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• Social History
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Urban History
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Labor History
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Middle Classes History in Mexico
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Urban memories
Profile
PhD in history from El Colegio de México (2005). Historian specialized in urban and social history of Mexico.
He is a full Time Professor at the Department of Humanities of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa. Since 2008 he is Co-director of the Interinstitutional Seminar of Social History organized by El Colegio de México, the IIH of the UNAM and the UAM, Cuajimalpa Campus. He is also co-editor of Trashumante. Revista Americana de Historia Social.
His current research interests are related to the history of labor and workers in Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of the social state, the historical study of the middle classes and public employees in the Mexican capital, as well as the reconstruction of trajectories and life histories of intellectuals in Mexico and Colombia.
Among his most recent publications are the books:
- Inestables, virtuosas y aspiracionales. Clases medias en la ciudad de México, 1850-1980 (coordinado con Cristina Sánchez). México, UAM, 2025 (un coming book).
- Historia social, historia plural. Ensayos desde los márgenes de América Latina, siglos XIX y XX (edited by Clara E. Lida, Mario Barbosa, and María Dolores Lorenzo. El Colegio de México, 2025.
Mario Barbosa Cruz y Miguel Ángel Gorostieta, eds., Historias del trabajo y sus trabajadoras(es). Nuevos derroteros desde la historia social, México, Cemos/Conahcyt, 2024.
- The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies (Routledge, 2022) y its spanish traduction: Clases medias en América Latina: subjetividades, prácticas y genealogías (coord. by Mario Barbosa, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros, and Claudia Stern. Universidad del Rosario, UAM, 2023)
- Itinerancias y aprendizajes. Conversaciones con Clara E. Lida (El Colegio de México, 2023).
- La paz, un largo proceso. Relato autobiográfico de Alberto Rojas Puyo (Colombia, Universidad del Rosario/Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2018).
- Belén de las Flores historia, conflicto e identidad en un lugar al poniente de la ciudad de México, siglos XVI a XXI (UAM, 2015)
He has been recognized with Level III in the National System of Researchers (SNII).
In 2015 he founded and coordinated the social outreach project "Historias Metropolitanas", a project that seeks to recover, record and disseminate the urban memory of the inhabitants of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico (ZMVM). The project has published 15 volumes with stories written by inhabitants of the ZMVM and broadcasts these stories in a weekly program aired by UAM Radio 94.1 FM.
His doctoral thesis was published by El Colegio de México in 2008 under the title El trabajo en las calles. Subsistence and political negotiation in Mexico City in the early twentieth century. This thesis won the 2006 Salvador Azuela Prize awarded by INEHRM.
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