Reynaldo DE LOS REYES PATINO
M. Reynaldo DE LOS REYES PATINO
BIOGRAPHIE
Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva. He is part of the SNSF-funded project “AnthropoSouth”: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century, in which he studies the role of oil in Latin American developmentalism.
He holds a B.A. in History from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, an M.A. in Regional Studies from Instituto Mora, and a Ph.D. in History from El Colegio de México. His doctoral dissertation, Energy transitions, Infrastructures, and Environment in Mexico City, 1910-1970, analyzes how energy shaped modern Mexico City, promoting industrial concentration and economic growth, but also creating an uneven metropolis, with social and environmental problems for both the city and its hinterlands.
In 2021, he was a research fellow at the University of Calgary, with an Emergent Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship. In Mexico, he has taught at Tecnológico de Monterrey (2020-2022), and the Faculty of Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (2022).
In addition to energy history, he has published on the livestock industry and meat consumption in Mexico in the XXth century. Born and raised on the Mexican border, he is also interested in border cultures and U.S.–Mexico relations. He is one of the organizers of the Environmental History Seminar at El Colegio de México and is secretary of the Economic History Association of the North of Mexico (AHENME).