EDUCATION

 

1993          University of Michigan           Ph.D. in History

1987          University of Minnesota         B.A. in History, summa cum laude

                                                                    B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude

                                                                    Minor in African Studies

 

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

 

2008-              Assistant Professor of History, Lebanon Valley College

1999-2008     Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Michigan University

1993-1999     Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan-Flint

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2011-2013   Arnold Grant for Student-Faculty Experiential Learning, Lebanon Valley College ($5,000)

2009-2011   Pleet Initiative for Student-Faculty Research, Lebanon Valley College ($5,000)

2005   Rockefeller Foundation Grant-In-Aid

1997   Honorable Mention, Conference on Latin American History Prize (awarded annually to the best English-language scholarly article on Latin American history in a journal other than Hispanic American Historical Review) for "Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs," JLAS, 1996 (see below)

1987-1989   Mellon Fellow, Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities

 

DISSERTATION:  "'To Defend Our Nation's Honor':  Toward a Social & Cultural History of the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1934."  University of Michigan, 1993.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

 

2007.  The New Immigrants:  Mexican Americans (New York: Chelsea House).

2007.  The Twentieth Century and Beyond (New York: McGraw-Hill).  Co-authored with Richard Goff, Walter Moss, Janice Terry, and Jiu-Hwa Upshur; wrote all chapters on the Americas; offsite promotional material from McGraw-Hill here.

2007.  Encyclopedia of World History, 7 vols. (New York: Facts On File).  General editor, with Marsha Ackerman, Janice Terry, Jiu-Hwa Upshur, and Mark Whitters; wrote c. 170 entries (140,000 words) on the history of the Western Hemisphere from the First Americans to Hugo Chávez; offsite promotional material from Facts On File here.

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

2007.  "Social Memory and Tactical Doctrine:  The Air War during the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1932," International History Review, 29, September, pp. 508-549.

2005.  "Bandits and Blanket Thieves, Communists and Terrorists:  The Politics of Naming Sandinistas in Nicaragua, 1927-1936 and 1979-1990," Third World Quarterly 26 (1), February, pp. 67-86

1996.  "Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs:  Political Gang Violence and the State in the Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the Time of Sandino, 1927-1934," Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (2) May, pp. 383-434.

 

Book Chapters

 

2011.  "Rebellion from Without: Foreign Capital, Missionaries, Sandinistas, Marines & Guardia, and Costeños in the time of the Sandino Rebellion, 1927-1934."  Co-authored with David C. Brooks.  In Luciano Barraco, ed., National Integration and Contested Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua.  New York: Algora, forthcoming.

2002.   "Baptized in Blood:  Children in the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1926-1934," in James Marten, ed., Children and War: A Historical Anthology (New York: New York University Press).

1999.  "To Induce a Sense of Terror:  Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995."  Arthur Brenner and Bruce Campbell, eds., Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability (New York: St. Martin's Press).

1998.  "The Sandino Rebellion Revisited:  Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934."  In Gilbert Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.- Latin American Relations (Durham: Duke University Press).

 

 

Select Conference Papers

 

2011.   “Sandino on the Coast:  New Perspectives on the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast Region.”  Paper presented to the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, March 17-19.

2010.  "La Revolución se va a digitalizar: Creación de un archivo virtual e interpretativa sobre la rebelión de Sandino en Nicaragua, 1927-1934."  Ponencia presentada al X Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, UNAN-Managua, 13-16 de Julio.

2009.  "The Vexatious Frontier Question:  Capital, Coercion, and Sovereignty in the Western Nicaragua-Honduras Borderlands, 1919-1936."  Paper presented to the Middle Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies, College of William & Mary, March.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

2010.  Jorge Eduardo Arellano, Guerrillero de Nuestra América: Augusto C. Sandino (1895-1934).  2nd ed. Managua: HISPAMER, 2008, and Onofre Guevara López, Cien años de movimiento social en Nicaragua: relato cronológico.  Managua:  Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA-UCA), 2008, in Mesoamérica 52, enero-dic.

2009.  Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), in A Contracorriente, 7 (1) Fall, pp. 367-376; available online here.

2007.  Michel Gobat, Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua Under U.S. Imperial Rule (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005), in The Americas 63 (3) January, pp. 451-52.

2001.  Les W. Field, The Grimace of Macho Ratón: Artisans, Identity, and Nation in Late Twentieth-Century Western Nicaragua (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), in Social History 26 (1) January, pp. 130-32.

1999.  Laura J. Enríquez, Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997), in Culture and Agriculture, 21 (1) Spring, pp. 51-52

1998.  Darío A. Euraque, Reinterpreting the Banana Republic:  Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), in H-Net Reviews, Michigan State University (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14928887752532).

1998.  Volker Wünderich, Sandino: una biografía política (Managua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1995), in Hispanic American Historical Review 78 (3) November, pp. 522-23.

1996.  Alejandro Bendaña, La mística de Sandino (Managua, 1995), in Hispanic American Historical Review 76 (4) November, pp. 802-03.

1996.  Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), in H-Net Reviews, Michigan State University (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18280865028819).

 

BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS

 

The Sandino Rebellion:  US Invasion, Guerrilla War, and Social Revolution in Las Segovias, Nicaragua, 1926-1934.

 

REFERENCES

 

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