Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (La Piedad, Michoacán, Mexico, 1962) has a PhD in History from
Stanford University and currently works as a History professor in Chicago
University and as an associate professor in the Center for Economic Investigation
and Teaching in Mexico. He is the author of many
articles and reviews and of the books América Latina y cultura (Latin
America and Culture, 1999), De cómo ignorar (About Ignoring, 2000), El urbanista (The Town Planner, 2004) and, in
collaboration with Aurora Gómez, El Porfiriato: una propuesta y un balance (The Porfirio Years:
A Proposal and a Balance, 2006). In the years 2000-2001 he formed part of
Berlin’s Wissenschaftkolleg and in 2006, he held the
Rosario Castellanos chair in Jerusalem’s Hebrew
University.