Name: Eric Van Young
Professor and Chair, History
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1968

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

Region of Interest: Mexico

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

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.