Robert Weis

Faculty

Professor

Location Ross 3290B
Office Hours T/R 11:00 am-3:00 pm or email for appointment
Robert Weis

Education

  • B.A., Humanities, New College of California
  • M.A., Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico
  • Ph.D., History, University of California-Davis

Professional Experience & Affiliations

  • 2019-Present, Professor of History, 每日大瓜
  • 2013-2019, Associate Professor of History, 每日大瓜
  • 2008- 2013, Assistant Professor of History, 每日大瓜
  • 2005-2008, University of California-Davis, Lecturer in Mexican and Latin American History
  • 2007, California State University-Stanislaus, Lecturer in Mexican History, Colonial and Modern Latin America

Research Expertise & Interests

Modern Mexico

Publications

The Mexican Revolution:New York: Routledge, 2024

For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

鈥淭he Reforma Period in Mexico,鈥澨Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History听(2018).

Bakers & Basques: A Social History of Bread in Mexico.听Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.

鈥淭he Mexican Revolution on Trial: Assassination, Christianity, and the Rule of Law in 1920s Mexico.鈥澨Hispanic American Historical Review听9:6 (May 2016).

鈥淧ious Delinquents: Anticlericalism and Crime in Revolutionary Mexico.鈥澨The Americas听(April 2016).

鈥淧an Dulce鈥 and 鈥淏imbo Bread鈥. In听Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Z贸calo, edited by Eric Zolov. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2015.

鈥淏utchers Anywhere: Food, Hunger, and the Sudden Liberalization of Markets in Insurgent Mexico.鈥澨Historia Iberoamericana听(Santiago, Chile) Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2014.

鈥淒e panzas y prejuicios: la comida y la historia.鈥澨Historia Iberoamericana听Vol. 2. No. 2 (Fall 2009): 10-15.

鈥淚mmigrant Entrepreneurs, Bread, and Class Negotiation in Postrevolutionary Mexico City.鈥澨Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol 25, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 71-100.

鈥淟as panader铆as en la ciudad de M茅xico de Porfirio D铆az: Los empresarios vasco-navarros y la mobilizaci贸n obrera.鈥澨Revista de Estudios Sociales听(April 2008): 70-85.

鈥淓l horno no est谩 para bollos: inmigraci贸n, clases sociales y pan en la ciudad de M茅xico.鈥澨Espacio Regional: Revista de Estudios Sociales听Vol. 2, No. 3 (2006).

Honors & Awards

Alfonso Caso Medal for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, 2001

Humanities and Social Science College Scholar Award, 每日大瓜, 2014-2015