Walker, Louise

PhD 2008, Yale University

MPhil 2005, Yale University

MA  2003, Yale University

BA 2000, McGill University

• Modern Mexico
• 1492: Conquest and Encounter in the New World
• Histories of Capitalism
• Strike! Resistance and Exploitation in Latin America
• Natural Disasters in Latin America

• “Economic Fault Lines and Middle-Class Fears:  Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 1985,” in Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America, edited by Jürgen Buchenau and Lyman Johnson, University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

• Latin America's Middle Class: Classic Questions and New Perspectives.  Co-edited with David Parker.  Book manuscript, under contract.

• The End of the Miracle: Mexico’s Middle Classes after 1968.  Book manuscript, work in progress

• Modern Latin American history, especially post-Revolutionary Mexican history
• Cultural history of economics
• Middle classes
• Liberation theology
• Interest rates