Rachel A. Chico
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Assistant Professor
18 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-7570
rchico@clemson.edu

Professor Chico is a specialist in the history of Mexico. Her interests include print culture, travel literature, the impact of infrastructure on society, and the Atlantic world.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was named a Bancroft Library Fellow. Her dissertation, “Route to the Capital, Route to the Sea: Domestic Travel, Regional Identity and Local Isolation in the Veracruz-Mexico City Corridor, 1812-1867,” examines the transnational ties that pulled at Mexican identities during a key period in its national history. She has been recognized for her teaching and has led seminars in teaching and the humanities. Her current research examines nationalist dialogues as embodied in printed almanacs in nineteenth-century Mexico.

Selected Publications and Conference Papers

“The City in Your Pocket: Printed Guides during Times of Turmoil in Mexico, 1815-1869,” delivered at 2005 Conference of the American Printing History Association.

“Cavalry, Cads and Convicts: The Restless Residents of Jalapa, Mexico, 1812-1835,” delivered as Bancroft Fellow Lecture, February 2005.

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