Eric Van Young

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at UC San Diego, where he served for 32 years beginning in 1982. Affiliated with the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Specialization in colonial and 19th-century Mexican history: rural economic history, haciendas, peasant movements, political violence, and historiography.

Guggenheim Fellow. Named corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2007 (rare honor for a foreigner).

Key publications

• Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (1981)
• The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810–1821 (2001)
• Writing Mexican History (2012)
• A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792–1853 (2021)
• Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750–1850 (2022)