Containing the Rock Gesture: Mass Culture and Hegemony in Mexico, 1955-1975 (1995)
Doctoral advisor
John Coatsworth, Friedrich Katz, Michael Geyer, Leora Auslander
Influences
Jack D. Foner[1]
Writing career
Notable works
The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (2020)
Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (1999)
Notable awards
The María Elena Martínez Prize (2021)
Eric Zolov is an American historian, author and academic.[2][3][4][5] He is Professor of History at Stony Brook University where he was the Director of Latin American & Caribbean Studies (2016–19), and as of 2024 he is Director of Undergraduate Studies as of (2020–present). Previously, he taught at Franklin & Marshall College (1998–2011). Zolov is known for his work on the interplay between culture, politics, and international relations in twentieth-century Latin America, particularly during the Cold War era. His first monograph Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture was published in 1999[6][7] to positive critical acclaim,[8][9][10][11][12] and was translated and published in Spanish by Norma Editorial. His book The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (2020, Duke University Press) won the 2021 María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History by the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH-AHA).[13][14] Zolov has been a member of the American Historical Association since 2001.[1]
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^Zolov, Eric (1999). Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (1 ed.). University of California Press. doi:10.1525/j.ctt1ppwsw. ISBN 978-0-520-20866-7.
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