History
Maria-Aparecida Lopes
Professor
Office: Social Sciences 216
Email: mlopes@csufresno.edu
Office Phone: 559-278 8808
Education:
Ph.D. – El Colegio de México (1999)
B.A. - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil (1992)
Biography:
Dr. Lopes’ scholarship examines the historical development of livestock industries, food systems, markets, and consumption in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, with attention to how broader global economic transformations shaped these processes.
Dr. Lopes teaches courses in Latin American History, Writing and Research in the Social Sciences, and Service Learning. Her teaching emphasizes a global perspective on Latin American history, the connections between Latin America and broader international developments, and the critical use of historical sources. She encourages students to strengthen their research and writing skills and to connect classroom learning with communities and issues beyond the university.
Fall 2026
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| CLAS 114 - Mexico and the Southwest 1810-1910 | Digital Campus |
| HIST 100W - Intro to Historical Research & Writing | T/Th 11:00am - 12:15pm |
| HIST 164 - 19th Century Mexico | T/Th 9:30am - 10:45am |
Spring 2027
| Course | Days/Times |
|---|---|
| CLAS 70 - Introduction to Latin American Studies | M/W/F 11:00am - 11:50m |
| CLAS 114 - Mexico and the Southwest 1810-1910 | Digital Campus |
| HIST 165 - Modern Mexico | M/W/F 10:00am - 10:50am |
| HIST 198 - Crafting History | M/W/F 1:00pm - 1:50pm |
- Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Latin America with a focus on Mexico and Brazil
- Food History
- Livestock and meat industries
- Global Food markets and consumption
Books:
Foodways in the Twentieth-Century City. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025 (coauthor: María Cecilia Zuleta)
Rio de Janeiro in the Global Meat Market, c. 1850 to c. 1930. How Fresh and Salted Meat Arrived at the Carioca Table. New York: Routledge, 2021.
De costumbres y leyes. Abigeato y derechos de propiedad en Chihuahua durante el porfiriato, Mexico: El Colegio de México/El Colegio de Michoacán, 2005.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Institutions and Interest Groups: Meat Provision in Mexico City, C. 1850–1967,” co-author Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, Mundo Agrario 21, no. 46 (2020).
“Escasez, epizootia y experimentos sindicales. El abasto de carne en la capital federal mexicana, 1929-1955,” (Scarcity, Epizootics and Unionism. The Supply of Meat in the Mexican Federal Capital, 1929-1955), in: Enriqueta Quiroz, Integración y desintegración del espacio económico mexicano: mercado interno y abastecimiento de las carnes desde la colonia al siglo XX, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, pp. 295-330, 2017.
Mercados en Común. Estudios sobre conexiones transnacionales, negocios y diplomacia en las Américas (siglos XIX y XX), co-editor María Cecilia Zuleta, México: El Colegio de México, 2016.
“Carne para ‘las masas hambrientas.’ Interconexiones del comercio de ganado vacuno en el Atlántico Norte, 1884-1914,” in Lopes, Maria-Aparecida and María Cecilia Zuleta (editors), Mercados en Común. Estudios sobre Conexiones transnacionales, Negocios y Diplomacia en las Américas (siglos XIX y XX), México: El Colegio de México.
“Struggles over an ‘Old, Nasty, and Inconvenient Monopoly’: Municipal Slaughterhouses and the Meat Industry in Rio de Janeiro, 1880-1920s,” Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 47:2, pp. 349-376, 2015.
“Borders, Trade, and Politics: Exchange between the United States and Mexican Cattle Industries, 1870-1947,” in collaboration with Paolo Riguzzi, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 92:4, pp. 603-635, 2012.
"'Que se cumplan los sagrados principios de la revolución': cambio y continuidad en la política de abasto de la carne en la ciudad de México," Historia Mexicana, vol. 60:4, pp. 2111-2155, 2011.
- Republics of Latin America
- South America
- Nineteenth Century Mexico
- Modern Mexico
- Graduate seminars on select topics