John Mason Hart

Professor (Mexico)

538 Agnes Arnold Hall

(713) 743-3100

jhart@uh.edu

Dr. Hart is The John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and one of the nation's foremost scholars on Mexican history. For more than thirty-five years Hart has explored multiple aspects of the influence of the United States in Mexico, the Mexican Revolution, Mexican and Mexican-American labor, and the working class of Mexico. Hart received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from UCLA in 1970 and has taught at the University of Houston since 1973. He has been the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award and held positions as Interim and Associate Chair of the History Department.

Dr. Hart has lectured in Mexico and has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia and the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico City. He has won numerous article and book awards including the Conference and Bolton-Johnson Prizes for best article and best book from the Conference of Latin American History, the Latin American Division of the American Historical Association. In 2003, Choice placed his Empire and Revolution on its "Outstanding Academic Titles" list. He has also won the Harvey Johnson and Hubert Herring best article and best book awards from the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies and Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, both major divisions of the Latin American Studies Association of the United States. He has also received an Honorary Life Membership for Distinguished Scholarship from the Southwestern Council for Latin American Studies.

Teaching:
Dr. Hart’s undergraduate courses include The Americans in Mexico Since 1865 and Modern Mexico 1810 to the Present. He teaches graduate courses in Modern Mexican Historiography and a research seminar in Modern Mexican history. He has been the advisor on numerous thesis and dissertation committees and developed, in conjunction with Professor Thomas O’Brien, the graduate programs in Mexican and Latin American History.

Research:
Hart is the author of more than five books and over forty articles in United States and Latin American presses and scholarly journals. He recently completed his forthcoming book The Silver of the Sierra Madre: "Boss Shepherd" and the People of the Canyons.

Selected Publications:
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War (The University of California Press, 2002). Forthcoming with Oceano (Mexico City) in Spanish.

Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution (The University of California Press, 1987).

El Mexico revolucionario: gestacion Y proceso de la revolucion mexicana (Alianza Editorialo Mexicana, 1990).

Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers, (Scholarly Resources, 1998).

Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931 (University Press of Texas, 1976).

El anarquismo y la clase obrera mexicana, 1860-1931 (Siglo XXI, 1980).

Los anarquistas Mexicanos (Sepsetentas, 1974)

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