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Acting Dean of Humanities Named to Mexican Academy of Sciences
November 19, 2007
Historian Eric Van Young, interim dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at UCSD, has been elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
There are currently 1,976 members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and 71 foreign, or “corresponding,” members, nine Nobel Laureates among them.
Corresponding members are active researchers – in one of ten disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences – who are recognized for their merit and contributions to the development of research in Mexico.
A specialist in the history of colonial Mexico, Van Young has been on the UCSD faculty since 1982, has chaired his department and has been associate director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He has written on the rural economic history of colonial Mexico, the Wars of Independence, and the cultural, social and political history of the 19th century. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Hacienda and Market in 18th-Century Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1820 and The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821, and others.
His major current research project is a biography of Lucas Alamán (1792-1853), one of the great statesmen and public intellectuals of 19th-century Mexico and Latin America. Among other projects he is pursuing is the history of Mexican psychiatry from 1750 through 1950.
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