Tanalís Padilla (born in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American Latin Americanist professor and historian specializing in 20th-century Mexican social and political movements.
She is currently employed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the author of Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata (2008) and Unintended Lessons of Revolution (2021).
[3] In 1995, she got her bachelor's degree at Pomona College;[4] entering her undergraduate program there expecting to pursue political science or international relations, her history classes under Sidney Lemelle and Miguel Tinker Salas at Pomona and Cindy Forster at Scripps College shaped her worldview.
[4] In a 25 March 2024 letter regarding the pro-Palestinian protests at MIT she co-signed with Michel DeGraff, she condemned rising antisemitism and accusations of it to suppress free speech.
[8] Additionally co-editing the 2013 special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research [Wikidata][4][9] and contributing to Mexican newspaper La Jornada, her bibliography includes:[4]