Jurgen Buchenau is Professor of History and Directorof Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte. He received his Ph.D.in History in 1993 from the University of North Carolina at ChapelHill. His research interests are the international history ofMexico, immigration, and the Mexican Revolution. He is the authorof In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico sCentral America Policy (Tuscaloosa, 1996), Tools ofProgress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City (Albuquerque,2004), Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of ForeignObservers (Albuquerque, 2005), and Plutarco EliasCalles and the Mexican Revolution (Lanham, MD, 2007). Buchenauhas received fellowships from the national Endowment of theHumanities and the German Academic Exchange Service as well asgrants from the U.S. Department of Education, the TinkerFoundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the SouthernRegional Education Board.