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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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Books

Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

Pensado, Jaime M. Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico. Oakland: Univ of California Press, 2023.

Mexico Beyond 1968

Pensado, Jaime M., and Ochoa, Enrique. México Beyond 1968 : Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018.

Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties (Stanford University Press, 2013)

Journal Articles

Pensado, Jaime. “Silencing Rebellious Priests: Rodolfo Escamilla García and the Repression of Progressive Catholicism in Cold-War Mexico.” The Americas, 79, no. 2 (2022): 263-289.

“El Movimiento Estudiantil Profesional (MEP): una mirada a la radicalización de la juventud católica mexicana durante la Guerra Fría,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 31, 1 (Winter, 2015)

"'To Assault with the Truth': The Revitalization of Conservative Militancy in Mexico During the Global Sixties," in "Latin America in the Global Sixties," special issue, The Americas 70, 3 (January 2014)

“Utopian Dreams: A History of Student Activism in Latin America,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Fall, 2012)

“Between Young Men and Mischievous Children: Youth, Transgression, and Protest in Late-Nineteenth Century Mexico,” in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 4, 1 (Winter 2011)

"The (Forgotten) Sixties in Mexico." In The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 1, 1 (May, 2008)

Book Chapters

Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America

Pensado, Jaime. “The Anonymous Dead of 1968 Mexico: A Comparative Study of Counterrevolutionary Violence and Protest with Uruguay and Brazil.” In Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America, edited by James McAdams and Anthony Monta, 341-382. Notre Dame: Notre dame University Press, 2021.

Pensado, Jaime. “Entre Perdigones, Provocadores y Noticias Apócrifas: Un Caso Comparativo a la Represión Estatal durante el Movimiento Estudiantil del ’68 en México y Uruguay.” In Movimientos estudiantiles del siglo XX en América Latina, edited by Vania Markarian. Santa Fe, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2018.

Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II

Pensado, Jaime, “A “Third Way” in Christ: The Project of the Corporation of Mexican Students (CEM) in Cold War Mexico.” In Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II, edited by Stephen Andes and Julia Young, 165-184. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

“El movimiento politécnico de 1956: la primera revuelta estudiantil en México de los sesenta,” in Renate Marsiske, ed., Movimientos Estudiantiles en la Historia de América Latina: Volumen IV (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015)

Dictablanda

Pensado, Jaime. “The ‘Rise of a National Student Problem’ in 1956 Mexico.” In Dictablanda: Politics, Work and Culture in Mexico, edited by Benjamin Smith and Paul Gillingham, 360-377. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

"Student Politics in Mexico at the Wake of the Cuban Revolution," in Robert Clarke et. al., eds., New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Between the Lines & Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Kellogg Institute's Undergraduate Mentoring Award - 2010-11

Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Jaime Pensado

Oct 1 to 2, 2016

Research Conference: Confronting Mexico’s Dirty War: Youth Radicalism(s), Repression, and Accountability during the Global Sixties

Seminars/Lectures

Jaime M. Pensado

Dec 5 to 6, 2014

A Truth Commission for Mexico?

Working Groups

Guillermo Trejo, Paolo G. Carozza, Jaime M. Pensado, Lucia Tiscornia, Sandra Ley Gutiérrez, MariClaire Acosta, Juan Guillermo Albarracín Dierolf, Christine Cervenak, Lucia Tiscornia