Professor Pérez-Montesinos studies social, economic, and political transformations in Mexico and Latin America in the second half of the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century, with an emphasis on indigenous people, land tenure, land-use, commodities, and the environment. His book, Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands will be released by University of Texas Press in early 2025. It examines why and how long-standing patterns of communal landholding changed and delves into the history of railroad expansion and the rise of the timber industry in Mexico.