Robert Patch
Robert Patch, History – (Associate Professor, Ph.D.
1979 Princeton University)
Office: HMNSS Bldg. 6604
Phone: (909) 787-5401 x1-1983
E-mail: robert.patch@ucr.edu
Rob Patch is originally from Ohio, and has also lived in
Kentucky, Illinois, New Jersey, Mexico City, Yucatan, Texas,
Madrid and Seville. He studied as an undergraduate at the
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and received the
Ph.D. from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty
at UCR in 1988, he taught at Princeton University, the University
of Texas at San Antonio, and the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan.
Patch is interested in the origins of revolution and underdevelopment
in Latin America. He specializes in the history of Indians
in colonial Mexico and Central America, and the development
of social, economic, and political structures. He is the author
of articles in Past and Present, the Hispanic American
Historical Review, The Historian, and several journals
in Mexico, and has written two books, Maya and Spaniard
in Yucatan, 1648-1812 (Stanford, 1993) and Maya Revolt
and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century (M.E. Sharpe,
forthcoming). Patch's current research projects include the
study of the Indian economy in colonial Central America, and
the economy of the Pacific Rim (Mexico, the Phillipines, and
China) in the 17th and 18th centuries. He has been the recipient
of a Doherty Fellowship, which led to lengthy residence in
Mexico, and spent 1984-86 in Spain as a Fulbright Fellow.
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