Fernando Calderón
Associate Professor of History and Graduate Coordinator
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.