John Lear

Professor of History and Latin American Studies

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. History, University of California-Berkeley, 1993
• M.A. History, University of California-Berkeley, 1986
• B.A. History and Literature, Harvard University, 1982, Magna cum laude       

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Mexico, Chile, Cuba, post-independence Latin America. Comparative labor and urban history, cultural politics, gender and social movements
• Current book project: “Representing Labor: Artists, Workers and Unions in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1948”

Spring 2013 Course:

   History 381, "Film and History:  Latin America"
   Meets TTh from 2:00-3:20
   Wyatt 209

Graphic images by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada, 1851-1913