Daniel Grippo, Ph.D. will guide participants through an engaging series of presentations that examine an area often overlooked by historians: the intimate lives of everyday people, and the ways in which public roles are often at odds with private secrets. We’ll uncover the hidden history of Mexican domestic life and personal and social identity as they have played out over the past 500 years: love, marriage, and family; patriarchy and power; gender and sexuality; race, honor, and transgression, from indigenous times to modern Mexico.

About the Presenter

Daniel Grippo holds master’s degrees in both Religious Studies and Latin American Studies and earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Kansas in 2005, specializing in Mexican history. He first visited Mexico back in 1980 and fell in love with its people, culture, language, and history. 

During his many travels and research trips over the years, he has visited and spent extended time in numerous Mexican cities. For the last 20+ years he has called Puerto Vallarta his home base.



 Dan taught at several U.S. universities while working on his doctorate and has offered a popular winter lecture series at the International Friendship Club of Puerto Vallarta for 20 years. He also offered a number of classes and talks in Ajijic and at the Lake Chapala Society and at the Oaxaca Learning Library.