Prof Will Fowler

Prof Will Fowler

Professor

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 1995
Email
wmf1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 33
Location
United Colleges
Office hours
Monday 4-5, Wednesday 9-10

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Biography

Will Fowler is a Barcelona-born historian and novelist based in the Department of Spanish at the University of 黑料吃瓜网 since 1995.

Having grown up in Spain, he came to Britain in 1985 to study Drama and Spanish at the University of Bristol. He stayed on in Bristol to complete a PhD thesis on an aspect of nineteenth-century Mexican political history, spending a year carrying out archival research in Mexico City (1990-91). He worked as a lecturer in Spanish at Leicester Polytechnic (subsequently renamed De Montfort University) for four years before joining the University of 黑料吃瓜网 in 1995. Professor of Spanish since 2006, he is the author of:

Mexico in the Age of Proposals, 1821-1853听(Westport, CT: 1998);听

Tornel and Santa Anna, The Writer and the Caudillo听(Westport, CT: 2000);听

Latin America since 1780听(London, 2002; 2nd edition, 2008; 3rd edition, 2016);听

Santa Anna of Mexico听(Lincoln, NE: 2007) (translated into Spanish first as听Santa Anna听by the Universidad Veracruzana in 2010, and more recently by Planeta in 2018 with the title听Santa Anna.听驴H茅roe o traidor? La biograf铆a que rompe el mito);

Independent Mexico.听The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 (Lincoln, NE: 2016);

La Guerra de Tres A帽os, 1857-1861. El conflicto del que naci贸 el Estado laico mexicano (Mexico City: 2020);

The Grammar of Civil War. A Mexican Case-Study (1857-61) (Lincoln, NE: 2022);

and Maximiliano (Mexico City: 2025).

He is also the author of the novel Patriotas (a family saga set in nineteenth-century Mexico) (Mexico City, 2024). His second novel Traidores (set during the Mexican Revolution) is due to come out with Planeta in August 2026.

He has published numerous articles and edited fourteen volumes on Mexican and Latin American political history, including Diplomacia, negocios y pol铆tica.听Ensayos sobre la relaci贸n entre M茅xico y el Reino Unido en el siglo XIX, co-edited with Marcela Terrazas (Mexico City, 2018), and听Mexico 1848-1853: Los A帽os Olvidados, co-edited with Pedro Santoni (New York, 2018). He also coordinated a three-year AHRC-funded project on the dynamics and culture of the Mexican (1821-76) (2007-2010).

Professor Fowler is a member (corresponsal internacional) of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia and Co-Director of the c19c Cross Cultural circa Nineteenth Century Research Centre.

Research areas

Latin American political history, especially of nineteenth-century Mexico: political ideas, factions, and institutions; biography (generals Tornel and Santa Anna, Emperor Maximilian); insurrectionary politics (the pronunciamiento) and military interventionism; issues of national identity; post-war Mexico (1848-1853); the Civil War of Reforma (1857-1861); the Mexican Reform Period from a transnational perspective; Mexican conservatism; and, currently, British-Mexican Relations since Independence.

PhD supervision

  • Bernardo Job听Sandoval Lopez

Selected publications

  • Fowler, W., 22 Oct 2015, New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 196 p. (Modern history for modern languages)

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Fowler, W., 1 Jan 2016, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 358 p. (The Mexican experience series)

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Fowler, W. (Editor), 2010, Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press. 308 p. (The Mexican Experience)

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Fowler, W. (Editor), 2012, Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press. 303 p. (The Mexican Experience)

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Fowler, W. (Editor), 2012, Lincoln, NE. & London: University of Nebraska Press. (The Mexican Experience)

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Fowler, W., 2010, Xalapa, Veracruz (Mexico): Universidad Veracruzana. 534 p.

    Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Book

  • Open access
    Fowler, W., Jul 2009, In: Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contempor谩nea de M茅xico. 38, p. 5-34 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

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