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Expert Source: Jeremy Baskes, Ph.D.

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An associate professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan, Jeremy Baskes, Ph.D., is a specialist in the colonial economic history of Mexico. The director of the university’s Latin American studies major, Baskes is the recipient of three Fulbright awards and a National Endowment for the Humanities.

Education:

B.A., Grinnell College
M.A., University of Wisconsin
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise:

Colonial economic history of Mexico

Selected Publications:

Baskes, Jeremy. Rev. of A Culture of Everyday Credit: Housekeeping, Pawnbroking, and Governance in Mexico City, 1750-1920, by Marie Eileen Francois. Historian. 70 (2008):322-324.
“Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821” (Stanford University Press, 2000)
Baskes’ articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Colonial Latin American Review, and the Journal of Economic History