Meyer Cosío, Lorenzo (1942–)
Meyer Cosío, Lorenzo (1942–)
The Mexican historian Lorenzo Meyer Cosío was born in Mexico City in 1942. He completed his undergraduate and doctorate degrees at the Colegio de México in 1967, and a master's degree in political science at the University of Chicago in 1970. He has been a full-time researcher at the Colegio de México since 1970, and the founding director of their U.S.-Mexican relations program since 1977. He also has served as academic dean, and has held visiting posts at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (1984–1985), Ortega y Gasset University (1991–1992 and 2001–2002), and Stanford University (1998–1999). He received the national prize in journalism in 1989 for his criticisms of Mexican politics. His scholarly work, which has a strongly nationalist perspective, focuses on U.S.-Mexican relations and the Mexican Revolution, and, more recently Mexican democracy. Meyer is best known as a pointed, weekly commentator in Mexico's leading newspapers, and as a leading advocate of the democratic transformation since 1988.
See alsoJournalism .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Meyer Cosío, Lorenzo, and Héctor Aguilar Camín. In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
Meyer Cosío, Lorenzo, and Josefina Zoraida. The United States and Mexico. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
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