Asa AckerlyGraduate Student
Asa is a first-year PhD student studying Latin American environmental and economic history. He is particularly focused on 19th-century Mexico and the different development models that the nation pursued to accelerate economic growth and advance national sovereignty. His research centers on Oaxaca and Veracruz, and explores both the background of the national and state-level constituencies behind these development efforts and their local impact on land tenure and resource extraction. These efforts to exploit different natural resources were highly interconnected; Asa is interested in the comparison between this entanglement and the uneven transition between different economic and energy transitions in the Americas during the 20th and 21st centuries, including the renewed focus on southern Mexico as a central pole for the nation's economic and energy development.
Education
B.A. Boston College
Research Interests
Nineteenth Century Mexico
Environmental History
Economic History
