USMEX has offered fellowships for more than 35 years and is one of the leading residential fellowship programs in the U.S. for research on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations. More than 670 fellows have been in residence, including Sergio Aguayo (COLMEX), Denise Dresser (ITAM), Jonathan Fox (American University)
Learn more about our recent past fellows below.
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Revolutionary Encounters: Mexican Communities and Spanish Exiles, 1931-1952
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Associate Fellow, University of London
Research Project: Zapata’s Justice: Land and Water Conflict Resolution in Revolutionary Mexico (1914–1916)
Residency: February 2019 – March 2019
Ph.D. candidate in political science, Princeton University
Research Project: State Neutrality and the Fight Against Crime as a Political Opportunity: The Case of Mexico
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. candidate in government, Harvard University
Research Project: Exporting Borders: The Domestic and International Politics of Migration Control
Residency: September 2018 – December 2018
Ph.D. candidate in economics, University of New Mexico
Research Project: Migratory Experiences to the United States and Labor Decisions Among Return Migrants in Mexico
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, University of Oregon
Research Project: Jornalero: Indigenous Migrant Farmworkers in Global Agricultural Enclaves Along the US-Mexico Border
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Professor in the department of population studies, Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Research Project: Mexican Transborder Care Workers in the Tijuana-San Diego Region: A Profession of Life at the Intersection of Gender, Welfare and Migration
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: The Motor of the PRI: Political Entrepreneurs and Authoritarian Rule in Mexico, 1927‐1985
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019<
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, MIT
Research Project: The Integrated State: Architecture, Planning, and Politics in Mexico: 1938-1958
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Professor of Latin American Politics, University College London
Research Project: The International Defense of Labor Rights: The North American Experience in Comparative Perspective
Residency: February 2019 – March 2019
Ph.D. candidate in sociology, UC Irvine
Research Project: Immigration Laws and Household Instability: The Academic Outcomes of Mexican Children of Immigrants with a Deported Parent
Residency: September 2018 – February 2019
Professor of history at Institute of Historical Research, UNAM
Research Project: Urbanization and Desiccation: Towards an Environmental History of Mexico City in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Residency: April 2019 – June 2019
Professor of Sociology, Law, and Political Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Project: Historical Analysis of U.S.-Mexico Relations
Residency: April 2019 - June 2019
Ph.D. Candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Becoming Indigenous: Race, Violence, and Agriculture in Cold War Oaxaca and Along the U.S.-Mexico Pacific Coast, 1970-2006
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. candidate in political science, MIT
Research Project: When Clients Become Citizens: Intermediation and Claim-Making in Mexico
Residency: January 2019 – June 2019
Ph.D. candidate in Public Health, UC San Diego- San Diego State University
Research Project:The Role of Migration and Mobility on Sexual and Mental Health at Mexico’s Northern and Southern Borders
Residency: September 2018 – February 2019
Assistant professor of political science in the Division of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University
Research Project: Nascent Bureaucracies: Institution Building in Mexico’s States
Residency: September 2018 – December 2018
Professor of anthropology, University of Oregon
Research Project: Remembering Mexico: Emotion and Testimony in Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. candidate in education, UCLA
Research Project: Learning for Inclusion: Deported Migrants’ Strategies for Rebuilding Lives in Tijuana, Mexico
Residency: September 2018 – May 2019
Ph.D. candidate in education, Harvard University
Research Project: Understanding How the Possibility of Being Separated Due to Deportation Affects Immigrant Young Adults and their Families
Residency: January 2019 – April 2019
Ph.D. candidate in history of art and visual culture, UC Santa Cruz
Research Project: The Art of Assembly: Visualizing Collectivity in Oaxaca's Popular Uprising
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences, El COLEF
Research Project: Women political empowerment in Mexico: The cases of Baja California and Mexico City
Residency: January 2018 – March 2018
Professor of sociology, UC San Diego
Research Project: The Politics of Mexican Migrants' Exclusion
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago
Research Project: From Pacific Gateway to Tourist City: Migration, Revolution, and Tourism Development in Acapulco, Mexico, 1849-1970
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Project: Citizenship in Transit: Perils and Promises of Crossing Mexico
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Professor of economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Project: Mexico's place and role in the energy integration and transition in North America: fossil and renewable energy
Residency: September – December 2017
Ph.D. candidate in sociology, University of Essex
Research Project: A pueblo that walks together: Trust and bonding among transit migrants in Mexico
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Postdoctoral fellow in international relations, UC San Diego
Research Project: Beyond Cartels and Kingpins: The Business of Drug Trafficking Organizations
Residency: July 2017 – June 2018
Postdoctoral fellow in ecology, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste
Research Project: Evaluating the Resilience of Mexican Farming Systems to Climate Change
Residency: October 2017 – September 2018
Ph.D. candidate in psychology, San Diego State University and UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program
Research Project: Trauma, Psychological Distress, and Cardiometabolic Health among US Latinos and Latino immigrants
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, University of Oregon
Research Project: Criminal Alien-Nations: Deportation, Social Citizenship, and the Boundaries of Belonging
Residency: January – June 2018
Ph.D. candidate in sociology, UC San Diego
Research Project: (Un)Authorized Love: US Immigration Law and the Effects of Institutional (Dis)Approval on Mixed-Citizenship Families
Residency: September – December 2017
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, El COLEF
Research Project: Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adolescents, Public Policies and Human Rights
Residency: January 2018 – March 2018
Ph.D. candidate in political science, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Research Project:"We Fight Against the Union!" An Ethnography of Labor Relations in the Automotive Industry in Mexico
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Professor of history, El Colegio de Mexico
Research Project: Taxes and inequality. A history of inheritances taxes in Mexico 1821-2016
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Professor of business, Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla
Research Project: Importance of good agricultural practices (GAP) among small and medium producers and low income consumers of fresh vegetables
Residency: January – May 2018
Senior Fellow of Practice
Research Project: Implementation of the Mexican Energy Reform in the Power Sector: Accomplishments and Uncertainties
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Professor of economic and international relations, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Research Project: Designing Community Interventions to Increase Educational Capacities of Youth in the Tijuana-San Diego Region
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Postdoctoral fellow in social sciences, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Research Project: Transnational Children Returning to American Schools and Communities from Mexico
Residency: September 2017 – August 2018
Professor in political science, University of San Diego
Research Project: Organized Crime, Violence, and the Drug War in Mexico
Residency: September – December 2017
Professor in business administration, Lakehead University
Research Project: Politics of NAFTA
Residency: February – July 2018
Ph.D. candidate in history, Vanderbilt University
Research Project: Americanizing Mexican Drug Enforcement: The War on Drugs in Mexican Politics and Society, 1964-1982
Residency: January – March 2018
Professor, Center of Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
Research Project: Understanding and Comparing Local Public Finances, a Metropolitan Perspective
Residency: January 2018 – May 2018
Professor of public health, UC Los Angeles
Research Project: Cross-border health care providers after the Affordable Care Act implementation and possible abolition
Residency: April – June 2018
Ph.D. candidate in sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research Project: Papers, places, and familias: Tracing the social mobility of Mexicans in New York
Residency: September 2017 – May 2018
Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago
Research Project: Building a Megalopolis: The Politics of Planning in Mexico City, 1930-1960
Residency: October 2016 – June 2017
Assistant professor of global public health, UC San Diego
Research Project: Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Research Project: Beyond Legal Truths: Impunity, Memory, and Maya Alternative Justice After the Acteal Massacre
Residency: September 2016 – December 2016
Associate professor of sociology, National Taipei University
Research Project: Biographical Consequences of Activism: A Case Study of Mexican Young Feminists
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Mexico bureau chief, Dallas Morning News
Book Project: “Shadows at Dawn”
Residency: January 2017– March 2017
Professor of public affairs, San Diego State University
Research Project: Regulatory Harmonization, Bond Market Development and Strategic Cross-Border Infrastructure
Residency: August 2016 – June 2017
Professor of political science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Research Project: Latin American Criminal Justice in Action
Residency: January 2017 – June 2017
Ph.D. candidate in global development studies, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Research Project: The impact cultural capital of high school students on their educational expectations and aspirations: A study of Tijuana-San Diego youth
Residency: September 2016 – December 2016
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, UC San Diego
Research Project: Domestic Ritual and Identity in the Teotihuacán State: Exploring Processes of Social Integration through Figurines
Residency: September 2016 – December 2016
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego
Research Project: Critical Political Ecology and Environmental Crisis: Rhetoric, Development, and Decentralization in the U.S. and Latin America
Residency: September 2016 – June 2017
Professor of political science, University of Amsterdam
Research Project: Neither Dwarf nor Leviathan: Explaining Territorial and Functional Variation in State Capacity
Residency: August 2016 – July 2017
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, UC Irvine
Research Project: Homes with Value: Real Estate Markets, Mortgage Finance, and the Remaking of the Mexican City
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Chicago
Research Project: Common Sense, Uncommon Worlds: The Politics of Art and Representation in Contemporary Mexico
Residency: September 2016 – June 2017
Ph.D. candidate in sociology, UC San Diego
Research Project: (Un)Authorized Love: U.S. Immigration Law and the Effects of Institutional (Dis)Approval on Mixed-Citizenship Families
Residency: October 2016 – June 2017
Professor of financial sciences, El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Research Project: A Comparison Study of the Impact of the Oil Price Shocks in the Economic Performance of Mexico and United States: Implications to the Mexican Energetic Bill
Residency: January 2017– April 2017
Ph.D. candidate in psychology, UC San Diego
Research Project: Socio-ecological Correlates of Type 2 Diabetes in a Medically Vulnerable Migrant Community on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Cheap for Whom? Migration, Farm Labor, and Social Reproduction in the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Borderlands, 1942-1969
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Assistant professor of global public health, UC San Diego
Research Project: Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training Program
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Ph.D. candidate in urban studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Research Project: Criminal Economy in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Reaches and Limits in the Social Space Conformation (2000 – 2010)
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology, UC San Diego
Research Project: The Promise of Intimate Modernity: The Heterogeneous Renegotiation of Huastecan Nahuas and Teenek’s Sexual and Gendered Citizenship in Mexico
Residency: September 2015 – November 2015
Associate professor of history, San Diego State University
Research Project: Managing Globalization: The Politics of Finance in Porfirian Mexico
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, México, 1914-1940
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Constructing the Nation: Zapotec Indians and Customary Law in Postcolonial Oaxaca, 1857-1917
Residency: September 2016 – May 2017
Professor of urban planning, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
Research Project: The Cross-border Metropolis Hypothesis: Back to the Source
Residency: August 2016 – July 2017
Ph.D. candidate in global public health, UC San Diego
Research Project: Police and Public Health: Decriminalization on the ground with the Tijuana Police Department
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural/activist anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Research Project: Beyond Legal Truths: Impunity, Memory and Maya Alternative Justice After the Acteal Massacre
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Professor of economics, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational Industry Clusters
Assistant professor in global public health, UC San Diego
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training
Ph.D. candidate in Population Studies, El Colegio de México
Research Project: Mexican Families in Phoenix Facing the Arizona's Anti-immigrant Policies: Permanence and Interstate Migration
Residency: March – May 2016
Professor of public affairs, San Diego State University
Research Project: Regulatory Harmonization, Bond Market Development and Strategic Cross-Border Infrastructure
Residency: January – June 2016
Professor of economics, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational Industry Clusters
Consultant
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Analysis of Cali-Baja Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: A Constant Threat: Deportation and Return Migration to Northern Mexico, 1918-1965
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in history, Columbia University
Research Project: Transnational Citizens: Mexican Migrant Families and Youth, 1920s to 1940s
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Chicago
Research Project: Common Sense, Uncommon Worlds: The Politics of Art and Representation in Contemporary Mexico
Residency: January – June 2016
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego
Research Project: Politics of Race and Citizenship on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Residency: September 2015 – August 2016
Research professor, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
Research Project: The children's body in Latin-American school: Narratives and representations, 1880-1940
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in economics and international relations, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Research Project: Transnational Political Participation: Migrant Associations in Los Angeles and their Involvement in Mexican Electoral Processes
Residency: September – November 2015
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, Brown University
Research Project: Learning Nahuatl: The Significance of Indigenous Language Education in Mexico
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Associate professor in global public health, UC San Diego
Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Establishing a Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training Program
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms, State Formation and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, México, 1914-1940
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in international studies, University of Miami
Research Project: The Role of State Capacity in Mitigating Organized Crime in Mexico
Residency: September – December 2015
Ph.D. candidate in global development studies, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Research Project: Transborder Dynamics of Technological Transfer and Cooperation in the Medical Device Industry in Baja California
Residency: October 2015 – March 2016
Professor of history, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Research Project: An environmental history of Mexico
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in economics, UC San Diego
Research Project: North-South Trade Liberalization and Innovation: Evidence From NAFTA
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana |
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana
Department of communication, UC San Diego
Research Project: Landscapes of Contemporary Yucatan
Residency: January 2015 – June 2015
Department of social work and social services, University of Granada
Social Work with Trafficked Women: Case Analysis in the Mexico-U.S. Border
Residency: March – May 2015
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego
Research Project: The Politics of Economic Risk: Electoral Targeting of Agricultural Insurance in Mexico
Residency: October 2014 – March 2015
School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Research Social conflict: Effectiveness, representation and accountability in democratic Mexico
Residency: September – December 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego
Research Project: Political institutions and disease control: The case of malaria in Mexico and the U.S. South
Residency: September 2014 – March 2015
Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Notre Dame
Research Project: Losers’ Compliance in Democracies: The Strategic Use of Electoral Justice and Protest as a Negotiation Strategy
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015
Professor of sociopolitical and legal studies, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
Research Project: Federalism and Representation in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015
Professor of environmental studies, University of Redlands
Research Project: Trans-border communities and environmental governance in Mexico
Residency: September – December 2014
Ph.D. candidate in public affairs and policy, Portland State University
Research Project: Exploring Transnational Economic, Social and Political Participation of Latino Immigrants in Oregon
Residency: March – June 2015
Professor of economics, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Research Project: Security and Prosperity: How to Build Leadership for an Agile and Secure Border Supporting Interchange
Residency: September – December 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC Berkeley
Research Project: Mobilizing for Access: Interest Organizations and Development Policy in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015
Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, Brown University
Research Project: Learning Nahuatl: The Significance of Indigenous Language Education in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Patria Chica, Infierno Grande: Tlaxcala in the Throes of Liberal Reform, Dictatorship, and Mass Upheaval, 1853-1929
Residency: September 2014 – March 2015
Professor of history, Boston University
Research Project: Citizen Subjectivities Reconfigured: Social Movements, Business, and Religion in Latin America’s 21st Century Democracies
Residency: April – June 2015
Ph.D. candidate in sociology and historical studies, New School for Social Research
Research Project: Lynching Violence in Twentieth-Century Mexico: State Formation, Vigilantism and Local Communities in Puebla
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015
M.A. candidate in anthropology and development, KU Leuven
Research Project: The U.S.- Mexican border in the lime-light
Residency: September 2014 – January 2015
Professor of research methods, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas
Research Project: The better angels of our nature? Crime and fear of crime in contemporary Latin America
Residency: October 2014 – June 2015
Ph.D. candidate in economics, UC San Diego
Research Project: North-South Trade Liberalization and Innovation: Evidence From NAFTA
Residency: October 2014 – March 2015
Ph.D. in archaeology, UC San Diego
esearch Project: Sherds to Words: An Multidisciplinary Study of Mobility and Settlement Patterns in the Chontal Highlands, Oaxaca, Mexico
Residency: January – June 2015
Department of Communication, UC San Diego
Research Project: Landscapes of Contemporary Yucatán
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in history, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Project: Made in Sinaloa: From the Regional to the Global History of the Mexican War on Drugs, 1909-1985
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in history, Duke University
Research Project: Printing Politics: Investigative Journalists, the Public, and Political Change in Mexico, 1965-1988
Residency: September 2013 – May 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UCLA
Research Project: Eroded Unity and Clientele Migration. Explaining Mexico’s Democratic Transition
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Professor of sociology, University of Western Ontario
Research Project: The Role of the Maquiladora Industry and Gender in Labour Migration from Morocco to Spain and Mexico to the US: A Comparative Study
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego
Research Project: Wheels of Government: The Alianza de Camioneros and the Political Culture of P.R.I. Rule, 1929-1981
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC Berkeley
Research Project: The Effect of Immigration from Mexico on U.S. Local Public Spending, 1980-2000
Residency: September 2013 – March 2014
Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago
Research Project: Exporting from Eden: Coffee, Migration, and the Development of the Soconusco, Mexico, 1867-1920
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, New York University
Research Project: Improving on Economic Voting Measurements: Evidence from Mexico, US and the UK
Residency: September 2013 – December 2013
Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, UCLA
Research Project: Performing with the Sacred: A Study of Ritualistic Music among the Huastec Nahua
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in art history, University of Southern California
Research Project: Contemporary Pre-Columbian Art
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014
Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego
Research Project: Basic Infrastructure in Mexico: Political Dilemmas of Development in New Democracies
Residency: September 2013 – December 2013
Ph.D. candidate in art history, University of Texas at Austin
Research Project: Performing the Making: Uses of Public Spheres of Collaboration by Artists in Mexico City, 1993-2003
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014