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Eric Van Young, Distinguished Professor of History at University of California, San Diego, is an American historian of Mexico who has published extensively on socioeconomic and political history of the colonial era and the nineteenth century. He is particularly well known for his 2001 book, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810-1821, which won a major prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History.[1] His article "The Islands in the Storm: Quiet Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era," published in Past and Present won the Conference on Latin American History Award in 1989.[2] He has also contributed to the study of haciendas and the historiography of rural history.[3]


Education


Van Young earned his B.A. with honors at University of Chicago in 1967 and completed his doctorate at University of California, Berkeley in 1978, with Woodrow Borah as his mentor.[citation needed]


Teaching


He briefly taught at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Texas-Austin, and since 1982 spent his academic career at University of California, San Diego. He chaired the History Department and was interim Dean of the Arts and Humanities Division.[citation needed] He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 for his project on Lucas Alamán, a founder of Mexico’s conservative party following independence in 1821.[4][5]


Honors



Publications


Many of Van Young’s publications have been translated to Spanish and he has collaborated with a number of Mexican scholars.[citation needed] In 2007, he was named a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, “a rare honor for a foreigner.”[8]


Books



Edited volumes



Selected articles



References


  1. "CLAH » Bolton-Johnson Prize". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. "CLAH » the Vanderwood Prize".
  3. Eric Van Young, *"Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda," Latin American Research Review, 18 (3) 1983; 5-61.
  4. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Eric J. Van Young".
  5. "Historian Wins 2011 Guggenheim". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  6. "CLAH » Elected Officers". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  7. "CLAH » Bolton-Johnson Prize". clah.h-net.org. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  8. "Historian Wins 2011 Guggenheim".
  9. reviewed by Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, Historia Mexicana, Vol. 62, No. 4(248)(Abril-Junio 2013), pp. 1832-1841.



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