Michael Matthews

Associate Professor of History Michael Matthews has published an essay that examines the sensational 1891 murder trial of Enrique Rode, a middle-class English professor who killed his wife in Mexico City. 

In "Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power", Associate Professor of History Michael Matthews, along with Stephen Neufeld of Cal State Fullerton, use music and poetry to gain access to the worldviews and beliefs of ordinary people often overlooked in the historical narrative. 

Michael Matthews presented his paper "La historia cultural del auge de los ferrocarriles en la época porfiriana: patrimonio intangible del cambio tecnológico en México" ( The Cultural History of the Porfirian Railway Boom: An Intangible Patrimony of Technological Change in Mexico) at the Semanario Internacional: Paisajes Culturales y Patrimonio en San Luis Potosí, México.

Assistant professor Michael Matthews presented at the 59th annual Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies in Park City, Utah on March 29, 2012.

Assistant professor Michael Matthews presented at the 58th annual Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Assistant Professor of History Michael Matthews has published an article that examines representations of the railroad in art, poetry and literature printed in publications targeting middle- and upper-class audiences during the government of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz.

Michael Matthews presented his paper "El Camino de Ultratumba: Porfirian Railway Development in Popular Verse" at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.