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5501 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Levy, Juliette

Assistant Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Juliette Levy grew up in Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico, and her interest in Latin American history dates back to this first half of her life. Before embarking on her academic career, she worked in Mexico City in the mid-1990’s (first for an American bank and then for a Mexican newspaper). Her dissertation on informal credit markets in nineteenth century Yucatan, Mexico integrated social, economic and cultural questions. Her research of the personal networks that determined the distribution of credit in nineteenth century Mérida analyzed the role of kinship, reputation, race and gender in the making of economic markets. Her work continues to focus on the complex relation between economic mechanisms, legal codes, social mores, gender and ethnic origin in perpetuating or overturning patterns of wealth distribution. In 2003-2004 she was a faculty member of the History department at James Madison University and a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Former Institution

James Madison University

Degrees

License (B Political Science 1991

Université Libre de Bruxelles

M.Sc. Economic History 1993

London School of Economics

Ph.D. Latin American History 2003

UCLA

Awards

Fellow, Hellen Kellog Center for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2004
UC-Mexus Research Grant, UCR, 2001-2002
All-UC Economic History Summer Research Grant, 2001
Fellow, US-Mexican Studies Center, UCSD, 2000-2001


Research Area

Modern Mexico; Latin America, economic, world

Publications

Review of Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002) for the New Mexico Historical Review, forthcoming 2004