarios: Los tiempos de la Independencia, Mexico City: Fundación 2010 Conmemoraciones/CIDE/CESOP, 2008, 23-43.)

“No Human Power to Impede the Impenetrable Order of Providence: The Historiography of Mexican Independence,” in Eric Van Young, Writing Mexican History, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2012, 127-163 (previously Unpublished).

Extensive excerpts from ítems 6, 14, 20, and 32 above in Torcuato S. Di Tella, ed., Repertorio político latino- americano, 4 vols. Buenos Aires: Editorial Emecé, 2008, pp. …

Reference article “Mexico from Independence to the French Intervention” (ca. 1300 words), The World and its Peoples: Mexico and Central America, United Kingdom: The Brown Reference Group, 2007, pp…..

“Independence and Nationalism in the Americas,” co- authored with Don H. Doyle, in John Breuilly, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press (ca. 35 pp.).

“Etnia, política local e insurgencia en México, 1810- 1821,” in Manuel Chust and Ivana Frasquet, eds., Los colores de las independencias iberoamericanas: liberalismo, etnia y raza, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2009, 143-169.

“Insurrección popular en México, 1810-1821,” in Marco Palacios, ed. Las independencias hispanoamericanas: Interpretaciones 200 años después, Cali, Colombia: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2009, 309-338.

“El momento antimoderno: localismo e insurgencia en Méxio,” in Antonio Annino, ed., La revolución novohispana, 1808-1821, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010, 221-292.

Articles “Mesianismo” and “Bandidaje” (each about 3000 words), in Alfredo Ávila, Virginia Guedea, and Ana Carolina Ibarra, eds., Diccionario sobre la independencia de México. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2010, 260-264 and 366-368, respectively.

“El lugar de encuentro entre la historia cultural y la historia económica,” in Daniel Barragán Trejo and José Rafael Martínez Gómez, eds., Relaciones intra e Interregionales en el occidente de México, Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2009, 15-39.

“La cultura de la Independencia: entrevista con Eric Van Young,” by Alfredo Ávila, Historias: Revista de la Direccion de Estudios Historicos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia [Mexico] 66-67 (Jan.-Aug. 2007), 35-41.

“Vidas privadas y mitos públicos: Lucas Alamán y la Independencia mexicana,” 20/10: Memoria de las Revoluciones en México, no. 9 (Fall 2009), 43-54.

“Social Networks: A Final Comment,” in Bernd Hausberger, Nikolaus Böttcher, and Antonio Ibarra, eds., Redes y Negocios en el mundo ibérico, siglos XVI-XVII. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Vervuert, 2010, 289-309.

“Diálogo sobres las regiones de la historia,” entrevista con Luis Gerardo Morales Moreno, in Morales Moreno, ed., Historia de Morelos, I: Historiografía, territorio y Región. Cuernavaca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2012, 29-68.

“La época de la revolución atlántica: comparaciones entre México, Estados Unidos y Francia,” in Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Javier Fernández, and Eric Van Young, La revolución francesa: matriz de las revoluciones? Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2010, 225-274.

“Bandits, Elvis, and Other Mystics: An Interview with Paul Vanderwood,” The Americas 68:4 (April 2012), 195- 212.

“Paul J. Vanderwood—an Obituary and Remembrance,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 28:1 (Winter 2012), 3-20.

“Eric Van Young: Viva la bola!,” interview with Christopher Domínguez Michael, in Domínguez Michael, ed., Profetas del pasado: Quince voces de la historiografía sobre México. Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 2011, 281-308 (published under the same title in Letras Libres 12:141 [September 2010], 72-79).

“In Memoriam: Charles Adams Hale, Historian of Mexican Political Thought,” Perspectives on History (American Historical Association newsletter), May 2009.

“Historia en la sombra: Insurgencia popular,” Nexos (January 2009).

“Lucas Alamán,” in Leonor Ludlow, ed., 200 Emprendedores Mexicanos: La construcción de una nación. Mexico City: Editorial Lid, 2011, vol. 1, 115-120.

“Paul J. Vanderwood (1929-2011),” Hispanic American Historical Review 92:2 (2012), 331-333.

“Paul Vanderwood: Una remembranza,” Historia Mexicana, 2011.

“Paul J. Vanderwood (an obituary),” Pacific Historical Review (in press).

“Eric Van Young [written interview],” in Manuel Chust, ed., Las independencias iberoamericanas en su laberinto: Controversias, cuestiones, interpretaciones. Universitat de Valencia, 2010, 365-373.

III. Book Reviews

Ramón María Serrera Contreras, Guadalajara ganadera: Estudio regional novohispana, 1760-1805 (Seville, 1977), Agricultural History, 53 (1979), 838-839.

David A. Brading, ed., Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge, 1980), Agricultural History, 57 (1981), 187-188.

Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez O., The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico (Berkeley, 1980), Journal of Latin American Studies, 1981, 71-73.

Heriberto Moreno García, Guaracha: Tiempos viejos, tiempos nuevos (Mexico City, 1980), Relaciones (El Colegio de Michoacán), 12 (1982), 150-156.

Enrique Semo, et. al., México: Un pueblo en la historia (vol. 1 of a 4-vol. series) (Mexico City, 1981), Hispanic American Historical Review, 63 (1983), 375-376.

Nicholas P. Cushner, Farm and Factory: The Jesuits and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Colonial Quito, 1600-1767 (New York, 1982), American Historical Review, 88 (1983), 1350-1351.

John Kicza, Colonial Entrepreneurs: Business and Family in Bourbon Mexico City (Albuquerque, 1983), Hispanic American Historical Review, 64 (1984), 381-382.

Linda Greenow, Credit and Socioeconomic Change in Colonial Mexico: Loans and Mortgages in Guadalajara, 1720-1820 (Boulder, 1983), Hispanic American Historical Review, 64 (1984), 159-160.

José Jesús Hernández Palomo, La renta del pulque en Nueva EspaZa, 1663-1810 (Seville, 1979), The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 882-883.

Kathleen Logan, Haciendo Pueblo: The Development of a Guadalajaran Suburb (University, Alabama, 1984), Hispanic American Historical Review, 65 (1985), 170-171.

John H. Coatsworth, Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico (DeKalb, 1981), The Journal of European Economic History, 15 (1986), 197-199.

Rodney D. Anderson, Guadalajara a la consumación de la independencia: Estudio de su población según los padrones de 1821-1822 (Guadalajara, 1983), Hispanic American Historical Review, 65 (1985), 366-367.

Gisela von Wobeser, La formación de la hacienda en la época colonial: El uso de la tierra ye el agua (Mexico City, 1983), Agricultural History, 61 (1986).

Magnus Morner, The Andean Past: Land, Societies, and Conflicts (New York, 1985), American Indian Quarterly, 1987.

Ross Hassig, Trade, Tribute, and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico (Oklahoma City, 1985), The Americas, 42 (1986), 525-526.

John C. Super and Thomas C. Wright, eds., Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1985), Agricultural History, 61 (1986).

Allen Wells, Yucatán's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequén, and International Harvester, 1860-1915 (Albuquerque, 1986), Agricultural History, 62 (1987).

Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (Cambridge, England, 1985), Agricultural History, 62 (1987), 72-73.

Brian R. Hamnett, Roots of Insurgency: Mexican Regions, 1750-1824 (Cambridge, England, 1986), The Americas, 44 (1988), 510-512.

John Tutino, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 (Princeton, 1986), Hispanic American Historical Review, 68 (1988), 143-144.

John S. Leiby, Colonial Bureaucrats and the Mexican Economy: Growth of a Patrimonial State, 1763-1821 (New York, 1986), American Historical Review, 1988.

Elinore M. Barrett, The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry (Albuquerque, 1987), The International History Review, 1988, 135-137.

Ross Hassig, Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (Oklahoma City, 1988), American Indian Quarterly.

Lyman L. Johnson and Enrique Tandeter, eds., Essays on the Price History of Eighteenth-Century Latin America (Albuquerque, 1990), Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

Lolita Gutierrez Brockington, The Leverage of Labor: Managing the Cortes Haciendas in Tehuantepec, 1588-1688 (Durham, 1989); and Doris Ladd, The Making of a Strike: Mexican Workers' Struggles in the Real del Monte, 1766-1775 (Lincoln, 1989); both in International Labor and Working-Class History, 1991.

Thomas Benjamin and Mark Wasserman, eds., Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History, 1910-1929 (Albuquerque, 1990), The Americas.

Miguel Leon-Portilla, Endangered Cultures (Dallas, 1990), Hispanic American Historical Review.

Louisa S. Hoberman, Mexico's Merchant Elite, 1590-1660 (Durham, N.C., 1991), The Journal of Social History.

Robert Haskett, Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca (Albuquerque, 1991), and D.S. Chandler, Social Assistance and Bureaucratic Politics: The Montepios of Colonial Mexico, 1767-1821 (Albuquerque, 1991), Journal of Latin American Studies.

David Brading, The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492-1867 (Cambridge, 1991), and Jose Promis, The Identity of Hispanoamerica: An Interpretation of Colonial Literature (Tucson, 1991), Colonial Latin American Review, 1993.

Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick, Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change (Philadelphia, 1991), Journal of Social History, 1993.

Anthony Pagden and Jeremy Lawrance, eds., Francisco de Vitoria: Political Writings (Cambridge, 1991), and Helen Rand Parish, ed., and Francis Patrick Sullivan, trans., Bartolome de las Casas, The Only Way (New York, 1992), Hispanic American Historical Review (in press).

James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest (Stanford, 1992) and Nahuas and Spaniards (Los Angeles, 1991), American Historical Review, 99 (1994), 698-99.

Marc Edelman, The Logic of the Latifundio: The Large Estates of Northwestern Costa Rica Since the Late Nineteenth Century (Stanford, 1992), Ethnohistory, 1996.

David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, 1992), The Americas, 1995.

Thomas Calvo, Poder, Religion y Sociedad en la Guadalajara del siglo XVII (Mexico City, 1992), Colonial Latin American Historical Review, 1996.

Kenneth J. Andrien and Lyman L. Johnson, eds., The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (Albuquerque, 1994) and Jaime E. Rodriguez, ed., Mexico in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1750-1850 (Boulder, 1994), Colonial Latin American Review, 1996.

Mario Humberto Ruz, Un rostro encubierto: Los indios del Tabasco colonial (Mexico City, 1994), The Americas, 1996.

Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (New Haven, 1994) and Kenneth Mills, An Evil Lost to View? An Investigation Post-Evangelisation Andean Religion in Mid-Colonial Peru (Liverpool, 1994), Hispanic American Historical Review.

Cheryl English Martin, Governance and Society in Colonial Mexico: Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford, 1996), Journal of Latin American Studies, 1996.

Richard C. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas (Ithaca, 1995), Journal of Social History.

Arij Ouweneel, Shadows Over Anahuac: An Ecological Interpretation of Crisis and Development in Central Mexico, 1730-1800 (Albuquerque, 1996), Journal of Latin American Studies.

Allen Wells and Gilbert Joseph, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915 (Stanford, 1996), Journal of Latin American Studies.

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla (Albuquerque, 1999), New Mexico Historical Review.

Margaret Chowning, Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution (Stanford, 1999), Journal of Social History.

Mark Wasserman, Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth- Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War (Albuquerque, 2000), Journal of SocialHistory.

Christon I. Archer, ed., The Wars of Independence in Spanish America (Wilmington, Del., 2000), E.I.A.L. (Tel Aviv).

Timothy Anna, Forging Mexico, 1821-1835 (Lincoln, Nebraska, 2000),...

Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru (Duke University Press, 1999), The Journal of Economic History, 2001.

Brian Hamnett, A Concise History of Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Americas.

Juan Pedro Viqueira Alban, Propriety and Permissiveness In Bourbon Mexico (Scholarly Resources, 1999), New Mexico Historial Review, 2001.

William H. Beezley and David E. Lorey, eds., Viva Mexico! Viva la Independencia!: Celebrations of September 16 (Scholarly Resources, 2001), E.I.A.L. (Tel Aviv), 2001.

Antonio Ibarra, La Organizacion regional del mercado interno Novohispano: La economia colonial de Guadalajara, 1770-1804 (UNAM, 2000), Journal of Latin American Studies, 2001.

Jeremy Baskes, Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821 (Stanford, 2000), Journal of Social History, 2002.

Richard Warren, Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic (Scholarly Resources, 2001), Journal of Latin American Studies.

Serge Gruzinski, Images at War: Mexico frm Columbus to Blade Runner (1492-2019) (Duke University Press, 2001), Colonial Latin American Review.

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Historiographies, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2001), The Americas (2003).

Kevin Terraciano, The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford University Press, 2001), Journal of Social History, 2003.

Alan Knight, Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest; and Mexico: The Colonial Era (Cambridge University Press, 2002), International History Review, 2003.

Michael Ducey, A Nation of Villages: Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750-1850 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004), The Americas, 2005.

Peter Guardino, The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850 (Durham, 2005), Journal of Social History….

Jonathan D. Amith, The Möbius Strip: A Spatial History Of Colonial Society in Guerrero, Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. The Journal of Social History, 2007.

Juan Carlos Ruiz Guadalajara, Dolores antes de la independencia, 2 vols. Zamora, Michoacán: El Colegio de Michoacán-El Colegio de San Luis Potosí-CIESAS, 2004. The Americas, in press.

Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coatsworth, and Roberto Cortés Conde, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, Journal of International History, in press.

Enrique Florescano, National Narratives in Mexico: A History, translated by Nancy Hancock. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006, Hispanic American Historical Review, in press.

Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Social History, in press.

Arnold J. Bauer, Goods, Power, and History in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,...

Sam Quinones, True Tales of the Other Mexico…. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,…, Journal of San Diego History,…

Ariel de la Fuente, Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853-1870). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000, Historia Mexicana 53:4 (2004), 1011-1019 (extended review).

Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero, eds., After Spanish Rule…Durham and London: Duke University Press,…, American Historical Review…

Laura Lewis, Hall of Mirrors… Durham and London: Duke University Press…, Journal of Latin American Studies…

Susan M. Deeds, Defiance and Deference…, Journal of Latin American Studies, 2004.

Sueann Caulfield, et. al., eds., Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005, American Historical Review, 2006.

John J. Dwyer, The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008, The Journal of Social History 43:4 (Summer 2010), 1121-1122.

Marcy Norton, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008, International History Review 31:4 (December 2009).

Jonathan D. Ablard, Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists, and the Argentine State, 1880-1983, Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008, The Americas 66:2 (October 2009), 259-261.

Pablo Piccato, The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), Journal of Social History 45:3 (Spring 2012), 862-864.

Mark Santiago, The Jar of Severed Hands: Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810, University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), Bulletin of Spanish Studies (in press).

Will Fowler, ed., Forceful Negotiations: The Origins of the Pronunciamiento in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2012 (in press).

Paul Gillingham, Cuauhtemoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,2011, The Americas 68:4 (April 2012), 605-606.

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Mexico’s Indigenous Communities: Their Lands and Histories, Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2010), Journal of Latin American Studies (in press).

John Tutino, Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajio and Spanish North America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), Hispanic American Historical Review (in press).

IV. Manuscript, Tenure, Fellowship/Grant Reviews, and Consultantships

  • University of Arizona Press
  • Arnold Publishers, U.K.
  • Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (twice)
  • University of California Press
  • University of Calgary Press
  • Cambridge University Press (numerous times)
  • Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico City
  • Duke University Press (numerous times)
  • Latin American Center, UCLA
  • University of Minnesota Press
  • University of Nebraska Press
  • University of New Mexico Press
  • University of North Carolina Press
  • University of Oklahoma Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Princeton University Press
  • Scholarly Resources, Inc.
  • Stanford University Press (numerous times)
  • University of Texas Press (numerous times)
  • University of Utah Press
  • Westview Press
  • Yale University Press
  • Accounting Historians' Journal
  • Agricultural History
  • American Historical Review
  • The Americas
  • Colonial Latin American Review
  • Comparative Studies in Society and History
  • Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Yearbook
  • Current Anthropology
  • Estudios de Historia Novohispana
  • Etudes d'Histoire Rural
  • Etudes rurales
  • Hispanic American Historical Review
  • Historia y grafía (Mexico)
  • Journal of Economic History
  • Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia)
  • Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  • Journal of Latin American Studies (at least twice)
  • Journal of Social History
  • Latin American Research Review
  • Letras Históricas
  • Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
  • Secuencia
  • Signos Históricos
  • Universidad de Barcelona
  • University of Arizona
  • Arizona State University
  • Brown University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Davis (twice)
  • University of California, Irvine (three times)
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, Riverside (three times)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of Chicago
  • Canada Council
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Colby College
  • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • University of Colorado, Denver
  • Columbia University
  • Drake University
  • Emory University
  • University of Florida
  • Florida International University
  • Florida State University
  • University of Georgia
  • Guggenheim Foundation (numerous times)
  • Haverford College
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Haverford College
  • University of Illinois-Urbana-Champagn
  • University of Illinois-Chicago
  • University of Kansas
  • Kenyon College
  • Lewis and Clark College
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Miami
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (twice)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • National Humanities Center
  • University of Nebraska
  • University of Nevada, Reno
  • New York University
  • State University of New York, Stony Brook (twice)
  • Newberry Library
  • University of North Carolina
  • Northern Illinois University
  • University of Oklahoma (twice)
  • University of Oregon
  • Princeton University
  • Purdue University
  • Purdue University/Indiana University-Fort Wayne
  • Rutgers University, Camden
  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick (at least four times)
  • Rice University
  • University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
  • Saint Joseph's University
  • Simon Fraser University
  • Stanford University
  • Texas Southern University (Dallas)
  • Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
  • University of Texas, Austin
  • Vassar College
  • University of Vermont
  • University of Warwick
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution
  • University of Wyoming
  • Princeton University
  • York University
  • Severo Pérez Films, Los Angeles (for PBS documentary on Mexican Independence)

V. Conference Papers, Colloquia, Public Lectures, etc.

"Regional Agrarian Structures and Foreign Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: A Comment," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, New York, December, 1979.

"Parvenues and Popinjays: Spaniards in Eighteenth-Century Mexico," South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March, 1981.

"Social Conflict and Agrarian Change in Eighteenth- Century Mexico: The Case of Guadalajara," Southwestern Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Dallas, March, 1981.

"Conflicto y solidaridad en la vida pueblerina indígena: El caso de la región de Guadalajara en el siglo XVIII," Primer Encuentro sobre Investigaciones Jalisciences, Guadalajara, June, 1981.

"`La propiedad comunal indígena en los alrededores de la Ciudad de Mexico,' de Andrés Lira, El Colegio de México: Un comentario," III Coloquio de Antropología e Historia Regionales: "La desintegración de la gran propiedad agraria en México," El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, México, August, 1981.

"Moving Toward Revolt: Agrarian Origins of the Hidalgo Revolt in the Guadalajara Region, 1810," Conference on the Comparative Study of Peasant Revolts in Mexican History, Social Science Research Council, New York, April, 1982.

"Rural Middlemen in Bourbon Mexico: The Case of the Guadalajara Region," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1982.

"Spain in New Spain: Social Institutions of the Core," Institute of Texas Studies, University of Texas at Austin, June, 1982; June, 1984.

"Plain People in Revolt: Some Thoughts on Mexico, Vietnam, and Modern Ways of Knowing" (public lecture), University of Texas at Austin, April, 1983.

"Society and Revolt: The Social History of Mexican Independence," Workshop in series "Stratification and Social Mobility in Colonial and Early National Latin America," Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, April, 1983.

"La estructura económica de la región de Guadalajara durante el siglo XVIII," lecture to students in Programa de Maestría en Historia, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, March, 1983.

"Aspectos sociales de las guerras de independencia en México," colloquium at Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, June, 1983.

"The Social History of Peasant Revolt in Mexico: The Independence Period," colloquium in series on colonial Latin American history, sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies and Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, October, 1983.

"Social Perspectives on Late Colonial Guadalajara: Elites and Society from 1790 to 1821: A Comment," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1983.

"Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?: Symbols and Popular Ideology in the Mexican Wars of Independence," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Annual Meeting, Tucson, February, 1984.

"On Regions: A Comment," Conference on Regional Aspects of U.S.-Mexican Integration, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Unversity of California, San Diego, May, 1984.

"Comentario sobre Christon I. Archer, `Los dineros de la insurgencia, 1810-1821,'" Congreso sobre la Insurgencia Mexicana, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, October, 1984.

"Recent Anglophone Historiography on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850),"American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, December, 1984.

"Mexican Industrial Growth: The Long View--A Comment," Conference on Cycles and Crises in the Mexican Economy-- the Long View, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, May, 1985.

"Sociedad, trabajo, e ideología en el México independiente," round-table participant, sponsored by the Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco and El Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara, September, 1985.

"Doing Regional History: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations," VII Conference of Mexican and United States Historians, Oaxaca, Mexico, October, 1985.

"Islands in the Storm: Non-Rebellious Cities in the Mexican Independence Era," Conference on the City as a Social Crucible, University of Texas at Austin, 1986.

Commentator, Symposium on Confraternities in Colonial Spanish America, Cambridge University, April, 1986.

Commentator, Bronowski Renaissance Symposium: The Art of Empire--Culture and Authority in the Spanish Empire, 1500-1650, University of California, San Diego, April, 1986.

Participant/advisor, Binational Interdisciplinary Conference on the History of Mexican Agriculture, University of California, Riverside/Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, November, 1986.

Commentator on session "The Church and the Indian in Colonial Spanish America," American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, December, 1986.

Commentator, Workshop on Rural Revolt, the Mexican State, and the United States: Historical and Contemporary Views, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, February, 1987.

"Quetzalcóatl, King Ferdinand, and Ignacio Allende go to the Seashore; or, Messianism and Mystical Kingship in Mexico, 1800-1821," Colloquium on the Independence of Mexico and the Creation of the Federal Republic, University of California, Irvine, February, 1987."

The Raw and the Cooked: Popular Ideology and Elite Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821," Conference on Mentalities in Latin America, 1700-1880, Florida International University, Miami, March, 1987. (Also given as an invited paper at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, Amsterdam, June, 1987.)

Commentator on John Tutino, "Peasant Revolts in Mexico," Symposium on Social History and Theory, University California, Irvine, March, 1987.

"The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Skewed: Real Wages and Popular Living Standards in Late Colonial Mexico," All-UC Group in Economic History, Semi-Annual Meeting, California Institute of Technology/ Huntington Library, Los Angeles, May, 1987. (Also given as a seminar presentation to the Latin American Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, November, 1987).

"Religion and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1810-1821," Conference on Indigenous and Popular Responses to Western Christianity, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June, 1987.

"El mesías y el enmascarado: aspectos de violencia e ideología populares en México, 1800-1821," Symposium "De la crísis del Imperio EspaZol a los nuevos estados," Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona/Universidad Menéndez y Pelayo, Barcelona, July, 1987.

Chairman, session on "The Emergence of Independent Mexico," American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1987.

Lectures: "The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence and Ideology in Mexico, 1810-1815" and "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Skewed: Popular Living Standards and Rebellion in Mexico, 1750-1820," Colloquium Series of Department of History and Latin American Studies Program, University of Calgary, January, 1987.

"Popular Rebellion, Ideology, and Violence in Mexico, 1800-1821," presentation in graduate Latin American Studies Seminar on "The New Social and Economic History of Latin America," Rutgers University, March, 1988 (also given as a lecture sponsored by the Department of History, Duke University, April, 1989).

Commentator, Colloquium on the Mexican Revolution, Mexico/Chicano Program, University of California, Irvine, April, 1987.

"La otra rebelión: Violencia e ideología populares en México, 1810-1817," talk to Seminario sobre rebelión y revolución, Instituto de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, June, 1988.

Commentator, Colloquium on Andean Peasant Communities in the 19th Century, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, March, 1989.

Commentator, Colloquium on Rebellion in Mexican History, University of California, Irvine, April, 1989.

"In the Gloomy Caverns of Paganism: Rebellion and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1810-1821," Interdisciplinary Forum on Popular Culture/Public Culture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, April, 1989.

"Rebelion agraria sin agrarismo: accion, significado, y violencia colectiva en la sociedad rural mexicana de fines del periodo colonial," Symposium in Honor of Francois Chevalier, Guadalajara, 17-18 May, 1990.

Commentator, Symposium on Andean Milennarian Movements, Committee on Andean Studies, Conference on Latin American History-American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1989.

"Popular Culture, the Bourbon State, and Rebellion in Mexico, 1800-1815," Workshop on "The State and the People in Mexico," Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, April, 1990.

"Son buenas las regiones para pensar?: Espacio, clase, y estado in la historia de Mexico," Seminario Permanente de Historia Regional, Division de Estudios de Posgrado, Facultad de Economia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, February, 1991. (Also given in English as "Are Regions Good to Think?: Space, Class, and State in the History of Mexico," Research Seminar on Mexico and Mexico-U.S. Relations, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego, 9 October 1991.)

Commentator on the session "Constructions of the Popular in Official Records: Surveillance and Containment," Conference on "Popular Culture, State Formation and the Mexican Revolution," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 27 February-2 March, 1991.

"In the Gloomy Caverns of Paganism: Popular Culture, the Bourbon State, and Rebellion in Mexico, 1800-1815," conference on "The Mexican Wars of Independence, Empire, and Early Republic," University of Calgary, March, 1991 (revised version).

Commentator on the session "Labor in Mexico and the Andes during the Colonial Period: Theoretical Models and Historical Experience," Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 4-6 April 1991 (in absentia).

"The Riddle of the Kings: Messianic Expectation and Popular Rebellion in Mexico, 1800-1821," Workshop on "Constructing the Future: Politics and Prophecy in the Americas," Program in Atlantic History, Culture, and Society, Johns Hopkins University, 10-11 May 1991.

"Procesos de inflacion y crisis economica durante las ultimas decadas del siglo XVIII y sus costos sociales," Seminario sobre nuevos enfoques en historica economica y social de Mexico, Instituto Tecnologica Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Economia, Mexico City, 19-23 August 1991.

"El mesias y el enmascarado: Aspectos de violencia e ideologia populares en Mexico, 1800-1821," Seminario Internacional de Historia Comparada: Pugachev-Tupac Amaru-Hidalgo--Tres levantamientos populares en relacion con la segunda servidumbre, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, Embajada de Francia en Mexico, Mexico City, 5-6 September 1991 (in absentia).

"Sliding Sideways: Texts and Contexts in the Mexican Wars of Independence, 1810-1821," invited paper, Conference on Latin American History, joint annual meeting with American Historical Association, Chicago, December, 1991.

"The Cuautla Lazarus: Hidden Transcripts and Shifting Meanings in the History of Popular Collective Action," Western Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, March, 1992.

"Dreamscape with Figures and Fences: The Construction of the Colonial Mexican Countryside, XVI-XVIII Centuries," Colloquium "Le Nouveau Monde--Mondes Nouveaux: L'Experience Americaine," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June, 1992.

Commentary, Colloquium on Early Encounters Between Indians and Europeans in Latin America, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, April, 1992.

Commentator, Committee on Mexican Studies, Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December, 1992.

"Las rebeliones agrarias en la historia de Mexico: Algunos pensamientos," conference on "Raices del problema agrario: Modalidades y conflictos," Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 1992.

"Guadalajara in the History of Western Mexico," Annual Seminar of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Huntington Beach, April, 1993.

"Aspectos de la insurgencia popular en la Nueva Espana," Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico City, January, 1993.

Commentator, panel on forms of citizenship and popular republicanism in 19th-century Latin America, American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January, 1994.

"Colonial Jalisco," Annual Seminar of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, Huntington Beach, April, 1994.

"The Other Rebellion: A Social Profile of Popular Insurgency in Mexico, 1810-1815," Colloquium series, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, April, 1994.

"The Mystique of Meat in Latin America," lecture on panel "The Mystique of Meat," 1994 International Conference on the Diets of the Mediterranean (Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust), San Francisco, June, 1994.

"Everybody's Got to be Some Place: Some Problematics of Locality in Historical Studies," Fellows' Seminar, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, January, 1995.

Commentator, "Economic, Social, and Political Historiography of the Transition from Colonial to National Latin America, 1780-1850," American Historical Association-Conference on Latin American History, AHA annual meeting, Atlanta, January, 1996.

"The `New Cultural History' Comes to the Old Mexico," Conference on Latin American History, Committee on Mexican Studies, Annual Meeting (in conjunction with American Historical Association), New York, January, 1997.

"`To Throw Off a Tyrannical Government': Atlantic Revolutionary Traditions and Popular Insurgency in Mexico, 1800-1821," symposium on "Transatlantic Revolutionary Traditions, 1688-1824," Purdue University, 1 November 1997.

"Truncated Utopias: Messianism and Popular Ideology in Mexico, 1800-1821," symposium "Millenarianism and Revolution," Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, April, 1998.

Presentacion of book by Araceli Ibarra, El comercio y el poder en Mexico, 1821-1864: La lucha por las fuentes financieras entre el Estado central y las regiones (Mexico City, 1998), Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, Mexico, December, 1998.

Colloquium, "Perfil social de la insurgencia popular en Mexico, 1810-1821," Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Guadalajara, Mexico, December, 1998.

Commentator, "New Perspectives on Latin American History," All-UC Group in Latin American History, University of California, Irvine, January, 1999.

"David Brading's Contribution to Latin American Historiography," opening talk at "Visions and Revisions in Mexican History: A Conference in Honour of Dr. David A. Brading," Cambridge University, September, 1999.

Commentator, panel on "Movimientos de poblacion y redes mercantiles en los pueblos indios, siglos XVI-XIX," Tenth Conference of Mexican, American, and Canadian Historians, Dallas, November, 1999.

"Paul Vanderwood's The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: A Discussion," Mexican Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History, joint meetings with American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January, 1999.

"Millennial Thoughts on a Popular Insurgency: Mexico, 1810-1821," Conference on Latin American History-American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, January, 2000.

Commentator, panel on "Social Order/Mental Disorder: Insane Asylums and the Making of Mental Illness in Modern Latin America," Latin American Studies Association, annual meeting, Miami, Florida, March, 2000.

"Creative Forgetting: Locality, Sacrality, and Rebellion in Village Mexico, 1750-1821," University of California, Berkeley, March, 2000.

"Of Tempests and Teapots: Imperial Crisis and Local Conflict in Mexico at the End of the Eighteenth Century," Georgetown University, June, 2000.

"Places of Memory: Locality, Sacrality, and Collective Action in Village Mexico, 1750-1821," All-UC Group in Latin American History, biannual meeting, University of California, Davis, May, 2000.

"Social Relations of Mexican Commodities: An Introductory Comment," Workshop on Social Relations of Mexican Commodities, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, April, 2000.

“Cities, Hinterlands, and Marches: Incommensurable New World Colonial Histories Compared,” Conference on “Greater American Histories?,” Huntington Library, March, 2001.

Comment on five papers, conference on “Colectividades frente a los proyectos modernizadores latinoamericanos, siglos XIX-XX,” Colegio de San Luis Potosi, March, 2001.

"Of Rats and Virgins: Mexican Independence (1810-1821) within the Atlantic Revolutionary Tradition," Joint Lecture Series, African Studies Program/Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 2001.

“Becoming Post-Colonial: Mexican Independence (1810-1821) Within the Atlantic Revolutionary Tradition,” Department of History, University of Oregon, May, 2001.

Commentator on panel “The Agonies of Historicity: Latin American Studies Today,” Latin American Studies Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., September, 2001.

“De razones y regiones,” Catedra (plenary keynote talk), Programa de licenciatura en historia, Universidad de Guadalajara, September, 2002.

Response, Roundtable session on Van Young, The Other Rebellion, American Historical Association, Chicago, January, 2003.

Commentator on paper by Brian Connaughton, “The Enemy Within: Catholics and Liberalism in Independent Mexico, 1821-1860,” conference on “Liberalism and the Mexican Stated During the 19th Century,” University of California, Irvine, May, 2001.

Commentator at conference “Revolution, Independence, and the New Nations of America,” University of California, Irvine, March, 2003.

“Los limites del nacionalismo en el mundo atlantico en una edad revolucionaria: Comunidades imaginada y comunidades reales en Mexico, 1810-1821,” conference on “Los nacionalismos Mexicanos, ayer y hoy,” Secretaria de Cultura del Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Sept. 2003.

“The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821,” conference on “Nationalism in the Americas,” Vanderbilt University, October, 2003.

Conferencia magistral, Congreso Argentino de Historia Economica, San Martin de los Andes, Argentina, October, 2004.

Conferencia magistral, Segundo Congreso de Historia Economic, Asociacion Mexicana de Historia Economica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, October, 2004.

Conferencia magistral, VI Coloquio Internacional de Occidentalistas: El Occidente de Mexico, relaciones intra e interregionales, Guadalajara, Mexico, February, 2005.

Respondent to discussion of Van Young, La otra rebelión, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, September, 2006.

Respondent to discussion of Van Young, La otra rebelión, Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Mexico City, September, 2006.

Respondent to discussion of Van Young, La otra rebellion, Palacio de Cortés, Cuernavaca (Mexico), September 2006, organized by Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos and Morelos State government.

“La historiografía anglófona sobre México colonial: Las últimas dos décadas,” Conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Instituto de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2004.

“Contrabandistas y bandoleros criminales en México, 1810-1821: Insurgencia y crimen a la luz de las ideas de Eric Hobsbawm,” conference in honor of Eric Hobsbawm, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, 2005.

“Tales from the Dark Side: Conservatism in Early Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” invited keynote lecture at the conference “Liberalism and its Legacies: A Symposium in Honor of Charles A. Hale,” University of Iowa, March, 2006.

Series of lectures and seminars, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, September 2006.

“1810-1910: Semejanzas y diferencias,” Internacional conference “Mexico 1808-1821,” El Colegio de México, Mexico City, November 2007.

“Lucas Alamán y el conservadurismo en el México decimonónico,” Facultad de Humanidades/Departamento de Historia, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Mexico), October 2006.

“From Infancy to Decrepitude and Back Again: The Historiography of Mexican Independence,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Atlanta, January, 2007.

“La época de la revolución atlántica: Comparaciones entre México, Estados Unidos y Francia,” El Colegio de San Luis Potosí (Mexico), July, 2006.

Conferencia magistral, “Lucas Alamán, historiador y político conservador,” V Jornadas de Historia: Movimientos sociales y populares de cara al bicentenario de la Independencia y el centenario de la Revolución,” Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), February, 2007.

“Lucas Alamán: estadista, historiador, tribuno de la causa conservadora,” Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, May, 2007.

Presentation of Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young, eds., Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading (2007), Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, May, 2007.

“Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alamán, Conservatism, and Modernization in 19th-century Mexico,” Herbert B. Lefler Lecture, Department of History, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, February, 2008.

“Was Mexico’s Greatest 19th-century Conservative a Trimmer?,” Center for Law and Ethics, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, March, 2008.

“Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alamán and Mexican Conservatism in the Nineteenth Century,” Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Lecture, Department of History, University of Cincinnati, April, 2008.

“The Mexican Revolutions of 1810 and 1910: A Comparison,” conference on “Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars Before Mass Politics, 1810-1910: Towards New Interpretations from the Political Culture and Social Movements Perspectives,” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champagn, 2-4 April 2009 (invited paper).

“The Anti-Modern Moment: Localism and Insurgency in Mexico, 1810-1821,” Latin American History Working Group, University of California, Berkeley, 24 April 2009 (invited Lecture).

“Tales from the Dark Side: Lucas Alaman and Conservatism in 19th-century Mexico,” Department of History, Columbia University, 30 April 2009 (invited lecture).

“La epoca de la revolucion atlantica: Comparaciones entre Mexico, Estados Unidos, y Francia,” Departamento de Historia, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 11 August 2009 (conferencia magistral).

“Modernizacion y conservadurismo: Lucas Alaman y la joven republica,” Reunion Internacional de Historiadores “Nuevas Perspectivas Historicas sobre Independencia y Revolucion,” Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 21 August 2009 (invited lecture).

Comment on Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith, eds., Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America (Stanford University Press, 2009), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12 September 2009.

“Mexico, 1810/1910: Two Social Mobilizations Compared,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 22 September 2009 (invited lecture).

Comment on paper by Dra. Guillermina del Valle Pavon, “Causas economicas de la destitucion del Virey Jose de Iturrigaray por los mercaderes de Mexico, 1808,” Seminario Interinstitucional de Historica Economica, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, 26 October 2009.

“Latin America, 1810-1825: Revolutions or Wars of Independence in Historical Memory,” even celebrating “100 Years of Latin American History at the University of Illinois: In Memory of William Spence Robertson,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagn, 29 October 2009 (conferencia magistral).

“Historia de vida y momento historico: Lucas Alaman como actor economico,” Seminario Interinstitucional de Historia Economica, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, 18 January 2010 (invited paper; entire seminar devoted to discussion of it).

“Communities and Conflict: Indians in the Mexican Independence Movement,” international conference on “Los indigenas en la Independencia y en la Revolucion Mexicana,” Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, 22-26 February 2010 (invited paper).

Electronic round-table participant, “Espana y la Independencia de Mexico,” El Colegio de Mexico and Instituto Matias Romero, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations, Mexico City, 1-11 March 2010.

Round-table participant, “Independence, Revolution, and Nation-State Formation in Mexico,” Mexican Center, University of Texas at Austin, 14 April 2010.

Comment, panel discussion “Mapping the History of Revolution and Counter-revolution in Spanish America,” Symposium on Independence and Decolonization, Institute for Historical Studies and Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 16 April 2010.

Concluding round-table participant, Symposium on Independence and Decolonization, Institute for Historical Studies and Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 17 April 2010.

“Historia social de la insurgencia mexicana, 1810-1821,” El Colegio de Estudios Sociales de Aguascalientes, A.C., Aguascalientes, Mexico, 9 September 2010 (conferencia Magistral).

“La epoca de la revolucion atlantica: Comparaciones entre Mexico, Estados Unidos, y Francia,” VIII Encuentro Regional de Estudiantes de Historia del Norte y Occidente de Mexico, “Bicentenario: Rememorando 200 Anos de Identidad Nacional,” Guanajuato, Mexico, 22 April 2010 (conferencia magistral).

“Spanish American Independence: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Outside-In, Inside-Out?,” Symposium “Bridging the Past to the Present: Reflections on the Bicentennial of the Hispano-American Colonies,” Florida International University, 1 October 2010 (invited lecture).

Round-table participant, “Mexico y sus revoluciones,” XIII Reunion de Historiadores de Mexico, Estados Unidos, y Canada, Queretaro, Mexico, October 2010.

Round-table participant, “Mexicanists and Studies on Mexican Independence,” El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, 22 October 2010.

“Historia social de la insurgencia Mexicana,” Universidad Autonoma de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, 28 October 2010 (conferencia magistral).

“Mexican Independence,” Premier Symposium in San Diego on Mexican History, sponsored by Mexican Consulate General of San Diego, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, 6 November 2010 (invited lecture).

“Mexico, 1810/1910: Independence and Revolution Compared,” series “Echoes of Nationalism and Revolution,” California State University-Channel Islands, 17 November 2010 (invited lecture).

“La historiografia actual sobre la independencia de Mexico,” Feria Internacional del Libro-Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2 December 2010 (invited lecture).

“It’s Not Your Grandpa’s Revolution: The Social and Cultural History of Mexican Independence (or its Absence),” symposium on Mexican Independence and Revolution, Rutgers University, 7 December 2010 (invited Lecture).

“Lucas Alaman, Mexican Conservative,” Department of History, Yale University, March 2011 (invited lecture).

“Mexican Independence,” British Society for Latin American Studies, annual meeting, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 9 April 2011 (plenary lecture).

“’In Mexico There Are No Mexicans’: Decolonization and Modernization,” National History Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20 July 2011 (conferencia Magistral).

“Hung in a Web of His Own Devising: Lucas Alaman, Credit Networks, and the Political Nation in mid-19th-century Mexico,” panel on “Elite Political and Economic Networks in Mexican History,” American Historical Association- Conference on Latin American History, annual meetings, Chicago, January 2012 (conference paper).

“Paul Vanderwood: A Remembrance,”annual luncheon meeting of the Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, January 2012 (conferencia magistral).

“Conservadurismo y modernizacion en el Mexico decimo- nonico: El caso de Lucas Alaman,” XV Reunion de Estudiantes de Historia, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico, 16 April 2012 (conferencia Magistral).

“Historia de vida y el momento histórico: Lucas Alamán como actor económico,” Programa del Posgrado en Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 4 September 2012.

“El Lázaro de Cuautla: Algunos problemas al escribir historia social y cultural, con un estudio de caso,” Programa del Posgrado en Historia, Facultud de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 6 September 2012.

VI. Other Invited Lectures (since 1989; list incomplete)

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of History, 1989
  • Princeton University, Dept. of History, 1989
  • San Diego State University, Dept. of History, 1989, 1990, 1992-1993
  • Texas Christian University, Dept. of History, 1993
  • New York University, Dept. of History, 1993
  • University of California, Irvine, Dept. of History, 1994
  • University of Chicago, Graduate Colloquium in Mexican History, 1994
  • Yale University, Colloquium in Latin American Studies (Trumbull Lecturer), 1994; Department of History, 1995
  • University of California, Davis, 1995
  • Emory University, 1995
  • Vanderbilt University, 1995
  • Universidad Iberoamericana, Programa de maestria en estudios regionales, Saltillo, Mexico, 1997
  • Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Sobre Antropologia Social, Mexico City, 1998
  • Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico, 1998
  • Oxford University, 1998
  • Cambridge University, 1998
  • Warwick University, 1998
  • Arizona State University, 2000
  • Centro Cultural de Tijuana, May 2002 (co-sponsored by U.S. Consulate and CETYS)
  • Universidad de Guadalajara, 2002
  • Florida State University, 2003
  • University of Florida, 2003
  • La Trobe University, 2004
  • University of New South Wales, 2004
  • University of Technology, Sydney, 2004
  • Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Emilio Ravignani, Buenos Aires, 2004
  • Academia Mexicana de Ciencias-UC-MEXUS, Mexico City, May, 2006
  • Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico City, September, 2006
  • Universidad de Guanajuato, February, 2007
  • Carleton Collage, February, 2008
  • University of California, Berkeley, April, 2009
  • Columbia University, April, 2009

VII. Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Visiting Professorships (since 1982)

  1. Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Tinker Foundation, Inc., New York, 1982-1983.
  2. Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize in History, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Annual Meeting, Tucson, February, 1984 (co-winner for best paper in Latin American history).
  3. Hubert Herring Award for the Best Article in Latin American Studies, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, 1984 (for an article published in Latin American Research Review, 1983).
  4. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1986 (calendar-year).
  5. Conference Prize of the Conference on Latin American History (for the best article in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review), 1989, for the article "Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era," Past and Present, no. 118 (1988).
  6. Professeur invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May-June, 1991.
  7. Seminar Director, "Resistance, Rebellion, and Adaptation in Rural Latin America, 1500-1900," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, UC San Diego, July-August, 1992.
  8. Vice-President, Conference on Latin American History, 1992; President, 1993.
  9. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universidad Autónoma de México-Iztapalapa/Instituto Nacional de Antropologiá e Historia, Mexico City, January, 1993.
  10. Visiting Professor, Programa de Maestriá en Historia Latinoamericana: "Tierras, hombres y dioses. Sociedades agrarios e imaginarios colectivos en América Latina," Universidad Internacional de Andaluciá, La Rábida, Spain, December, 1995. Programa: "Rebeliones y Revoluciones," November, 1997
  11. Seminar as Visiting Professor: "Regionalidad y espacialidad," Centro de Investigaciones Historicas de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, April, 1996.
  12. Distinguished Speaker Series, "North-South Dialogues: Conversations on the Changing Shape of Local, Regional, and National Cultures in Mexico and the United States," University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), University of California, Riverside, February, 1999.
  13. Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American history, 2002, for the best book on Latin American History published during 2001, for The Other Rebellion:Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence,1810-1821 (Stanford, 2001).
  14. Elected Corresponding Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, 2007.
  15. Candidate for president of the American Historical Association, 2005.
  16. Medalla 1808, presented by the Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Mexico, November 2009, for distinguished contributions to Mexican historiography.
  17. Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011-12.
  18. Corresponding Member, Academia Mexicana de Historia, 2012-.

VIII. Major University, Community, and Professional Service

  1. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UCSD: Executive Board, 1985-1986, 1990-; fellowship committee, various years (2002, 2004, 2005-06).
  2. Committee on Privilege and Tenure, UCSD Academic Senate, 1984-1985, 2000-2001; Counselor, 1986-1987.
  3. University of California Consortium on Mexican-United States Studies (UC MEXUS), Executive Board, 1985-1986; Campus representative, 1985-1990; Grants Advisory Committee, 1993-94, and various years thereafter.
  4. Conference on Latin American History: Committee on Historical Statistics, 1983-1986 Program Committee, 1985-1986 (for joint CLAH-American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1986). Bolton Prize Committee, 1987 (for 1986 books). Chairman, Mexican Studies Committee, 1987-1988. Member, Haring Prize Committee, 1991. Chair, Robertson Prize Committee, 1998. Chair, Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee, 2004 (for books Published during 2002).
  5. Doctoral Fellowship Screening Committee, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1984-1987.
  6. Editorial Board, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1986-1991.
  7. Editorial Board, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 1986- ; Chair, UC Editorial Board, 1998- .
  8. Editorial Board, Colonial Latin American Review, 1993- 1999; Advisory Board, 1999- .
  9. Comite Editorial, Historia y Grafia (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico), 1993-.
  10. Comite Editorial, Vetas: Revista de El Colegio de San Luis Potosi, A.C., 1999-.
  11. Comite Editorial, Consejo Editorial de la Division de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, 1993-1996.
  12. Editorial Advisory Committee, Dellplain Latin American Series, Westview Press, 1994-.
  13. Editorial Committee, Takwa (Universidad de Guadalajara), 2005-.
  14. Editorial Committee, Encuentros (Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas), 2000-.
  15. Senior Editor for Colonial Latin America, The Americas, 2004-09.
  16. Member, Joint Organizing Committee, Conference of Mexican and North American Historians (1985-1995); Co-Coordinator, VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, 18-20 October 1990.
  17. Co-Organizer and Staff Member, Bicentennial Constitution Project, University of California, San Diego, 1986-1987 (primary funding by National Endowment for the Humanities).
  18. Advisory Council, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1987--. Editorial Advisory Board, 1988--. International Advisory Committee, 1995-98, 2006--. Associate Director, 1996-2001. Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, 2001-2004; Member, 2004-. Fellowship selection committee, 2004, 2006, and various other years.
  19. Organizer, Workshop on "Mexican Regions: Comparative History and Development," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, December, 1988 (funded by SSRC).
  20. Member, Faculty Selection Committee for Humanities Research Grants, UCSD, Fall, 1987.
  21. Member, Evaluation Committee on Third College Writing Adjunct Program, UCSD, 1987-88.
  22. Member, Discipline Screening Committee, Fulbright Scholar awards for Latin American History, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1988-1991; Chair, 1990-91.
  23. Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Portland, August, 1989.
  24. Vice-Chair, Department of History, UCSD, 1988-1990; Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs, 2006-07.
  25. Member, Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, 1990.
  26. Workshop presenter on Latin America in the California secondary schools history curriculum, California Teachers' Institute, University of California, San Diego, August, 1990.
  27. Member, Committee on Academic Personal, UC San Diego 1990-92; "Shadow CAP" committee member, 1995-97, 2002- 2004; CAP Advisory Committee on the Arts, 2005-07.
  28. Project consultant, Mexico in the K-12 curriculum in California schools, Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., and International Studies Education Project, San Diego State University, San Diego, 1991.
  29. Member, campus Affirmative Action Committee, UC San Diego, 1992-93; Chair, 1993-94.
  30. Chair, Planning Committee, Department of History, UC San Diego, 1993-95; member, 2006-07.
  31. Graduate Placement Officer, Department of History, UC San Diego, 1992-94.
  32. Graduate Committee, Department of History, UC San Diego, 1993-94, 1995-96, 2002-03.
  33. Advisory Committee on Fellowships for College and University Teachers in History, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., August, 1993, 1999.
  34. Co-Convenor (with Steven Topik, UC Irvine) of All-UC Group in Latin American History, 1995; member, Steering Committee for First Annual Conference, UC Riverside, February, 1997.
  35. Member, Review Committee, Undergraduate Program in Anthropology, UC San Diego, 1995-96.
  36. Committee on Faculty Welfare, UCSD, 1996-97, 2005-06.
  37. Thesis advisor, Programa de Maestría en Historia Latinoamericana, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, La Rábida, Spain, 1995-97.
  38. Board member, Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego, 1999-2000.
  39. Chair, Department of History, UC San Diego, 2000-2004.
  40. Editorial Board, series on Borderlands History, Texas A&M Press.
  41. Chair, Fellowship Screening Committee, UC-MEXUS, UC-Riverside, June, 2002; member, 2003, 2004.
  42. Reviewed undergraduate and graduate programs in Department of History, Florida International University, December 2002 (only member of review committee).
  43. External Evaluation Committee, Colegio de San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 2003-2007.
  44. Advisor, SP Films, PBS documentary-in-production on Mexican Independence, 2000-.
  45. Evaluated collaborative proposals for National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004.
  46. Evaluated fellowship application for Newberry Library, 2004.
  47. Member, search committee for Associate Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 2002.
  48. Chair, search committee in modern Mexican history, various years from about 1995 to 2004.
  49. Member, search committee in Brazilian history, UCSD, 2007.
  50. Organized lecture series in Mexican history with my own colloquium funds, 2002-2007, including visiting speakers from Oxford University, Georgetown University, UCLA, Goldsmith’s College (University of London), various research institutions in Mexico, Indiana University, Council on Foreign Relations, etc.
  51. Editorial Board, Historical Abstracts, ABC-Clio, 2000--.
  52. Franklin Pease Prize Committee, Colonial Latin American Review, 2003-04.
  53. Chair, Committee on International Historical Activities, American Historical Association, 2007-2010.
  54. Advisory Board, Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas, 2006--.
  55. Editorial Advisory Board, America Latina en la Historia Económica, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico City, 2006-.
  56. Editorial Advisory Committee for series “New Directions in Nationalism Studies,” ARENA and University of Georgia Press, 2006-.
  57. Selection committee member, Hellman Award, April 2007.
  58. Board of Directors, Friends of the Library, UCSD, 2008-.
  59. Board of Editors, American Historical Review, 2009-2012.

IX. Doctoral and Masters' Dissertation Committees

  1. As director or co-director: about 25 doctorates since 1983.
  2. As committee member: about 15 doctoral committees since 1983 (other than those supervised or co-supervised).
  3. Masters’ theses supervised: about 6 since 1983.