THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Stanford University, PhD '92
Professor Tenorio has been a scholar for over two decades, including thirteen years at the University of Chicago.
Recent Research / Recent Publications
Las ruinas de la historia: el culto a los monumentos y a su destrucción, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2023.
Elogio de la impureza: Promiscuidad e historia en Norteamérica, Mexico City, Siglo XXI, 2023.
A flor de pie, Xalapa, Universidad de Veracruz, 2020.
Clio’s Laws: On History and Language, Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019.
La Paz: 1876, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018.
Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea, Chicago, University Press, 2017. Paperback Edition, 2020
“Hablo de la ciudad”: los principios del siglo XX desde la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017. (Spanish translation of “I Speak of the City”).
Maldita lengua, Madrid, La Huerta Grande, 2016.
“I Speak of the City”: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Paper back, March, 2015.
Honorary Mention, The Bolton-Johnson Prize 2013, The American Historical Association.
Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2015. Gordon J. Laing Prize, The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Culturas y memoria, Mexico City, Barcelona, Tusquets, July, 2013.
Historia y Celebración, México y sus centenarios, Mexico City, Tusquets, 2009.
Historia y Celebración. América y sus centenarios, Barcelona, Tusquets, 2010. New edition of the 2009 version, published in Spain.
El Porfiriato: Una propuesta y un balance, written in collaboration with Aurora Gómez, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006.
El urbanista, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004.
De cómo ignorar, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000.
Argucias de la historia: siglo XIX, cultura y “América Latina,” Mexico City, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Editorial Paidós, 1999.
Artilugio de la nación moderna. México en las exposiciones universales, 1880-1930, Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998. (An expanded and edited translation of Mexico at The World’s Fairs)
Mexico at World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation, Berkeley, The University of California Press, 1996. Re-edited, The University of California Press Voices Revived, 2018
“Sobre la paz en la historia,” Segle XX. Revista Catalana d´Hitòria, vol. 15 (2022), pp. 119.
“Los conceptos son palabras y agarrosas. Concepts are words, and catchy at that,” forthcoming Istor.
“Review Essay: Conceitos and Conceptos: The Wight of Words in the Iberian World,” forthcoming, Journal of the History of Ideas.
“Estados Unidos en Historia Mexicana y algo más,” Historia Mexicana, no. 281 (JulySeptember 2021).
“History on Foot: Walking Mexico City,” Current History (February 2020).
“Latinoamérica: el encanto y el poder de una idea,” Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual, no. 22 (2018).
“Latinoamérica: sus connotaciones esenciales,” Istor, 67 (December 2016).
“La C por la K: El Barret Mexicà en las Ramblas” Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, no. 781-82 (2015), pp. 105-120.
“O Campus, My Campus!,” Istor (Fall, 2014), pp. 20-45.
“A Lost Opportunity: Carlos Fuentes, the Essay, and Mexico in English,” La Habana Elegante, no. 55 (Spring-Summer, 2014).
“América Latina: a ideia, mais uma vez,” Interseções: Revista de Estudos Interdisciplinares, v. 14, n. 2 (2013).
“Alrededor de 1812: las Américas y la monarquía,” Istor, no 51 (Winter 2012)
“Un recuerdo,” in “El siglo XIX de Tulio Halperín,” Prismas, Revista de Historia Intelectual, no. 15 (2011), pp. 237-240.
“Poesia e historia,” Istor, no. 47 (Winter, 2011).
“De piojos, ratas y mexicanos,” Istor, no. 41 (Summer, 2010), pp. 1-40
“The Riddle of a Common History: The United States in Mexican Textbooks Controversies,” Context, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 103-131.
“Around 1919 and in Mexico City,” Working Paper, CIDE, April 2009, pp. 95.
“Algo más que una entrevista, Díaz-Creelman,” Istor, no. 39 (Spring 2009), pp. 117-128.
“On Monolingual Fears,” Public Culture, vol. 19, no. 3 (2007), pp. 425-432.
“On the Limits of Historical Imaginations: North America as a Historical Essay,” International Journal, vol. 61, no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 567-587.
“Identidad, nuestra preclara obsesión. Un diálogo y algo más,” Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (moderator), Roger Bartra, Partha Chatterjee, Robin Kelley, Fernando Escalante, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, in Istor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C., no. 11, 2003.
“World’s Fairs: The Seven Deadly Sins,” in Volcher Barth edited issue of the Bulletin of the Bureau of International Exhibitions, June 2002, 40 pp.
Caminhando para a "desestadunização" da história dos Estados Unidos: um diálogo,” article and dialogue with David Thelen and Thomas Bender, in Estudos Históricos, Fundaçao Getulio Vagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, No. 27 (2001), pp 52-77.
“Historia de las Historias en Estados Unidos,” in Istor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C, Mexico City, Winter 2000, 62-81.
"Stereophonic Scientific Modernism. Social Science Between Mexico and the U.S., 18801920,” Journal of American History, vol. 86, nom. 3 (December 1999), pp. 1156-118.
"The Cosmopolitan Mexican Summer, 1920-1949" (Review-essay), Latin American Research Review, vol. 32, no. 3 (1997), pp. 224-242.
"De Encuentros y Desencuentros: La Escritura de la Historia en Estados Unidos. Ensayo de una visión forastera," in Historia Mexicana, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, vol. 46, no. 4 (1996), pp. 889-925.
"1910 Mexico City: Space and Nation in the City of the Centenario," in Journal of Latin American Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom, vol. 28 (February 1996), pp. 75-104.
"Estados Unidos: Ciudadanía y cultura en tiempos de desazón. El debate de los noventa," Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, vol. 13, no. 39 (SeptemberDecember 1995), pp. 501-530.
"Del nacionalismo y México," in Política y Gobierno, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C , Mexico City, vol. II, no. 2 (Second Semester, 1995), pp. 313-334.
"Ciencia e Historia: A la cacería de sentidos comunes,” in Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Correspondiente a la Real de Madrid, Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Mexico City, (1994), pp. 1-30.
"A Tropical Cuauhtémoc: Celebrating the Cosmic Race at the Gunabara Bay," in Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, no. 65 (1994), pp. 93-137.
"Um Cuauhtémoc Carioca: Comemorando o Centenário de Independência do Brasil e a raça cósmica,” in Estudos Históricos, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, CEPDOC, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 7. No. 14 (1994), pp. 123-148.
"Gringos Viejos: Radicales norteamericanos en los años treinta y su visión de México (una interpretación)," in Secuencia, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas José María Luis Mora, Mexico City, no. 21 (September-December, 1991), pp. 95-116.
"América: Historia y Conmemoración. Un comentario Historiográfico," in Revista Estudios Históricos, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, no. 25 (Summer 1991), pp. 29-41.
"Bartolomé Mitre y Vicente Fidel López. El Pensamiento Historiográfico Argentino en el siglo XIX," in Secuencia, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas José María Luis Mora, Mexico City, no. 16 (January-April 1990), pp. 97-121.
"Profissão: Latin-Americanist. Richard M. Morse e a historiografia norteamericana da América Latina," in Estudos Históricos, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, CEPDOC, Rio de Janeiro, vol. 2 no. 3 (1989), pp. 102-132.
Publishes A Flor de Pie (Universidad Veracruzana, 2020)
Publishes Clio's Laws: On History and Language (UT Press, 2019)
Awarded a 2019 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Publishes La Paz: 1876 (FCE, 2018)
Publishes Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea (Chicago, 2017)
Profiled after offering the 2022 Lozano Long Conference keynote at the University of Texas at Austin
Awarded 2015 Laing Prize by the University of Chicago Press
Considers Recent Chronicles of Mexico City for Public Books
Discusses I Speak of the City. Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2012) with el Colegio de México [video, 10 minutes]