Current CoursesFall 2009 (current)
- History 8
Introduction to History of Latin America Winter 2010 (tentative)Spring 2010 (tentative)Department FieldsAnnouncements |
Latin America
Associate Professor
Ph.D, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1996
Office: HSSB 4227 Hours:
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: mendez@history.ucsb.edu
"We can only attain the goal of an objective understanding of history to the degree that we make our inner life universal" –– R.A. Makkreel, on Dilthey.
Research and Teaching InterestsCurrent Projects- "The Army and the Peasants: The Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru, 19th to 21st Centuries" / "El Ejército y los Campesinos: Eslabones Perdidos
Militaries are commonly portrayed in Latin America as enemies of the people. But poor peasants have often banded together with the militares, not just out of force but out of will. I follow the logic of peasant-military alliances and military populism.
- "De Indio Colonial a Serrano Republicano" / "From Colonial Indian to Republican Serrano (highlander)"
This essay in progress asks when the concept of Indian in Peru came to be so foreceully associated with the (southern) Andean highlands, when race was tied to a place and Indians stigmatized as "serranos"
Selected Publications- “Populismo Militar y Etnicidad en los Andes”
Dossier Presentation, Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Quito) no. 26, Sept. 2006, pp 13-16
- “Las Paradojas del Autoritarismo: Ejército, Campesinado y Etnicidad en el Perú: siglos XIX al XXI”
(includes English abstract) Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Quito) no. 26 Sept. 2006, pp. 17-34
- The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005
- "Tradiciones liberales en los Andes: militares y campesinos en la formación del estado peruano"
in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe (EIAL) University of Tel Aviv. vol 15, no. 1, 2004, pp 35-63
- "The Power of Naming, or the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities in Peru: Myth, History and the Iquichanos"
in Past and Present (Oxford), 171, May 2001, pp. 125-160
- El Poder del Nombre o la Construcción de Identidades Étnicas y Nacionales en el Perú: Mito e Historia de los Iquichanos
(Lima: IEP, documento de trabajo no. 115, 2002)
- "La Tentación del Olvido: Guerra, Nacionalismo e Historiadores en el Perú"
in Diálogos (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima), No. 2, 2000, pp. 231-248
- "Incas Sí, Indios No: Notes on Peruvian Creole Nationalism and its Contemporary Crisis"
in Journal of Latin American Studies, (Cambridge), 28, February 1996, pp. 197-225
- "Pactos sin Tributo: Caudillos y Campesinos en el Nacimiento de la República, Ayacucho: 1828-1850"
in El Siglo XIX en Bolivia y América Latina, Rossana Barragán et al. (comp.), Travaux de l'Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines, vol. 102, La Paz (Bolivia), 1996, pp. 533-550
- Incas sí, indios no: apuntes para el estudio del nacionalismo criollo en el Perú
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 56, 2nd edition, 1995 (revised and expanded)
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