Since the founding of the University of Chicago, Mexico has played a special role in the lives and research of some of the University's most significant scholars across a wide range of disciplines. Reflecting a nineteenth-century shift in emphasis from European studies to a focus on the Americas, many anthropologists, historians, and scientists turned their attention to Mexico; some were drawn by the chance to study the nation's large indigenous population, while others sought to confront its endemic diseases.
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