Ben Fallaw received his PhD in Latin American history from the University of Chicago in December of 1995. Mr. Fallaw offers classes in Latin American History; Latin American Studies; the History of the Maya; Caudillos and Populism in Modern Latin America and Spain; Law, Society and Rebellion in Mexico; and the Roots of Violence in Latin America. He enjoys teaching Latin American Studies as opposed to just history because it allows him to bring his interests in anthropology and indigenous cultures, film, and literature into the classroom. He lived in Mexico City and Merida in 1992-93 on a Fulbright fellowship, and in Mexico City in 2002-2003 while on an ACLS-Ryskamp fellowship. Fallaw especially enjoys working with students doing honors theses and independent studies on Latin American topics.

I am writing an ethnobiography of mestizo politician Bartolome Garcia Correa (1893-1978), governor of the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatan and co-founder of the PRI (Party of the Institutionalized Revolution) that rules the nation. The manuscript's working title is "Between the Maya and the Mexican Revolution: Bartolome Garcia Correa's Mestizo Politics"

http://dukeupress.typepad.com/dukeupresslog/2013/03/mexicos-religious-quest

Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Duke University Press, 2013)

Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940, special edition of the Americas 65:4 (April 2009), co-edited with Matthew Butler.

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2381.htm

Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico (Arizona, 2012)

"'Anti-Priests' versus Catholic-Socialists in 1930s Campeche: Federal Teachers, Revolutionary Communes, and Anticlericalism," in Matthew Butler, ed. Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 203-223.

"Bartolome Garcia Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatan, 1915-1993," Ethnohistory 55:4 (Fall 2008): 553-578.

Cardenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatan (Duke, 2001)

Co-edited Journal of Latin American Anthropology special edition "The Maya Identity of Yucatan: Re-Thinking Ethnicity, History, and Anthropology" 9:1 (Spring 2004)

“The Seduction of Revolution: Anticlerical Campaigns against Confession in Mexico, 1914-1935,” Journal of Latin American Studies 45:1 (February 2013): 91-120.

Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America, co-edited with Samuel Brunk (Texas Press, 2006).

Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan (with Edward Terry, Gil Joseph, and Edward Moseley) (Alabama, 2010)