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Picatto 4.16.08
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
"Murder as Politics in Contemporary Mexico "
Dr.
Pablo Piccato
Pablo Piccato is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Columbia University. Currently he is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies. His area of focus is on the social and political history of modern Mexico, with particular interest in crime, honor and the development of the public sphere. He received his B.A. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. His published work includes City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (Duke University Press, 2001), Congreso y Revolución: El parlamentarismo en la XXVI Legislatura (Cámara de Diputados, 1991), the edition of El Poder Legislativo en las décadas revolucionarias (Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1997), and, with Cristina Sacristán, of Actores, espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de México (Instituto Mora, 2005). Forthcoming books include the edition, with Robert Buffington, of Mexican Crime Stories: Case Studies, Causes Célèbres, and Other True-to-Life Adventures in the Social Construction of Deviance (University of New Mexico Press), and The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (Duke University Press).
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