Paul Gillingham | Writing Mexican History in the Age of Derangement

Name: Paul Gillingham | Writing Mexican History in the Age of Derangement
Start: 2026-11-03T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-03T13:10:00-05:00
Location: 216 Aaron Burr Hall (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff)

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Tue, Nov 3, 2026

12 PM – 1:10 PM EST (GMT-5)

216 Aaron Burr Hall (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff)

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER

Paul Gillingham (DPhil, Oxon, 2006), Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, specializes in politics, culture and violence in modern Mexico, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on these subjects. His most recent book is Mexico: A 500-Year History (November 2025) which was reviewed in New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph, The Spectator, Literary Review, New Criterion, The Week, and Milenio. It was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025 and a Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025; it has been nominated for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. Learn more.

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Corinna Zeltsman, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University

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216 Aaron Burr Hall (open to students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff)

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Paul Gillingham

History, Northwestern University

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Program in Latin American Studies | View More Events
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies