Matthew Butler, Ph.D.

About the presenter

Matthew Butler is a professor whose research focuses on modern Mexico, Catholicism, and rural and Indigenous history. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol and directs the LLILAS Mexico Center and the Hijuelas Project, which documents the history of Indigenous communities in nineteenth-century Michoacán. His books include Mexico’s Spiritual Reconquest and Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion.