Samuel N. Harper Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Katz Center for Mexican Studies
Profesor Asociado, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the College
PhD'93 Stanford University
Mailing Address
The University of Chicago
Department of History
1126 E. 59th Street, Mailbox 49
Chicago, IL 60637
Social Science Research Building, room 506 – Office
(773) 702-3708 – Office telephone
(773) 702-7550 – Fax
Essays and Books
La historia en ruinas. El culto a los monumentos y a su destrucción, Alianza Editorial; N.º 1 edición, October 2023.
Elogio de la impureza. Promiscuidad e historia en Norteamérica, Mexico City, Siglo XXI Editores, 2023.
“De la útil inutilidad de la historia,” Nexos (June 2023).
“De monumentos, conquistas e historia,” Nexos (March 2021).
A Flor de Pie. Veracruz: Universidad Veracruzana, 2020.
Clio's Laws: On History and Language. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019.
La Paz: 1876. Mexico City: Fondo de cultura Económica, 2018.
Mexico at the World's Fairs. UC Press Voices Revived. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Maldita lengua. Madrid: La Huerta Grande, 2016.
"I Speak of the City": Mexico City, 1880–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Gordon J. Laing Award, The University of Chicago Press
- Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians
Culturas y memoria: manual para ser historiador. Barcelona and Mexico City: Tusquets Editores, 2012.
Historia y Celebración, México y sus centenarios. Barcelona and Mexico City: Tusquets Editores, 2009; 2010, new edition published in Spain.
In collaboration with Aurora Gómez. El Porfiriato: Una propuesta y un balance. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006.
El urbanista. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004.
Mexico at the World's Fairs. UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982–2004. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
De cómo ignorar. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000.
Argucias de la historia: Del Siglo XIX, América Latina y Cultura. Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Mexico City: Ediciones Paidós, 1999.
Atilugio de la nación moderna. México en las exposiciones universales, 1880–1930. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998.
Mexico at the World's Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
News
—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 Friedrich Katz and Jean Meyer in a December 2014 article, "Somos memoria," in Revista NEXOS
—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]
