Professor Kiddle’s research centres upon the cultural history of Mexico, particularly that of its foreign relations.  Central to this focus is a multi-country archival approach.  The research for her dissertation “La Política del Buen Amigo: Mexican Relations with Latin America during the Presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940,” took her to archives in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, the United States, and the United Kingdom.  Similarly, for her new project on the 1911 Canadian arbitration of the Chamizal border dispute between the US and Mexico, she intends to conduct archival research in U.S., Canadian, and Mexican archives, including local repositories in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas.

In addition to the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship she now holds at Wesleyan, her research has been supported by grants from the Mexican Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores and the Canadian Bureau for International Education, the Manuscript Society, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of Arizona’s Department of History and Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute.