JÜRGEN BUCHENAU
4210 Blalock Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28210
Email jbuchenau@charlotte.edu
Phone 704 907 0643
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1993.
Dissertation: “In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy, 1876-1930.”
M.A. in History and Certificate in Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1988.
Zwischenprüfung (B.A. equivalent), Universität zu Köln, Germany, July 1986.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
U.S.-Latin American relations
Migration and national identity
The Mexican Revolution
U.S.-Mexico borderlands
History of Capitalism
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director of Capitalism Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2022-present.
Chair, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2009-2022.
Director of Graduate Studies, Latin American Studies Program, 2013-2022.
Director of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2004-9.
FACULTY POSITIONS HELD
Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2006-.
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2002-06.
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1999-2002.
Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi, 1997-99.
Assistant Professor, Wingate University, 1993-97.
Visiting Professor, FB Geschichtswissenschaft, UniversitätHamburg, Germany, 1994-96.
EXTERNALLY FUNDED GRANTS AND AWARDS
Thomas Ross Publishing Grant, UNC Press (2019). Co-PI. $4,000.
UNC System Grant for e-Portfolios (2014). Co-PI. $15,000.
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2013). $3,000.
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U.S.-Brazil, U.S. Department of Education (2009). $200,000, no leave. Co-PI (2009-2012), PI (2012-2014).
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2007). $50,400, leave for 2008-9 academic year.
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U.S.-Brazil, U.S. Department of Education (2004,). $200,000. Co-PI.
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (Title VIa), U.S. Department of Education (2004). $167,000, no leave. Project Director.
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2004). $4,000, no leave.
Faculty Travel Grant, Southern Regional Education Board (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007). $750 each, no leave.
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2001). $35,000, leave for 2001-2 academic year.
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program (Title VIa), U.S. Department of Education (2001). $160,000, no leave. Co-Project Director.
Sturgis-Leavitt Prize for Best Article, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (1998), for “Inversión extranjera y nacionalismo: lo paradójico de la política internacional de Porfirio Díaz.”
Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Award, U.S. Department of Education (1995). $80,000, no leave. Project Director.
Quadrille Ball Award, Institute of International Education, New York (1991-92). $4,000.
Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Tinker Foundation, New York (1989). $1,000.
Graduate Study Abroad Scholarship, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, St. Augustin, Germany (1987-88). $2,400 plus tuition.
Study-Abroad Scholarship for American Studies, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), Bonn, Germany (1986-87). $16,000. Full scholarship for study abroad.
INTERNALLY FUNDED GRANTS AND AWARDS
Reassignment of Duties Leave, UNC Charlotte (2004, 2012, 2020). One semester leave.
Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023). $6,000 each, no leave.
Liberal Studies Course Development Grant, UNC Charlotte (2004). $2,000, no leave.
Academic Program Improvement Grant, UNC Charlotte (2002, 2004). $31,000 and $26,000 respectively, no leave. Project Director.
Curriculum and Instructional Development Grant, UNC Charlotte (2001). $10,300, no leave. Co-Project Director.
Faculty Research Support Grant, UNC Charlotte (2000, 2001). $5,000 each, no leave.
Junior Faculty Research Award, UNC Charlotte (2000, 2001). $3,500 each, no leave.
Aubrey K. Lucas Award for Excellence in Research, University of Southern Mississippi (1999). $3,000, no leave.
Jessie Ball duPont Faculty-Student Research Award, Wingate University and duPont Foundation (1995). $4,000, no leave.
Summer Research Award, University of Southern Mississippi (1998). $8,000, no leave.
James L. and Christine McMillan Spivey Endowed Instructorship, Wingate University (1996-97). $5,000, no leave.
Mowry Dissertation Research Award, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of History (1991). $4,000.
HONORS AND PRIZES
Edwin Lieuwen Prize for the Promotion of Excellence in Teaching Latin American Studies, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2012.
Alfred B. Thomas Award for Best Book, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, 2007. For Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution.
International Education Faculty Award, Phi Beta Delta and the Office of International Programs, UNC Charlotte, 2007.
Harvey L. Johnson Prize for Best Article, Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, 1999, for “Small Number, Great Impact: Mexico and Its Immigrants, 1821-1973.”
FUNDRAISING (most significant)
$2,500,000 to establish and fund Dowd Chair in Capitalism Studies at UNC Charlotte. 2021.
$104,000 to establish and fund Battista Fellowships and Grants at UNC Charlotte to fund faculty research and best graduate and undergraduate student paper, 2021.
$500,000 to help develop new Minor in Capitalism Studies at UNC Charlotte. Includes funding for post-doctoral fellow, speakers, and faculty and graduate research funds, 2019.
$140,000 to establish and fund Rawlinson (today Pharr-Buchenau) Research Award to support thesis-related research for History and Latin American Studies graduate students at UNC Charlotte. 2013-present.
$12,500 to establish and fund Kings Mountain Research Award to support thesis-related research for graduate students in Southern History at UNC Charlotte. 2017-present.
$280,000 to establish and fund Dowd Program in the History of Capitalism including research fellowships and a graduate assistantship to assist in large lecture course on the History of Capitalism. 2015-2017.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Authored:
The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).
(with Gilbert M. Joseph) Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule (Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2013).
The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution (Chichester, England: Wiley Blackwell, 2011).
Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico (Wheeling, IL: Harlan-Davidson, 2008). Second edition in preparation.
Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield, 2007).
Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Clan in Mexico City, 1865-Present (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004). Also published in German as Werkzeuge des Fortschritts: Eine deutsche Händlerfamilie in Mexiko von 1865 bis zur Gegenwart (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2002).
In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy, 1876-1930 (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1996).
Edited:
(with Timothy J. Henderson) The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2022).
(with Thomas Leonard, Graeme Mount, and Kyle Longley) Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations, 3 vols. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, 2012).
(with William H. Beezley) State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).
(with Lyman L. Johnson) Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Political Culture in Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 2009).
Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005).
In progress:
“Unequal Neighbors: The United States and Mexico” (book ms. in progress, under advance contract with Rowman and Littlefield).
“Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1913-1940” (edited multi-author volume with David Dalton, draft of manuscript completed, under advanced contract with University of New Mexico Press).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Rise and Demise of a Regional Power: The Multilateralism of Mexican Dictator Porfirio Díaz, 1876-1911,” The Latin Americanist, 63.3 (2019): 307-33.
“‘La Bola:’ Corruption and Power in Revolutionary Mexico,” Südosteuropa–Forschungen, 77.1 (2018): 51-73.
“Beyond the Revolution: New Perspectives on Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Mexico,” Latin American Research Review, 53.3 (2018): 639-47.
“Ambivalent Neighbor: Mexico and Guatemala’s ‘Ten Years of Spring,’” The Latin Americanist, 61.4 (2017): 458-73.
“The Mexican Revolution at Its Centennial: Icons, Regions, and New Directions in Anglophone Scholarship,” Latin American Research Review, 48.2 (2013): 144-52.
“Squaring the Circle: Recent Textbooks in Modern Latin American History,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 87.2 (2007): 363-69.
“Auge y declive de una diáspora: la colonia alemana en la Cd. de México,” Istor 30 (Fall 2007): 71-98.
“The Maximato in Revolutionary Mexico: A Reassessment,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 43 (2006): 229-53.
“Hotel California: The Exile of Jefe Máximo Plutarco Elías Calles, 1936-1941,” SECOLAS Annals 35 (2003): 153-63.
“The Life Cycle of a Trade Diaspora: The German ‘Colony’ in Mexico City, 1821-present,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 39 (2002): 275-97.
“Small Number, Great Impact: Mexico and Its Immigrants, 1821-1973,”Journal of American Ethnic History 20.1 (Spring 2001): 23-49.
“México y las cruzadas anticomunistas estadunidenses, 1924-1964,” Secuencia 48 (Sep. 2000): 225-53.
“México como potencia mediana: una perspectiva histórica,”Secuencia 41 (May 1998): 75-94.
“Inversión extranjera y nacionalismo: lo paradójico de la política internacional de Porfirio Díaz,” Dimensión Antropológica 3 (1996): 7-24.
“Unfriendly Neighbors: Mexico and Guatemala’s Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 1898-1920,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Staat Lateinamerikas 33 (1996): 289-311.
“Mexico and the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1930,” South Eastern Latin Americanist 38.1 (1994): 1-10.
“Counter-Intervention Against Uncle Sam: Mexico’s Support For Nicaraguan Nationalism, 1903-1910,” The Americas 50.2 (1993): 207-32.
“Up Against the Big Stick: Mexico and U.S. Intervention in Central America, 1906-1910,” SECOLAS Annals 23 (1992): 70-80.
EDITOR, SPECIAL ISSUES AND SPECIAL SECTIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Editor, Special Section: “Mexico’s Constitution of 1917 at Its Centennial: New Considerations and Approaches,” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas 54 (2017). Also contributed an “Introduction” (10 pages).
Co-Editor, Special Issue: “Mexico 1810-1910-2010” (with Gregory S. Crider), The Latin Americanist, 54.4 (2010). Also contributed a preface (3 pages).
BOOK CHAPTERS
(with Madison Green) “’If You Don’t Cheat, You’ll Face Defeat’: La Ley de Herodes, Corruption, and Authoritarianism in Mexico, in Latin American History at the Movies: Based on a True Story, ed. Donald F. Stevens (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), 193-212.
(with Jerry Dávila) “Concluding Essay: Rethinking Latin America in the New Ethnic Studies,” in Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America, eds. Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, and David M.K. Sheinin (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 326-50.
“A ‘Bourgeois Revolution’ Contemplates a “Worker’s Revolution:’” Mexico, 1917-1934,” in The Wider Arc of Revolution, eds. Choi Chatterjee, Steven Marks, Marie Neuburger, and Steven Sabol (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2019), 125-43.
“The Mexican Revolution,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Mexican History, ed. William H. Beezley (Oxford University Press, 2019), 2:381-97.
“Poder político y corrupción en la Revolución Mexicana: el caso del General Alvaro Obregón,” in ‘Dádivas, dones, y dineros:’ aportes a una nueva historia de la corrupción en América Latina desde el imperio español hasta la modernidad, eds. Christoph Rosenmüller and Stefan Ruderer (Frankfurt, Vervuert, 2016), 213-32.
“The Limits of the ‘Cosmic Race:’ Immigrant and Nation in Mexico, 1850-1950,” in Immigration and National Identities in Latin America, eds. Nicola Foote and Michael Goebel (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), 66-90.
“From the Caudillo to ‘Tata Lázaro’: The Maximato in Perspective,” in The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940, eds. Sam Haynes and Douglas Richmond (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 135-60.
“Una empresa mercantil alemana en la Ciudad de México, 1865-1900: La Casa Boker, la globalización y el inicio de una cultura del consumo,” in Estudios sobre la historia económica de México desde la época de la independencia hasta la primera globalización, eds. Sandra Kuntz Ficker and Reinhard Liehr (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2013), 145-169.
“The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State,” A Companion to Mexican History and Culture,” ed. William H. Beezley (Chichester, England: Wiley Blackwell, 2011), 405-19.
“Plutarco Elías Calles and Revolutionary Populism in Mexico,” Men of the People: Populism in Modern Mexican History, eds. Amie Kiddle and María Olín Muñoz (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010), 24-42.
“El General Abelardo L. Rodríguez y la Revolución Mexicana,” Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca: Un ejemplo de la importancia de los archivos privados en la historiografía de México, ed. Norma Mereles de Ogarrio (Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 2009), 177-94.
“Von der Interventionsdebatte zum Zweiten Weltkrieg: Der Amerikabegriff im Wandel, 1898-1945,“ Amerika-Amerikas: Zur Geschichte eines Namens von 1507 bis zur Gegenwart, eds. Ursula Lehmkuhl and Stefan Rinke (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2008), 169-88.
“Estrategias de una ferretería alemana en México: la Casa Boker frente a un medio siglo de crisis global y nacional, 1900-1948,” in México y Alemania: una relación transatlántica, eds. Horst Pietschmann and Sandra Kuntz Ficker (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 2006), 311-37.
“The German Trade Diaspora in Mexico City,” in The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness, eds. Krista O’Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, and Nancy Reagin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), 85-110.
“The Arm and Body of a Revolution: Remembering Mexico’s Last Caudillo, Alvaro Obregón,” in Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: The Politics of the Body in Latin America, ed. Lyman Johnson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004), 179-206.
“Por una guerra fría más templada: México entre el cambio revolucionario y la reacción estadunidense en Guatemala y Cuba,” in Espejos de la guerra fría en la América Latina, ed. Daniela Spenser (Mexico City: CIESAS, 2004), 119-49.
“Marketing Necessities in Mexico: The Casa Boker and the Emergence of the Department Store in Fin-de-Siècle Mexico City,” in Norteamericanización of Latin America: Culture, Gender, and Nation in the Americas, eds. Hans Joachim König and Stefan Rinke (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2004), 89-108.
“En defensa de una Cuba libre? México entre el nacionalismo cubano y la expansión de Estados Unidos,” in México y el Caribe: vínculos, intereses, región, ed. Laura Muñoz (Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 2002), 2:221-50.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
“Long View: When Mexico’s ‘Undefeated’ Caudillo Met His End,” Americas Quarterly (in press)
El ocaso del grupo sonorense: La segunda campaña presidencial del General Álvaro Obregón, Boletín No. 99 (Mexico City: Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, in press.”
Empresas y política: el caso del General Alvaro Obregón, Boletín No. 87 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2018).
La primera campaña electoral del General Alvaro Obregón, Boletín No. 72 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2013).
La crisis del maximato y la presidencia del general Abelardo L. Rodríguez, BoletínNo. 64 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2010).
“Global Darwin: Multicultural Mergers,” Nature 461.7271(2009): 284-86.
Plutarco Elías Calles y su admiración por Alemania, Boletín No. 51 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2006).
Los últimos años de Plutarco Elías Calles, 1941-1945, Boletín No. 46 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2004).
Muerte y memoria del caudillo manco de la Revolución Mexicana, Boletín No. 39 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2002).
Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture, ed. Michael Werner (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), essays on Científicos; Contadora; Corral, Ramón; Foreign Relations: 1946-1994; Foreign Relations: Central America, 1821-1930; Foreign Relations: Cuba; Foreign Relations: National Period; Foreign Relations: Porfiriato; Mexican Revolution: Foreign Intervention; Romero Rubio, Manuel; Social Darwinism; and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
“The U.S.-Mexican War: Mexican Diplomacy,” in The United States and Mexico at War, ed. Donald Frazier (New York: Macmillan, 1997).
Calles y el movimiento liberal en Nicaragua, Boletín No. 9 (Mexico City: Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 1992).
EDITORIAL WORK
Current:
Editor-in-Chief, The Latin Americanist, 2021-
Co-Editor, “Latin America in the World” book series (with Steven Hyland) University of New Mexico Press, 2017-. Four titles under contract.
Editor, Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista book series
Wiley (London), 2010-. Ten titles published, two under contract.
Past:
Editorial Board, Journal of Urban History
Latin American Book Review Editor, 2002-.
Co-Editor of the Annals issue, The Latin Americanist, 2006-2021
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contributing Editor, 2004-2008
PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES
Book Reviews
Published 23 book reviews in the following journals:
A Contracorriente
American Historical Review
Estudios Interdisciplinarios del Caribe y América Latina
Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Journal of Latin American Studies
Journal of World History
Pacific Historical Review
The Americas
The Historian
Manuscript Reviews
Reviewed 21 book manuscripts for the following publishers
Berghahn Press
Cambridge University Press
Duke University Press
Hackett Publishing
Oxford University Press
Pearson Education
Rowman-Littlefield
Routledge
Southern Methodist University Press
Stanford University Press
University Press of Kentucky
University of Alabama Press
University of Arizona Press
University of California Press
University of New Mexico Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of Texas Press
Reviewed 33 article manuscripts for
Comparative Studies in Society and History
German Studies Review
Hispanic American Historical Review
Historia Mexicana
Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas
Journal of Urban History
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
Política y Sociedad
Revista Relaciones
Secuencia
The Americas
The Latin Americanist
External Reviewer in Tenure and Promotion Cases.
–Four cases involving promotion to full professor, three Research 1 universities and one nationally ranked liberal arts college, 2015-2020
–eight cases involving promotion to associate professor with tenure, three Research 1 universities, three regional public universities, and two regional liberal arts colleges, 2010-2022
National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed Fellowship applications, 2004, 2011, and 2018.
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages program, U.S. Department of Education. Reviewed grant applications, 2007 and 2008.
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. Reviewed grant applications, 2007.
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Historical Association
Member, AHA-NEH SHARP Grants Committee, 2021-2022.
Subcommittee for Professional Organizations.
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas en Europa
Auditor, 2014-2017.
Membership coordinator for the United States and Canada, 2014-2017, 2021-2024.
Conference on Latin American History
Co-Executive Director, 2020-present.
Co-Executive Secretary, 2017-2020.
Executive Secretary, 2012-2017.
Member, Bolton-Johnson Prize Committee, 2004.
Latin American Studies Association
Development Committee, 2018-present.
Nominations Committee, 2015-2016.
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
Chair, McGann Prize for Best Book in Latin American Studies, 2015-2016.
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Member, Executive Committee, 2000-2004 and 2006-Present.
Local Arrangements Co-Chair, 2006, 2015-present.
President, 2001-2.
Vice President and President-Elect, 2000-1.
Southern Historical Association
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, 2010.
Member, Executive Council, 2002-2004.
Membership Committee, 2001-2002.
President, Latin American and Caribbean Section, 1999-2000.
Vice President, Latin American and Caribbean Section, 1999.
Founding Member, Latin American and Caribbean Section, 1996-1999 (secured approval for the new section from Executive Council).
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND COMMENTARY
“Una presidencia de transición: Abelardo L. Rodríguez entre el callismo y el cardenismo,” XVI Reunión de Historiadores de México, Austin, TX, Nov. 2022.
“Blood in the Sand: The Sonoran Dynasty in Revolutionary Mexico,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Charlotte, NC, Mar. 2022.
“Martyrdom in the Mexican Revolution: The Life and Death of General Francisco R. Serrano,” Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies, Annual Meeting, virtual conference, Apr. 2021.
“The Patriarchs of Revolutionary Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico” (with Gregory S. Crider), Conference on Latin American History, virtual conference, Jan. 2021.
“A Northern ‘Laboratory of the Revolution:’ Caciques and Reforms in Sonora, 1915-1920,”Latin American Studies Association, virtual Congress, May 2020.
Roundtable “Archival Adventures in the Twenty-First Century,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Austin, TX, Mar. 2020.
“¿Por qué fue radical la constitución mexicana de 1917? Los marcos nacionales e internacionales de la ‘magna carta’ de la Revolución Mexicana,” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 2019.
“Revolution, Immigration, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Mexico,” concluding keynote address for “Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers: Migration to Latin America” conference, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2019.
“The ‘Sonoran Dynasty’ in History and Historiography,” Latin American Studies Association, Boston, MA, May 2019.
“Anticlericalism in Different Flavors: The ‘Sonoran Dynasty’ and the Church-State Conflict in Revolutionary Mexico,” Southeastern Councilof Latin American Studies, Oaxaca, Mexico, Mar. 2019.
“Almost Porfirio: Alvaro Obregón’s Second Election Campaign in Revolutionary Mexico, 1926-1928,” Conference on Latin American History and American Historical Association, New York, Jan. 2019.
“At the Margins of the ‘Cosmic Race:’ East Asian Immigrants in Mexico,” Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania (CELAO), Macau, China, Nov. 2018.
“General Alvaro Obregón y la vida sin brazo,” XV Reunión de Historiadores de México, Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 2018.
“Beyond the Cosmic Race: Immigrant Communities in Mexico and Mestizaje,” Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, May 2018.
Participant in roundtable, “The Wider Arc of Revolution,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlotte, March 2018.
“Building a Curriculum in Capitalism Studies in the Liberal Arts,” Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2017 Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. 2017.
“The Corrupt Revolution: The Black Legend of the Sonoran Dynasty in Revolutionary Mexico,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2017.
“A ‘Bourgeois Revolution’ Contemplates a ‘Worker’s Revolution:’ Mexico, 1917-1929,” “The Wider Arc of Revolution: The Global Impact of 1917” conference, University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 2017.
“‘La Bola:’ Corruption and Power in Revolutionary Mexico,” Annual Conference, Institut für Ost und Südosteuropa-Studien, University of Regensburg, Germany, June 2017.
“Ambivalent Neighbor: Mexico and Guatemala’s ‘Ten Years of Spring,’” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, NC, Mar. 2017.
“Capitalismo y democracia social: la dinastía sonorense y la Constitución de 1917,” Coloquio Internacional de la ADHILAC: La Constitución de Querétaro en su centenario; significación histórica y lecciones de la Revolución Mexicana para la América Latina, Havana, Cuba, Feb. 2017.
Commentary: “Mexico on the World Economic Stage,” American Historical Association, Denver, CO, Jan. 2017.
“The Heirs and Heritage of the ‘Sonoran Dynasty’ in Revolutionary Mexico,” ILAS 40th Anniversary Meeting, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 2016.
“Power and Corruption in the Mexican Revolution: The Case of General Alvaro Obregón,” Southern Historical Association, St. Petersburg, FL, Nov. 2016.
Commentary: “Hyphenated Identities in Postwar Latin America III,” Latin American Studies Association, New York City, May 2016.
“Porfirian Sonora and the Coming of the Mexican Revolution,” Southeastern Councilof Latin American Studies, Cartagena, Colombia, Mar. 2016.
“U.S. Intervention in Mexico and the Nationalist Turn of the Revolution, 1914-1917,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Atlanta, Jan. 2016.
Participant, Roundtable on Teaching Latin American Film, Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, Charleston, SC, Mar. 2015.
“Exploring Borders: Reflections of a German Latin Americanist in the U.S. South,” keynote address, “Reflecting on Latin American Studies: Perspectives from 25 Years of Scholarship and Practice,” UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies annual symposium, Durham and Chapel Hill, Feb. 2015.
“La piñata de la revolución: las actividades comerciales del grupo sonorense en la revolución mexicana, 1913-1936,” Asociación de Historiadores de Latinoamérica, Berlin, Sep. 2014.
“Fighting Against the Revolution: The Vatican Confronts Social Change in 1920s Mexico” (with Gregory Crider),Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Durango, CO, Apr. 2014.
Commentary: “Fear, Persecution, and Death in Mexico City,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Durango, CO, Apr. 2014.
“Views from the Vatican: New Perspectives on Church and State in Revolutionary Mexico, 1917-1929” (with Gregory Crider), South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 2014.
“A Clash Between Two Nationalisms: German Immigrants and the Mexican Revolution,” Conference, “Rethinking the Auslandsdeutsche: Respatializing Historical Narrative” Berlin, Germany, Latin American Institute at the Freie Universität, July 2013.
“Earthquakes in Latin American History: Historical Ruptures,” DAAD-funded symposium, “Erdbeben in Lateinamerika. Politische, soziale und kulturelle Dimensionen der Katastrophenbewältigung in vergleichender Perspektive,” Berlin, Germany, Latin American Institute at the Freie Universität, July 2013.
“Persistent Rebel: Adolfo de la Huerta and the Catholic Opposition in Revolutionary Mexico, 1924-1928,” South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, Panama City, Panama, Mar. 2013.
“Nuevas aportaciones a la vida y obra del General Alvaro Obregón,” International Congress of Americanists, Vienna, July 2012.
“O Exército Mexicano e a Construção do Estado Pós-Revolucionário (1920-1932),” XXXI International Congress of Military History, Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2011.
“A construção da raça cósmica: Ideologia racial e nação no México,” I Simpósio Internacional “Legados da diáspora africana no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 2011.
“Los hijos del desierto: nuevas aproximaciones al estudio de los sonorenses en la Revolución Mexicana,” keynote of the congress ”Primer Coloquio Internacional y Tercer Coloquio Nacional: la Revolución Mexicana en su Primer Centenario,” Puebla, Mexico, Nov. 2010.
Reinterpreting the Role of Alvaro Obregón in the Mexican Revolution,” XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Querétaro, Mexico, Oct. 2010.
“The Sonoran Dynasty and the Mexican Revolution,” Oaxaca Graduate Field School, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2010.
Participant, roundtable, “The Mexican Revolution at Its Centennial,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Boulder, CO, Apr. 2010.
Comment, “Labor Politics in Mexico,” Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, Mexico City, Apr. 2010.
“Sons of the Desert: The Sonoran Dynasty and the Mexican Revolution,” Webb Lectures, University of Texas-Arlington, Mar. 2010.
“Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution,” Oaxaca Graduate Field School, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2009.
“General Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, New Orleans, Apr. 2009.
“El grupo sonorense en la Revolución Mexicana,” keynote presentation, XXI Simposio de la historia sonorense, Hermosillo, Sonora, Nov. 2008.
“General Abelardo L. Rodríguez and the Making of Baja California,” Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Oct. 2008.
“The Sonoran Dynasty as a Research Opportunity in Mexican History,” Oaxaca Field School in Mexican History, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2008.
Participant, Roundtable on Latino/a Studies, South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies, Tampa, FL, Apr. 2008.
“Plutarco Elías Calles and Mexican Labor, 1920-1935,” William Wilson Brown, Jr., Conference on Latin American Studies, UNC Charlotte, Feb. 2008.
“Presentación del libro Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution,” XX Simposio de la historia sonorense, Hermosillo, Sonora, Nov. 2007.
“The Craft of Biography: Plutarco Elías Calles,” Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sep. 2007.
“The Private Archive of General Abelardo Rodríguez: An Opportunity for Historians,” Oaxaca Field School in Mexican History, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2007.
“The Rapid Rise of General Abelardo L. Rodríguez,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica, Apr. 2007.
“Abelardo L. Rodríguez en los archivos Calles-Torreblanca,” Caudillos e instituciones conference, Mexico City, Oct. 2006.
“Mexican Populism from Calles to Cárdenas,” Mexican Revolutionary Populism Conference, Tucson, AZ, Apr. 2006.
“Plutarco Elías Calles and Revolutionary Populism in Mexico,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Charlotte, NC, Apr. 2006.
“Earthquakes in Latin American History,” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, PR, Mar. 2006.
“The Maximato in Revolutionary Mexico: A Reassessment,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Nashville, TN, Apr. 2005.
Commentary, “Governors of the Mexican Revolution,” American Historical Association, Seattle, Jan. 2005.
Commentary, “United States-Latin American Relations,” Southern Historical Association, Memphis, TN, Nov. 2004.
“To Forget Tlatelolco: Mexico’s Latin America Policy in the 1970s,” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Oct. 2004.
“The Transculturation of Travel Writers in Postcolonial Mexico,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Charleston, SC, Oct. 2004.
Commentary, “Governors of the Mexican Revolution,” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Oct. 2004.
“The Arm and Body of the Revolution: Remembering Mexico’s Last Caudillo, Alvaro Obregón,” UNC Charlotte Graduate History Forum, Mar. 2004.
“Plutarco Elías Calles, Jefe Máximo of Sonora, 1915-1919,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, Mar. 2004.
“The Accidental Revolutionary: Childhood and Early Career of Plutarco Elías Calles, 1877-1911,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Santo Domingo, Mar. 2004.
“The Jefe Máximo in Exile,” Southern Historical Association, Houston, TX, Nov. 2003.
“In the Historiographical Shadow of Cárdenas: Plutarco Elías Calles as a Populist Leader,” XI Congreso de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadunidenses y Canadienses, Monterrey, Mexico, Oct. 2003.
“The Origins of the PRI in Mexico,” William W. Brown Conference, Charlotte, Oct. 2003.
Commentary: “Consumer Culture in Postcolonial Mexico City,” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX, Mar. 2003.
“Hotel California: The Exile of Mexico’s Jefe Máximo, Plutarco Elías Calles, 1936-1941,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, Mar. 2003.
Commentary: “The Politics of Culture in 20th –century Cuba and Mexico,” Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 2003.
“The Arm and Body of the Revolution: Remembering Mexico’s Last Caudillo, Alvaro Obregón,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Jan. 2003.
“Por una guerra fría más templada: México entre el nacionalismo revolucionario y el intervencionismo de Estados Unidos en Guatemala y Cuba, 1944-1964,” Cold War History Conference, Mexico City, Nov. 2002.
“A German Merchant Family in Mexico City,” keynote address, South Carolina Consortium on Latin American Studies, Columbia, SC, Apr. 2002.
“The Apotheosis of Mexico’s Last Caudillo: The Monumento Obregón in Mexico City,” Annual Meeting, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Mobile, AL, Mar. 2002.
“Immigration and National Identity in Postcolonial Mexico,” Conference on Latin American History, San Francisco, Jan. 2002.
“Die deutsche Kolonie in Mexiko-Stadt,”Konferenz “Die interkulturellen Herausforderungen der deutsch-mexikanischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen,” Maximilian-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Nov. 2001.
Commentary, “The United States and Mexico in the Circum-Caribbean,” Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2001.
“Nationalist Rituals in a Cold War Context: Mexico Confronts Revolution and U.S. Intervention in Guatemala and Cuba, 1944-1964,” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, Sep. 2001.
“Marketing ‘Necessities’ in Mexico: The Casa Boker and the Emergence of the Department Store in Fin-de-Siècle Mexico City,” symposium “Norte-Americanización of Latin America,” Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany, July 2001.
“Una familia alemana en la Revolución Mexicana,” South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies, Veracruz, Mexico, Mar. 2001.
“Exotic, Exasperating, and Exploited: German Views of Mexico,” Conference of Latin American History and American Historical Association, Boston, Jan. 2001.
“El sueño imposible: México y la soberanía cubana, 1898-1959,” symposium “México y el Caribe: nuevas aproximaciones,” Mexico City, 2000.
“Mexico and the U.S. Anti-Communist Crusades,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Myrtle Beach, SC, 2000.
“A German Trade Conquistador in Mexico City, 1865-1873,” International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Miami, 2000.
“The German Merchant Diaspora in Mexico City,” X Congreso de Historiadores México-EU-Canadá, Ft. Worth, TX, 1999.
“Blonde and Blue-Eyed in Mexico City,” Heimat Abroad Conference, New York University, New York, 1999.
Commentary: Phi Alpha Theta Latin American Session, Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, TX, 1999.
“México y las cruzadas anticomunistas estadunidenses, 1924-1964,” symposium “México y Estados Unidos: hacia una nueva historia diplomática,” Mexico City, 1999.
Participant, Roundtable “The War of 1898” Third Inter-American Relations Conference, Phoenix, 1999.
“A German Hardware Store in Mexico City, 1865-1910,” Council on Latin American History and American Historical Association, Washington, DC, 1999.
Commentary: Phi Alpha Theta Latin American Session, Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, AL, 1998.
“The Cuba Shock: Mexico and the War of 1898,” War of 1898 Conference, New Orleans, 1998.
“Between the Swastika and the Eagle: A German Hardware Store in World War II-Era Mexico City,” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, 1998.
“The Balancing Act Between Patria and Progress: Toward a Reconsideration of the Foreign Policy of Porfirian Mexico,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Savannah, GA, 1998.
“Globalization Under the Historical Microscope: The Boker Family in Mexico City, 1865-present.” “Globalization from Below”conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1998.
“The U.S. Anti-Communist Crusades in Central America, 1926-1954,” Conference on Latin American History and American Historical Association, Seattle, 1998.
“Legitimate Fear, Paranoia, or Commercial Expansion? U.S. Responses to the Nazi Presence in Mexico, 1933-1945,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, 1997.
“México como potencia mediana: una perspectiva histórica,” Asociación Mexicana de Estudios del Caribe, Chetumal, Mexico, 1997.
“Everyday Forms of Geopolitical Resistance: Mexican Foreign Policy and the Formalization of U.S. Hegemony, 1876-1911,” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, New York, 1997. Organized panel.
“The Nazi Presence in Mexico,” and participant in roundtable discussion on the teaching of inter-American relations, Second Inter-American Relations Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 1996.
“On Behalf of ‘Cuba Libre:’ Mexican Foreign Policy Toward Cuba, 1895-1965,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Miami, 1996.
“Circumstantial Nationality: The Case of the Boker Family in Mexico City, 1865-1995,” Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, 1996.
“Inversión extranjera y anti-imperialismo: lo paradójico de la política exterior de Porfirio Díaz,” Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1996.
Commentary: “Challenges to Hegemonic Power in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico,” Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, 1995.
“Not Quite Mexican and Not Quite German: The Boker Family in Mexico City, 1865-1995,”NEH-funded symposium “Rethinking the Post-Colonial Encounter: New Perspectives on the U.S. Presence in Latin America,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995.
“Between Hope and Fear: Mexican Responses to U.S. Expansion, 1876-1911,”Organization of American Historians, Washington, DC, 1995.
“Mexico as a Middle Power: A Historical Perspective,” Inter-American Relations Conference, Jacksonville, Fla., 1994.
“Unfriendly Neighbors: Mexico and Guatemala’s Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 1898-1920,”Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, 1994.
“Sandino’s Asylum in Yucatán as an Issue in U.S.-Mexican Relations,”Annual Meeting, Southern Historical Association, Orlando, 1993.
“El asilo de Sandino en Yucatán,”Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Antigua, Guatemala, 1993.
“Cooperación, confrontación, y nacionalismo: México frente a Estados Unidos en la América Central, 1900-1910,”Conference “Nuevos enfoques en la historia económica y social de México,” Mexico City, 1991.
“Up Against the Big Stick: Mexico and U.S. Intervention in Central America, 1906-1910,” Annual Conference, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Jacksonville, FL, 1991.
“A Momentary Lapse of Reason? Mexico’s 1926 Intervention in Nicaragua Revisited,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Tampa, FL, 1990.
INVITED LECTURES TO ACADEMIC AUDIENCES
“The Mexican Revolution,” with Gilbert M. Joseph, Duke University (virtual seminar), Mar. 2021.
“Revisiting Mexican History in the 1920s,” classroom lecture, Yale University, Nov. 2019.
“Asian Immigration into Mexico and the Making of the Cosmic Race, 1882-1945,” Loyola College, Chennai (India), Feb. 2019. I gave the same talk two days later at St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
“Mexico’s 2018 Elections in Historical Context,” classroom lecture, UT-Dallas at Oaxaca Study Abroad seminar, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 2018.
“U.S.-Mexican Relations: Past, Present, and Future,” Phi Alpha Theta lecture, Hampden-Sydney College, Apr. 2017.
“Political Vs. Social Rights: Comparing Constitutions in Mexico and the United States,”Winthrop University, Apr. 2017.
“The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America,” Queens University, Feb. 2017.
“Das Nachspiel der mexikanischen Revolution: Soziale Rechte, Revolten und der Aufstieg des Prätorianerregimes, 1917-1924,” Münsteraner Gespräche, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Jan. 2017.
Roundtable participant, “National Identity in Latin America,” Freie Universität Berlin, June 2016.
“Die mexikanische Revolution: neue Erkenntnisse und Interpretationen,” University of Hamburg, Jan. 2016.
“México, a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e a Comunidade Alemã,” Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Sep. 2015.
“Personally Speaking: Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution,” College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UNC Charlotte Center City, Sep. 2015.
“Novas Perspectivas sobre a Revolucão Mexicana,” Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Apr. 2015.
“In Search of Exclusivity: Church, State, and Social Reform in Mexico, 1917-1927,” Research Colloquium, Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Jan. 2015.
“From Frontier to Border: New Perspectives on the Historiography of Northwestern Mexico,” Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2013.
“The Sonoran ‘Dynasty’ and the Revolutionary Regime in Mexico, 1910-1934,” University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 2013.
“Região e nação: Sonora e a Revolucão Mexicana,” Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Brazil, May 2013.
“The Mexican Revolution Reconsidered,” Cultura y Comunidad Workshop, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, Apr. 2013.
“The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico,” Charlotte Area Historians (informal roundtable), 2013.
“A Dysfunctional Dynasty: The Sonoran Leaders in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910-1934,” Brigham Young University, Mar. 2013, and Forschungskolloquium der Historiker, Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Nov. 2012.
“The Sonoran Dynasty and the Mexican Revolution,” Lester Lecture, Davidson College, Oct. 2012.
“Authoritarianism and Democracy in Modern Mexico,” Phi Alpha Theta induction, Wingate University, Apr. 2012.
“Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution,” University of Florida, November 2010.
“Los sonorenses en el México del siglo veinte,” Universidad San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, May 2010.
“Plutarco Elías Calles y la historiografía de la revolución mexicana,” Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Oct. 2007.
“La política centroamericana de México en el siglo veinte,” Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Oct. 2007.
“Der Amerikabegriff vor dem Hintergrund der faschistischen Bedrohung,“ Ringvorlesung Amerikas, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, June 2007.
“Alemania y América Latina: Restablecimiento de relaciones en una época de crisis, 1945-1970,” El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Dec. 2003.
“Märtyrertum und politische Heiligenlegenden in der mexikanischen Geschichte,” Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany, Nov. 2002.
“Beginning the Institutionalization of the Mexican Revolution,”University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, Mar. 2002.
“Historia de una ferretería: La Casa Boker desde 1865 a la actualidad,”Instituto Mora, Mexico City, Jan. 2002.
“The Post-Mortem Career of Alvaro Obregón,” University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Nov. 2001.
“Mexico, 1821-1910: A Nation Forged In Blood,” Davidson College, Davidson, NC, Sep. 2001.
“Mexico in the Age of NAFTA,” Yale University, Nov. 2000.
“International Business in a Nationalist World: The Casa Boker in Mexico City,” Freie Universität Berlin, July 2000.
“Vidas entre países: el caso de la familia Boker, ferreteros mexicano-alemanes,” Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, July 1996.
“The Current Crisis in Mexico,” Faculty Forum, Wingate University, Wingate, NC, Feb. 1995.
“Mexico’s Difficult and Conflicted Past,” Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA, Jan. 1995.
“Reconceptualizing the History of Mexican Foreign Policy toward the United States and Central America,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, Nov. 1994.
“Eine revolutionäre Außenpolitik? Mexikos Zentralamerikapolitik, 1915-1929,” Freie Universität Berlin,Germany, June 1992.
“Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Florida International University, Miami, Apr. 1992.
COMMUNITY LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS
“Latinx and Hispanics: What’s in a Name?” C.C. Griffin Middle School, Concord, NC, May 2022.
“The History of Capitalism,” Southminster Retirement Community, Feb. 2020.
“Tariffs and Trade Wars,” Aldersgate Retirement Community, Charlotte, Oct. 2019.
“The Versailles Peace Conference at its Centennial,” Daughters of the American Revolution chapter meeting, Charlotte, Apr. 2019.
“U.S.-Mexican Relations: Past, Present, and Future,” The Ivey Retirement Community, Charlotte, Apr. 2019.
“United States National Defense and Foreign Policy,” Daughters of the American Revolution chapter meeting, Charlotte, Apr. 2018.
“The Jewish Diaspora in the Spanish Empire,” UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salon Series (1 community lecture), Jan. 2017.
“Demagogues and Technocrats: The 2016 Election in Global and Historical Perspective,” UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salon Series (1 community lecture), Oct. 2016.
“Cinco de Mayo,” interview with WTVD News, May 2016.
“Capitalism, a Global History,” Southminster Retirement Community, Charlotte, NC, Oct. 2015.
“Immigration and Asylum,” interview with WTVD News, Oct. 2015.
“The U.S. Constitution in Historical Perspective,” UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salon Series (1 community lecture), Oct. 2015.
“U.S. Intervention in Latin America,” Southminster Retirement Community, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 2015.
“Challenges and Opportunities at the U.S.-Mexican Border,” Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC, Feb. 2015.
“The Age of Extremes, 1914-2014,” UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salon Series (5 lectures to community, Oct.-Nov. 2014).
“Germans in America: Reflections on Professor Matthias Otte’s 50th Birthday,” Petersberg, Germany, Oct. 2014.
“World Cup 2014: Soccer and Politics,” interview with TWC News, June 2014.
“Revolutions in World History,” UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Salon Series (8 lectures to community, Jan.-Mar. 2014).
“Mexico: The Once and Future Revolution,” Charlotte Museum of History, Feb. 2011.
“The Day of the Dead,” Mallard Creek High School, Nov. 2007.
“Peru and Its Peoples: Past and Present,” Barringer Academic Center, Apr. 2007.
“Mexico Today,” Center for International Education, Charlotte, Mar. 2007
“Mexiko aus der Betrachtung eines Deutschen,” Alemannia society, Jan. 2007
“Mexico,” Levine Museum of the New South, Global Dish series, Nov. 2006
“Mexican Immigration: Causes and Impact,” Mayor’s International Cabinet, May 2006.
Interviewed on Clear Channel Radio, May 2006
Interview with “Charlotte Hoy,” Mar. 2005.
“Mexico and the Cinco de Mayo,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library, Cornelius Branch, May 2001.
WFAE Talk Show with Mike Collins, “The Embargo on Cuba,” Feb. 2001.
“Who’s To Blame for Latin American Underdevelopment?” East Mecklenburg High School, Charlotte, Feb. 2000.
“The ‘Third World’ And Its Problems,” Model United Nations Conference, UNC Charlotte, Feb. 2000.
“Nineteenth-Century Latin America,” Independence High School, Charlotte, Nov. 1999.
“Mexico at the Crossroads,” Rotary Club, Hattiesburg, MS, Feb. 1998.
COURSES TAUGHT
UNC CHARLOTTE
CAPI 2100 Introduction to Capitalism Studies
HIST 1100 Latin American Civilization
HIST 2206 Colonial Latin America
HIST 2207 Modern Latin America
HIST 3002 Latin American Political Economy
HIST 3010 Latin American History on the Big Screen
HIST 3176 History of Mexico
HIST 4002 The Cuban Revolution
HIST 4600 Latin American Revolution
HIST 6000 The United States and Mexico
HIST 6000 Mexico in the Era of Globalization
HIST 6000 The United States and Latin America
HIST 6000 Revolutionary Change in Latin America
HIST 6000 Comparative History: Mexico and Brazil
HIST 6152 Colloquium in Modern Latin American History
LBST 2101 History of Capitalism
LBST 2102 Global Connections (various topics on revolutions and US-Latin
American relations)
LTAM 4600 Latin America in the Cold War
LTAM 5600 Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America
LTAM 6300 Latin American Thought
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
History of Brazil (4000-level equivalent)
Revolutionary Change in Latin America (4000-level equivalent)
Colloquium in Colonial Latin American History (6000-level equivalent)
Colloquium in Modern Latin American History (6000-level equivalent)
Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America (6000-level equivalent)
The United States and Latin America (4000-level equivalent)
History of Mexico (4000-level equivalent)
History of Latin America (2000-level equivalent)
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Revolutionary Change in Latin America (4000-level equivalent)
World History To 1500 (1000-level equivalent)
World History Since 1500 (1000-level equivalent)
The Middle East and Africa (2000-level equivalent)
Latin American History (2000-level equivalent)
The United States and Latin America (4000-level equivalent)
UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG
U.S.-Latin American Relations (4000-level equivalent)
Nationalism in Latin America (4000-level equivalent)
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
The World Since 1945 (1000-level equivalent)
SERVICE ON PH.D. COMMITTEES
Jian Gao, University of Texas-Austin (in progress)
Julian Dodson, University of New Mexico (2015)
Paul Worley, UNC Chapel Hill (2009)
José Alfredo Gómez Estrada , CIESAS-Occidente, Guadalajara, Mexico (2008)
Uta Raina, Temple University (2008)
Iain McDonald, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and UNC Charlotte (2000)
Nathaniel Means, University of Southern Mississippi (1999)
Lonnie Burnett, University of Southern Mississippi (1999)
ADVISEMENT OF M.A. STUDENTS (as primary adviser only, with doctoral program destination in parentheses if appropriate; thesis track students with an asterisk).
History
*Sarah Beckhart (Ph.D. in History, Columbia University)
*Alex Brint (current)
*John Catton (current)
*David Cook
*Bree David (current)
*Julian Dodson (Ph.D. in History, University of New Mexico)
*Olivia Hughes (current)
*David C. Johnson (Ph.D. in History, Texas Christian University)
*Kristl Kelley
*Elizabeth King
*Maria Labbato (Ph.D. in History, Florida International University)
*Matthew Needham
*Marissa Nichols (Ph.D. candidate in History, Emory University)
Macree Penny
*Juan Pimentel-Otero
*Patricia Ryckman
*Paul Telljohann (current)
*Erica Weatherford
*Joseph Willard
*Katie Witty (Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Maryland)
Latin American Studies
*Candie Almengor
David Arroyo
William Branch
Paula Campos
Melissa Castañeda
Vanessa Chicas
Janine de Assis
Sorayda Díaz León
*Daniel González
*Audrey Henderson (Ph.D. candidate in History, Emory University)
Martha Hernández
*Alexandra Lemos (Ph.D. in History, Emory University)
*Bruna Milligan
Woodworth Osborne
*Brenda Paredes
Aleksander Peña
Rossmery Palacio Pérez
*Noe Pliego-Campos (Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Notre Dame)
*Nashaly Ruiz-González
Laurie Satter
Jasmine Smith
Erick Suárez Salazar
Ana Valdez
Jesse Vasquez
Juan Vivanco
*Debora Winch
Jeanna Williams
HONORS STUDENTS ADVISED (as primary adviser)
Nancy Battista (History)
Olivia Hughes (History)
Noe Pliego-Campos (History)
Martha Conrad (LTAM)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (other than administrative roles)
1. UNC CHARLOTTE
Latin American Studies
Chair, Latin American Studies Planning Committee, 2002-3, 2005-6.
Chair, Latin American Studies Advisory Committee, 2001-3.
Chair, Brazilian Studies Search Committee, 2001-2.
Member, Brazilian Studies Search Committee, 2005-6.
Department of History
Chair, Latino/a History Search Committee, 2007.
Chair, RPT (Department Review) Committee, 2003-4.
Member, Graduate Committee, 2002-3, 2004-5.
Member, Self-Study Committee, 2003.
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2000-1, 2002-3.
Member, European History Search Committee, 2001-2.
Secretary, Steering Committee, 1999-2000.
Research Seminar Coordinator, 1999-2000.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Member, Interdisciplinary Studies MOU Working Group, 2022-present
Member, Racial Justice Working Group on Policy Audit, 2021-present.
Member, Administrative Council, 2004-2022.
Member, Chair Evaluation Task Force, 2017-2018.
Member, Humanities Catalyst Task Force, 2018.
Member, LEADS Committee, 2016-2017
Member, College Retreat Task Force, 2015 and 2016.
Convener, Humanities Chairs, 2011-2012 and 2013-14.
Member, Task Force on Sponsored Research, 2014-2016.
Member, Honors Task Force, 2014-2015.
Member, Chair Search Committee, Dept. of English, 2013.
Member, Search Committee, Director of Instructional Technology, 2012.
Member, Teaching Professor ad-hoc Committee, 2012.
Member, First Year Writing Review Committee, 2011.
Member, Personally Speaking Committee, 2010.
Chair, Africana Studies Chair Search Committee, 2008.
Member, English Department Self-Study Committee, 2008.
Member, Political Science Self-Study Committee, 2005.
Member, Book Reception Committee, 2005.
Member, Political Science Self Study Internal Committee, 2004-5.
University
Chair, Hearing Committee, 2022-present
Writing Coach, CATALYST grant program, 2020-present.
Initiated UNC Charlotte-PUC Rio de Janeiro Exchange Program, 2012.
Member, University Professor Committee, 2012-2013.
Chair, Faculty Research Grants Committee, 2005-2008.
Member, Academic Affairs Council, 2004-2006.
Member, Honors Council, 2004-present.
Alternate, CID Grants Committee, 2002-2003 and 2006-2007.
Alternate, Faculty Council, 2000.
2. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Chair, World History Textbook Committee, 1999.
Member, Latin American History and U.S. Diplomatic History search committees, 1999.
Chair, Planning Committee for Ph.D. and M.A. program in Latin American History,
1998.
Member, History Department Planning Committee and Graduate Committee, 1998.
Chair, East Asia Search Committee, 1998.
3. WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Initiated Wingate University-Universidad Iberoamericana Exchange Program, 1997.
Member, European History Search Committee, 1995-96.
Supervised undergraduate student research in Mexico City, 1995.
EXTERNAL CONSULTING
ACADEMIC
Evaluator, M.A. program in Latin American Studies, UT-Dallas, 2016.
Evaluator, UISFL grant, Morgan State University, 2008-2010.
Evaluator, Latin American Studies Program UISFL grant, Michigan State University, 2009.
Consultant, Latin American Studies Program, University of Georgia, 2006.
GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR
Consultant, Deutsche Erdöl-AG, Hamburg, 2018.
Ayala Law, Tucson, AZ, expert witness for cancellation of removal and asylum cases before Immigration Court, 2017-current.
Houston, Gibbs and Pauw, Seattle, WA, expert witness for cancellation of removal and asylum cases before Immigration Court, 2009-2019.
COMMUNITY SERVICE (see also lectures to community)
Charlotte Community Health Clinic
Board Member, 2006-2008.
LANGUAGES
German, native speaker.
English, native-level fluency in speaking, reading, and writing.
Spanish, near-native fluency in speaking, reading, and writing.
Portuguese, proficiency in reading, intermediate skills in speaking and writing.
French, proficiency in reading; basic skills in speaking and writing.
Italian, proficiency in reading; basic skills in speaking and writing.