Dr. Carlos Gerardo Zúñiga Nieto

• History of journalism
• History of the public sphere
• History of childhood and youth
• History of emotions
• Latin America and Mexico

2024–2025       
Research Fellowship at the Critical Childhood Studies Centre, University of College London

2023–2024       
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York

2019–2023       
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Boston College

2016–2018       
Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, Germany, under the direction of Prof. Ute Frevert

2016                       
PhD, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York

2010                      
M.Phil., Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York

2009                      
MA, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York

2007                      
AB, Sonoma State University, Department of History

2025
Research fellow at Academy in Exile at the TU Dortmund in Germany

2017
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Max Planck Society

2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Max Planck Society

2014
Doris G. Quinn Foundation Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship

2013
Free University of Berlin Exchange Program

2013
Brebner Travel Award, Columbia University

2012
International Travel Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

2009
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship

2009
Foreign Language and Area Studies, Summer Fellowship

2008
John Kluge Memorial Fellowship, Columbia University

2007
Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University

2006
Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program Fellowship (SR-EIP) in the Department of History at Columbia University in the City of New York

Shouting the News: Newsboys in the Making of Modern Mexico, 1870–1970, monograph in progress.

“Newsboys in the Mexican Revolution,” Journal of Urban History, in progress.

“News Workers in Mexico’s Provincial Cities, 1900–1915,” in preparation for submission to Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.

“Newsboys in the Streets: Social Reform and Childhood in Mexico City during the Late Porfiriato, 1884–1910,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 13, no. 3 (2020): 384–406.

Review of Robachicos: Historia del secuestro infantil en México, 1900–1960, by Susana Sosenski, The Hispanic American Historical Review, November 2022.

Review of The Heart in the Glass Jar: Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico (The Mexican Experience), by William E. French, The Americas 76, no. 3 (July 2019): 524–525.

Review of Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan, by Sabine Frühstück, Global Studies of Childhood 9, no. 4 (2019): 1–2.

“The Concept of Sentimental Boyhood: The Emotional Education of Boys in Mexico during the Early Porfiriato, 1876–1884,” Boyhood Studies 11, no. 1 (2018): 27–46.