Carlos Marichal

Carlos Marichal was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and has dual nationality of both American and Mexican. He earned both his BA and PhD from Harvard and has taught history at the university level in Mexico since 1979. Since 1989, he has been a professor of history at El Colegio de Mexico, the leading social science university institute in Mexico. He is the founder and former president of the Mexican Association of Economic History and has served on the executive committee of the International...See more

Carlos Marichal was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and has dual nationality of both American and Mexican. He earned both his BA and PhD from Harvard and has taught history at the university level in Mexico since 1979. Since 1989, he has been a professor of history at El Colegio de Mexico, the leading social science university institute in Mexico. He is the founder and former president of the Mexican Association of Economic History and has served on the executive committee of the International Economic History Association since 2003. He is the author of A History of Debt Crises in Latin America, 1820-1930 (1989) and is the editor or coeditor of fifteen books in Spanish and English published over the last twenty years, the majority on the fiscal and financial history of Mexico, as well as numerous texts on the economic history of Latin America. See less