Latin American History Working Group Discussion

Economic Histories of Mexico and North America: A Panel Discussion on research in, about, or from the Global South

Co-sponsored by the Department of History along with the History of Economics and Development in the Global South and the Latin American History working groups of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Aurora Gómez Galvarriato is professor of history at the Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago this semester. She served as Director of the Mexican National Archives from 2009-2013. She is the author of Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico (Harvard University Press, 2013) and El Pan Nuestro. Una historia de la tortilla de maíz (El Colegio de México, 2024).  She has written on business history, labor history, and social inequality, and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and edited volumes in economic, business, and social history.

Israel García Solares is assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Modeling of Social Systems, Institute for the Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems, at the Mexican National University (UNAM). He has held post docs at Notre Dame, Harvard, and UCSD. He is the author of Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (University of Nevada Press, 2024) and co-editor of An Engineered World: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity, forthcoming with MIT Press. 

Ted Beatty is professor of history and global affairs at the University of Notre Dame.