Welcome Reynaldo!

Welcome to Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, Ph.D. candidate in History at El Colegio de México, who has arrived at the University of Calgary as a recipient of an Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program scholarship.  Reynaldo will be working on his doctoral dissertation, “Energy, Economic Growth, and Environment in Mexico City, 1920-1970,” which analyzes how energy shaped modern Mexico City, making it the core of national manufacturing and one of the largest cities in the world. Focusing on energy infrastructure, industry, and urbanization, his work demonstrates that energy was the key element in developmentalist efforts to spur the economic growth that national elites saw as necessary for reducing political and economic inequalities, but also that its unequal distribution contributed to the creation of social and environmental injustices. Reynaldo will be working under the supervision of Dr. Kiddle, and although we will not be seeing each other in the halls of the sixth floor, please join us in giving him a warm welcome. He needs it, given the cold weather that met him here!