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Marijuana and the Mexican Origins of the War on Drugs
Seminar Series
Isaac Campos-Costero
Visiting Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
March 11, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of the Americas, Deutz Room
Open to: Public
Isaac Campos-Costero is a historian and visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Campos-Costero received a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research interests include transnational phenomena and the history of ideas and culture. His present work examines the history of drugs, specifically marijuana, in Mexico and greater North America prior to WWII. Professor Campos-Costero has also done research on Mexico’s “dirty war” of the 1970s, Cuban-Mexican relations, and the War on Drugs since 1969.
To access an audio podcast of Isaac's presentation, please
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Part of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Research Seminar Series.
