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Teaching
Southern
Methodist University
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Spring
2012 |
Instructor,
Latin America in the Modern Period |
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Fall
2012 |
Instructor,
Latin America in the Colonial Period |
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2010-2012 |
Visiting
Lecturer, Department of World Languages and
Literatures |
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Fall 2009 |
Teaching
Assistant, Dr. Peter Bakewell, Latin America in
the Colonial Period |
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Summer 2009 |
Instructor,
History of the United States to 1877 |
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Fall 2008
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Co-instructor with Dr. John Chávez, History of
the United States to 1877 |
Teaching
Fields
Latin American
History, Borderlands, Mexican History, United States
History, Spanish History, comparative history,
colonialism.
Research
Interests
Borderlands,
Colonial Latin American History, Early U.S. History,
Colonialism in the Americas, Early Modern Spain,
comparative history, social history of religion,
sexuality.
Publications
Article: “Worse
than Pagans, Heretics, and the Devil: Franciscan
Missions and the Re-Christianization of Late Colonial
Mexico.” Under Review.
Article:
“Conferences on Theology and Indian Languages: A Program
to Train Missionaries in New Spain.” In From La
Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of
Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands.
Edited by Timothy J. Johnson and Gert Melville
(Berkeley, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History
Press), Forthcoming.
Book Review of “The
Inquisition in Colonial Latin America: Selected Writings
of Richard E. Greenleaf. Edited by James D. Riley.”
New Mexico Historical Review, forthcoming.
Book Review of
“Sarah Bronwen Horton. The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented:
Staking Ethno-Nationalist Claims to a Disappearing
Homeland.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
Vol. 115, Number 1, July 2011, pp. 101-102.
Catalogue of
Exhibition “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past &
Present,” June 16-July 3, 2011, Organized by the
Consulate General of Spain in Houston and Rice
University, pp. 1-25.
“Franciscanos
e indios en la Alta California española, 1769-1822.”
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Serie IV, 20 (2007), pp.
157-170.
Book Review of
“Robert C. Galgano. Feast of Souls: Indians and
Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida
and New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 2005.” Montanta: The Magazine of Western
History. Vol. 56 (Winter 2006).
Work in
Progress
Monograph: “‘To
Sin no More’: Franciscan Missionaries and the
Conversion of the Hispanic World.” (Manuscript will
first be reviewed by Stanford University Press and the
American Academy of Franciscan History, for a series
jointly published by the two presses.)
Article: “First Men,
Then Christians: A Historical, Anthropological, and
Theological Approach to Forced Conversions from the
Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century.”
Grants and
Fellowships
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Conference on Latin
American History, Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award,
2011
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Harvard University,
Short-Term Research Grant in Atlantic History, 2011
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Department of World Languages and Literatures,
Southern Methodist University,
Travel Grant, 2011
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Texas
State Historical Association,
John H.
Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History,
2011
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Academy of American Franciscan History, Berkeley,
Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008
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Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist
University, Doctoral Fellowship, 2004-2007,
2008-2010
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Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern
Methodist University, Interdisciplinary Research
Grant, Summers 2005-2009
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Office of the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies,
Southern Methodist University, Research and Travel
Grant, Springs 2007, 2008, 2010
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Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Friends of
Thoreau Fellowship, 2003
Invited
Lectures and Events
Borderlands Seminar,
University of Southern California-Huntington Early
Modern Studies Institute, Los Angeles, May 12, 2012.
Presentation of
Exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past and Origins.”
Saint Edward’s University, Austin, September 20-21,
2011.
Moderator,
Symposium/Historical Seminar on El Camino Real de los
Tejas: “Past: Origins and Development of El Camino Real
de los Tejas from the 16th to 19th Century,” Consulate
General of Spain, Rice University, Houston, June 17,
2011.
“Long Live the
King: New Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy in the age of
Carlos IV.” Exhibition Royal Splendor in the
Enlightenment: The Collection of Charles IV of Spain,
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
May 27, 2010.
“‘Para Servir a
Dios’: Franciscan Missionaries and the Propagation of
the Faith in the Northern Frontiers of New Spain,
1530s-1820s.” Symposium The Lady in Blue: Sor María
de Jesús de Ágreda: A University of New Mexico Homage,
Albuquerque, April 24, 2009.
Presentations
“Preaching Loyalty:
Mass Media, Religion, and the Political Discourse in
Bourbon Mexico.” Paper to be presented at the American
Historical Association, Chicago, January 5, 2012.
“First Men, Then
Christians: A Historical, Anthropological, and
Theological Approach to Forced Conversion from Medieval
Europe to New Spain” Paper presented at the Rocky
Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, April 7, 2011.
“Conferences on
Theology and Indian Languages: A Program to Train
Missionaries in New Spain.” From La Florida to La
California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan
Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands, Flagler
College, Saint Augustine, Florida, March 24-26, 2011.
“Propaganda Fide:
Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain,
1680s-1828.” Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain
Council for Latin American Studies, Boulder, Colorado,
April 9, 2010.
Co-Chair
with Dr. Olivia Gall, UNAM, of symposium “Identidad y
discriminación étnico-racial en América Latina: entre la
ley y la realidad.” 53rd International Congress of
Americanists, Mexico City, July 23-24, 2009.
“‘Limpios de toda mala raza’: Los franciscanos ante la
diversidad racial en México, 1683-1905.”
Paper presented at the 53rd International
Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 23, 2009.
“‘The Salvation of
All Souls’: Franciscan Popular Missions Among the
Catholics in New Spain, 1683-1828.” Paper presented at
the American Historical Association, New York City,
January 4, 2009.
“The Important
Business of Their Salvation: Franciscan Missions among
Christians in 18th-Century New Spain.” Paper presented
at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American
Studies, Flagstaff, April 10, 2008.
“Educating the Mind,
Saving the Soul: Franciscans and their Missionary
Training in the Colleges for the Propagation of the
Faith of New Spain, 1683-1830s.” Paper presented at the
Colonial Studies Colloquium, University of New Mexico,
March 23, 2007.
“The Empire
deficits: Macroeconomic perspectives in the United
States and their consequences.” Research Project,
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2002-03.
Service
2011-present:
Partner, Saint Francis and the Americas Project,
Hispanic
Research Center, Arizona State University.
2010-present:
Researcher and Collaborator, Consulate General of
Spain in Houston.
Researcher: “Survey
of Spanish Documents for the History of Spanish Texas in
Texas Archives, Libraries, and Collections,” Summer
2010.
Historical Curator
of traveling Exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past
& Present,” organized by the Consulate General of Spain
in Houston, and Rice University, Houston, June 16-July
3, 2011. The exhibit was held in Galveston and Saint
Edward’s University, Austin.
Discussion
Moderator, “Writing a Dissertation” Workshop, Southern
Methodist University, March 2009.
2005-present :
Researcher and Collaborator, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Other Professional Experiences
1997-2002
Mechanical
Engineer: Airbus España S.L.,
Madrid, Spain; Fordwerke AG, Cologne, Germany;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Sindelfingen-Stuttgart, Germany; Dr.
h. c. Ferdinand Porsche AG, Weissach, Germany; Rücker
GmbH, Sindelfingen-Stuttgart, Germany; FASA Renault,
Valladolid, Spain.
Professional
Affiliations
American Historical
Association; Conference on Latin American History; Rocky
Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.
Languages
Spanish (mother
tongue), English (excellent), German (medium), French
(basic).
References
Peter J.
Bakewell
bakewell@smu.edu
Edward F.
Countryman
ecountry@smu.edu
Martin A. Nesvig
mnesvig@miami.edu
Cynthia Radding
radding@email.unc.edu
Steven W.
Hackel
shackel@ucr.edu
John R. Chávez
jchavez@smu.edu
Carlos Martínez Shaw
cmshaw@geo.uned.es
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