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Ramon Ruiz 10.30.07
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
"MEXICO: WHY A FEW ARE RICH AND THE PEOPLE POOR"
Dr. Ramón Ruiz
Joint seminar with the Department of History
 Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, an emeritus professor at the University of California, San Diego, is a distinguished historian of Hispanic America. He has had an influential career as an educator, scholar and intellectual. Author of a dozen books and numerous articles, he has written on multiple aspects of Mexico’s history and on the two most important upheavals in Hispanic America, the Cuban and Mexican revolutions. These studies are now standard reference works. His books include Cuba: The Making of a Revolution (1968), The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1923 (1980), The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists (1988), Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People (1992) and On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor (1998). Ruiz has taught at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and other Mexican institutions. A former president of the Chicano/Latino Faculty Association of the University of California system, he has been honored for his contributions to education by the Chicano Federation of San Diego and by his students at UCSD. Ruiz received the National Humanities Medal in 1998 from former President Clinton and the First Lady.
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