Sandra Kuntz Ficker is a professor of economic history at El Colegio de México. She has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Chicago (1989 - 90) and the University of California, San Diego (1997 - 98) and the Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1999) and at the University of Texas at Austin (2008). She is general secretary of the Mexican Economic History Association. Her research deals with the economic history of Mexico from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, particularly the economic impact of railroads, Mexico’s foreign trade and commercial policy, and Mexico’s economic development during the first globalization (1870 - 1930). Her recent publications include El comercio exterior de México en la era del capitalismo liberal, 1870 - 1929 (El Colegio de México, 2007); Las exportaciones mexicanas durante la primera globalización, 1870 - 1929 (El Colegio de México, 2010); and (as editor) Historia económica general de México.De la colonia a nuestros días (El Colegio de México, 2010). Her articles in English include “From Structuralism to New Institutional Economics: The Impact of Theory on the Study of Foreign Trade in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 40, no. 3 (2005).