2024-25 Faculty Fellow
About
David Tamayo is scholar of modern Latin America, specializing in twentieth-century Mexican history. His intellectual and teaching interests include right-wing political movements, the middle classes, borderlands, and transnational history.
During his Eisenberg fellowship, Professor Tamayo will finish a book on middle-class conservatism in post-revolutionary Mexico. The project examines the influence of American service clubs, particularly Rotary and Lions International, which after the 1920s attracted middle-class Mexicans who opposed the politics of the Revolutionary government. The book uncovers a uniquely Mexican middle-class political activism through supposedly non-political and secular charitable organizations throughout most of the twentieth century.
