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Alex Hidalgo

Alex Hidalgo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Latin American History

817-257-6644 Reed Hall 104 (map link)

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsHistory
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  • Printing & Cartography /
  • Latin American History

Education

Ph.D., University of Arizona (2013)
MA, San Diego State University (2006)
BA, United States International University (1997)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate:
HIST 10923 Latin American History: The Colonial Period
HIST 20003 The Historian's Craft
HIST 30673 History of Museums and Collecting
HIST 30970 Secrets of Nature in the Iberian World
HIST 49903 History Major Seminar
 
Graduate:
HIST 70903 Reading Seminar: Race and Colonialism
HIST 80813 Research Seminar: Cartography and Power
HIST 70903 Reading Seminar: Archives and Empire

Areas of Focus

Mesoamerican ethnohistory, print culture, archives and collecting, sound, Iberian Atlantic, and history of cartography.

  • "A Potions Lesson: Experiential Learning in the History Classroom," The History Teacher 57, no. 3 (2024): 397-407.
  • "The Heist: A Massive Theft of Pre-Columbian Art Reveals Troubling Truths About Texans' Role in the Illicit Antiquities Trade," co-authored with Jack Emery, Michael Fung, Sofía Gómez Pichardo, Jack Hines, Anthony Peebler, and Leonel Rodriguez, Texas Observer, June 10, 2024.
  • Guest editor, "Reproduction and the Mesoamerican Book," Dialogues of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 5 no. 4 (2023).
  • "The Echo of Voices after the Fall of the Aztec Empire," Hispanic American Historical Review 103, n. 2 (2023): 217-249. *Awarded the James Alexander Robertson Prize by the Conference on Latin American History for best article published in HAHR.
  • "Collecting and Preserving Colonial Latin American Materials Today: A Roundtable," with Corinna Zeltsman; trans. Michael Brescia. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 117 n. 1 (2023): 109-122.
  • “The Book as Archive,” American Historical Review 127, n. 1 (2022): 373-384.
  • "Never Mind the Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Sex Pistols at 45," PopMatters, November 2, 2022.
  • Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico (University of Texas Press, July 2019).
  • “Why Mexico should Stop Blaming Spain for its Problems,” The Washington Post, April 12, 2019.
  • “How to Map with Ink: Cartographic Materials from Colonial Oaxaca,” Ethnohistory 61, no. 2 (2014): 277-299.
  • Guest Editor (with John F. López), “The Ethnohistorical Map in New Spain,” Editor’s Special Issue of Ethnohistory 61, no. 2 (2014): 223-228.
  • Guest Editor (with John F. López), “Imperial Geographies and Spatial Memories in Spanish America,” special issue of the Journal of Latin American Geography 11 special (2012): 1-4.
  • “A True and Faithful Copy: Reproducing Indian Maps in the Seventeenth-Century Valley of Oaxaca,” Journal of Latin American Geography 11 special (2012): 119-145.
  • “Policing Mexico City’s Supernatural Soundscape,” public lecture, John Carter Brown Library and the Southwest Seminar, Providence, RI (2024)
  • “Bibliocide and the Recovery of the Mesoamerican Book,” invited paper for Amoxtli Workshop, Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2024)
  • “Reassembly through Reproduction: Zelia Nuttall’s Search for Lost Mexican Codices,” invited paper for Destroyed, Removed, and Reassembled: Book Collections in the Premodern World, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2023)
  • "Training the Historical Ear: Object Lessons in Sound and Subversion," invited talk for Sawyer Seminar on Sensorial Methodologies," Penn State (2022)
  • “Study of a Mutilated Map: Indigenous Cartography Out of Context,” keynote lecture for Ruderman Conference on Cartography, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University (2021)
  • “The Book as Archive,” Rare Book School Summer Lecture Series (2021).  
  • “La bibliografía radical de un poeta zapoteco,” invited speaker, Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2021)
  • “The Book is a Foreign Object: Teaching Latin American History with Special Collections,” Teaching and Teaching Materials Meeting, Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting (2021)
  • “El eco de las voces después de la caída del imperio azteca,” invited speaker, Biblioteca Lafragua (2020)
  • “A Potions Lesson: Ink, Artisanal Knowledge, and Bookmaking in Spanish America,” invited talk delivered at the Bibliographical Society of America Annual Meeting, New York City, NY (2019)
  • “Archival Privilege,” Colonial Studies Committee Meeting, Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (2018)
  • “Bicephalous Between the Pages,” Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Rare Book School and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (2017)
  • James Alexander Robertson Prize for best article published in Hispanic American Historical Review, Conference on Latin American History, 2024 
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2021
  • A.M. Pate Jr. Professorship, Texas Christian University, 2021-22
  • Andrew W. Mellow Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, 2019-21
  • Lewis Hanke Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2014
  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 2012-13
  • Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 2011
  • Kislak Short-Term Fellowship in American Studies, Library of Congress, 2010
  • Fulbright García-Robles, U.S. Department of State, 2009

 

Last Updated: December 17, 2024

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