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Ben Fallaw

Title

Professor of Latin American Studies

Department

Latin American Studies

Information

Address

5323 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
GS113 Indigenous Rights: A Reading Group A
LA173 History of Latin America, 1491 to 1900 A
LA174 Introduction to Latin American Studies A
LA272 Mexican History: Justice, Rights, and Revolution A
LA378 U.S. in Latin America: Intervention, Influence, Integration A

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago 1995
M.A., University of Chicago 1990
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1988

Areas of Expertise

  • Mexico and Modern Latin America

  • The Chuch and anticlericalism in Latin America

  • Maya Ethnohistory

  • Lazaro Cardenas, president of Mexico from 1934-1940

  • The Military in Mexico

  • The Press in Latin America

  • Modern Yucatan

Personal Information

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.

Current Research

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"

Publications

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