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Lewis & Clark College |
| University of Texas, Austin | Ph.D. | Dept. of History, August 1997 |
| University of Texas, Austin | M.A. | Dept. of History, May 1993 |
| Princeton University | B.A. | Dept. of History, Latin American Studies, Summa Cum Laude, June 1989 |
Associate Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, September 2003 – present
Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, August 1997- August 2003
Director, Latin American Studies Minor, Lewis & Clark College, August 1998- July 2007
Director, Ethnic Studies Minor, Lewis & Clark College, August 2006- present
Co-Founder/ Director, Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, 2003- present
Co-founder of institute that brings together scholars from North and Latin America to discuss transnational history for a weeklong workshop in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Organized programs, raised funds to run institute, and recruited participants. The Institute hosts seventy to ninety scholars from Latin and North America each year. Yearly budget of $50,000.
Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, Duke University Press, 2004.
Winner of the 2005 Kate Broocks Bates Award for the best book on Texas history up to 1900, awarded by the Texas State Historical Association ($3000 award)
Winner of the 2006 Jim Parrish Award by the Webb County Heritage Foundation for documentation and publication of local or regional history
Co-editor, Continental Crossroads: Frontiers, Borders and Transnational History in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1821-1940, Duke University Press, 2004.
Co-author of Introduction, "Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions and Borderlands."
Chapter 5, "Imagining Alternative Modernities: Ignacio Martínez's Travel Narratives."
Manuscripts and Edited Projects in Progress
"Becoming an Axolotl: Finding the Global/Local in Transnational History."
"The 19th Century Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America: Transnational Migrant Identities and Nation-State Formation in Cuba, Mexico and the US West."
"Curanderos, Quacks and the Texas Medical Establishment: Preserving Mexican Culture in the Face of Domination, 1880-1920."
Co-authored with Ramón Gutiérrez, "Transnationalizing Border History" Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1 (spring 2010).
"Between the Market and a Hard Place: Fernando Pérez's "Suite Habana" in a Post-Utopian Cuba," forthcoming from Cuban Studies, (2008).
Co-authored introduction with Pamela Voekel for a special issue on Transnational History of the Americas, Social Text, Vol. 25, No. 392 (fall 2007): 9-18.
"Red Men, Princess Pocahontas, and George Washington: Harmonizing Race Relations in Laredo at the Turn of the Century,Ó Western Historical Quarterly, spring 1998, pp. 48-85.
"Remembering Catarino Garza's 1891 Revolution: An Aborted Border Insurrection," Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos, 12 (2), summer 1996, pp. 231-272.
"Deconstructing La Raza: Culture and Ideology of the Gente Decente of Laredo, 1904-1911," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCVIII (2), October 1994, pp. 226-259.
"Before the Revolution: Catarino Garza as Activist/Historian," in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume II, eds. Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Chuck Tatum (Houston: Arte Pœblico Press, 1996): 213-236.
"Regions" essay for Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier (New York: Palgrave Press, 2009).
"Catarino Garza" essay for The Borderlands:An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the US Mexican Divide (Greenwood Press, 2008).
"Newcomers help economy so let's treat them humanely," Oregonian, 1 Mar. 2008.
"The Federal War on Immigrants is a War on All Workers, published by the History News Network, 29 June 2007, Pub. as "Immigration Raids Hurt ALL Workers, Connecticut Post, 7/1/07; "The Ground War Against Workers' Rights," Oregonian, 7/2/07; "US War on Immigrants is War on All Workers," [CAN] Owen Sound Sun Times, 7/10/07.
"A Decisive Day for Democracy in Venezuela and the US," published by History News Network, 8 August 2004, and picked up by newspapers in Rhode Island and Oregon.
"U.S.-Mexican Border (1821-1910)," in Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997), pp. 1496-1500.
Biographies of Justo Cárdenas, Nemesio Garcia and Justo S. Penn, in The New Handbook of Texas, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).
Review of Mauro Garcia Triana & Pedro Eng Herrera, The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now ( Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield , 2009), in Bulletin of Latin American Research, forthcoming.
Review of Lisa Yun, The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008), Western Historical Quarterly, forthcoming.
“Rethinking the Americas in a Globalized World: Connections and Divisions,” a review of Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, eds. Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007, in A Contracorriente Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2009, 297-306.
Review of Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2007), in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2008, p. 513-514.
Review of Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Samuel Truett (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), The Americas, Vol. 64, No. 1, (July 2007): 107-108.
Review of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, by Raymond Craib (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (summer 2007): 163-164.
Review of Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, editors. Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005), American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 5 (Dec. 2006).
Review of Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004), The American Historical Review (October 2005): 1197-1198.
Review of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850, by Andrés Reséndez (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Americas, Volume 62, Number 1, (July 2005):119-120.
Review of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, by María Josefina Salda–a-Portillo (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), Symposium.
Review of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, by Benjamin Heber Johnson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, No. 1, Feb. 2005, 195-196.
Review of Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890, by Arnoldo de León (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002), The Americas 61.2 (2004) 306-30.
Review of Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War, by John Hart (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2002), Western Historical Quarterly 34, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 383-84.
Review of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940, Eds., Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), The Historian, 65:6 (Winter 2003), 1422.
Review of Historia: The Literary making of Chicano and Chicana History, by Louis Gerard Mendoza (College Station: Texas A&M, 2001), Pacific Historical Review, 71:4 (Nov. 2002), 678-680.
Review of Reinventing Free Labor: Padres and Padrones in the North American West, by Gunther Peck (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000), Pacific Northwest Quarterly, summer 2001.
Review of The US-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century, by David E. Lorey (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999), Hispanic American Historical Review, 81:2 (May 2001), 432-33.
Review of Culture y Cultura: Consequences of the US-Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1998), Pacific Historical Review, August 2000.
Review of Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers, by Richard W. Slatta (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1997), Western Historical Quarterly, summer 1998.
Review of To Die on Your Feet: The Life, Times and Writings of Pr‡xedis G. Guerrero, by Ward S. Albro (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1996), Southwestern Historical Quarterly, fall 1997.
Review of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America, by Silvia Spitta (Houston: Rice University, 1995), H-Latam, October, 1996.
Review of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Oscar J. Martínez (Wilmington.: Scholarly Resources, 1996), H-Latam, March 1996.
| 2009 | "Chinese Border Crossings in the Gulf, 1850-1920," Latin American Studies Association International Congress, July 11-14, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 2008 | "Transamérica and the Japanese Mojados at the Canadian-Mexican-US Borders," Tepoztlán Instititute, July 28, Tepoztlán, Mexico. |
| 2007 | "Technologies of Control and Evasion at the Edge of the Nation: Chinese Border Crossings in Greater North America (Cuba, Mexico, US and Canada)," Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Sept. 5-8, Montreal, Canada. |
Discussant, "Between and Beyond Nations: The Making of Popular Political Cultures in Latin America" Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Sept. 5-8, Montreal, Canada. |
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| "Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America," Orientalisms in the Americas working group, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, 6th Encuentro, Corpopolit’cas: Body Politics in the Americas, Formations of Race, Class and Gender, Buenos Aires, June 8-17. | |
| Borderlands State of the Field panel, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Mar. 29-31, Minneapolis. | |
| 2006 | Chair, "Hispanicism, Americanism and PanAmericanism in the Age of US Empire," Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Mar. 16-18, San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| Pettit Memorial Lecture at Colorado College, "Transamérica: Cross-Dressers and Gunslingers in the Borderlands," March 6. | |
| 2005 | Discussant and Organizer of "Transnational and National Identities along Borders," American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, Aug. 4-7, Corvallis, OR. |
| "The 19th Century Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America: Transnational Migrant Identities and Nation-State Formation in Cuba, Mexico and the US West," invited lecturer at Center for Race and Ethnicity,Ó University of California, San Diego, May 11. | |
| "The Genealogy if Transnational History," Globalization, Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Conference, hosted by Portland Center for Cultural Studies, May 7, Portland, Oregon. | |
| "Towards a Transnational Epic of Greater America," Organization of American History, Mar. 31- Apr. 3, San Francisco. | |
| "Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas Mexico Border," University of Texas-PanAmerican, March 18, Edinburg, Texas. | |
| "Catarino Garza's Revolution on the Texas Mexico Border," Museum of South Texas History, March 19, Edinburg, Texas. | |
| 2004 | "Angustia y Esperanza in Cuba's Special Period: Abilio Estévez's 'El Enano en la Botella' and Fernando Pérez's 'Suite Habana', Cuba Today Conference, Bildner Center, CUNY, Oct. 4-6, New York City. |
| "Chinese Migrations in the Greater Caribbean: Pan Chino-Latino Identity?" Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Oct. 6-9, Las Vegas. | |
| 2003 | "Catarino Garza and His Revolution," South Texas Heritage Symposium, invited lecture, May 17, Alice, Texas. |
| "Indigestion in the Belly of the Beast: José Martí and Catarino Garza's Pan-Latin American Identity in the Late Nineteenth-Century Borderlands," Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Mar. 27-29, Dallas, Texas. | |
| "Indigestion in the Belly of the Beast: José Martí and Catarino Garza's Pan-Latin American Identity in the Late Nineteenth-Century Borderlands," International Conference for the Equilibrium of the World, Jan. 27-29, Havana, Cuba. | |
| 2002 | Co-organizer, "Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History," Symposium at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 21 Sept., Dallas, Texas. |
| 2001 | "Curanderos, Quacks and the Texas Medical Establishment: Preserving Mexican Culture in the Face of Domination, 1880-1920," Borderlands in Transition, Texas A & M International University and Texas State Historical Society, Nov. 10, Laredo, Texas. |
| "Chino Cubanos: A Story of Blood Sweat and Historical Erasure," Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Nov. 1, New Haven, CT | |
| "Between the Spanish Empire and the Cuban Nation: Regulation and Resistance in the Nineteenth Century Chinese 'Coolie' Trade," Latin American Studies Association, 7 September, Washington DC. | |
| "Remembering Conquest: The Difficult Dialogue about Ramón Gutiérrez's When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away," American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 10 August, Vancouver BC. | |
| Roundtable Discussant on Gunther Peck's Reinventing Free Labor: Padres and Padrones in the North American West, American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 11 August 2001, Vancouver BC. | |
| "Coolies and Contamination in Nineteenth Century Cuba," Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, 1 March, Veracruz, Mexico. | |
| 1999 | "Nuestra América: Beyond the National Boundaries of (Latin) American History," International symposium on "Imágenes a través del espejo: La nueva historiografia norteamericana sobre America Latina," Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. |
| "Circuits of Empire and Anti-Empire: Traveling Into and Out of the Borderlands in the Late Nineteenth Century," X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Dallas-Fort Worth. | |
| "Neither Red, nor White, nor Black, But Mexican: Coloring the Race/Nation Map in the US West," American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Maui, Hawaii. | |
| 1998 | Chair and Participant, "Empire on the Texas-Mexico Border: Global Networks of Imperial Knowledge from the Lower Rio Grande to the Congo," Latin American Studies Association XXI International Congress, Chicago, Illinois. |
| "Empire on the Texas-Mexico Border: Global Networks of Imperial Knowledge from the Lower Rio Grande to the Congo," American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 91st Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. | |
| "A New Spectre Haunting the World: The Zapatista Struggle Against Neoliberalism and For Humanity," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Missoula, Montana. | |
| "Blasting History: Picking Up the Pieces in a Crazy World," Last Lecture Series, Lewis & Clark College. | |
| 1997 | "Beyond Bi-Polar Racial Theory: Race on the Late Nineteenth Century Texas-Mexico Border," Western Historical Association Conference, 37th Annual Conference. |
| Discussant, Border Disorder II: A Theoretical Discussion of Identity and Power in Latin America, Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico. | |
| 1996 | "Nations on the Border of a Nervous Breakdown: Coping with Mexican Revolutionaries on the Texas Border in the 1890s," Southern Historical Association, 62nd Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| "Twilight on the Border: Making/Interpreting Texas Mexican Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century," Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico. | |
| "La Frontera Norte: La Formaci—n de la Identidad en la Revolución de Catarino Garza," Seminario de Estudios Hist—ricos: Monterrey 400, Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León. | |
| 1995 | Chair and Participant, "'New Mestiza Conciousness' in the Late Nineteenth Century: Identity Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border," Latin American Studies Association, XIX International Congress, Washington DC. |
| 1994 | "Before the Revolution: Catarino Garza as Activist/Historian," Third Conference Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Legacies of a Literature: Impact and Implications of the U.S. Hispanic Contribution, University of Houston. |
| Chair and Participant, "Identity as a Means of Struggle and Social Control: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Catarino Garza's Revolution," Latin American Studies Association, XVIII International Congress, Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| 1993 | "La lógica de los hechos: Reading Catarino Garza's Auto-biography as History," Seventh Biennial University of Texas, Austin Historical Symposium. |
| "Tall Tales of a Tejano Revolutionary: Race and Class in the Construction of Catarino Garza," Institute for Latin American Studies Student Association Conference. | |
| 1992 | "Deconstructing La Raza: Culture and Ideology of the Gente Culta of Laredo, 1904- 1911," Latin American Studies Association, XVII International Congress, Los Angeles. |
2007
Committee on Promotion and Tenure, Lewis & Clark College (2 years).
Representative to Board of Trustees, Lewis & Clark College (2 years).
Committee for Counsel, Earlham College's Border Studies Program.
Appointed to Presidential Committee on Diversity and Social Justice, Lewis & Clark College.
2005-07
Budget Advisory Committee (2 years, Chair, 2006-07)
2004
Program Committee for American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting, Corvallis, Oregon.
2000
Program Committee for American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1997
Historical Consultant, "Border on the Edge," documentary video about Laredo's Washington's Birthday Celebration.
1993 Co-organizer, Seventh Biennial University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin, Texas.
2008
Chautauqua lectureship for "The Chinese Diaspora in the Americas: The First "Illegal Aliens" by the Oregon Council for the Humanities.
2006
Jim Parrish Award for documentation and publication of local or regional history, awarded by the Webb County Heritage Foundation.
2005
Kate Broocks Bates Award for the best book on Texas history up to 1900, awarded by the Texas State Historical Association ($3000 award).
2005-07
Two-year Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. $20,000 grant to finish my "Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America" project.
2002
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, "The Americas of José Martí," Tampa, Florida and Havana, Cuba.
1998
W. Turentine Jackson Award for most distinguished dissertation on twentieth century history of the US West, American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch.
Bert M. Fireman Prize for best student essay in the Western Historical Quarterly, Western History Association.
Pamplin Society Teacher of the Year Award, nominated as one of six candidates, Lewis & Clark College.
1996-97
Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin.
1995-96
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mexico.
Patterson-Banister Fellowship in U.S. History, University of Texas, Austin (declined in favor of Fulbright-Hays grant).
1995
Garc’a-Robles Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mexico.
Faculty Sponsored Research Fellowship, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, (declined in favor of Fulbright-Hays grant).
1992-94
Clara Driscoll Fellowship and Texas Sesquicentennial Fellowship, Daughters of the Republic of Texas (renewed for second year).
1993
Recovering the U.S.-Hispanic Literary Heritage Grant for my project "Catarino Garza: A Late Nineteenth Century Texas Mexican Intellectual."
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies scholarship award, 1993.
Raymond Estep Prize, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, for best seminar paper in Latin American History.
1992
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Portuguese), Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
1997- present Associate Professor, Department of History, Lewis & Clark College
Colonial Latin American History (survey)
Modern Latin American History (survey)
Transnational History of the Americas (seminar)
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (seminar)
Ethnic Studies Colloquium
Modern Cuba (upper division)
Modern Mexico (upper division)
Race and Nation in Latin America (upper division)
US-Mexico Borderlands (seminar and 200-level)
Senior Research Seminar: American Empire
Inventing America, Parts I and II (Core Humanities Course)
Race, Ethnicity and Transnational Identity in US America (Core Humanities Course)
1990-91 Teacher, ninth grade, Social Studies and English, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York.
"RaWaR Live!" video installation, Dumba Art Collective, Dumbo, Brooklyn, July 2005; Backspace gallery, Portland, Oregon, April 2005.
Participant in "Venezuela No Está Sola" conference, Caracas, Venezuela, July 2004.
Regular commentator on Buenos Aires, Argentina radio program, "Maté Amargo," 2004- 2007.
Workers' Rights Board Member, Jobs with Justice, Portland, OR, 2002-present.
Latin American Studies Association
American Historical Association
Organization of American History
Western History Association
Alan Knight, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Jane Hunter, Lewis & Clark College
David Montejano, University of California, Berkeley
Neil Foley, University of Texas, Austin
Mauricio Tenorio, University of Chicago
David Weber, Southern Methodist University
Ramón Gutiérrez, University of Chicago