About Richard Grijalva

Dr. Richard Grijalva is an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation, Political Spirituality and the Idea of México: From the Bourbon Reforms in New Spain to Mexican Independence (1740-1821), maps the history of Mexico as a concept and name through discourses and practices of spirituality and subject-formation. While continuing research on spirituality and Mexican independence, he is preparing a manuscript on key interventions of the Novohispanic/Mexican orator, historian, political thinker, and legislator Fray Servando Teresa de Mier. His research has been made possible by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), UC MEXUS, the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley's Graduate Division.
Richard A. Grijalva is a scholar of Mexican and Mexican American Studies based in Austin, TX. From 2022-2024 he was an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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NBN Episodes hosted by Richard:

Claudio Lomnitz, "Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico" (Duke UP, 2024)

August 15, 2024

Sovereignty and Extortion

Claudio Lomnitz
Hosted by Richard Grijalva

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortio…

Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

November 1, 2023

The Force of Truth

Daniele Lorenzini
Hosted by Richard Grijalva
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A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault’s history of truth.Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this…

Eric Van Young, "Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

July 27, 2023

Stormy Passage

Eric Van Young
Hosted by Richard Grijalva
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In Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Eric Van Young draws on four decades of extraordinary schol…