Carlos Marichal

Carlos Marichal is professor of Latin American history at El Colegio de Mexico, a leading research institute in humanities and social sciences.

He is founder and past president of the Mexican Economic History Association, 2001-2004, and served as member of the executive committee of the International Economic History Association during the years 2000-2008. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994/95 and a Tinker Fellowship in 1997/98, as well other awards. A member of the academic boards of ten international journals on economic history and Latin American history, he is member of the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, at the highest level. From 2003 until 2008 he was a member of the Board of Governors of  El Colegio de México. In 2012 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes of Mexico in the field of humanities. He was named Professor Emeritus of El Colegio de México in 2019. 

He is author or editor  of some twenty books in English and Spanish on Mexican and Latin American economic history. His book A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820-1930, Princeton University Press, 1989 (with Spanish editions published in Spain and Mexico) remains the standard reference work on this subject. He is the author of Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars Between Spain, Britain, and France, Cambridge University Press, 2007 which received the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association of the United Status as “Outstanding Book on North American Economic History” in 2008. Almost a year later in August 2009 the same work was awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize of the Spanish Economic History Association, being judged the best book published on the economic history of Spain and Latin America in the biennial period of 2007-2008. More recently he has published a book titled Nueva historia de las grandes crisis financieras, 1873-2008, Madrid/Buenos Aires/Mexico, 2010, which is used in courses in Spain, Argentina Brazil and Mexico. He has also published widely in Latin American intellectual history.