CURRICULUM VITAE-- JAVIER VILLA

CURRICULUM VITAE-- JAVIER VILLA-FLORES
Address: 1153 South Harvey Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60304.
Phone: (312) 996-7270 ; (708) 524-3568
E-mail jvillafl@hotmail.com; javier@uic.edu
EDUCATION
2001. Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2001.
Dissertation: "Defending God's Honor: Blasphemy and the Social Construction of
Reverence". Director: Eric Van Young
1997. M.A. in History. University of California, San Diego, 1997.
1990. B.A. in Sociology. University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1990.
Dissertation: "Rationality and Irrationality: The Theory of History of Carlo Ginzburg".
Director: Fernando M. González.
POSITIONS
University of Illinois at Chicago
2013-to date. Director of Graduate Studies. Latin American and Latino Studies
2007-to date. Associate Professor Latin American and Latino Studies/Department of
History
2005-2007. Director of Undergraduate Studies. Latin American and Latino Studies.
2001- 2007. Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies/Department of
History
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
1998-1999. Research Assistant.
University of Guadalajara
1992-1994. Assistant Professor.
University of Guadalajara
1987-1994. Research Assistant
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association.
Latin American Studies Association
American Society for Ethnohistory
Conference on Latin American History
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Colonial Latin America
Colonial Mexico
Religion in Latin América
African Diaspora and Slavery in Latin America
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Social History of Language
LANGUAGES
Reading, writing, and speaking knowledge of Spanish and English; reading knowledge of Italian
and French; basic Latin and German.
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, GRANTS
2013. . Research Award from The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research. University of
Illinois at Chicago.
2012-2013. Residential Fellowship. Institute for the Humanities at UIC.
2009. Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture
and United States’ Universities to conduct research for a new book project.
2009. January to June. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The John Carter
Brown Library
2007, Feb. "2007 Teaching Recognition Program Award". UIC
2006, Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture
and United States’ Universities to subsidize the publication of my book, Dangerous Speech: A
Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico.
2006, Fall, Junior Faculty Research Grant. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. UIC
2005 December. Junior Faculty Research Grant. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. UIC
2005, April. Mendel Fellowship. The Lilly Library. Bloomington, Indiana.
2005, March. Junior Faculty Research Grant. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. UIC.
2003, May. Grant from Harvard University to present at the International Seminar on the
History of the Atlantic World “Transatlantic Networks, 1500-1825”, August 11-20, 2003.
2003, Feb. Grant-in-Aid. Institute for the Humanities. University of Illinois at Chicago.
2003. Nominee in the Junior Category for a National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer
Stipend.
2002, May. Research Award from The Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research (OVCRAAH). University of Illinois at Chicago
2002. February. Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIC to attend The
Summer School of Criticism and Theory. Cornell University, June 16-July 25.
2002-2003, January. Faculty Fellowship. Institute for the Humanities. University of Illinois at
Chicago.
2000, July. Society for Values in Higher Education. Mellon Foundation grant to participate in
the annual "New Teachers Workshop." The University of Colorado, at Colorado Springs.
2000, April. Short-Term Research Fellow. The Newberry Library, Chicago.
1999, July. Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow. The John Carter Brown Library.
Providence, Rhode Island.
1999, March. Brian Bertoti Prize for best paper at the Second Annual Conference on Innovative
Perspectives in History. Virginia Technological University, Blacksburg.
1998, July. Mrs. Francis J. Weber Research Fellow in Roman Catholic History. The Huntington
Library. San Marino, California.
1997. Dissertation Research Fellowship. Department of History. Univeristy of California, San
Diego.
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1996, July. U-C Mexus Dissertation Grant.
1996, June. Summer Research Grant. Department of History. University of California, San
Diego.
1995, April. Friends of the International Center Graduate Studies Grant. University of California,
San Diego.
1994-1997. Graduate Studies Scholarship. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico.
1994. Grant to participate in the Summer Seminar in U.S. Studies for Latin American Scientists
and Non-Academic Professionals. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. University of California,
San Diego (declined).
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2006. Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial México (University of
Arizona Press)
1995 Carlo Ginzburg, el historiador como teórico (Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara), 114
pages.
Book Chapters
2009. In coauthorship with Nicole Von Germetten, “Afro-Latinamericans and Religion”, for an
edited volume on Religion in Latin America edited by Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry. New
York: Orbis Books.
2008. “On Divine Persecution: Blasphemy and Gambling in New Spain,” in Susan Schroeder
and Stafford Poole , eds. Religion in New Spain (New Mexico University Press), 238-262.
2006. “Voices from a Living Hell: Life, Death, and Salvation in a colonial Mexican Obraje”, in
Martin Nesvig, ed. Local Religion in Colonial Mexico (New Mexico University Press), 235-258.
1993. In coauthorship with Cristina Padilla Dieste, "Frente a la tragedia la iniciativa ciudadana",
in Cristina Padilla y Rossana Reguillo (eds.). ¿Quién nos hubiera dicho? Guadalajara 22 de
abril (Mexico: ITESO), 117-134..
Working Papers
2003, “The Speaking Arts of the Devil”: Divination and Ventriloquism among Slave Women in
Seventeenth-Century Colonial Mexico”. International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic
World, 1500-1800. Working Paper No. 03-08. Harvard University.
Articles in Journals
2010. In coauthorship with Carlos Aguirre, “Los archivos y la construccion de la verdad
historica,” in Archives and Power in Latin America edited by Carlos Aguirre and Javier VillaFlores, Jahrbuch Für Geschichte Lateinamerikas.
2010. “Archivos y falsarios: producción y circulación de documentos apócrifos en el México
borbónico”, Jahrbuch Für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, special issue on Archives and Power in
Latin America edited by Carlos Aguirre and myself.
2008. “Wandering Swindlers: Imposture, Style, and the Inquisition’s Pedagogy of Fear in
Peripheral New Spain”, for a special issue on Imposture and Identity-Fashioning edited by me
for Colonial Latin American Review 17:2, 251-272 (revised and expanded version of
“Tribulaciones de una nariz”, published in Spanish in 2004).
2007. “El arte de hablar por el pecho: adivinación, ventriculismo y esclavitud entre mujeres
africanas en Nueva España durante el siglo XVII” Revista Itinerarios- Anuarios del CEEMI-
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Centro de Estudios “Espacio, Memoria e Identidad”- UNR, Año 1 / Nº 1. Rosario, Argentina.
2007. “Religion, Politics, and Salvation: Latin American Millenarian Movements”, special issue
on “Religion and Politics”, edited by Duane Corpis and Rachel Scharfman, Radical History
Review 99 (Fall), 242-251.
2005. "Talking Through the Chest: Ventriloquism and Divination among African Slave Women
in Colonial Mexico". Colonial Latin American Review 14:2, 299-321.
2004.“Tribulaciones de una nariz: Impostores inquisitoriales en la periferia de la Nueva España
en el siglo xvii*” Historica (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima),.28:1, 11-43.
2002. “To Lose One’s Soul: Blasphemy and Slavery in New Spain, 1596-1669”, The Hispanic
American Historical Review 82:3 (August), 435-468.
1993 In coauthorship with Cristina Padilla, "Para no perder la razón". Revista de la Universidad
de Guadalajara (Fall).
1991 "Proyecto de diagnóstico del movimiento urbano popular en la zona metropolitana de
Guadalajara en la década de los ochentas". Boletín Servicio Social Universitario. Universidad de
Guadalajara, 1-8.
Edited Special Issues
2010. Coedited with Carlos Aguirre. “Archivos, Poder e Historia en América Latina” (Dossier,
Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas).
Articles in Encyclopedias
2009. “Religion: Colonial Mexico”, Encyclopedia of Religion in America, eds. Charles H. Lippy
and Peter W. Williams (Forthcoming CQ Press , 2009). This is a substantial piece based on
recent scholarship on the topic. The article has 4,000 words.
2007. Article entry “The Mexican Revolution”, in Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice,
edited by Gary L. Anderson, and Kathryn Herr (Sage Publications). (2,200 words),
2007. Article entry “Anticolonial Movements in Latin America,” Encyclopedia of Activism and
Social Justice, edited by Gary L. Anderson, and Kathryn Herr (Sage Publications), (3,844 words)
2006. Article entry “Inquisition: Spanish America,” in Encyclopedia of Iberian and American
Relations, edited by J. Michael Francis (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio), 590-598. (4,000
words)
Articles in Cultural Supplements
2006. “El mercado latino de la muerte,” Contratiempo 41 (October),5.
1991. "La muerte encinta". Paréntesis 169 (May 12, 1991)
1991. "Apuntes sobre el juego y el saber," Paréntesis, 166 (April 22, 1991)
1991. "Sobre la geografía política". Paréntesis, 162 (March 18, 1991)
Translations
2010, Laurent Dubois, “Los cimarrones en los archivos: los usos del pasado en el Caribe
francés” (In collaboration with Carlos Aguirre), Jahrbuch Für Geschichtes Lateinamerikas
(Forthcoming 2009)
2010. Kris Lane, “Memorias robadas: Reflexiones sobre archivos, historia y poder”, (In
collaboration with Carlos Aguirre), Jahrbuch Für Geschichtes Lateinamerikas (Forthcoming
2009)
1994 Jeffrey Alexander and Neil Smelser (eds.), El vínculo micro-macro (University of
Guadalajara: Mexico). (In collaboration with Rodolfo Morán), 465 pages.
1991-1992, Carol M. de Ortiz, "Movimientos sociales de los oprimidos dentro y contra el
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capitalismo". Cuadernos 17-19 (September 1991-December 1992), 34-42..
1991 Carlo Ginzburg, "Verificando la evidencia: el juez y el historiador". Cuadernos, 15-16
(January-August), 63-70.
1993 Ariane S. Etienne, "El significado de la permanencia del objeto a diferentes niveles
zoológicos". Revista de la Universidad de Guadalajara (Summer), 68-74.
1990 Michel Foucault, "Una presentación de Michel Foucault por él mismo". Cuadernos 13
(September-December), 24-26.
Reviews
2009. Review of Daniel Castro, Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Indigenous
Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), The Hispanic
American Historical Review. Volume 89, Number 4, November.
2009. Review of Charles F. Walker, Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake Tsunami in Lima,
Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), Histórica (Lima).
2008. “American Exceptionalism and the Satanic Epic in the New World,” review of Jorge
Cañizares, Puritan Conquistadors (Stanford University Press, 2006), for A Contracorriente 5
(2008): 333-337.
2008. Review of Alejandro Cañeque, The King’s Living Image: The King's Living Image: The
Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico. (New World in the Atlantic
World.) (New York: Routledge. 2004), for Histórica, Vol. 30:2 (dated December 2006 because
of backlog) 137-140.
2007, Review of Bianca Premo, Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal
Minority in Colonial Lima (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina
Press), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (August, 2007), 321-323.
2007, Review of Claudio Lomnitz, Death and the Idea of Mexico (New York: Zone Books,
2005), for Hispanic American Historical Review 87(2): 403-405.
2006. Review of Ellen Gunnársdottir, Mexican Karismata: The Baroque Vocation of Francisca
de los Ángeles, 1674-1744 (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2004), and Nora
Jaffary, False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press, 2004), Colonial Latin American Review, 15:1 (June 2006), pp. 113-116.
2004, Review of Rafael Valladares, Castilla y Portugal en Asia, 1580-1680: Declive imperial y
adaptación (Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2001), in Portuguese Studies Review 12:1, 200201.
2003, Review of Charlotte Castelnau-L’Estoile, Les Ouvriers d'une vigne stérile. Les Jésuites et
la conversion des Indiens au Brésil, 1580-1620 (Lisbonne-Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste
Gulbenkian-Commission Nationale pour la Commémoration des Découvertes Portugaises,
2000). Portuguese Studies Review 10:1 (Spring 2002), 202-204.
2003. Review of Michele Janin-Thivos Tailland, Inquisition et Société au Portugal. LisbonneParis: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulkbenkian, 2001. Portuguese Studies Review 10:2 (Winter
2002-3), 150-51.
FORTHCOMING WORK
2013. “Gambling Against Leviathan: Bourbon Morality, Regressive Taxation, and the Royal
Lottery in Colonial Mexico” for Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds Colonial
Emotions: Affective Economies and Colonial Domination in New Spain (forthcoming New
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Mexico University Press)
2013. Javier Villa-Flores and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera,eds. Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial
Mexico (University of New Mexico Press).
2013, ¨Desde el infierno: esclavitud y salvación en un obraje de Coyoacán”, en Rafael Castañeda
García, ed., “Palabras de injuria y expresiones de disenso: aproximaciones al lenguaje
licencioso en la América colonial.” (San Luis Potosi, Mexico: El Colegio de San Luis Potosi)
2013, ¨El arte de hablar por el pecho: adivinación, ventriloquismo y esclavitud entre mujeres
africanas en Nueva España en el siglo diecisiete”, en Rafael Castañeda García, ed.
Afrodescendientes en el Mexico Colonial. (San Luis Potosí: El Colegio de San Luis Potosi, 2013)
Work submitted
2013.”When the Medium is the Message: Literacy and Millennialism, Tepic 1801”, Bulletin of
Latin American Research
2013. “God’s Name as Pharmakon: Perjury and the Political Theology of Trust in Bourbon
Mexico,” Inquisitio
Work in Progress
Articles
Article, “Views From an Invisible Mountain: Nationalism and the Sublime in José María
Velasco’s Valley of Mexico Canvases”
Article, “What is Voice?: Vocal Rapture and Religious Ecstasies in Colonial Mexico”
Article in coauthorship with Maria De La Torre, “The Activist and the Archive: Political
Competence, Memory, and Voice in the Mexican Civil Rights Movement in Chicago”.
Plotting a Fire: The Burning of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional and the Idea of a Self-Destructing
Archive,” for a volume on the Destruction of Archives in Latin America, edited by Carlos
Aguirre and I (under contract A Contracorriente Press)
Article, ¨Pro Patria Mori: Martyrdom and Patriotism in Late Colonial Mexico”, for a special
issue on Martyrdom in Colonial Mexico, edited by me (to be submitted to Relaciones).
Article, Defacing the King: Debasement and Money Counterfeiting in Bourbon Mexico (to be
submitted to Past and Present)
Special Issues
New Research on the Politics of Martyrdom in Colonial Mexico, for Relaciones (El Colegio de
Michoacán)
Edited Volumes
Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores, eds. Destruction of Archives in Latin America
(University of Oregon Press/A Contracorriente).
Books
Book Manuscript tentatively entitled, A Social History of Trust in Bourbon Mexico
Book Manuscript on "Ventriloquism, Possession, and Religious Ecstasies: Voice Dissociation in
Seventeenth-Century New Spain".
PRESENTATIONS
2013. April. Commentator for panel "What is Real: The Politics of Authenticity in Colonial
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Mexico".Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies
(RMCLAS). Papers by Susan Deeds, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, and Dana Velasco.
2013. April. "God´s Name as Pharmakon": Perjury and False Witnessing Before the Mexican
Holy Office". Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
(RMCLAS)
2012. ¨Sitting on a Time Bomb: The Burning of Mexico’s Cineteca Nacional and the Idea of a
Self-Destructing Archive" for the American Historical Association 126th Annual Meeting. Panel
on Destruction of Archives in Latin America, organized by Carlos Aguirre and Javier VillaFlores
2011. November. Commentator for the panel "Contested Spaces, Contested Identities: Exploring
Power and Resistance in the Modern World," in the Graduate Student Conference held at UIC.
Papers included: Jody Ginn, University of North Texas, “Texas Rangers in Myth and Memory”
Lies Lanckman, University of Kentucky, “La Chica Moderna Goes to the Movies” Lucas
Desmond, Tulane University, “Un Ratero Incorregible: Crime and the Law in Modern
Guatemala” James Mestaz, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Yaqui and Maya contribution to
Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940”
2010. January. Chair and commentator, “Space and Place in Colonial Latin America.”American
Historical Association. San Diego.
2009. November. “Marketing Excitement: Bourbon Morality, Gambling, and the Royal Lottery
in New Spain”, Newberry Library Latin American History Workshop.
2009. October. “When the Medium is the Message: Literacy and Rebellion in New Spain's
Northern Frontier (Tepic,1801)”. American Society for Ethnohistory Conference. New Orleans.
2009. September. "A Remedy and a Poison: Perjury and False Witnessing in Bourbon Spain."
Department of History, UIC
2009. May. “Perjury and the Political Theology of Trust in Colonial Mexico” John Carter Brown
Library.
2009. March. “Marketing Excitement: Bourbon Morality, Gambling, and the Royal Lottery in
New Spain”, for a panel on the History of Emotions in Colonial Mexico organized by Sonya
Lipsett-Rivera and I. RMCLAS, Santa Fe.
2008. October. “Wandering Swindlers: Imposture, Style, and the Inquisition’s Pedagogy of Fear
in Peripheral New Spain”, Department of History. University of Illinois at Chicago.
2007. “El archivo inquisitorial y los testigos falsos”, for a panel on Archivo, Poder, y Memoria
en America Latina organized by Carlos Aguirre and I. Latin American Studies Association.
Montreal.
2007, January, "God's Name as Pharmakon: False Witnesses Before the Mexican Inquisition",
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Atlanta.
2006, January, "Words and Bonds: Slavery, Witnessing, and Salvation in Colonial Coyoacán".
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Philadelphia
2004, March, “On gallows, Chickens, and Birds: The Career of an Inquisitorial Impostor in
Seventeenth-Century Ixmiquilpan”. Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin
American Studies. Santa Fe, New México
2004, January, “Talking Through the Chest: Ventriloquism and Divination Among AfroMexican Slave Women in seventeenth-century México.” Dean’s Seminar “Beyond Structure and
Agency.” Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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2004, January, “Performing the Inquisitor: Imposture and Identity Fashioning in SeventeenthCentury New Spain” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington,D.C.
2003. August.“The Speaking Arts of the Devil”: Divination and Ventriloquism among Slave
Women in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Mexico”. International Seminar on the History of the
Atlantic Wrold, 1500-1800.
2003, February., “Mujeres deslenguadas: Blasphemy, Sex, and Gender in New Spain,” Annual
Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Tempe, Arizona.
2002, November. “Talking Through the Chest”: Divination among Afro-Mexican Slaves in New
Spain. Colonial Latin America Workshop. University of Chicago
2002, October, “Look Who’s Talking: Ventriloquism and Divination among Afro-Mexican
Slaves in New Spain”. 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory.Quebec
City, Canada.
2001, May, “Blasphemy and Masculine Performativity in Colonial Mexico”, Feminism
Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium. University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon.
2000, June, "To Lose One's Soul: Blasphemy and Slavery in New Spain, 1520-1700." Paper
delivered at the Second Graduate Students Conference.University of California, at Riverside.
1999, August., "Blasphemy and its Social Consequences among African Slaves in SeventeenthCentury New Spain." Paper delivered at The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode
Island.
1999, March, "Views From an Invisible Mountain: Nationalism and the Sublime in José María
Velasco's Valley of Mexico Canvases." Graduate Students Conference. Virginia Technological
University.
1993, November, Commentator on paper by Araceli Ibarra and Fernando Leal Carretero, "El
templo de la Hermosa Provincia: Meditaciones entre lo estético y lo social." Symposium on
Pentecostal Churches. Guadalajara, Mexico.
1992, November, Commentator on Pablo España’s book, Determinismo y libertad en el
psicoanálisis (University of Guadalajara: Guadalajara, Mexico).
1992, July, "La creencia, lo imaginario y el campo de lo posible: herejía, institución y crítica de
lo concreto" in coauthorship with Rodolfo Morán Quiroz). Symposium on Religion, Beliefs, and
Institutions. CIESAS de Occidente. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Invited
2012. October. The Lottery and the History of Emotions in Colonial Mexico. Colonial
Intersections Conference. University of Maryland.
2012. June¨When the Medium is the Message: Literacy, Millenialism and Rebellion, Tepic
1801”, Conference on Indigenous Literacy. John Carter Brown Library.
2008. December, “El archivo de Víctor Cortés y los trabajos de la memoria”. Presentation of the
book La Marcha by Víctor Cortés. Casa Aztlán.
2008. October. “Mexico 1968: Memory, History, and the Archive”, Meeting of the Minds:
1968s, University of Illinois at Chicago.
2007. “"Indians with Superior Lights: Contagion, Conspiracy, and Rebellion in New Spain's
Northern Frontier", Conference on Violence and Genocide in Latin America, August 23-25.
2006. November. "Talking Through the Chest: Ventriloquism and Divination Among AfroMexican Slave Women", and "Through Eve's Open Mouth: Blasphemy and the Woman's Voice
in Colonial Mexico". Tulane University.
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2006, April, "Transculturation, Divination, and the African Diaspora in Colonial Mexico",
invited presentation for a conference on "Latest Research on Afro-Mexican History, Culture and
Relations". Part of the exhibit The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present.
Mexican Fine Arts Museum. Chicago.
2005. September. "¿A la voz del amo?: adivinación y esclavitud en México colonial". VII
Jornadas sobre pensamiento, cultura y sociedades coloniales, September 23-25. Santa Clara,
Peru.
2005, May, "Concluding Remarks", for "Transnationalism Symposium", sponsored by Latin
American and Latino Studies.
2005, March, "Volver por la honra de Dios": Spanish Warfare, Imperialism, and the Honor of a
god in Colonial Mexico". 3rd Annual Workshop on Constructing Difference in Colonial Latin
America. Connecticut College.
2004, May."On Gallows, Chickens, and Mares: Inquisitorial impostors in Seventeenth Century
Mexico". History Regional Workshop, The Kellogg Institute.
2002, February, “Blasphemy and Gambling in Colonial Mexico”. Invited presentation at the
Latin American History Workshop. University of Chicago.
2002, January, Commentator on a presentation given by Christopher Boyer at the Newberry
Labor History Seminar.
2001, March, “On Divine Persecution: Blasphemy and Gambling in New Spain.” Paper
presented upon invitation by Professor Susan Schroeder. Tulane University.
2000, April, "He Who Doesn't Blaspheme is Not a Man!": Blasphemy and Masculinity in New
Spain, 1520-1630". The Newberry Library.
TEACHING
LALS 501. Archives, Power, and Performance in Latin America.
LALS 391. The Politics of Memory in Latin America.
HIST 561: Memory, Power and the Archive in Latin American History
LALS 105. Introduction to Mexican Studies..
HIST 261. Latin America to 1850.
LALS 491. Latin American Millenarian Movements.
LALS 493. African Slavery and Diaspora in Latin America
LALS 278. Latin American History Through Film.
LALS 265. Colonial Mexican Society: A view from the Inquisition.
Independent Studies on a variety of topics, including:
--Race in Latin America
--African Diaspora and Slavery in Mexico
--Gender in Latin America
--Cinema, Food Studies
“Introduction to Sociological Thinking”. Universidad de Guadalajara. Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras. 1992-1994.
SERVICE for UIC
2012. Chair of Search Committee for LALS for a tenure-track position in visual culture and
media in Latin American and Latino Studies.
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2012. Member of search committee for the Department of History for a tenure-track position in
Latin American history.
2012. Fulbright review committee.
2011. Member of graduate admissions committee for LALS.
2011-2012. Member of LAS Fellowships committee
2011. Member of search committee for new director of Institute for the Humanities.
2011-present. Faculty member of the Honor’s college.
2011 Member of Probationary Review Committee (Simone Buechler)
2010. Fulbright Review Committee.
2008-2011 Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (3 year term).
2008 Spring. Member of Graduate Academic Committee, Department of History.
2008, organizer of conferences, exhibit, film series and other academic events on 1968: Memory,
Repression, and Exile (September-October)
2007 present, Faculty Subcommittee, Chancellor’s Committee for the Status of Latinos
2007 present, faculty advisor MECHA student association at UIC.
2006-2008, Director of Undergraduate Studies. Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC.
2005, Member of Search Committee for a position of Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies for
LALS.
2006, Advisory Committee for LALS
2005, Advisory Committee for LALS
2005-2006, Organizer with María Eugenia de la Torre of cycle of conferences on "Oral History of
Mexican Civil Rights Movement in Chicago".
2005 present, Member of Elections Committee, LAS.
2005 present, Member of International Studies Committee
2005, Member of organizing committee, along with Lynette Jackson, Stanley Fish, Gayatri Reddy,
Nicholas Brown, and Mark Liechty of Conference Religion in Our Times.
2005, Rockefeller Post doctorate Awards Committee
2005, Faculty Judge for Latino Research Forum.
2004, Rockefeller Post doctorate Awards Committee
2003-2004, Lectures in the Community Committee
2001-2002, Advisory Committee for LALS
2001-2002, Lectures in the Community Committee
2001 present, Undergraduate Advisory/Teaching Evaluation/Pedagogy Committee
Other
2008-2012 Member of dissertation committee Stephanie Baker, Department of History
2006-2011 Member of dissertation committee, Clara Herrera. Department of Spanish, Portuguese,
French, and Italian
2005-2012 present. Member of dissertation committee, Amy Galpin. Department of Art History.
2002 present. Reader several language examinations in Spanish for the Department of History, as
well as several examination for a major in Latin American History.
2001 present. Evaluator of several applications for the graduate program of the Department of
History at UIC.
SERVICE to larger academic community
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2013. Member of selection committee John Carter Brown Library long-term research awards.
2012. Member of selection committee NEH long-term research awards.
2012. January. Organizer with Carlos Aguirre of two panels on destruction of archives in Latin
America. American Historical Association.
2011. Organized with Professor María E. De la Torre (Northeastern Illinois University) of four
public forums on Oral Histories of Mexican Activism in Chicago. Each panel featured 3 speakers.
2007. March, Chair and Moderator of a panel with Silvia Malagrino, Alexy Lanza, Marching for
Change: Chicago in the Immigrant National Movement. University of Illinois at Chicago. (name
of panel).
2007, August. Organizer of a panel entitled “Archives, Power, and History in Latin America”,
Latin American Studies Association (Montreal).
2006,January. Organizer of a panel entitled "Before the Law: Testimonials and the Politics of
Witnessing in Colonial Mexico". Joint session with the Committee on Latin American History.
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Philadelphia)
2004, January. Organizer of a panel with David Tavárez on “Colonial Identities, Contested
Boundaries: Ethnicity, Gender and the Politics of Identification in Mexico and Guatemala”. Joint
session with the Committee on Latin American History. Annual Meeting of the American
Historical Association (Washington,D.C.).
2002, October 20. Organizer of a panel on “Colonial Racial Boundaries and Transgressive
Speech among Blacks, Mulattoes, and other groups in Colonial Mexico,” Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Ethnohistory (Quebec City, Canada).
1992, June. Organizer of seminar "Historia, narrativa y evidencia", coordinated by professor
Carlo Ginzburg. June 22, 23 and 24. CICS. Universidad de Guadalajara.
1988, September. Chair of conference panel "Los métodos del conocimiento II". Sept. 1988.
Centro Regional de Tecnologia Educativa. University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
1987, September. Chair of conference panel "Los métodos del conocimiento I". Centro Regional
de Tecnologia Educativa. University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
1986, September. Chair of conference panel "Revueltas a destiempo". Bookstore "El Kiosko".
Organized by "Teoria y Politica, A.C." Guadalajara, Mexico.
Other
Reviewer of article manuscripts for Colonial Latin America Historical Review, SELA, Estudios
Sociales (Mexico), Letras históricas (Mexico), A Contracorriente, Journal of Performance
Studies Journal of Early Modern History, Colonial Latin American Review, among others.
Reviewer of book manuscripts for Vanderbilt University Press, University of Nebraska Press,
University of Arizona Press, Georgia University Press, Penn State University Press, John
Hopkins University Press.
Member of editorial committee, journal Letras históricas, University of Guadalajara, México.
Member of editorial committee, journal Estudios Sociales, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Member of editorial committee, journal Inquisitio. Directed by John Chuchiak IV.
Member of 2005 and 2011 CLAH Prize Committee for best journal article on Latin American
History.