Edward Beatty

Ted Beatty is professor of history and global affairs, holding a joint appointment with the Department of History and the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he served as interim director of the Kellogg Institute from 2007 to 2009 and associate dean from 2015 through 2022.

 

A historian specializing in economic development in Latin America, especially Mexico, and the history of technology, he has examined the role of institutions in economic development, the bases of policy formation, and issues in the history of technological change.

 

Beatty is the author of Institutions and Investment: The Political Basis of Industrialization in Mexico before 1911 (Stanford University Press, 2001) and Technology and the Search for Progress in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2015), winner of the Friedrich Katz Prize for best book on Latin America and the Caribbean from the American Historical Society. He has received research support from the National Science Foundation, the Instituto de Iberoamérica at the Universidad de Salamanca, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He is currently working with Israel G. Solares (assistant professor, UNAM) on several interrelated projects focused on the global history of engineering, technological change in the mining sector, and the history of cyanide, all roughly 1850-1950.

 

Beatty teaches undergraduate and doctoral courses on world economic history, the history of technology, and Latin American history.