John Tutino

Short Biography

John Tutino is Chair of the History Department at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning as a social historian, over the years he has learned from his students and younger colleagues the importance of engaging state powers, ethnic relations, gender roles, and cultural understandings in analyses still grounded in production and labor relations. He has published From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750–1940 (Princeton University Press, 1986) and co-edited with Elisa Servín and Leticia Reina, Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico (Duke University Press, 2007). His research continues to focus on two Mexican regions: this article is the latest of many on the central highland basins around Mexico City; his work on Querétaro and the eastern Bajío, and is coming to fruition in Making a New World: Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (forthcoming, Duke University Press).