Carlos Marichal

Carlos Marichal has been Research Professor of Latin American History at the El Colegio de Mexico since 1989. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (1977) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1998 1999), the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (1996), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1994), the Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona (1990 1993 and 2009) and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1987). In September 2008, Bankruptcy of Empire...See more

Carlos Marichal has been Research Professor of Latin American History at the El Colegio de Mexico since 1989. He received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University (1977) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University (1998 1999), the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (1996), the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1994), the Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona (1990 1993 and 2009) and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1987). In September 2008, Bankruptcy of Empire received the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association of the United Status as an 'Outstanding Book on North American Economic History'. 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 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 (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 the history of enterprise in Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is founder and past president of the Mexican Economic History Association and served as member of the executive committee of the International Economic History Association (2000 2008). He has received a Guggenheim fellowship (1994 95) and a Tinker Fellowship (1997 98), among 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 to 2008, he was a member of the Board of Governors of El Colegio de Mexico. See less