Mexico Working Group

The Mexico Working Group is a multidisciplinary group co-chaired by Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellows Allert Brown-Gort and Jaime Pensado. With the goal of strengthening the presence of Mexico and Mexican Americans at Notre Dame, the group brings together faculty and students to present work in progress and discuss relevant issues related to Mexico.

The Mexico Working Group:

Supports academic discussions, conferences, talks, and monthly works-in-progress lunches, as well as cultural events. Its new series, Diálogos: Conversations with Mexico, bring together renowned international visitors and Notre Dame faculty to discuss events that affect Mexico.
Fosters academic and cultural exchanges to link the University with Mexico and Mexican Studies institutions.
Coordinates a biennial Undergraduate Research Conference focused on Mexican and Mexican American issues, bringing together undergraduates to present their research in panels organized and run by graduate students. A “Best Paper on Mexico” prize is awarded.
Hosts visiting fellows that contribute to the scholarship on Mexico at Notre Dame. During Spring 2013, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy University of Notre Dame) is coteaching a class “Modern Mexican History: From the Porfiriato & the Revolution to the Present” with Jaime Pensado.

The Journal of Undergraduate Research on Mexico - Vol. 1

Undergraduate Research Conference—2013

The 2013 conference, "¿México?," (Call for papers) will take place on April 27, as part of Mexico Week @ ND.

The Mexico Working Group’s first undergraduate research conference, Mexico: 1810, 1910, 2010, was held in April 2011. Joseph VanderZee won the “Best Paper on Mexico” prize.

Mark Your Calendars—Events for the Spring 2013 Semester Include:

January 22, 2013 (Hesburgh Center, C103: 12:30pm). Second Diálogo with Manuel Camacho Solis (Federal Senator of Mexico) and Michael Coppedge (Professor of Political Science and Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame), "The Quality of Mexico's Democracy."
February 1, 2013 (Hesburgh Center, C104/105: noon). Workshop paper: Robert Costello Palermo (Graduate Student - History), “Contesting Ideologies in Post-revolutionary Mexico: The Catholic Right and the Spanish Civil War”
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this lecture. For a copy, or any other questions, please contact Rodrigo Castro Cornejo at rcastroc@nd.edu

February 15, 2013 (131 Decio Hall: noon). Workshop paper: Ted Beatty (Associate Professor of History and Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame), Work-in-progress: Chapter from Technological Change and the Search for “el progreso material” in Nineteenth Century Mexico.
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this lecture. For a copy, or any other questions, please contact Rodrigo Castro Cornejo at rcastroc@nd.edu

March 6, 2013 (Hesburgh Center, C104/105; 4:30pm). Workshop paper: Eric Zolov (Associate Professor of History, Stony Brook University and Editor of The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History), “Unwanted Revolutionaries: Lázaro Cárdenas, Fidel Castro and the Unexpected Challenges to Mexican Political Authority, 1958-1959”
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this lecture. For a copy, or any other questions, please contact Rodrigo Castro Cornejo at rcastroc@nd.edu
Friday, March 22, 2013 (Hesburgh Center Room C104/105; 3:00pm)
Comparative Politics Discussion Seminar and Mexico Working Group
"The Social Foundations of Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico"
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Professor of Political Science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, University of Notre Dame Javier Osorio, Kellogg Institute PhD Fellow, Political Science, University of Notre Dame
April 5, 2013 (Gold Room, LaFortune Student Center: noon). Workshop paper: Víctor Hernández Huerta (PhD Candidate – Political Science), "Negative Advertisements and Voter Turnout in the 2006 Presidential Election in Mexico" There will be a pre-circulated paper for this lecture. For a copy, or any other questions, please contact Rodrigo Castro Cornejo at rcastroc@nd.edu
April 9, 2013 (12:30 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center). Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy University of Notre Dame, "The 1988 Presidential Elections in Mexico"

April 12, 2013 (Place and Time: TBA). Seminar/Discussion: Emilio Kourí (Professor of History and Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, University of Chicago), “The Ejido of the Mexican Revolution”
There will be a pre-circulated paper for this lecture. For a copy, or any other questions, please contact Rodrigo Castro Cornejo at rcastroc@nd.edu

Mexico Week @ ND

April 23, 2013 (4:30 pm – Geddes Hall Coffee House). Third Diálogo on Mexico with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy University of Notre Dame) and Enrique Krauze (Director of Letras Libres) "The Left in Mexico"
April 25, 2013 (4:00pm – C103 Hesburgh Center). Lecture by Alan Knight (Professor of History and Fellow of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford), “Was the Mexican Revolution a Success?”

April 26, 2013 (6:30pm – Eck Visitor Center Auditorium). Film screening and discussion of El Ingeniero/The Engineer (2012) with Director Alejandro Lubezki

April 27, 2013 (Time: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm – Hesburgh Center). "¿México?: The Second Biennial Undergraduate Student Conference on Mexico" This event will include a Fourth Diálogo on Mexico with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy University of Notre Dame) and Alan Knight (Professor of History and Fellow of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford)

Past Events

If you would like additional information about the working group, or if you would like to participate in one of our events, please contact Jaime Pensado jpensado@nd.edu, Allert Brown-Gort abrowngo@nd.edu, or Rodrigo Castro Cornejo rcastroc@nd.edu.