NEH awards grant to historian studying Mexican state of Oaxacxa

The grant will fund a Guardino-authored book on his project, “From Children of the Village to Republican Citizens: Popular Political Culture in Oaxacxa, 1750-1850.” Oaxacxa is in the southern region of Mexico.

Guardino’s research traces the changes in the cultural underpinnings of politics through the Enlightenment and republican liberalism. Those changes extended well beyond urban, literate elites into the urban poor and indigenous peasant cultures. Both of th e latter groups understood and adapted to this shift in government, using the change to partially remake their social worlds.