New York University, College of Arts & Science, College Core Curriculum Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

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1 Joshua F. Frens-String Department of History GAR Inner Campus Drive University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS University of Texas at Austin, Department of History present Assistant Professor of History New York University, College of Arts & Science, College Core Curriculum Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow EDUCATION 2015 New York University, Department of History Ph.D. in Latin American History 2007 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B.A. in Latin American Studies & Political Science Phi Beta Kappa SCHOLARY PUBLICATIONS Books Hungry for Revolution: Food, Land, and Labor in the Making of Modern Chile, (manuscript in preparation) Refereed Journal Articles 2018 Communists, Commissars, and Consumers: The Politics of Food on the Chilean Road to Socialism, Hispanic American Historical Review (accepted September 2017; forthcoming in spring/summer 2018) 2011 Revolution Through Reform: Popular Assemblies, Housing Cooperatives, and Uruguay s New Left. In Contemporánea: Historia y problemas del siglo XX 2 (2011): Edited Collections & Volumes 2017 Co-editor, with Alejandro Velasco, Wall Off Trump: Confronting the Donald Trump Era. NACLA Report on the Americas 49.2 (Summer 2017) 1

2 2017 Co-editor, with Alejandro Velasco, Black Lives Matter Across the Hemisphere. NACLA Report on the Americas 49.1 (Spring 2017) 2016 Co-editor, with Alejandro Velasco, Right Turn: The New and the Old in Latin America s Right-Wing Revival. NACLA Report on the Americas 48:4 (Winter 2016) 2016 Co-Editor, with Alejandro Velasco, Free Trade 2.0: Confronting the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the New Extractivism as Latin America s Pink Tide Recedes. NACLA Report on the Americas 48:3 (Fall 2016) 2016 Co-Editor, with Alejandro Velasco, Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars. NACLA Report on the Americas 48:2 (Summer 2016) 2016 Co-Editor, with Alejandro Velasco, of Solidarity Pa Siempre: Rethinking Solidarity in the Americas. NACLA Report on the Americas 48:1 (Spring 2016) Reviews 2018 Book Review of Jeffrey Pilcher s Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food, Oxford University Press, In History: Reviews of New Books (forthcoming) 2017 Film Review of Carola Fuentes and Rafael Valdeavellano s Chicago Boys, La Ventana Cine, 2015 / Icarus Films, In NACLA Report on the Americas 49.3 (2017) 2010 Book Review of Edgar J. Dosman s The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, , McGill-Queen s University Press, In Contemporánea 1 (2010): Other Scholarly Writing 2013 A New Politics for a New Chile, NACLA Report on the Americas, September Particular Fragmentation in the Age of a New Globalization: An Opportunity for Deepened Democracy. In Journal of International Relations 9 (Spring 2007): ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS 2017 Humanities Research Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin 2014 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2013 Pre-Doctoral Summer Research Fellowship, NYU Graduate School of Arts & Science 2012 NYU History Department Summer Research Grant 2011 Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Grant 2010 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (São Paulo, Brazil) 2009 Henry McCracken Doctoral Studies Fellowship, NYU 2

3 2008 Visiting Scholar, Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) 2008 Visiting Scholar, Latin American Center for Human Economy (Montevideo, Uruguay) 2008 J. William Fulbright Foreign Research Fellowship (Montevideo, Uruguay) 2006 Center for International & Comparative Studies Summer Grant, University of Michigan 2006 International Institute Individual Summer Fellowship, University of Michigan TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2018 Assistant Professor, Chile: From Revolution to Counterrevolution, Department of History, UT-Austin 2018 Assistant Professor, Latin America and the United States 1800-present, Department of History / Latin American Studies, UT-Austin 2017 Assistant Professor, Latin America and the United States, 1800-present Department of History / Latin American Studies, UT-Austin 2016 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow/Instructor-of-Record, A Global History of Food, First- Year Seminar Program, New York University 2016 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, New World Encounters, Core Curriculum/Department of History, New York University 2015 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Contemporary Latino Cultures, Core Curriculum/Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University 2014 Adjunct Instructor, Historical Studies: Theory and Practice US-Latin American Relations in Historical Perspective, Department of History, New York University 2013 Teaching Assistant, Cultures and Contexts: Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Core Curriculum/Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED TALKS 2018 Cultivating Revolution: The Urban and Rural Geographies of Food in Chile s Popular Unity Revolution, Conference paper on the panel Political Contradictions of Extractive Development, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Barcelona, May 2018 (proposed) 2017 A Revolution Flavored with Red Wine and Empanadas: Chile s Popular Unity Revolution and the Politics of Food. Invited Talk at LLILAS Fall Lecture Series, September Chile: Legacies of Revolution and Dictatorship, Invited talk at UT-Austin/LLILAS Chile Fulbright Orientation, Austin, June

4 2016 What s in a Revolution? Broadening the Temporal Gaze on Chile s Popular Unity Revolution, Conference paper presented on the panel New Approaches to Chile s Popular Unity Revolution, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York City, May A Consumers Revolution: Basic Needs and Citizenship on the Chilean Road to Socialism, , Conference paper presented on the panel Everyday Economics: Food, Consumption, and Natural Resource Struggles in Twentieth-Century Latin America, American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January A Revolution in Consumption? The Politics of Food on the Chilean Road to Socialism, Invited Talk to the Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, December 7, A Revolution in Consumption? Food Politics and the Chilean Road to Socialism, , Invited talk to the Department of History and the Program in Latin American/Latino Studies, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 7, Paying the Price of Victory : Economic War and its Aftershocks in Chile and the United States, Conference paper presented at American (Inter)Dependencies: New Perspectives on Capitalism and Empire, conference, New York University, April Consumers, Commissars, and Communists: Building Chile s Price Control State in the Shadow of the Great Depression. Conference paper presented on the panel Post- Depression Histories of Social Welfare in the Americas, American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January War and Revolution in the 20 th Century: A Transnational Perspective. Invited paper discussant, Duke University, November Competing Americanisms, Guest Lecture, Cultures & Contexts: Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Core Curriculum, New York University, November The Consumer and the Commissar: Politicizing Price under the Chilean Popular Front. Conference paper presented at NYU-Yale-Columbia Graduate Student Retreat, New York University, October The Chilean Student Movement: A Primer. Guest lecture, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study Honors Seminar, October

5 2013 The Crowning of Injustice: Price Politics and the Passing of the Century of the Common Man in Chile. Conference paper presented on the panel Reciprocal Impact: Inter-American Capitalisms and U.S. Empire in the 20th Century, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Washington, D.C., June Pan-America s Quarry: World War II, Latin American Commodities, and Some Roots of the Postwar Order. Conference paper presented on the panel From Inter-American System to World System: Some Aspects of New Deal Economic Diplomacy Reconsidered, Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Francisco, May The Specter of Revolutionary Reform: The Alliance for Progress, the New Left, and the Containment of Uruguay ( ). Invited paper presented at the NYU History Department Prospective Students Weekend Works in Progress Conference, February The Specter of Revolutionary Reform: The Alliance for Progress, the New Left, and the Containment of Uruguay ( ). Conference paper presented on the panel The Alliance for Progress, Fifty Years On, 125 th Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Boston, January El Uruguay, la izquierda y la cuestión del desarrollo durante la nueva Guerra Fría en el Cono Sur, Conference paper resented at the Primeras Jornadas de Investigación del Archivo General de la Universidad de la República ( Ideas, saberes e instituciones del conocimiento ), Montevideo, Uruguay, October 2009 PANELS & EVENTS ORGANIZED 2016 Everyday Economics: Food, Consumption, and Natural Resource Struggles in Twentieth-Century Latin America, American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2016, coorganized with Jennifer Adair 2014 American (Inter)Dependencies: New Perspectives on Capitalism and Empire, Conference at NYU (with support of NYU s Humanities Initiative), April 2014, co-organized with Christy Thornton and Augustine Sedgewick 2014 Post-Depression Social Welfare in the Americas. Panel at American Historical Association/Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, January 2014, Washington, D.C., co-organized with Christy Thornton 2012 Inter-American System into World System: Some Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy Reconsidered. Panel at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, May 2012 San Francisco, co-organized with Christy Thornton 5

6 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2017 Executive Committee Member, Department of History, UT-Austin 2017 Salary Committee, Department of History, UT-Austin 2017 Curriculum Action Team, Department of History, UT-Austin 2015 Co-organizer, NYU College Core Curriculum Colloquium on Teaching and Learning 2015 Facilitator, NYU College Core Curriculum New Instructor Orientation 2014 Contributor, NYU History Department Graduate Student Teaching Handbook 2014 Manuscript Reviewer, Contemporánea: Historia y problemas del siglo XX 2013 Discussant and Panel Organizer, NYU History Department Friday Seminar Series OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NACLA Report on the Americas New York City Editor United Autoworkers (UAW), Local 2110 New York City Graduate employee organizer 2015 Radical History Review New York City Managing Editor The Hemispheric Brief Washington, D.C. & New York City Blog Publisher (in collaboration with OSI) Open Society Institute (OSI) Washington, D.C. Associate, Latin America Program National Security Archive Washington, D.C. Researcher, Chile and Cuba Documentation Projects 2009 Institute for Policy Studies Washington, D.C. Assistant to Co-Founder Marcus Raskin LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent); Portuguese (proficient) MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association (AHA) Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 6