Name: Eric Van Young
Title: Professor, Department of History; Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities
Email: evanyoung@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Literature (LIT) 410
Phone: (858) 534-3612

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1968

B.A. with Honors, History, University of Chicago, 1967

Field of Expertise:
Van Young's current research is on a biography of the Mexican statesman and historian Lucas Alaman; and on the history of psychiatry in Mexico in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Region of Interest: Mexico

Media Interview Topics:
Eric Van Young can provide commentary on the Mexican statesman and historian Lucas Alaman; and on the history of psychiatry in Mexico in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Selected Publications:
"The Limits of Atlantic-World Nationalism in a Revolutionary Age: Imagined Communities and Lived Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821," in Joseph Esherick, Hasan Kayali, and Eric Van Young, eds., Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, in press).


The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence and Ideology in Mexico, 1810-1821, Stanford University Press, 2001.