Rodney Anderson
Professor of History
Guadalajara Censuses Project HomepagePublications
A graduate of Boston University (B.A., 1962) and American University (M.I.S., 1963; Ph.D., 1968), Professor Rodney Anderson is a specialist in the history of Mexico. He has written two books, Outcasts in Their Own Lands: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911 (Northern Illinois University Press, 1976) and Guadalajara a la consumacion de la Independencia: Estudio de su poblacion segun los padrones de 1821-1822 (Unidad Editorial, 1983). In 1988 he received the James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize for his article, "Race and Social Stratification: A Comparison of Working-Class Spaniards, Indians, and Castas in Guadalajara, Mexico on 1821," Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1988). With the support of a sizable grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dr. Anderson is analyzing the Guadalajara censuses of 1821 and 1822.