Mark D. Szuchman

Research Interests
Professor Szuchman’s fields revolve around the urban and social history of Latin America. With a focus on Argentina, where he has carried out most of his archival research, he has been supported by grants from several funding agencies, including the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the Doherty Foundation, among others. He served as Managing Editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the field’s journal of record, from 1991 to 1997.

Professor Szuchman’s publications emphasize the interplay among urban, economic, and political factors and their effects on individuals and families over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Concentrating empirical findings from case studies in the cities of Buenos Aires and Córdoba, his research methods involve the compilation and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data. Operating within the fields of social, urban and family history, Prof. Szuchman works on sample populations drawn from nineteenth-century manuscript census schedules which are subjected to cohort analysis.

Theory and method inform the dialogs between the family and the historical state. More recently, Prof. Szuchman has been researching and publishing at this intersection, as he explores dimensions of nation-building and state-building.

Curriculum Vitae
Books:

Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Córdoba in the Liberal Era
I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America
Order, Family, and Community: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860
The Middle Period in Latin America: Values and Attitudes, 17th-19th Centuries
Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860

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