Dr. Kevin Chrisman
Visiting Professor of History 
Mackinac Hall D-1-134
[email protected]

Fields:  Latin America, Modern Mexico,  Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Degrees: 
Ph.D. York University, 2018
M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013
B.A., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 2009

Kevin Chrisman is a cultural historian of modern Mexico with a focus on consumerism, gender, sexuality, and transnational business history. Chrisman received his Ph.D. in Latin American History from York University where he was recipient of the Ontario Trillium Scholarship and the Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarship. His first book, Meet me at Sanborns: A Cultural History of the Mexican Department Store (1903-2023) explores the complicated relationship between U.S. capitalism, Mexican gender ideologies, and global consumer trends through an examination of Sanborns, the national chain of coffeehouses, department stores, and restaurants across Mexico. Chrisman shows that Sanborns stores became essential sites for understanding how global capitalism shaped everyday life within Mexico's urban environments.

Publications:

Meet me at Sanborns: A Cultural History of the Mexican Department Store (1903-2023), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (under contract)

“Working at Sanborns: Gender, Paternalism, and Union Movement (1920-1948),” Korpus21, Vol. 2, núm. 4 (enero-abril de 2022), 179-200.

“Mass Media and Consumer Culture in 20th Century Mexico,” co-authored with Anne Rubenstein, in Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

“Mexican Nationalism,” co-authored with Anne Rubenstein, in Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies, Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Mexico City in Space and Time,” Left History, 29:2 (Fall/Winter 2016), 79-92.