John Womack Jr. (born August 16, 1937) is an American economist and historian of Mexico, the Mexican Revolution (1910–1921), and Emiliano Zapata.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1959 and became a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford.
Following publication of his dissertation as a book, Womack was hired as an assistant professor of Latin American history at Harvard University.
In 1970, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution was nominated for a National Book Award, and Harvard named him the Robert Woods Bliss Chair in Latin American History, a position first held by Clarence Haring.
Such conviction moves me to give honor and deliver this medal to the most important, most courageous organization that took form in this city during the revolutionary wars at the beginning of the last century, the Mexican Union of Electricians".