Matthew Butler
| Bio | Matthew Butler is Associate Professor of Mexican History at the University of Texas at Austin. His main research interests are in the history of Catholicism in modern (19-20C) Mexico, as well as in Mexican agrarian and indigenous history. He is director of the Hijuelas project (https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP931) and organizer of the XVI Meeting of International Historians of Mexico, 2022. He is also president elect of the Texas Catholic Historical Society. His ms., Father Pérez's Revolution: The Mexican Catholic and Apostolic Church, is under review with University of New Mexico Press. He is currently finishing another book-length ms., Liberty in the Church: Catholic Dissidence in Modern Mexico. |
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| University or affiliation | University of Texas at Austin |
| Credentials | PhD, University of Bristol |
| Focus by topic | Cristero rebellion; devotionalism; ecclesiastical history; liberal Catholicism; secularization; Catholic dissidence; Mexican Catholic and Apostolic Church (ICAM). |
| Focus by era | Nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
Publications
(Co-ed. with Yves Solís and Camille Foulard), Cruce de fronteras: la influencia de los Estados Unidos y América Latina en los proyectos de nación católicos en México, siglo XX (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Atzcapotzalco, 2020)
(Ed.) Cecilio E. Valtierra, Mis memorias y actuación en pro del Movimiento Libertador en Jalpa de Cánovas, Gto. (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación [IISUE], 2017)
(Ed.). Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–1929 (Oxford: Oxford University Press/The British Academy, 2004. Reprinted, 2014)