Jaime M. Pensado

Associate Professor
Director of the Mexico Working Group
History

Research Interests

Modern Mexican history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, and the Cold War.

Related Courses Taught

Youth Activism and State Repression during the 1960s; Latin American History Through Film; Student Movements in the Americas; Art and Revolution in Mexico

Biography

Jaime Pensado grew up in Mexico City. He moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of fourteen, where he received his B.A and M.A. Pensado earned his Ph.D at the University of Chicago in 2008. He taught at Lehigh University before coming to Notre Dame in Fall 2008. Pensado’s main interests include modern Mexican history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, and the Cold War.

He is the author of Rebel Mexico. Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties and co-editor of México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression during the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies.