About

Jaime M. Pensado is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Pensado’s main interests include modern Mexican history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, and the Cold War. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2008.

Pensado's current work investigates how conservative and progressive sectors of the Catholic Church—particularly those invested in education, student politics, and entertainment—responded to the contentious environment that emerged inside Mexico's most important universities during the postwar era and how young Catholic students responded to the rise of leftist militancy that came to characterize their schools in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

KDR Assistant:
Maya Mehigan

Thematic Interests

Modern Mexican history; student movements; youth culture; Latin American revolutions; the Cold War

Current Research

My second book project takes up a set of research questions that have not been addressed in the historiography of modern Mexico, but which will complicate our understanding of the turbulent, combative, and at a times contradictory character of the Cold War era: how did conservative and progressive sectors of the Catholic Church—particularly those invested in education, student politics, and entertainment—respond to the contentious environment that emerged inside Mexico's most important universities during the postwar era? How did young Catholic students respond to the rise of leftist militancy that came to characterize their schools in the wake of the Cuban Revolution?

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Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Kellogg Institute's Undergraduate Mentoring Award  - 2010-11

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May 27 to 28, 2021
Kellogg Reunión 2021
Special Event
Juan Guillermo Albarracín Dierolf, Edward (Ted) Beatty, Abby Córdova, Tomás Gold, Karen B. Graubart, Magdalena López, Vanesa Miseres, Maria Rosa Olivera-Williams, Jaime M. Pensado, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Ann Mische, Lucia Tiscornia, Guillermo Trejo
Jaime Pensado
Podcast

Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico, with Historian Jaime Pensado

Apr 22, 2024

In this podcast, interviewer Kellogg PhD Fellow Victoria Basulto, and historian Jaime Pensado discuss his recently published book entitled “Love and Despair. How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico.” The book explores how progressive and conservative Catholic actors were invested in state repression, youth activism, and counterculture in Cold War Mexico.