Salvador Velazco, Director of the Graduate Studies Program in Guadalajara, received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of Visiones de Anahuac: Reconstrucciones historiográficas y etnicidades emergentes en el México colonial. (Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara Press, 2003). His current research focuses on Contemporary Mexican Documentary Cinema. His most recent articles include: "Rojo amanecer y La ley de Herodes: cine político de la transición mexicana" (Hispanic Research Journal, 2005) and “Documental y crímenes de Estado en México: 1968, 1971” (Cine-Lit VI, 2007).