Los Latinoamericanistas: Summer 2010

Incoming Students:

Welcome Matt S. Caire to the Latin American program at the University of Oklahoma.  Matt Caire comes to OU from Southern California.  His research focuses on corn in modern Mexican history.  More specifically, he researches how economic and political policies adopted over the last three decades, have impacted corn’s place in Mexico’s cultural, agricultural, economic and political landscapes over the last 80 years.  He received his BA degree from Humboldt State University and his MA degree from Bowling Green State University.  Matt enjoys traveling, jogging and spending time outdoors.

http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/grad-caire.html

Summer 2010 Research Trips

The past three years, Dr. Terry Rugeley has guided a group of history students to the archives of Mexico.  In this trip: Terry Rugeley, Margarita Peraza-Rugeley, Justin Castro, Gary Moreno, Teryn Piper, and Ariana Quezada.

Students in Mexico City

Teryn and Ariana in Chiapas and Guatemala

Students visited the following archives:

Archivo General de la Nación

http://www.agn.gob.mx/

Archivo General del Estado de Chiapas (Centro Cultural de Chiapas Jaime Sabines)

http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/chiapas-info/General/index.htm

Archivo Histórico del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de México

http://cronicascartograficas.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/archivo-historico-del-ayuntamiento-de-la-ciudad-de-mexico/

Archivo Histórico Diocesano, San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Chiapas)

http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico/cristobal.html

Centro de Estudios de Historia de México (CARSO) and previously Condumex

http://www.cehm.com.mx/En/Pages/Home.aspx

Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI) and previously Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI)

http://www.cdi.gob.mx/

Museo de la Charrería 

http://www.elcentrohistorico.com.mx/lugares-museo-de-la-charreria.html