Jaime Pensado
Assistant Professor
Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies
Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Field
Modern Latin America
Profile
Jaime Pensado grew up in Mexico City. He moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of fourteen where he received his B.A and M.A in Latin American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Pensado earned his Ph.D at the University of Chicago in 2008. He taught at Lehigh University before coming to Notre Dame in Fall 2008. Pensado’s main interests include modern Mexican history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, and the Cold War.
Current project
Pensado is currently working on revisions of his book manuscript. His book will examine the role competing powerbrokers played to quell growing student unrest and mediate youth conflict in postrevolutionary Mexico vis-à-vis the employment of agent provocateurs and student intermediaries. In addition, his work will examine the impact of the Cuban Revolution on leftist and ultraconservative student politics in Mexico during the long sixties.
Teaching interests
Professor Pensado’s teaching interests include modern Mexican history, U.S. Operations in Central America, the Sixties in Latin America, Latin America through Film, the Cold War in Latin America, Revolutions, and Student Movements.
Selected publications
“The (Forgotten) Sixties in Mexico,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. Vol. 1, No.1 (May, 2008): 83-90.
“Student Politics in Mexico at the Wake of the Cuban Revolution,” Robert Clarke et. al., eds., New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Toronto/New York: Between the Lines & Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2009.
Contact:
Office: Decio 469
Phone number: 574-631-1538
email: jpensado@nd.edu