John Womack

John Womack Jr. is an historian of Latin America, particularly of Mexico, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921) and Emiliano Zapata. He is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard University.

Womack was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1937 to John Womack Sr., also an historian. He graduated "summa cum laude" at Harvard University in 1959 (see Publications) and became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. In the 60's he came back to his "alma mater" for a Ph.D. in History with exceptional research that gave him international prestige and his most famous book: "Emiliano Zapata and the Revolution in Morelos, 1910-1920." His thesis earned him a place at Harvard as an assistant professor of Latin American History. He's become a specialist in Mexican, Cuban and Colombian history, leading research in agrarian, industrial, and labor history.

Publications

* "Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader" (1999)
* "Zapata and the Mexican Revoution" Vintage (1969) ISBN 0394708539
* "Oklahoma’s Green Corn Rebellion: The Importance of Fools" Harvard, thesis (1959)
* "Emiliano Zapata and the Revolution in Morelos, 1910-1920" Harvard, Ph.D. thasis (1966)

External links

* [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=37 John Womack at Harvard's History department]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/1008 John Womack articles] at the "New York Review of Books"