Research Interests:
Mexico from the 1920s-1940s
Tourism in and to Mexico
Mexico City Nightlife
Mexico's Tourism Pioneers/Political Elites
Courses for Fall 2006:
HIST 300W: The Mexican Revolution in Popular Imagination
HIST 356: Central American and the Caribbean
Publications and Forthcoming Publications:
The Development and Promotion of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids
by Day, Martinis by Night (New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press,
2006).
"A Drink Between Friends: Mexican and American Pleasure Seekers in
1940s Mexico City," in Pleasure, Profit, and Refuge: American Adventures
in Post-War Mexico, Nicholas Bloom, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield,
2006), 13-34.
Holiday in Mexico: Essays on Tourism and Tourist Encounters,
Dina Berger and Andrew Wood, eds. (under contract with Duke University
Press).
Forthcoming book review of Jürgen Bucheanau, Mexico OtherWise:
Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (University of
New Mexico Press, 2005) for The Americas: A Quarterly Review of
Inter-American Cultural History.
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Office Phone: (773) 508-2595
E-mail address: dberge2@luc.edu
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