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Professor Rugeley is a Presidential Professor who recently
received the Regents Award for Superior Research. He
has published four books since 1996, including his recent
translation of an Austrian botanist's German-language
memoir of travel in nineteenth-century Mexico. His monographs
explore many of the intricacies of nineteenth-century
Latin American culture--religion, popular culture, ethnic
conflict, and the problem of violence figure all prominently
in his work and his forthcoming book, Rebellion
Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence
in Yucatan, 1800-1880, continues his explorations
of these complex themes. Professor Rugeley is a past
president of the Southwest Council of Latin American
Studies and offers a wide variety of courses on Latin
American history at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels and serves as Director of Graduate Studies. Professor
Rugeley earned his Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
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