Fernando Calderón

Associate Professor of History and Graduate Coordinator

Fernando Calderón
Location

Seerley 330

Phone
(319) 273-7057

Fernando Calderón

Associate Professor of History and Graduate Coordinator

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2011

Teaching Interests

Dr. Herrera Calderón specializes in Modern Mexican history, political violence, student radicalism, memory, and human rights. He has taught the Junior-Senior Seminar: Fascism and Resistance in a Global Perspective, the Liberal Arts Core class on Latin America, Colonial and Modern Latin America: “The Global 60s,” and a Graduate Seminar on Political Violence and Memory in Latin America.

Research Interests

Professor Herrera Calderón’s research focus has been on the urban guerrilla experience in Mexico, 1964-1982.