Social Life
People create and re-create communities, linked to each other by social relations that may be local, national, or transnational. Women, men, and children negotiate family life, and ethnic identities interact with racial prejudices that remain enduring legacies of colonial times.
Work in Progress
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.
Melissa Fisher
“Wall Street Women: Gender and Work in Global Finance,” book manuscript.
Chester Gillis
Two Shall Become One? Interreligous Marriage in America, book manuscript.
Dana Luciano
Unfamiliar: Nonsynchronous Sexualities, Narrative Form, (Trans)National Futures, book.
Angelyn Mitchell
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Writing, co-editor, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Lucy Maddox
An edition of the autobiographical writing of Josephine Waggoner (1872-1943), a Hunkpapa Sioux woman from the Standing Rock reservation who was, among other things, a translator and letter-writer for Sitting Bull. Her descendants have given me access to her unpublished papers and manuscripts.
Bárbara Mújica
Lettered Women: the Correspondence of Early Modern Carmelite Nuns, forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press.
Michele Swers
“Legislative Entrepreneurship and Women's Issues: An Analysis of Members’ Bill Sponsorship and Cosponsorship Agendas,” article invited to revise and resubmit at American Politics Research.
“Providing for the Common Defense: An Analysis of the Impact of Stereotypes Related to Gender and Military Experience on Defense Policymaking in the U.S. Senate,” article invited to revise and resubmit at the Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Making Policy in the New Senate Club: Women and Representation in the U.S. Senate, under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
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".
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.
“Taking Pears from the Elm Tree: A History of the Franciscan Missions among the Chiriguanos, 1830-1949,” finished manuscript sent to Duke University Press.
Adam M. Lifshey
“‘This Dreaming Intruder’: The Frontier Rewritings of Paul du Chaillu, a (French) (American) Pioneer in the West (of Africa),” article.
Chandra Manning
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War, forthcoming from Knopf, April 2007.
Joanne Rappaport
“Civil Society and the Indigenous Movement in Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca,” article.
“Génesis y transformaciones del mestizaje: Siglos XVI y XVII,” article.\
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.
Ronald Johnson
“Historic Black Neighborhood: LeDroit Park,” in the re-issued book Washington at Home, edited by Kathryn Smith, to be published in 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
The primary research effort of recent by Professor Johnson has been the completion, along with co-author Abby Arthur Johnson, of a book-length manuscript entitled “The First National Burial Ground: Congressional Cemetery and the Memory of the Nation.” This study examines the role of memorialization and historic preservation in 19th and 20th century United States. The book prospectus is now under review at various academic presses and the Johnsons hope to find a home for this work shortly.
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.
Michael Bailey
“Constraining Federalism: Formalizing Expectations about Redistributive Policies in Decentralized Systems,” forthcoming in Publius, Spring 2007).
Bryan McCann
"Two Tales of One City: The History of Community Development in 20th Century Rio de Janeiro," book project.
"The New Journalism under Brazil's Military Dictatorship," currently in preparation for a conference paper, and then publication in an edited volume.
Joseph McCartin
“A Wagner Act for Public Employees: Labor’s Deferred Dream and Liberalism’s Deepening Crisis, 1970-76,” article manuscript for the Journal of American History.
Collision Course: PATCO and the Fate of U.S. Labor, 1968-82; research project in progress.
J.R. McNeill
Epidemics and Geopolitics in the American Tropics, 1640-1920 (Cambridge University Press).
Joanne Rappaport
“Civil Society and the Indigenous Movement in Colombia: The Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca,” 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.
Adam Rothman
A book on the rise and fall of New Orleans in the nineteenth century.
Ricardo Ortiz
Testimonial Fictions: The Post-Dictatorial Mode in US Latino Literature, book (tentative title).
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.
Professor Palacios has done continuous research on the Catholic Church in Mexico and the United States since 1996. In 2006 he has expanded his research on the social doctrine of religion to include Chile as part of a project entitled “Free Trade Religion: American Civil Religions and the Formation of Latin American Leaders.”
Recent Publications
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.
—“Love Work in Sex Work (and After): Performing at Love,” in Between Love and Sex: Intimacies in Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by William Jankowiak, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
Melissa Fisher
“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).
“Wall Street Women’s ‘Herstories’,” in Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture, edited by Kenneth Lipartito and David Sicilia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Erick Langer
Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America, editor (Wilmington: SR Books, 2003).
Formulación de proyectos de investigación: Guía de procedimientos básicos para la formulación de un proyecto de investigación, co-authored with Rossana Barragán, Virginia Ayllón and Javier Sanjinés C. (La Paz: Proyecto de Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia, 1999).
“Contraband and Credit: Merchants and Miners in the South-Central Andes, 1830-1930,” in Consumption, Markets and Trade in Spanish America, 1750-1950, edited by Rory Miller and Colin Lewis, forthcoming from the Institute of Latin American Studies (2007).
“Bajo la sombra del Cerro Rico: Redes comerciales y el fracaso del nacionalismo económico en el Potosí del siglo XIX,” Revista Andina, 37 (2003), 77-94.
“Economic Development and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America,” Evaluation of Development Assistance for Indigenous Peoples (Washington, DC: World Bank-Inter-American Development Bank, 2002) [CD].
“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).
“A violencia no cotidiano da fronteira: conflitos interétnicos no Chaco boliviano,” Estudos de História, 13:2, forthcoming 2007.
“Indian Trade and Ethnic Economies in the Andes, 1780-1880,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 15:1 (2004), 9-33.
“Género y comercio a mediados del siglo XIX en Bolivia: El caso de Antonia Lojo, una acaudalada mujer indígena en Challapata,” in Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia: Anuario 2002 (Sucre: Talleres Gráficos La Gaviota, 2002), 107-129.
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).
Dana Luciano
“Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln,” in The Subject of Death: Configurations of Mortality in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Lucy Frank, (Ashgate Press, 2007).
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from New York University Press (Fall 2007).
“Bodies in and Out of Time: Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Sexual Politics of History,” in Philosophies of Sex: New Essays on The Hermaphrodite, edited by Renee Bergland and Gary Williams, forthcoming.
“Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven,” forthcoming as part of a special double issue on “Queer Temporalities,” edited by Elizabeth Freeman, in GLQ, 13:2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007).
“Love’s Measures,” contribution to roundtable on Brokeback Mountain, edited by Scott Herring, forthcoming in GLQ, 13:1 (Winter 2006).
“Loving the Alien,” in Queer Temporality, Queer Becomings, E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, eds., forthcoming.
Angelyn Mitchell
“Arthur P. Davis: The Literary Anthologist as Cultural Conservator and Cultural Worker,” CLAJ, 49:2 (December 2005): 127-143.
“Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia Butler’s Kindred," MELUS, 26:3 (Fall 2001): 51-75.
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.
“La présence des femmes dans l’enseignement de la langue et des cultures francophones au niveau universitaire en Amérique,” in Jeunesse et langue française: Créer, partager, entreprendre. Langue française au Canada et en Amérique du Nord. Actes de la XIXe Biennale de la langue française, edited by Roland Eluerd (BLF, 2002), 327-37.
“Presentation” and coordination of the special dossier “Voices in / on Memory: Tracing the Past and Facing the Future in Contemporary Women’s Writing,” Québec Studies, 31 (Spring-Summer, 2001), 3-7.
“Transforming Visions: Pedagogical Approaches to Léa Pool's Emporte-moi (Set me Free),” co-authored with Paula Ruth Gilbert, special issue of Women in French Studies (2006), 139-55.
“Writing and / in Mourning: The Legacy of Loss in Recent Texts by Madeleine Gagnon,” in Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s, edited by Roseanna Dufault and Paula Gilbert (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2001), 53-77.
Michele Swers
“Congressional Women: An Examination of Their Impact on Policy and Institutions,” published as part of a “Japanese and American Women’s Symposium,” Political Science and Politics, 34: 2 (2001): 217-220.
“Connecting Descriptive and Substantive Representation: An Analysis of Sex Differences in Cosponsorship Activity in the House of Representatives,” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 30 (2005): 407-33.
“Descriptive Representation in the United States: A Case of Institutional and Cultural Resistance,” in Women and Parliamentary Representation Around the World, edited by Manon Tremblay (Montreal: Remue-Menage, 2005).
“Political Science in a Different Voice: Women Faculty Perspectives on the Status of Women in Political Science Departments in the South,” co-authored with Laura Van Assendelft, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Julie Dolan, and Barbara Palmer, Political Science and Politics, 36: 2 (2003): 311-315.
“Research on Women in Legislatures: What Have We Learned and Where are We Going?,” Women & Politics, 23: 1-2 (2002): 167-185.
“Research on Women in Legislatures: What Have We Learned, Where Are We Going?,” in Women & Congress: Running, Winning, and Ruling, edited by Karen O’Connor (West Hazleton, PA: Haworth Press, 2002).
“Transforming the Agenda? Analyzing Gender Differences in Women’s Issue Bill Sponsorship,” in Women Transforming Congress, edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
“Whatever Happened to the Year of the Woman: Lessons from the 1992 and 2002 Elections,” Japanese Journal of the International Society for Gender Studies, 2 (2004): 7-31.
“Women and Congress: Do They Act as Advocates for Women’s Issues,” co-authored with Carin Larson, in Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, second edition).
Adam M. Lifshey
“Bordering the Subjunctive in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon,” Journal X, 9:1 (Autumn 2004), 1-15.
Chandra Manning
“Contraband” and “United States Colored Troops,” entries in Encyclopedia of Reconstruction, edited by Richard Zuczek (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
“Our Liberties and Institutions: What Union and Confederate Soldiers Thought the Civil War Was About,” North and South, 7:6 (October 2004).
“’Like a Handle on a Jug’: Union Soldiers and Abraham Lincoln,” North and South, 9:4 (August 2006).
“’A Vexed Question’: Union Soldiers on Slavery and Race,” in The View from the Ground, edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007).
Adam Rothman
“Hurricane Katrina and the Burdens of History,” History Compass, 4:2 (2006).
“This Guilty Land,” Reviews in American History, 33.3 (2005), 301-308.
Joanne Rappaport
¿Qué pasaría si la escuela…? Treinta años de construcción educativa, co-authored with Graciela Bolaños, Abelardo Ramos, and Carlos Miñana, (Popayán: Programa de Educación Bilingüe e Intercultural, Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca, 2004).
“Between Sovereignty and Culture: Who is an Indigenous Intellectual in Colombia?,” in “Framing Protest: Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (19th-20th Centuries),” edited by Michiel Baud and Rosanne Rutten, supplement to the. International Review of Social History, 49 (2004): 111-32.
“El espacio del diálogo pluralista: Historia del Programa de Educación Bilingüe,” in Políticas de identidades y diferencias sociales en tiempos de globalización, edited by Daniel Mato (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela [FACES], 2003), 257-81.
“El espacio y los discursos culturalistas del movimiento indígena caucano,” in (Des)territorialidades y (no)lugares: procesos de configuración y transformación social del espacio, edited by Diego Herrera Gómez and Carlo Emilio Piazzini S. (Medellín: La Carreta Social-Universidad de Antioquia [Instituto de Estudios Regionales], 2006), 247-259.
“Escritura y convenciones literarias: Los retos de la intelectualidad indígena,” in La etnoeducación en la construcción de los sentidos sociales (Popayán: Universidad del Cauca-Instituto Caro y Cuero-CCELA-PROEIB Andes, 2003), 107-19.
“Imaginando una nación pluralista: Intelectuales y la jurisdicción especial indígena,” Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 39 (2004): 105-38.
“Imagining Colonial Culture,” Ethnohistory, 49: 3 (2002): 687-701.
“Investigación y pluralismo étnico: El encuentro académico-indígena,” in Utopía para los excluidos: El multiculturalismo en África y América Latina, edited by Jaime Arocha (Bogotá: Facultad de Ciencias Humanas UN, 2004), 261-85.
“Manuel Quintín Lame hoy,” in Manuel Quintín Lame, Los pensamientos del indio que se educó dentro de las selvas colombianas (Cali and Popayán: Universidad del Valle-Universidad del Cauca, 2004), 51-101.
“Redrawing the Nation: Indigenous Intellectuals and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia,” in After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas, edited by Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 310-46.
“The Indigenous Public Voice: The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Indigenous Cauca,” co-authored with David D. Gow, in Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America, edited by Kay B. Warren and Jean Jackson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 47-80.
“Una historia colaborativa: Retos para el diálogo indígena-académico,” co-authored with Abelardo Ramos Pacho, Historia Crítica, 29 (2005): 39-62. Bogotá.
Retornando la mirada: Una investigación colaborativa interétnica sobre el Cauca a la entrada del milenio, editor (Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2005).
Lucy Maddox
“Politics, Performance, and Indian Identity,” American Studies International, xl: 2 (June 2002), 7-36.
“American Indians, Civilized Performance, and the Question of Rights,” Comparative American Studies, 1: 3 (2003), 315-325.
“Questions of Class in Contemporary American Indian Women’s Writing,” in Feminine Identities, edited by Luisa Maria Flora, Teresa F.A. Alves, and Teresa Cid, (EdiHtes Colibri, 2003), 161-178.
“Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Primer,” in Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works, edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson (University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Michael Bailey
“Welfare Migration and the Multifaceted Decision to Move,” American Political Science Review, 99: 1 (February 2005): 125- 135.
“A Wider Race? Interstate Competition Across Health and Welfare Programs,” co-authored with Mark Rom, Journal of Politics, 66: 2 (May, 2004): 326-347.
Joseph McCartin
“‘Fire the Hell Out of Them’: Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s,” Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 2:3 (Fall 2005): 67-92.
“Approaching Extinction?: The Declining Use of the Strike Weapon in the United States, 1945-2000,” in The Strike in International Context, edited by Sjaak van der Velden, forthcoming form Aksant Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2007.
“Assessing the Legacy of the PATCO Strike Twenty-Five Years Later,” forthcoming in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 2006.
“Bringing the State’s Workers In: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced U.S. Labor Historiography,” Labor History, 47:1 (February 2006): 73-94.
“Democratizing the Demand for Workers’ Rights: Toward a Re-Framing of Labor’s Argument,” and “Reply to Lance Compa and Sheldon Friedman,” Dissent (Winter 2005): 61-66, 70-71.
“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.
“Labor,” in Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century America, edited by Stephen J. Whitfield (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 249-265.
“Managing Discontent: The Life and Career of Leamon Hood, Black Public Employee Union Activist,” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation, edited by Eric Arnesen, forthcoming from University of Illinois Press, 2007.
“Public Sector Labor Activism: The Unheralded 1960s Movement,” in Heather Thompson, Speaking Out with Many Voices: Documenting American Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s, forthcoming from Prentice Hall, 2007.
“Re-Framing the Crisis of U.S. Labor: Rights, Democracy, and Political Economy,” Labour/Le Travail, forthcoming Spring 2007.
“The PATCO Strike and Permanent Replacement,” forthcoming in Perspectives on Work (of the Labor and Employment Relations Association), 2006.
“Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Crisis of Labor Liberalism,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, edited by Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, 2007.
“What Happened to Industrial Democracy? Thinking Beyond the Current Rights-Based Defense of Organized Labor in the Workplace,” Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, 14 (Winter 2004): 19-40.
“Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal,” co-authored with James P. McCartin, forthcoming in Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 4:1 (Spring 2007).
John Tutino
“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).
“Comunidad, independencia y nación: Las participaciones populares en las historias de Mexico, Guatemala, y el Perú,” in Los retos de la etnicidad en los estados nacion del siglo XXI, edited by Leticia Reina (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 2000), 125-151.
“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).
Chandra Manning
“The Confederate Army,” in Reader’s Guide to Military History, edited by Charles Messenger (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001).
Joseph Palacios
“Reconfiguring American Civil Religion: The Triumph of Values,” Contemporary Sociology, 35: 4 (2006): 351-354.
Major Works
Erick Langer
Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880- 1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989).
Lucy Maddox
Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (Oxford University Press, 1991).
Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).
Angelyn Mitchell
The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, editor (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
Joseph Palacios
“Oakland Community Organizations' 'Faith in Action': Locating the Grassroots Social Justice Mission,” in: Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary, edited by Kathleen Maas Weigert and Alexia Kelley (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
“Reading Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography with a General Overview,” co-authored with Moira Alexandra Perez, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, Working Paper B 002. October 1999, website: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/pubs.html.
Joanne Rappaport
The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, Duke University Press, 1998; Spanish translation, Popayán: Universidad del Cauca, 2000).
Cumbe Reborn: An Andean Ethnography of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994; Spanish translation, Bogotá and Popayán: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia-Universidad del Cauca, 2005).
Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Dialogue in Colombia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
Adam Rothman
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Harvard 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).
“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).
John Tutino
From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
“The Revolution in Mexican Independence: Insurgency and the Negotiation of Property, Production, and Patriarchy in the Baíio, 1800-1855,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 78: 3 (1998): 367-418.
Bryan McCann
Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).
Joseph McCartin
Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, editor and introduction, abridged edition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
American Labor: A Documentary History, co-edited with Melvyn Dubofsky (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004).
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
The Cuban University Under the Revolution (University of Miami-Institute of Inter-American Studies, 1988).
“Latin American Politics and Society: A ‘New’ Cultural Research Agenda?,” published as a special issue of the journal World Affairs (Fall 1987).
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).
Michele Swers
The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congress (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence, co-edited with Julie Dolan and Melissa Deckman (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006).
Miléna Santoro
Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).
Ricardo Ortiz
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
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