Mexican Studies Research Collective

Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

"We are reminded that the impunity of the powerful is made possible by the complicity of the many and that such complicity depends on the indifference of those who watch and do nothing to intervene, let alone protest."

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live El Chavo Del Ocho (English Version) - SNL

the kid from number 8

Explaining with David David’s first book, Explanation in Geography, was a revolutionary tract. I came across it after enrolling in Geography at Bristol in 1969. Whereas Geography had largely practiced naive empiricism Bris...

Explanation in Geography www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...

For your GRADUATE students! Submissions for the SCMS Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize are due in ONE month on November 1, 2025. The winning essay will be published (subject to revision) in FMH.

online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/aw...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (Education Focused) - University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) The Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is advertising a continuing education focused position, to be appointed at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level. This position is pa...

JOB!
Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities The Environmental Arts and Humanities (EAH) program at the University of the South invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities to begin in Fall 2026. We wel...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities www.schooljobs.com/careers/sewa...

Taco by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Bloomsbury Academic Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic M…

Taco mexicanists.org/2025/09/20/t...

This time next week at Texas Tech University: both Victor Sierra Matute and Cristina Pardo Porto in the house.

looking forward @cristinaele.bsky.social & @sierramatute.bsky.social

We have the book cover! Thank you to @nupress.bsky.social for gorgeous design and to Museum of Yugoslavia for the permission to feature Petar Lubarda's painting 'Buđenje Afrike' / 'The Awakening of Africa' on the cover. Link to NUP's book page and more info about the painting in comments.

Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad by David Tenorio University of Michigan Press In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a “gay-friendly” city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers o…

Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad mexicanists.org/2025/09/09/q...

Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a conversation with Iván Aguirre Eusebio Darancou (University of California, Riverside) to celebrate the publication of Consuming Citizens: Cou…

Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens mexicanists.org/2025/09/10/b...

a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native ... @isanchezprado.bsky.social discusses the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by history and geography.

Taco by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Bloomsbury Academic Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic M…

Taco mexicanists.org/2025/09/20/t...

Installation shot of John Wilson show at the Met, featuring large sculptural head

Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr

Opening today at Met Museum, stunning survey of African-American artist John Wilson (1922-2015), who spent much of his life & career in Boston area. Features a wide range of Wilson's work, including his heartfelt, contemplative portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 3-4pm CT for a conversation with Iván Aguirre Eusebio Darancou (University of California, Riverside) to celebrate the publication of Consuming Citizens: Cou…

Book Presentation: Consuming Citizens mexicanists.org/2025/09/10/b...

“Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.” —José Saramago

My forthcoming edited book Teaching the Mexican Revolution’s catalog page

Conversatorio Cubano with Dr. Renata Keller In this Conversatorio Cubano, Dr. Lillian Guerra interviews Dr. Renata Keller, associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, discussing the larger geographic impact of the Cuban Re...

I had an amazing time talking about "The Fate of the Americas" with Lillian Guerra--what an honor to discuss my book with one of the top Cuba experts in the world! 1/3
#History 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social
cubanstudies.history.ufl.edu/conversatori...

Folk holding two copies of an academic edited volume titled Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds", edited by Víctor Sierra Matute.

Here we go: copies of my edited volume!

Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad by David Tenorio University of Michigan Press In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a “gay-friendly” city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers o…

Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad mexicanists.org/2025/09/09/q...

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Dissent Magazine Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt with before our dreams of freedom and self-fulfi...

Very proud to be able to share, via @dissentmag.bsky.social, Marshall Berman's essay "Sympathy for the Devil," about the Pentagon exorcism, The Rolling Stones, Faust, and the culture of the 1960s. It's been out of print for forty years, and it's a masterpiece www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities The Environmental Arts and Humanities (EAH) program at the University of the South invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities to begin in Fall 2026. We wel...

Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities www.schooljobs.com/careers/sewa...

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

Modotti experimented with decontextualized objects — items shown outside their usual settings, with emphasis placed on their shapes, textures and symbolic qualities...an approach that prioritizes a picture’s lines, shapes and composition over its subject matter www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

Modotti experimented with decontextualized objects — items shown outside their usual settings, with emphasis placed on their shapes, textures and symbolic qualities...an approach that prioritizes a picture’s lines, shapes and composition over its subject matter www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

YouTube video by Harvard Business Review You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.

boredom boredom boredom! m.youtube.com/watch?v=orQK...

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for July 2025.

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Assistant Professor - Modern Languages (Spanish Peninsular) - New York, NY - Indeed.com The City University of New York (CUNY)

Our department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...