Michael D. Kirkpatrick

Michael D. Kirkpatrick is Associate Professor in History at Memorial University, researching urban Guatemala City from the 1870s Liberal Reforms through the 1920s. His work combines social history, political economy, and gender analysis using archival sources including police records and street literature.

Current SSHRC-funded research examines Guatemala's 1891 financial crisis involving treasury bills and its social impacts. Secondary project analyzes gender politics of women's mobility in urban spaces during export-oriented modernization.

Publications address masculinity during economic crises, working-class consumption, and anarchist movements. Methodological innovation appears in using ephemera like hojas sueltas (pamphlets) to reconstruct everyday life.

Supervises undergraduate and graduate projects on Guatemalan syphilis trials, colonial Belize, and Kansas populism. Teaches courses on imperialism, global history, and historical methods.