Pablo
Piccato received his B.A. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in
1990 and his Ph.D. from the University
of Texas at Austin in 1997. His publications include
City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City,
1900-1931 (2001); edition, with Cristina Sacristán, of Actores,
espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de México
(2005); "Interpretations of Sexuality in Mexico City Prisons: A Critical
Version of Roumagnac." In Robert McKee Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan and
Michelle Rocío Nasser, eds., The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in
Mexico, 1901 (New York: Palgrave, 2003); "El Chalequero, or 'the Mexican
Jack the Ripper': The Meanings of Sexual Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico
City," Hispanic American Historical Review 81:3-4 (2001); "'Cuidado
con los rateros': The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City" for
Gilbert Joseph, Carlos Aguirre, Ricardo Salvatore, eds. Crime and Punishment in
Latin American History: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2001); "Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in
Turn-of-the-Century Mexico," Journal of Social History (December 1999);
"Tales of Two Women: The Narrative Construal of Porfirian Reality,"
with Robert Buffington, The Americas, 55:3 (January 1999), and Congreso y
Revolución: El parlamentarismo en la XXVI Legislatura (Mexico City: INEHRM,
1992).