Alexander Dawson
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Education
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research Interests
I was trained as historian of modern Latin America. Most of my early publications focused on the intersections of politics, race, and indigenous rights in Mexico, though some years ago my work began to spill across the northern border. In 2018, I published The Peyote Effect with the University of California Press, which explores the history of peyote, science, and the law on in the US and Mexico. My current book project, titled Bike Lanes are the End of Us (under contract with Vanderbilt University Press) pushes further north, as it examines early 21st century efforts to build bicycle infrastructure in Mexico City and Vancouver, Canada.