John Mason Hart
Professor (Mexico)
538 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713) 743-3100
jhart@uh.edu

Dr. Hart is one of the nations foremost scholars on Mexican history. For more than thirty years Hart has explored multiple aspects of the Mexican Revolution, Mexican and Mexican-American labor, and the working class of Mexico. Hart received his Ph.D. from The University of California, Los Angles and has taught at the University of Houston since 1978. He has been the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award and held the positions of interim and associate chair of History at the University of Houston.

Dr. Hart has lectured in Mexico and was a distinguished visiting professor at Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico City. He has won numerous book awards such as the Harvey Johnson Prize and the Hubert Herring Prize all for best book on Latin America. He has also received an honorary life membership for Distinguished Scholarship from the Southwestern Council for Latin American Studies.

Teaching:
Dr. Hart’s undergraduate courses include Americans in Mexico Since 1865 and Modern Mexico 1810 to the Present. He teaches graduate courses in Mexican historiography and a variety of research seminars in Mexican history. He has been the advisor on numerous thesis and dissertation committees and developed, in conjunction with Professor Thomas O’Brien the graduate programs in Mexican and Latin American History.

Research:
Hart is the author of more than five books and dozens of articles in the American and Latin American press and scholarly journals. His is currently doing research for his forthcoming book The Silver of the Sierra Madre: “Boss Shepherd” and the People of the Canyons.

Selected Publications:
Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War (The University of California Press, 2002).

Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution (The University of California Press, 1987).

El Mexico revolucionario: gestacion Y proceso de la revolucion mexicana, (Alianza Editorialo Mexicana, 1990).

Border Crossings: Mexican and Mexican-American Workers, (Scholarly Resources, 1998).

Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931 (University Press of Texas, 1976).

El aharquismo y la clase o brera mexicana, 1860-1931, (Siglo XXI, 1980).

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