Georgetown College

The peoples of the Americas have never lived in isolation from each other, nor from the wider world.  Since the sixteenth century they have experienced continuous integration with that world, which is now rapidly accelerating.

Work in Progress

Sylvie Durmelat

“Les retours de Toussaint Louverture et la hantise de la coupure historique d’avec Haïti dans quelques textes de Guadeloupe et Martinique,” in Perspectives Créoles, edited by Jean-Max Guieu and Amadou Koné.
Chandra Manning
Untitled book project on Civil War Regimental Newspapers.
 

Denise Brennan

Life After Trafficking: Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today. Field research and writing are ongoing for this book project.

Ana Celenza

Her first two books focused on artistic communities in Northern Europe, but her current project, tentatively titled Ellington's Odyssey, explores the emancipation of jazz in twentieth-century American culture. Her work has been featured on nationally syndicated radio and TV programs, including NPR's "Todd Mundt Show", BBC's "Music Matters" and "Proms Broadcasts", and C-Span's "Book-TV".

Michael Bailey

“Constraining Federalism: Formalizing Expectations about Redistributive Policies in Decentralized Systems,” forthcoming in Publius, Spring 2007).

Adam M. Lifshey

Specters of America: Hauntings of a Hemispheric Literature, book.

“‘This Dreaming Intruder’: The Frontier Rewritings of Paul du Chaillu, a (French) (American) Pioneer in the West (of Africa),” article.

Joseph Palacios

“Bringing Mexican Immigrants into American Faith-Based Justice and Civic Cultures,” in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo forthcoming from Rutgers University Press 2007.
The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Denise Brennan

Life After Trafficking: Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today. Field research and writing are ongoing for this book project.
“Ethnographic Research on Life after Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States,” in Ethnography and Policy: What Do we Know about Trafficking?, edited by Carole Vance, forthcoming from School of American Research Press.
“Love Work in Sex Work (and After): Performing at Love,” in Intimacies, edited by William Jankowiak, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Melissa Fisher

“Wall Street Women: Gender and Work in Global Finance,” book manuscript.

Erick Langer

“Ethnicity, Commerce and Nation Building in the Nineteenth-Century South-Central Andes,” book.
“Indians, Frontiers, and the Nation-State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America,” edited volume in process for University of New Mexico Press.

Eusebio Mujal-León

“Much Ado about Something? Regime Change in Cuba,” co-authored with Joshua Busby, in Problems of Post-Communism (forthcoming).

David S. Painter

A book manuscript on oil and world power.
A chapter on oil and resources for the Cambridge History of the Cold War.

Joanne Rappaport

“Beyond Writing: Theorizing Collaborative Ethnography,” article.
“Génesis y transformaciones del mestizaje: Siglos XVI y XVII,” article.
Beyond the Lettered City: Alphabetic Literacy and Visuality in the Andes, 16th to 18th Centuries, co-edited with Tom Cummins and Dana Leibsohn, under contract with Duke University Press.

Ricardo Ortiz

Testimonial Fictions: The Post-Dictatorial Mode in US Latino Literature, book (tentative title).

John Tutino

Making a New World: Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (c. 2008), under contract with Duke University Press.
Remaking the New World: Bajío Revolution, Mexican Independence, and the Transformation of North America (c. 2010), under contract with Duke University Press.

Recent Publications

Chandra Manning

“‘A Perfect Institution Belonging to the Regiment:’ The Soldier’s Letter and Civil War Soldiers in Kansas,” Kansas History (Winter 2000).

Denise Brennan

“Methodological Challenges in Research on Human Trafficking: Tales from the Field,” International Migration 43: 1/2 (2005): 35-54.
“When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic’s Sexscape,” in Tourists and Tourism, edited by Sharon Gmelch (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2003).
“Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as Stepping Stone to International Migration for Dominican Women,” in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002).
“Globalization, Women’s Labor and Men’s Pleasure: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic,” in Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, edited by George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2002).
“Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 7: 4 (2001): 621-663.

Michael Bailey

“A Wider Race? Interstate Competition Across Health and Welfare Programs,” co-authored with Mark Rom, Journal of Politics, 66: 2 (May, 2004): 326 – 347.
“Welfare Migration and the Multifaceted Decision to Move,” American Political Science Review, 99: 1 (February 2005): 125- 135.

Erick Langer

“A violencia no cotidiano da fronteira: conflitos interétnicos no Chaco boliviano,” Estudos de História, 13:2, forthcoming 2007.
Experiencing World History, co-authored with Peter N. Stearns, Mery Wiesner-Hanks, Lily Hwa, and Paul Adams (New York: New York University Press, 2000).
“Frontiers,” Indigenous Peoples,” “Indigenous Peoples’ Movements,” “Labor Systems, Coercive,” and “World Systems Theory,” entries in Encyclopedia of World History (Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2004).
“Las misiones chiriguanas durante la guerra del Chaco,” in Las naciones indígenas en la guerra del Chaco, edited by Nicolas Richard, forthcoming from Colibris-EHESS (2006).
“Placing Latin America in World History,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:3 (August 2004), 393-398.
“The Eastern Andean Frontier (Bolivia and Argentina) and Latin American Frontiers: Comparative Contexts (19th and 20th Centuries),” The Americas, 58:1 (July 2002), 33-63.

Experiencing World History, co-authored with Peter N. Stearns, Mery Wiesner-Hanks, Lily Hwa, and Paul Adams (New York: New York University Press, 2000).
 

Denise Brennan

“Methodological Challenges in Research on Human Trafficking: Tales from the Field,” International Migration 43: 1/2 (2005): 35-54.
“Women Work, Men Sponge and Everyone Gossips: Macho Men and Stigmatized/ing Women in A Sex Tourist Town,” Anthropological Quarterly 77: 4 (2004): 705-733.
“When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic’s Sexscape,” in Tourists and Tourism, edited by Sharon Gmelch (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2003).
“Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as Stepping Stone to International Migration for Dominican Women,” in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002).
“Globalization, Women’s Labor and Men’s Pleasure: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic,” in Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, edited by George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2002).
“Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 7: 4 (2001): 621-663.

Melissa Fisher

“Corporate Ethnography in the New Economy: Life Today in Financial Firms, Corporations, and Non-Profits,” Anthropology News, 45:4 (2004).
“Enterprising Women: Remaking Gendered Networks in the New Economy,” in Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Changing Patterns of Work, Care and Public Policy in Europe and North America, edited by Diane Perrons, et al. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006).
Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, co-edited with Greg Downey (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

Joseph McCartin

“Congress and the First World War,” in The American Congress: The Building of Democracy, edited by Julian E. Zeliser (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 428-442.
“La Première Guerre mondiale et la naissance des relations sociales aux États-Unis,” translated by Jean-Christian Vinel, in Le Siècle des Guerres, edited by Pietro Causarano, et al. (Paris: Les Editions de Atelier, 2004), 228-236.

David S. Painter

“A Partial History of the Cold War,” Cold War History, 6 (November 2006): 527-34.
“Cold War,” in Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul Boyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Cold War: On the Brink of Apocalypse (Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2005) [audio book].
“The End of the Cold War,” in A Companion to Post-1945 America, edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
Origins of the Cold War: An International History, co-editor, revised edition (London: Routledge, 2005).

Miléna Santoro

“Influences réciproques: Le féminisme des années 70 en France et au Québec,” in Francophonie en Amérique: Quatre siècles d’échanges Europe-Afrique-Amérique, edited by Justin K. Bisanswa and Michel Tétu (CIDEF-AFI, 2005), 207-19.

John Tutino

“Globalizaciones, autonomías y revoluciones: Poder y participación popular en la historia de Mexico,” in Crisis, reforma y revolución. México: historias de fin de siglo, edited by Leticia Reina and Elisa Servín (Mexico: Taurus, 2002).
“The Revolutionary Capacity of Rural Communities: Ecological Autonomy and its Demise,” in Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, edited by Elisa Servín, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).

Major Works

Gay Gibson Cima

Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Denise Brennan

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

Lucy Maddox

Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline, editor (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (Oxford University Press, 1991).

Adam Rothman

Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Harvard University Press, 2005).
“The Domestication of the Slave Trade in the United States,” in The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, edited by Walter Johnson (Yale University Press, 2005).
“The ‘Slave Power’ in the United States, 1783-1865,” in Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, edited by Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Harvard University Press, 2005).

J.R. McNeill

The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 (University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
Atlantic American Societies from Columbus to Abolition, co-edited with Alan Karras (Routledge, 1992).

Eusebio Mujal-León

European Socialism and the Conflict in Central America (New York: Praeger, 1989).
The USSR and Latin America in the 1980s: A Developing Relationship (Unwin and Hyman, 1989).

David S. Painter

Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
Origins of the Cold War: An International History, co-editor (London: Routledge, 1994).
The Cold War: An International History (London: Routledge, 1999).

Miléna Santoro

Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).