Marjorie Becker, a poet and a Latin American historian who focuses on Mexico, wrote the following eulogy for María Elena Martínez. Please see the obituary in the current issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review here and place your own remembrances of María Elena in the comments section below. *** And Cry Again, and Shout as We . . . say some women, and say some poor and say México México and gringa in a mist of time and space, and say …
Tulio Halperin Donghi, a towering figure in the fields of Argentine and Latin American history who authored 24 books, including pioneering monographs, major works of synthesis, essay collections, and a powerful memoir of his formative years, died on November 14, 2014, in Berkeley, California. Historians Diego Armus and Mark Healey have commemorated Prof. Donghi’s life and career for HAHR, which can be read at: http://hahr.dukejournals.org/content/95/3/493.full We invite all readers to comment on and add to this obituary here.
James Lockhart, the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, passed away on January 17, 2014. In recognition of Professor Lockhart’s position in the community as one of the foremost scholars of colonial Latin America, one who blazed the way forward in the leading subfields of social history and ethnohistory, the editors asked four of Lockhart’s former students to compose an obituary, which can be read here: http://hahr.dukejournals.org/content/95/2/335.full We invite all readers to comment on and add to this obituary …
The Kellogg Institute has lost a dear friend and colleague with the sudden death on June 16 of Faculty Fellow Sabine MacCormack, who suffered a heart attack while gardening, one of her favorite pursuits. She was 71. “Sabine was one of Notre Dame’s most distinguished faculty members,” said Kellogg Institute Director Scott Mainwaring. “Beyond that, she was a person of great generosity and warmth. She was tireless and fearless in working for the collective good, and touched many lives …