Fernando Calderón
Department of History
Faculty - Assistant Professor of History
Area
Modern Mexico, Student Radicalism, the Cold War in Latin America, Violence, Popular Politics, Social Movements and Revolutions, the Global Sixties, Human Rights, Dictatorships and Authoritarianism
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2011 (Dissertation title: "Contesting the State from the Ivory Tower: Student Power, Dirty War and the Urban Guerrilla Experience in Mexico, 1964-1982"); M.A., University of Oregon, 2006; B.A., Humboldt State University, 2004
Selected Publications
Calderón, Fernando Herrera and Adela Cedillo, ed., Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico: Revolutionary Struggles and the Dirty War, 1964-1982. New York: Routledge, 2001
Cedillo, Adela and Fernando Herrera Calderón, "Anális de la producción historiográfica en torno a la llamada guerra sucia mexicana," in El Estudio de las Luchas Revolucionarias en América Latina (1959-1996): Estado de la Cuestión, eds. Martín López Ávalos, Verónica Oikión, and Eduardo Rey Tristán. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, forthcoming.
Courses Taught
Latin America
The Global Sixties
The Cold War in Latin America
History of Mexico (seminar)
Violence and Human Rights in Latin America
Modern Latin America
Popular Politics and Revolutions in 20th Century Latin America