William H. Beezley has achieved an international reputation for his investigations of Mexico’s history and culture through such publications as the classic “Judas at the Jockey Club,” and “Mexican National Identity: Memories, Innuendos, and Popular Culture,” and such fundamental anthologies as “A Handbook of Mexican History and Culture and The Oxford History of Mexico,” edited with Michael C. Meyer. He has authored or edited over twenty-five additional books, including “Mexicans in Revolution,” written with Colin M. MacLachlan, and “Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction,” edited with Linda Curcio-Nagy. His books have been translated into Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. His interests extend throughout Latin America and to the topics of sport and wine. He teaches at the University of Arizona, directs the Oaxaca (Mexico) Summer Institute, now in its sixteenth year, sits on the editorial boards of The Americas and Chile’s Revista Iberoamericana de Viticultura, Agroindustria y Ruralidad, and serves as a member of the technical commission of “Wines, vines and winemakers: voyages, messages and métissages” at Toulouse University. He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Latin America.