M.A. in History, University of Oregon, 2007
B.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
*Minors in Spanish Literature and Russian Literature
I am a doctoral student at the University of Oregon. My primary teaching field is Modern Latin America, within which I specialize in twentieth-century Mexico. My research interests include the history of intellectuals, the Mexican Revolution, state formation in the 1920s and 1930s, public education and the production of history textbooks, Marxism, and Mexico’s political and cultural exchange with Soviet Russia. I am currently working on a dissertation that looks at the relationship between leftist intellectuals and the postrevolutionary Mexican state.
“Where Have all the Marxists Gone? Marxism and the Historiography of the Mexican Revolution." A Contracorriente, 5, No. 2 (Winter 2008): 196-219.
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_08/Ruiz.pdf
“From Marxism to Social History: Adolfo Gilly’s Revision of The Mexican Revolution.” A Contracorriente, 4, No. 2 (Winter 2007): 243-254.
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/winter_07/Ruiz.pdf
“History, Marxism, and Cultural Hegemony in Postrevolutionary Mexico: The Forgotten Case of Rafael Ramos Pedrueza.” M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon, 2007.
Conference Papers
“Radicalizing and Reifying the History of the Mexican Revolution: Official Textbooks in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1940.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Boulder, Colorado, April 7-11, 2010.
“Historiadores marxistas, autores liberales y la hegemonía cultural en el México posrevolucionario.” Congreso Internacional: Dos siglos de revoluciones en México. Morelia, Michoacán, September 17-20, 2008.
http://www.centenarios.unam.mx/pdfs/memorias/ruiz-durazo.pdf
2009 Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Oregon
2008 Leah Kirker Memorial Award
2008 Summer Research Grant, Graduate School, University of Oregon
2004 High Honors Thesis, History Department, University of California, Berkeley