Current CoursesWinter 2013 (current)Spring 2013 (tentative)
- History 151DR
Directed Readings in the History of Latin America - History 8
Introduction to History of Latin America Department FieldsAnnouncements Teaching 2012-13
Fall Hist. 151G, 250A; Winter Hist. 151E; Spring Hist. 8
Current Graduate Students |
Latin America, Globalization, Indians, Race, Religion, Atlantic World
Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1981
Office: HSSB 4251 Hours:
Phone: (805) 893-2726 Fax: (805) 893-7671
I have broad interests in Latin American history generally, Atlantic world history, globalization, and in comparative studies of gender, race, ethnicity, and colonialism. I am no longer accepting new doctoral students.
Research and Teaching Interests- Visual History of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America with a focus on race and gender
- History of Globalization, Sustainable Development in Latin America and NGOs
Current Projects- Picturing race and hierarchy in colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America
- Globalization, NGOs and Sustainable development in Latin America
- Nineteenth century Mexico - Reform and French Intervention
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 8 Intro to Latin American History
Spring 2013, Fall 2013
- History 151E Cultural History of Latin America
Winter 2013. Students who have taken LAIS 10 with me not eligible to enroll
- History 156B Post-independence Mexico
- History 151G Globalization in Latin America
- History 201AW, Advanced Historical Literature
Topic: Atlantic world. Tentatively Fall 2013
- History 250A Foundations of Latin American History, Colonial Era
Fall 2012.
Honors and Professional Activities- Winner, Harold J. Plous Award (outstanding assistant professor at University of California, Santa Barbara) 1986
- Winner, Academic Senate Graduate Mentor Award (2010)
http://senate.ucsb.edu/awards/2009.10/index.cfm?V=67B2A229A78F60954F89718F012FC6AE
- Advisory Board, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Global and International Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Religious Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Black Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Chican@ Studies, UCSB
- Faculty Affiliate, Latin American and Iberian Studies, UCSB
- Member, AHA 2014 Convention Program Committee
Administrative Positions- Director, Latin American & Iberian Studies Program UCSB 1986-89; 2003-06
- Chair, Department of History, UCSB 1995-97
Doctoral Students- Dr. Rafaela Acevedo-Field (2012)
" Denunciation of Faith and Family: Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico." Assistant Professor, Whitworth University
- Dr. David Burden (2005)
"La idea salvadora: Immigration and Colonization Politics in Mexcio 1821-1909" Assoc. Prof. Indiana Wesleyan U.
- Dr. Jason Dormady (2007)
Diss. published as Primitive Religion: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution 1940-1968. U New Mexico Press. Asst. Prof. Central Washington U.
- Dr. David Espinosa (1997)
Jesuit Higher Education in Post-Revolutionary Mexico". Assoc. Prof. Rhode Island College
- Dr. Ronald J. Morgan (1998)
Diss. Published as: Spanish American Saints and the Rhetoric of Identity. U Arizona Press. Professor, ACU
- Dr. Monica Orozco (1999)
"Protestant Missionaries, Mexican Liberals, Nationalism and the Issue of Cultural Incorporation of Indians" Director. Santa Barbara Mission Archives Library
- Dr. Stanley Shadle (1994)
Diss. published as Andres Molina Enriquez: Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary Era. U Arizona Press
- Lee Goodwin
ABD. Diss. on Texas borderlands in the era of Independence
- Jose Luis Igue
ABD. Broken Paths: Elites, Modernization, and Ethnicity in Ayacucho, Peru, 1924-1969 (co-mentor Charles Walker, UCDavis)
- Cheryl Jimenez Frei
First-year doctoral student
- Sienna Cordoba
MA/PhD student. Co-mentored with Peter Alagona
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