History Seminar: Mexico Since 1551

Convener: Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker: Paul Gillingham, Northwestern University

Discussants: Alan Knight, University of Oxford, and Benjamin Smith, University of Warwick 

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Paul Gillingham (DPhil, Oxon, 2006) is a Professor of Latin American History and Director of Graduate Studies at Northwestern University. He specializes in politics, culture and violence in Mexico, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on these subjects. His most recent book is Mexico, a History (Penguin, 2025); others include Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship, Cuauhtémoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico and (with Ben Smith) Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968. He directs the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives project (MIDAS), an open access collection of documents from Mexico’s security agencies at https://www.crl.edu/midas. 

Alan Knight is Emeritus Fellow of the LAC and author of, among many other titles, of the Mexican Revolution, 2 vols.

Benjamin Smith is Professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick and author, among many other titles of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade.