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Reminiscences of Mexico: A Conversation with RichardGreenleaf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

John F. Schwaller*
Affiliation:
SUNY Potsdam

Extract

Dr. Richard Greenleaf has been one of the most influential historians ofcolonial Latin America in general, and of the Inquisition in particular. Hereceived his university and graduate education in his home state at theUniversity of New Mexico. His professional career took him to Mexico Cityduring the exciting period of the 1950s and 1960s. From there he went on tobe one of the guiding forces in the consolidation of the Latin AmericanStudies program at Tulane University. This interview was conducted in thesummer of 2007 at Dr. Greenleaf's residence in Albuquerque.

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Interview
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2008

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References

1 The University of Albuquerque was a Catholic university that existed from 1966 until 1986. It was the successor to the College of St. Joseph on the Rio Grande.

2 Mexico City College was the precursor to the University of the Americas. It was founded in the Hipódromo section of Mexico City, then moved a few blocks east to the Roma district, then to Kilometer 16 on the Toluca highway, before moving to Cholula, outside of Puebla.

3 Murray served first as dean and later as President of the College. http://www.mexicocitycollege.com/MCCrev/Historyl.html (4 February 2008).

4 “Victor L. Urquidi (1919-2004) attended the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference and from 1947 to 1949 worked in the World Bank. He joined the Mexican Regional Office of ECLA in 1951 and become its director (1952-58). From 1964 to his death he worked at El Colegio de México, as its president from 1966 to 1985 and subsequently as research professor. He wrote extensively about Latin American development, trade, education, science and technology, and more recently, economic aspects of the environment and sustainable development. He was born in France in 1919 as a Mexican citizen and educated at the London School of Economics.” United National Intellectual History Project, http://www.unhistory.org/CD/Urquidi.html

5 Title VI programs are part of the U.S. Department of Education and are intended to build an international education infrastructure. Programs under this include the Fulbright, Foreign Language Centers, and Area Studies Centers, among others.

6 “Serra Award,” The Americas 43:3(Jan. 1987), front matter.Google Scholar