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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin, 1997
M.A. – University of Texas at Austin. Thesis, 1993
B.A. – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 1990
Current Departmental Service
Undergraduate Education Committee
Interests and Research
Pablo Piccato, associate professor, specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.
Affiliations
Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
Editorial board, Hispanic American Historical Review, Law and History Review
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Council of Latin American History
Teaching
Courses
Fall 2008
CPLS G4180 – Crimes: Practices and Representation
Awards
Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award, 2008
Researcher in Residence, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2008
Grant from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico, 2007
Seed Grant. Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2007
Cátedra Patrimonial de Excelencia, nivel II, Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 2000
Tibesar Prize, Conference on Latin American History, for “Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality,” 2000
Selected Publications
Books
Case Studies, Causes Célèbres, and Other True-to-Life Adventures in the Social Construction of Deviance in Mexico (forthcoming)
The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (forthcoming)
City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931
El discurso sobre el alcoholismo en el Congreso Constituyente de 1916-1917
Congreso y Revolución: El parlamentarismo en la XXVI Legislatura
Editor, with Cristina Sacristán, Actores, espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de México
Editor of El Poder Legislativo en las décadas revolucionarias
Scholarly Articles
“Public sphere in Latin America: A map of the historiography,” in Social History.
“The Girl who Killed a Senator: Femininity and the Public Sphere in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” and, with Robert Buffington, “Introduction: Crime Stories.” In Case Studies, Causes Célèbres, and Other
True-to-Life Adventures in the Social Construction of Deviance in Mexico, Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
“La invención del poeta como héroe, genio o criminal: Salvador Díaz Mirón después de Lascas,” in Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 67.
“Guión para un engrupe: Engaños y lunfardo en la ciudad de México.” In La ley de los profanos. Delito, justicia y cultura en Buenos Aires (1870-1940). Lila Caimari, ed. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007. (Revised version of a previously published chapter.)
“A Historical Perspective on Crime in Twentieth-Century Mexico City,” in Cornelius, Wayne A. and David A. Shirk (eds.), Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico, La Jolla and Notre Dame: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
“ ‘Such a Strong Need’: Sexuality and Violence in Belem Prison.” In Gender and Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence. K. E. Bliss y W. E. French, eds. Wilmington, Scholarly Resources, 2007, pp. 87-108.
“De otarios y timadores: Guión para una estafa y crítica de la moralidad callejera en la ciudad de México a fines del porfiriato.” In Claudia Agostoni and Elisa Speckman, eds., De normas y transgresiones: Enfermedad y crimen en América Latina (1850-1950). Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, 2005, pp. 255-286.
Introducción: ¿Modelo para armar? Hacia un acercamiento crítico a la teoría de la esfera pública” and “Honor y opinión pública: la moral de los periodistas durante el porfirato temprano.” In Cristina Sacristán and Pablo Piccato, eds., Actores, espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de
México. Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2005, pp. 9-39 and 145-178.
With Ira Beltrán. “Crimen en el siglo XX: Fragmentos de análisis sobre la evidencia cuantitativa.” In Ariel Rodríguez Kuri and Sergio Tamayo, eds., Los últimos cien años, los próximos cien años. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2004, p. 13-44.
“Jurados de imprenta en México: El honor en la construcción de la esfera pública.” In Paula Alonso, ed., Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920. Buenos Aires: FCE, 2004, pp. 139-166.
“’El populacho’ y la opinión pública: Debates y motines sobre la deuda inglesa en 1884.” In Brian Connaughton, ed., Poder y legitimidad en México, Siglo XIX: Instituciones y cultura política. Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2003, pp. 531-579.
“Interpretations of Sexuality in Mexico City Prisons: A Critical Version of Roumagnac.” In Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan and Michelle Rocío Nasser, eds., The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901. New York: Palgrave, 2003, pp. 251-266.
“Conversación con los difuntos: Una perspectiva mexicana ante el debate sobre la historia cultural.” Signos Históricos 8 (2002):13-41.
“‘Cuidado con los rateros’: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City.” In Gilbert Joseph, Carlos Aguirre, Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Crime and Punishment in Latin American History: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times, 233-272. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
“El Chalequero, or ‘the Mexican Jack the Ripper’: The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the Century Mexico City.” Hispanic American Historical Review 81:3-4 (2001) : 623-651.
“Rateros: lenguaje cotidiano, reforma social y crimen, 1890-1931.” In Carlos Illades and Ariel Rodríguez, eds., Instituciones y ciudad: Ocho estudios históricos sobre la ciudad de México. Mexico City: FP-Sones Uníos, 2001.
“Urbanistas, Ambulantes, and Mendigos: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890-1930.” In Carlos Aguirre, Robert Buffington, eds., Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America. Willmington:
Scholarly Resources, 2000.
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