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I am a historian of modern Latin America with a focus on urban studies in Mexico. My first book is a spatial history of inequality in Mexico City - Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City (University of Nebraska Press, 2024). I am beginning research for a global intellectual history on the impact of the Third World project on the social sciences through a collective biography of Holocaust refugees, tentatively titled Development in Exile.Degree
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PhD in
Stony Brook University
PhD in History
Stony Brook University
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MA in History
City College of New York
BA in Film and Media Arts
Temple University
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Published Works
- Yee, D. (2025). Eco-Development: Rethinking Environmentalism in the Global South. Journal of Global South Studies, 42(2). https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgss.
- Yee, D. (2025). People’s Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis. Environmental History, 30(3), 540-547. https://doi.org/10.1086/735916.
- Yee, D. (2024). Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940 - 1976. (). University of Nebraska Press. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
- Yee, D. (2022). Forging Mixtec Identity in the Mexican Metropolis: Race, Indigenismo and Mixtec Migrant Associations in Mexico City, 1940−70. Journal of Latin American Studieshttps://ilas.sas.ac.uk/publications/journal-latin-american-studies.
- Yee, D. (2021). Shantytown Mexico: The Democratic Opening in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, 1969–1976. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, 78(1). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas.
- Yee, D. (2020). Review: "Improvised Cities". Urban History, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/juh
- Yee, D. (2020). Digital Resources: Housing and Urban Development in Latin American History. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-897?rskey=mQV6wG&result=5
- Yee, D. (2019). The Making of Mexico City’s Historic Center: National Patrimony in the Age of Urban Renewal. Journal of Planning History.
- Yee, D. (2019). Housing in the Latin American City, 1900–1976. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/
- Yee, D. (2018). Review: International Women's Year. Global Histories, https://doi.org/10.17169/GHSJ.2018.251
Research Interests
Modern Latin America; México; Global Metropolitan Studies; Social Inequality; Civil Society and Democracy; Cities and Architecture
Selected Publications:
"People's Park: Constructing Nature in the Mexican Metropolis," Environmental History (forthcoming, 2024)
"Forging Mixtec Identity in the Mexican Metropolis: Race, Indigenismo, and Mixtec Migrant Associations in Mexico City," Journal of Latin American Studies (February 2022).
"Shantytown Mexico: The Democratic Opening in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, 1969–1976," The Americas (January 2021).
“The Making of Mexico City’s Historic Center: Cultural Patrimony in the Age of Urban Renewal,” Journal of Planning History (February 2020).
“Housing in the Latin American City, 1900–1976.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. (May 2019).
Recent Presentations:
"Ghosts of Guayana: John Friedmann, Lisa Peattie, and the Humanist Undercurrent of Urban Planning in the Americas," Annual Meeting the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies,Virtual Presentation, March 2021
“Mexico and the Third World at the 1976 United Nations Habitat Conference,” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Austin, Texas, March 2020
Teaching Interests
I offer a wide range of courses on Latin American history from a global perspective. In addition, I teach courses on the history of race & culture in the United States. More recently, I have collaborated with Project ACCESS (San Diego) to develop curricula and lesson plans for educators engaged in teaching Latinx history.