Jorge Puma-Crespo

Dr. Jorge Puma started as an assistant professor at 熊猫在线视频 in August 2023. He teaches introductory courses on the History of the Modern World and Latin American History, covering both the colonial and modern periods. His lectures combine insights from transnational history with case studies from national spheres. Using movies, graphic novels and primary sources, Dr. Puma invites his students to explore the history of an interconnected world from new perspectives.

Dr. Puma holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Paris-Saclay. He was a 2022 Chateaubriand Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences and a 2017 Fulbright-Garc铆a Robles alumnus. His dissertation analyzes the links between French radicalism, post-Vatican II Catholic activism, and Mexican protest movements, focusing on the Mexican Maoist group People鈥檚 Politics (Pol铆tica Popular) and its relationship with left-wing priest movements of the 1970s. In June 2024, his dissertation won the Best Dissertation Award from the Mexican Section of the Latin American Studies Association.

Dr. Puma has published his work in peer-reviewed journals in Chile and the United States. , on progressive Catholicism in 1970s Mexico, appeared in the March 2022 issue of The Americas.

Areas of Expertise

Twentieth century Latin American history
Mexican history
Transnational history of the left
Catholic history
Global sixties

Education

Ph.D., Latin American history, University of Notre Dame, 2023
Ph.D., history, Universit茅 Paris-Saclay, 2023
M.A., international history, Centro de Investigaci贸n y Docencia Econ贸micas (CIDE), 2014
B.A., political science and international relations, CIDE, 2008
B.A., law, Universidad Pontificia de Mexico, 2005

Selected Grants & Awards

Best Dissertation Award, Mexican Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2024
Phillip Gleason Writing Prize for the article 鈥淭he Nazas-Aguanaval Group: Radical Priests, Catholic Networks, and Maoist Politics in Northern Mexico,鈥� Department of History, University of Notre Dame, 2023
Honorable Mention for Ph.D. Dissertation in the 鈥淐harles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History,鈥� Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2023
The Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Embassy of France in the United States, 2022
Summer Research and Writing Grant, American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), 2022
Award for Historical Research Dissertation Projects for 鈥淭he Transnational History of Pol铆tica Popular, 1968-1979,鈥� National Institute for Historical Studies of Mexico's Revolutions (INEHRM), 2021
Scholarship Program for Researchers on China, Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies, UNAM Economics Department, 2021

Selected Publications

鈥�,鈥� The Americas, 79(2), 291鈥�320, 2022
鈥溾€� Latin American Perspectives, 44(6), 140鈥�155, 2017
鈥淢aoists of Northern Mexico: A Short History of Pol铆tica Popular-L铆nea Proletaria, 1969鈥�1979,鈥� Revista Izquierdas (27), Santiago de Chile, Chile: Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 200鈥�229, 2016
鈥淨ueremos que el pueblo haga su pol铆tica y nosotros hacerla con 茅l. Una historia de la organizaci贸n mao铆sta Pol铆tica Popular (1968鈥�1979),鈥� with Fuentes Castillo and Ricardo Yanuel, in Senderos de lucha: Las izquierdas mexicanas durante la 茅poca de la Guerra Fr铆a, edited by Irving Reynoso Jaime and Uriel Vel谩zquez Vidal, Cuernavaca: Universidad Aut贸noma del Estado de Morelos, 2023
鈥淎rmed Struggle in the Memories of the Maoists of 鈥楶ol铆tica Popular,鈥欌€� in F. Campos Hern谩ndez, Y. Escamilla Santiago, R. Gami帽o Mu帽oz and R. Reyes S谩nchez (eds.), Cartographies of Terror: Memory and Violence in Latin America (pp. 383鈥�414), Guadalajara, M茅xico: Taller Editorial Casa del Mago, 2016

Outside the college

When not teaching, Dr. Puma does political commentary for Mexican media.