El Colegio de México

Faculty Member, Centro de Estudios Historicos

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CARLOS MARICHAL


Since 1989 he has been Research Profesor of Latin American history at the  El Colegio de México, a leading social science institute.  He received his Ph. D. in History from Harvard University (1977) and has been visiting professor at Stanford University (1998-1999), Universidad Carlos III en Madrid (1996), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales en Paris (1994), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (1990 y 1993 and 2009), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1987).

He is the author of Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars Between Spain, Britain, and France, Cambridge University Press, 2007. In September 2008 this work received the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association of the United Status as “Outstanding Book on North American Economic History”. Almost a year later in August  2009 the same work was awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize of the Spanish Economic History Association, being judged the best book published on the economic history of Spain and Latin America in the biennial period of 2007-2008,

He is also the author of other works including a history of Latin American debt in English version (1989), with two editions in Spanish, and more recently of Nueva historia de las grandes crisis financieras, 1873-2008, Madrid/Buenos Aires/Mexico, 2010. He is the editor of a dozen collective monographs on the economic history of Latin America, including studies on banking and fiscal history as well as a number of joint studies on history of enterprise in Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

He is founder and past president of the Mexican Economic History Association, 2001-2004, and has served as member of the executive committee of the International Economic History Association during the years 2000-2008. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994/95 and a Tinker Fellowship in 1997/98, as well other awards.  A member of the academic boards of ten international journals on economic history and Latin American history, he is member of the Mexican  Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, at the highest level. From 2003 until  2008 he was a member of the Board of Governors of  El Colegio de México.

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