Terry Rugeley

Terry Rugeley is a retired Professor of Mexican and Latin American History at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught for twenty-four years. His long list of studies include Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (2001) and The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (2014). An accomplished translator, he has also published numerous book-length works from both Spanish and German. He has been awarded a Fulbright...See more

Terry Rugeley is a retired Professor of Mexican and Latin American History at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught for twenty-four years. His long list of studies include Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (2001) and The River People in Flood Time: The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (2014). An accomplished translator, he has also published numerous book-length works from both Spanish and German. He has been awarded a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship, an American Philosophical Society grant, the Best Book award (2003) of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, and Honorable Mention for Best Book (2010) of the Pacific Chapter of the American Historical Association. See less