Amelia M. Kiddle is an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Latin American Studies at the Center for the Americas.  She completed a Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of Arizona in 2010, an A.M. at the University of Chicago in 2003, and an Honors B.A. at the University of Toronto in 2001. 

Professor Kiddle’s research focuses upon the political and cultural history of Mexico.  She is currently completing a book manuscript that focuses on Mexico’s relations with its Latin American neighbours, cultural diplomacy, and the culture of diplomacy.  It is based upon her dissertation, “La Política del Buen Amigo: Mexican Relations with Latin America during the Presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940,” which won the 2010 Premio Genaro Estrada for the best doctoral thesis on the topic of Mexican foreign relations from the Government of Mexico.  She has also begun work on a new research project investigating the 1911 Canadian arbitration of the Chamizal border dispute between the U.S. and Mexico.

Professor Kiddle recently published an article in the Journal of Latin American Studies, entitled “Cabaretistas and Indias Bonitas: Gender and Representations of Mexico during the Cárdenas Era,” (Vol. 42, No. 2: 263-291).  She also co-edited and contributed to the volume Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, (University of Arizona Press, 2010), which resulted from a conference she and María L.O. Muñoz held in Tucson in 2006.