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Latin America, Mexico, Indians, Race, Religion, Colonial era, Atlantic World, empires, world history
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1981
Office: HSSB 4251 Fall 2009 Hours: Thursdays 1-3 + by appt.
Phone: (805) 893-2726 Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: cline@history.ucsb.edu
I am interested in working with students wishing to pursue research on Latin American social and cultural history. I am a specialist on colonial Mexican history, but I also have broad interests in Latin American history generally, Atlantic world history, globalization, and in comparative studies of gender, race, ethnicity, and colonialism.
Research and Teaching Interests- Visual History of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico with a focus on race and gender
Current Projects- Picturing race and hierarchy in colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico
Selected Publications- The Early History of Greater Mexico (with Ida Altman and Javier Pescador), Prentice Hall 2003
- The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos Mexico. UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1993
- Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: The Social History of an Aztec Town. University of New Mexico Press 1986; ACLS EBook 2007
- The Testaments of Culhuacan (with Miguel Leon-Portilla). UCLA Latin American Center Publications 1984
- "Native Peoples of Colonial Central Mexico" in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica. 2000
- The Conquest of New Spain 1585 Revision by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun (editor) University of Utah Press 1989
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 56 Introduction to Mexican History
- History 8 Introduction to Latin American History
- History 2B, World History 1000-1700
- History 156A Colonial Mexico
Fall 2009 - Conquest to independence
- History 156B Post-Independence Mexico
Spring 2010 - Independence to the present era
- History 156I Indians of Mexico
- History 201, Advanced Historical Literature
Selected topics
- History 158R Religion in Latin America
Spring 2010. Survey from the colonial era to the present, includes non-Catholic religions
- History 156DR Directed Readings in Mexican History
- History 250A Foundations of Latin American History, Colonial Era
Fall 09 - Historiography of colonial Latin America. Graduate students only
- History 251 A-B Research Seminar in Latin American History
- History 256 Topics in Mexican History
- LAIS 101 History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia
Commodity chains, globalization, nongovernmental organizations
- LAIS 201 History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia
Commoidity chains, globalization, nongrovernmental organizations
Honors and Professional Activities- Editorial Board, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
- Contributing Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies, in charge of Mesoamerican Ethnohistory 1983-93
- Winner, Harold J. Plous Award (outstanding assistant professor at University of California, Santa Barbara) 1986
- Advisory Board, Orfalea Center for Global and International Stuies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Global and International Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Religious Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Chican@ Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Feminist Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate and Advisory Committee Member, Latin American and Iberian Studies, UCSB
Administrative Positions- Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program UCSB 2003-06
- Chair, Department of History, UCSB 1995-97
Other- President, UCSB Faculty Association
- Volunteer, Santa Barbara Red Cross
- Volunteer, Heifer International
- Member, Bishop's Advisory Committee, Saint Michael's University Church, Isla Vista
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