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
• 2013
Harold Eugene Davis Prize for the best article published
in 2011-2012 by a member of the Middle Atlantic Council
of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), for "Social
Geographies of Grievance & War," Dialectical
Anthropology, Dec. 2012 (see below).
• 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 and The Americas) 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.
(PDF file)
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
(c. 140,000 words) on the history of the Western
Hemisphere from the First Americans to Hugo Chávez;
offsite promotional material by Facts On File
here.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
•
2012. "Cultural
Geographies of Grievance & War: Nicaragua's
Atlantic Coast Region in the First Sandinista
Revolution, 1926-1934," Dialectical Anthropology,
36, December (3-4), pp. 161-196. With commentaries
by Jeffrey L. Gould and Wolfgang Gabbert, and my
response. Awarded the MACLAS Davis Prize for
2011-2012.
•
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).
contributions to
REVISTA DE TEMAS
NICARAGÜENSEs, ed. josÉ mejÍa lacayo:
www.temasnicas.net/
• 2013.
Junio, No. 62: "‘Todo Rencor de Familias’:
Guerra Civil, Imperialismo, Nacionalismo Popular y la
Formación del Estado, Revueltos en Las Segovias de
Nicaragua (1926-1934)," pp. 14-63 (translation of "The
Sandino Rebellion Revisited," above):
www.temasnicas.net/rtn62.pdf
• 2013.
Mayo, No. 61: "Guerras de palabras:
Hojas volantes y propaganda política de los marinos y la
Guardia Nacional, el EDSN, los partidos Liberal y
Conservador y otros (1927-1936)," pp. 16-19:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn61.pdf
• 2013.
Abril, No. 60: "'Y también enséñenles a
leer': Un archivo digital sobre la formación de la
Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua, 1925-1979," pp. 62-65:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn60.pdf
• 2013.
Marzo, No. 59: "De Cuatreros a Rebeldes a
Perros: Violencia de Pandillas Políticas y el
Estado en la Segovias Occidentales, Nicaragua, en los
Tiempos de Sandino, 1926-1934," Parte 2:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn59.pdf
• 2013.
Febrero, No. 58: "De Cuatreros a Rebeldes a
Perros: Violencia de Pandillas Políticas y el
Estado en la Segovias Occidentales, Nicaragua, en los
Tiempos de Sandino, 1926-1934," Parte 1 (translation of
"Horse Thieves," above):
www.temasnicas.net/rtn58.pdf
• 2013.
Enero, No. 57: "Imposición de la Democracia por el
Imperio Norteamericano: Reflexiones Críticas sobre
las Elecciones Nicaragüenses de Noviembre de 1928"
(portada), pp. 4-14:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn57.pdf
• 2012.
Diciembre, No. 56: "El 'Archivo Gordo Sobre la
Situación de Sandino' Digitalizado, División de
Inteligencia Militar, Estados Unidos, 1928-1933," pp.
83-85:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn56.pdf
• 2012.
Noviembre, No. 55: "Archivo Digital de las Cartas
y Telegramas a Enviado Especial Norteamericano Henry L.
Stimson, Abril-Mayo de 1927," pp. 87-89:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn55.pdf
• 2012.
Octubre, No. 54: "Un Archivo Digital de Mapas
Históricos de Nicaragua," pp. 63-65:
www.temasnicas.net/rtn54.pdf
• 2012.
Septiembre,
No. 53: "Los Malditos Pájaros de Hierro: La
Guerra Aérea en Nicaragua durante la Rebelión de
Sandino, 1927-1932," pp. 47-87 (translation of "Social
Memory & Tactical Doctrine," above):
www.temasnicas.net/rtn53.pdf
Select Conference Papers
•
2013.
"Creating a
Sole Non-Partisan Military & Police Force Composed of Natives to
Promote Peace & Order & Prosperity & Rights:
The
Remaking of the Nicaraguan State via the
Formation of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua,
1925-1940.”
Paper
presented
with co-author Dr. David C. Brooks
to the Middle Atlantic Council of
Latin American Studies,
Lebanon Valley College, Annville PA,
March
8-9.
•
2012.
“Experiments in Digital Archives and Hybrid Print-Web
Texts:
The
Case of Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast Region Under the
Imperial Spotlight, ca. 1926-1933.”
Paper presented to the Middle Atlantic Council of
Latin American Studies,
American University,
Washington D.C.,
March
22-24.
•
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
•
2013. H-Diplo
Roundtable Review, Vol. XIV, No. 25 (2013), 25 March
2013. Jason M. Colby, The Business of Empire:
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central
America (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2011).
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIV-25.pdf.
•
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.
•
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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