Mauricio Tenorio

Mauricio Tenorio, born in La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico in 1962. Historian specialising in social and cultural history. Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and PhD in History from Stanford University. 

Over his career, he has also taught and conducted research at the University of Texas and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City, work that was recognised in 2018 with the Humboldt Research Award. He has published more than twenty essays exploring the tensions between history, memory and language. Notable works include Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Chicago University Press, 2007), Maldita lengua (Damned Tongue) (La Huerta Grande, 2016) and Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea (Chicago University Press, 2017). 

His latest book, La historia en ruinas (History in Ruins) (Alianza, 2023), examines contemporary debates on historic monuments from a historical perspective.

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