Carmen Castañeda García, an eminent scholar in the histories of women, education, and print culture in colonial Mexico, died at the age of 65 on May 4, 2007, in Guadalajara. Dra. Castañeda had been research professor at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social – Occidente since 1989, where she led the Seminar on Social and Cultural History in the social science doctoral program.
Dra. Castañeda’s most important contribution was her study of Guadalajara’s colonial university, its programs, student populations, and mechanisms for inclusion and exclusion. She began this research during her doctoral studies at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México. There, she learned from Luis González y González the importance of microhistory and regional studies. From Alejandra Moreno Toscano, she learned how to analyze student populations over time, following the methodologies of the Annales School. La educación en Guadalajara durante la Colonia,...
