JEFFREY L. GOULD Department of History Ballantine 742 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-6934 Gouldj@indiana.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, 1988, Yale University M.Phil. in History, 1986, Yale University M.A. in History, 1984, Yale University Licenciatura in Latin American Studies, 1981, Universidad Nacional Autónoma (Costa Rica) B.A. in History, 1976, Yale College PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Co-Director, Center for Documentary Research and Practice, 2015- James. H. Rudy Professor of History, Indiana University, 2004- Project Director, Cultural and Linguistic Archive of Mesoamerica, 2009 2012 Project Director, Central American and Mexican Video Archive Project, 2005-2010 Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University 1995 2008 Professor of History, Indiana University, 1998 2004 Visiting Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1996 Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, 1993-1998 Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University, 1988-1993 Lecturer in History, Yale University, 1987-1988 Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma (Costa Rica), 1985-86 Instructor in History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, 1980-82 HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, 2016-17 New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities, OVPR, IU, 2015 Collaborative Research and Creative Activity, OVPR, IU, 23015 Mellon Short-Term Faculty Research Grant 2014. CAHI Travel Fellowship 2013 John W. Ryan Award for Distinguished Service in International Programs
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2012-2013 New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Indiana University, 2011 College of Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Indiana University, 2010 Technical Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Grant, Department of Education, Cultural and Linguistic Archive of Mesoamerica, 2009 College of Arts and Humanities Travel Fellowship, Indiana University, 2007 New Frontiers in the Humanities Fellowship, Indiana University, 2006 College Arts and Humanities Travel Fellowship, Indiana University, 2005 Technical Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Grant, Department of Education, Central American and Mexican Video Archive, 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2002 Arts and Humanities Initiative Fellowship, Indiana University, 2001 College of Arts and Sciences, Humanities Travel Fellowship, 2001 Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship, 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Grant, "Memories of Mestizaje in Central America," Co-Project Director, 1996-1999. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1995 (Declined). James Robertson Prize for Article, Conference on Latin American History 1994 Fulbright Fellowship (Research-Lecturer) 1995 Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities, 1991-1992 Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1990 Fulbright Research Fellowship, 1990 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998 Grants-in-Aid, Indiana University, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2001 NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1989 A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Yale University, 1988 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grant, 1984 Tinker Research Grant, 1983 Honorary University Scholarships, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, 1979, 1980 Books: PUBLICATIONS To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua (1912-1979), Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Aquí Mandamos Iguales: Lucha Campesina y Conciencia Política en Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1950-79, Managua: Editorial Universidad Centroamericana, 2008 (revised translation) El Mito de la Nicaragua Mestiza y la Resistencia Indígena, 1880-1960, San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica 1997. To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965, Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
El Orgullo Amargo: El Movimiento Obrero Nicaragüense, 1920-1950, Managua: Editorial Universidad Centroamericana, 1998. The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective, coauthor, Westview Press, 2002. Memorias de Mestizaje en América Central, La Política Cultural desde 1920, (coeditor with Darío Euraque and Charles R. Hale and author of several chapters) CIRMA, 2004. To Rise in Darkness: Revolution. Repression and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-32 (Aldo Lauria, co author) Durham: Duke University Press, 2008 Rebelión en la Oscuridad: Revolución, Represión, y Memoria en El Salvador, 1920-32, San Salvador, Editorial MUPI, 2008 (translation) Desencuentros y Desafíos: Ensayos Sobre la Historia Contemporánea Centroamericana, Editorial de CIHAC, San Jose 2016. Articles and Book Chapters: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Salvadoran Revolution, Journal of Latin American Studies 47:2, May 2015. Indigenista Dictators and the Problematic Origins of Democracy in Central America, in The Great Depression in Latin America, eds Paulo Drinot and Alan Knight, Duke University Press, 2014. Utopías Menores en América Central co-authored with Charles R. Hale, Boletín para el Fomento de Historia Centroamericano, 53, April-June 2012. Response to Anthony Pereira s Rural Social Movements in Nicaragua: Jeffrey Gould s To Lead as Equals in Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest, edited by Jeffrey Goodwin and James Jasper, Stanford University Press, 2012. La Palabra en el Bosque: El análisis histórico y el documental Mesoamérica. 54, 2012. On the Road to El Porvenir: Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador and Nicaragua in A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence in Latin America, editors Greg Grandin and Gil Joseph, Duke University Press, 2010. Camino al El Porvenir : Violencia Revolucionaria y contrarrevolucionaria en El Salvador y Nicaragua, in Izquierdas y Sociedad. Hacia una historia social en América Latina, edited by José Domingo Carrillo, Editorial de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2011 (translation). Solidarity Under Siege: the Latin American Left, 1968, The American Historical Review, 114:2, April 2009. Mataron Justos Por Pecadores: Las Masacres Contrarrevolucionarias, Trasmallo, 3, 2008. They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage : Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931, Hispanic American Historical Review, May 2004 (coauthored with Aldo Lauria-Santiago). (Translation in Revista de Historia, 2007) Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories in El Salvador, 3
Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: the View from the North, Edited by Gilbert Joseph, Duke University Press, 2001, 138-171. "Central American Historiography After the Violence" (coauthored with Lowell Gudmundson). Latin American Research Review, 32:2, 1997, 244-256. "Gender, Politics, and the Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th Century Nicaragua," Journal of Latin American Anthropology, 2:1, 1996, 2-30. Reprinted in Perspectives on Las Américas: a Reader in Culture, History, and Representation, ed. Mathew Guttman et al, Blackwell, 2003. "Y El Buitre Respondió: Aqui No Hay Indígenas:" La Cuestión Indígena en Nicaragua," Mesoamérica 30, December 1995, 327-354. "El Movimiento Obrero Chinandegano" and "Nicaragua Mestiza, Mas allá del Mito" in Encuentros con la Historia edited by Margarita Vaninni, (Managua: Editorial de la Universidad Centroamericana) 1996. "Memorias de Mestizaje en el Movimiento Campesino Nicaragüense" Entrepasados (Buenos Aires) V:9, pp. 85-96. "Nicaragua: La Nación Indohispana" in Identidades nacionales y Estado Moderno en Centroámerica ed Arturo Taracena and Jean Piel, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 1995, 253-268. "El Café, El Trabajo, y La Comunidad Indígena de Matagalpa, 1880-1925," in Tierra, Café, y Sociedad, editors Hector Pérez-Brignoli and Mario Samper, FLACSO, San José, Costa Rica, 1994, 279-376. "La Alianza Frustrada: Los Socialistas y la Oposición, Nicaragua, 1946-1950" Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 19:2, 1993, 51-69. "'Vana Ilusión!': The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1870-1924," The Hispanic American Historical Review, 73:3, August 1993, 393-429. Translation appeared in Taller de Historia (Managua) 6, 1994. Reprinted in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State, edited by Avi Chomsky and Aldo Lauria, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998) "Nicaragua" in Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948, edited by Leslie Bethell and Ian Roxborough, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 243-279. "La Raza Rebelde de Sutiava: la historia de una comunidad indígena 1900-1960," Revista de Historia, no. 21-22, January-December 1990, pp. 169-217. Reprinted in América Indígena LIII: 1-2 1993. "Notes On Peasant Consciousness and Revolutionary Politics, Nicaragua, 1955-1990," Radical History Review, 48, Fall 1990, pp. 65-87. "Estábamos Principiando. Un estudio sobre el movimiento obrero en Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1920-1949," Revista de Historia (Costa Rica), no. 18, (July-December 1988), pp. 93-162. "On Resistance and Participation in the Nicaraguan Countryside," Peasant Studies v. 15, no. 4 (Summer 1988) pp. 75-85. "For an Organized Nicaragua: Somoza and the Labor Movement (1944-1948)," Journal of Latin American Studies, V. 19, no. 3 (November 1987), pp. 353-387. 4
"For Their Skill and Resistance: Labor Relations in the San Antonio Sugar Mill, Chichigalpa, Nicaragua (1912-1936)" The Americas V.46, no.2, (Oct. 1989), pp. 159-188. "Amigos Peligrosos, Enemigos Mortales: Un análisis de Somoza y el movimiento obrero nicaragüense (1944-1946)," Revista de Historia (Costa Rica), July 1986, no. 12-13, pp. 19-65. "Por su resistencia y pericia": Un análisis de las relaciones laborales en el Ingenio San Antonio (1912-1936)", Anuario Centroamericano, V. 13, No. 1, (1987), pp. 25-42. "Sugar War: The Sugar Cane Cutters' Strike of 1887 in Louisiana", Southern Exposure, V. 12, no. 6, (November-December 1984), pp. 45-55. DOCUMENTARY FILMS Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932, 53 minutes, First Run Films/Icarus, 2003. Co-directed and Co-produced with Carlos Henríquez Consalvi Selected for screening at Latin American Film Festival, New York, February 2003; Toronto Latin American Film Festival, 2004, Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona, 2003. La Palabra en el Bosque (The Word in the Woods) 56-minute, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2011. Co-Directed and Co-Produced with Carlos Henríquez Consalvi. Selected for Screening at Latin American Studies Association Film Festival, Third World Film Festival, Cine las Americas Film Festival, New England Latin American Film Festival, Third World Film Festival, Boston Latino Film Festival Film Recognition: Scars of Memory, El Salvador, 1932 Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association, 2003 for Documentary Film Honorable Mention, Festival del Cine de El Salvador, 2003 for Documentary Film, La Palabra en el Bosque Nomination, Best Documentary, Queens World Film Festival, 2013 Selected Presentations (Film and Discussion) Scars of Memory: Yale University, UC Berkeley, Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Universidad Centroamericana San Salvador, Universidad Nacional de Chile, University of Pennsylvania, Trinity College, Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, University of Illinois, Tulane University, Duke University. 5
La Palabra en el Bosque: Universidad Centroamericana, Yale University, Butler University, University of Colorado, University of Toronto, Columbia University, Swarthmore College, Institute for Advanced Study, Embassy of El Salvador (Washington D.C.); Danish Institute Against Torture, Copenhagen; Instituto Mora, Mexico City, UC Berkeley PORT TRIUMPH Documentary Film Project WORK IN PROGRESS Desencuentros in the Port: Packinghouse Workers and Shrimp Fishermen in El Salvador, 1970-1990, Book Manuscript SHORTER ARTICLES Analytic Filmmaking as Social Science Research: a Response to Roy Romano, Perspectives on Politics, 12:3, September 2014. Memorias de Ambivalencia, Confidencial (Managua), March 31, 2014 Notes on Costeño Politics, Dialectical Anthropology, October 2012. The Capital of Salvadoran Memory: the 25 th Anniversary of El Mozote Massacre Counterpunch, December 2006. The Fifth Time a Charm? The Election of Daniel Ortega and the Frente Sandinista, History News Network, November 2006 Nicaragua: Reconciliation Awaiting Recovery co-authored with Laura Enríquez and others, Washington Office on Latin America (Washington, D.C. 1991) "Prospects for Labor in Nicaragua," Latin American Labor News Issue 2&3, 1990 "A Revolutionary Legacy," In These Times, May 1, 1991. BOOK REVIEWS Hector Lindo-Fuentes and Eric Ching, Modernizing Minds, Journal of Latin American Studies, 46:4, 2014. Justin Wolfe, The Every Day Nation-State in Bulletin of Latin American Research, 29:2, March 2010. Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810 1930 in Social History, Volume 34 Issue 3, 2009. Laura Gotkowitz, Revolution for our Rights, a Review Essay, Labor, 6:4, Winter, 2009. Richard Turits, Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime and Modernity in Dominican History, in Americas, January 2006. Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton, a Review Essay, Labor, 2005 Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2003. 6
Aldo Lauria-Santiago, An Agrarian Republic and Jennie Purnell, Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico, a Review Essay, Social History 2001. James Howe, A People Who Would Not Kneel, Journal of Latin American Studies, 32:4, November 2000. Charles R. Hale, Resistance and Contradiction: the Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 75:2, May 1995 Knut Walter, The Regime of Anastasio Somoza García, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 75:3, August 1995 Marc Edelman, The Logic of the Latifundio, The American Historical Review, 99:1 February 1994. E. Bradford Burns, Patriarch and Folk: the Emergence of Nicaragua, 1758-1858 in The Hispanic American Historical Review 72:4, November 1992. Laura Enríquez, Harvesting Change: Labor and Agrarian Reform in Nicaragua in Agricultural History, 66:2 Spring 1992 Phillipe Bourgois, Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation, in The Journal of Social History, 65:2, Spring 1991. Richard Salisbury, Anti-Imperialism and International Competition in Central America, 1920-1929, in The Americas, April 1990. Carlos Vilas, The Sandinista Revolution in International Labor and Working Class History, no. 32, (Fall 1988). KEYNOTE AND ENDOWED CHAIR LECTURES Ignacio Ellacuría y la Revolución Salvadoreña Memorias, instituciones, y desgarres: nuevas miradas a la Centroamérica Revolucionaria, Universidad de Costa Rica, November 2014 Between the Forest and the Trees: Subaltern Ambivalence, Revolutionary Misunderstanding, and the Struggle for Social Justice in 20 th Century Central America, The Lax Lecture, Mt Holyoke, October 2014 Desencuentros en las transiciones: Reflexiones sobre la historia centroamericana Contemporánea, XII Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, San Salvador, 2014 Scars of Memory: Mestizaje, Indigenous Resistance and Documentary Film in Central America, Canadian Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference, Kelowna, British Columbia, 2012 Sitios de Historia, Sitios de Vida: Reflexiones sobre 25 años de investigación histórica en América Central, Commemoration of the 30 th anniversary of the Graduate Program in History at the Universidad de Costa Rica, July 2008 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Entre el Bosque y los Arboles: Utopías Menores y Desencuentros en la Historia Moderna 7
Centroamericana Guerra y Pos Guerra en Centroamerica: Nuevas Preguntas y Debates Recientes, Instituto Mora, Mexico City, 2015 The Cost of Solidarity: The Salvadoran Labor Movement in Puerto el Triunfo and Greater San Salvador, 1979-1980, Global Labour and the Crisis of High Capitalism, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2015 Todo o Nada! Labor conflicts and the demise of the shrimp industry in Puerto el Triunfo, El Salvador, 1980-1990 Workshop: From the Proletariat to the Precariat, Indiana University, 2014 Ignacio Ellacuría and the Salvadoran Revolution, Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Chicago, 2014. Memories of Ambivalence: Workshop on Archiving the Central American Revolution University of Texas at Austin, 2014 Desencuentros in the Port: Packinghouse Workers and Shrimp Fishermen in El Salvador, 1970-1990, Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington D.C., 2013 "Los problemas de la historia y los documentales, Memoria de la Guerra Civil, Universidad de El Salvador" 2012. Indigenista Dictators and the Problematic Origins of Democracy in Central America, The Great Depression and its Legacy in the Americas, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 2011 Marxism and Liberation Theology: the Perspective from Morazán, Workshop on Latin American Exceptionalism, NYU, 2011. The Word in the Woods: Historical Analysis and the Documentary, American Historical Association Meeting, Boston 2011 Las Luchas por la Memoria y las Izquierdas Centroamericanas, Encrucijada Electoral en América Latina, una visión desde Académicos Norteamericanos, San Salvador, September 2008 The Politics of Olvido in El Salvador, Fifteen Years after the Peace Accords in El Salvador, University of Texas at Austin, April 2008 Buried Visions in the Sandinista Revolution, American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2008 Ethnic Conflict and Mestizaje in Western Salvador Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, 2007 Left Out: The Problem of Unacknowledged Strength, Economic Globalization and Community Development: El Salvador in Comparative Perspective, UT Austin, November 2005. El Mestizaje y las Respuestas Indígenas Salvadoreñas Workshop on Ethnic Identities in Central America, CIRMA, Antigua Guatemala, Februrary 2005 Between the Forest and the Trees: Notes on the Central American Left, 1930-2000 3 rd Annual Conference on Local Development and Participation, Oslo, Norway, September 2004 El Ocaso de un Idioma: El Nahuatl-Pipil en El Salvador Inauguración del Doctorado en Lingüística Indoamericano, CIESAS, Mexico City, 2004. 8
La Izquierda Centroamericana y el Problema Etnico, Historia y Perspectiva da Esquerda, Sao Paulo, August 2003. A Vision Flawed, A Massacre Foretold: Notes on Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence in El Salvador, 1932 Workshop on Rethinking Latin America's Century of Revolution, Yale University, May 2003. Hacia una nueva interpretación de la movilización rural en El Salvador, 1929-1931 Quinto Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, Panama City, July 2002 Towards an Understanding of Mestizaje and Conflict in Central America, University of Iowa Workshop on Race and Nationalism in Latin America, October 2002. Hacia un Marco Comparativo Para el Estudio de Mestizaje, Taller sobre La Nacion, El Colegio de San Luis Potosi, March 2001 Discussant, Transborder Peoples and the Intersection Between Latin American and Latino Studies, Indiana University, June 2001 Discussant, Paraguayan Indians and Authoritarianism Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington D.C., September 2001. Revolutionary Nationalism and Local Memories Workshop and Race, Racism, and Mestizaje, University of Texas, May 2000 Local Memories and the Left: 1932 and Cultural Politics in El Salvador Workshop on Nation-State Formation in Latin America, Oxford University, June 1999. "Memories of la Matanza and Mestizaje in El Salvador," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Chicago, September 1998. "Memories of Mestizaje in Nicaragua," "Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity" Indiana University, May 1997 "Memories of Mestizaje in Nicaragua," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997 Coordinator and Commentator, Mesa: Identidad Etnicas en las Sociedades Centroamericanas, Tercer Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, July 1996 "Memories of Mestizaje in the Nicaraguan Countryside, 1950-1965" "Making Sense of the World: Perceptions of Change in Mesoamerica and the Andes" Amsterdam, June 1996 "Memorias de Mestizaje y de Acumulación en las Luchas Campesinas Nicaragüenses," Encuentro Sobre la Historia Oral, Buenos Aires, October 1995 "La Supresión de la Comunidad y el Liberalismo en Nicaragua, 1890-1950," Encuentro Multidisciplinario Sobre La Nación y la Identidad" Managua, May 1995 "La Supresión de la Comunidad Indígena en Nicaragua, 1890-1940," Balance Histórico Sobre el Estado Nación, San José, February 1995 Discussant, The Eleventh Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History, Duke University, April 1994. "What's In a Name? From Ladino to Mestizo in Central America" Paper Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, Atlanta, March 1994. "Nicaragua: la Nación Indohispana" Paper presented at the conference, Balance Histórico del Estado-Nación en Centroamérica" San Salvador, November 1993. Discussant, The Tenth Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History, Duke 9
University, April 1993. "They Don't Care About Our History": The Indigenous Question in Western Nicaragua, 1920-1954," paper presented at the American Historical Association, December 1992. "The Limits of Ladinoization in Central America," paper presented as part of a roundtable on Central American agrarian historiography at the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, September 1992. "The Demise of the Central American Indian Communities: 1880-1950" at The Process of Cultural Encounter Conference, 1492-1992, Indiana University, September 1992. "Y el Buitre Respondió, Aquí No Hay Indios: La Cuestión Indígena en Nicaragua Occidental, 1920-1954" at the First Congress of Central American History, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 1992. "Nicaraguan Indian Communities, Rural Proletarianization, and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza" at the Conference on Latin American Labor History, Princeton University, April 19, 1991. "El Trabajo Forzoso y la Comunidad Indígena de Matagalpa, 1911-1924," Plenary session paper presented at the "Symposium on Agrarian Societies in 19th and 20th century Central America," Alajuela, Costa Rica, July 1990. "Dependency and Autonomy in Peasant Movements under the Somoza regime," XV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, December 1989. "A Thousand Sacrifices: The Demise and Survival of Nicaraguan Indians: 1880-1924"; Southern Historical Association, Lexington, Ky., November 1989. Discussant -- "Proletarianization during the Rosas Era," Sixth Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History, New Haven, Ct., April 1989. "La Raza Rebelde: Class and Ethnicity in Sutiava, Nicaragua 1920-1960." American Historical Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1988. "La Raza Rebelde: Notes on class and ethnicity in Sutiava, Nicaragua 1900-1970," Fifth Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History, Princeton, N.J., April 1988. Discussant -- "Women and Trade-Unionism in Central America," Fourth Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History New Haven, Ct., April 1987. "No me pida que los saque": The Somozas and Popular Movements in Chinandega, Nicaragua [1936-1979], Latin American Studies Association, Boston, October 1986. "Nuestro jefe se llama necesidad": The origins of the campesino movement in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1956-1963. Third Annual Conference on Latin American Labor History, New Haven, Ct., April 1986. "Somoza and the Labor Movement, 1944-1948", Latin American Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1985. "Somoza and the Labor Movement, 1944-1945", The Conference on Latin American Labor History, New Haven, Ct., April 1984. 10
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Advisory Board, Traces Senior Editor, The Americas Contributing Editor, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas Advisory Board, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2008- Advisory Board, Nuevos Mundos Co-Organizer, Desencuentros: Sovereignty and Neo-Anarchism Workshop, Indiana University, April 2012 Co-Organizer, Political Imaginaries in Latin America, Indiana University 2007 Board of Editors, The Americas (2002-07) Board of Editors, Hispanic American Historical Review (2002-07) Board of Editors, Journal of Latin American Anthropology (1997-2002) Board of Editors, Latin American Research Review (2002-07) Consultant, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador, 2000- Consultant, Asociacion Indígena de Nahuizalco, 1998-2002 Coordinador de Mesa, Fifth Central American Congress of Historians San Salvador, July 2000. Conference Organizer, "Racism, Mestizaje, and National Identity" Indiana University, May 1997 Panel Organizer, "Gender and Working Class Memory," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997 Program Organizer, Tercer Congreso de Historia Centroamericana, San José, Costa Rica 1996 Program Committee, American Historical Association, 1992-1993 11
Nominations Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1993. Program Committee, Conference on Latin American Labor History, Duke University, 1992-1993 Consultant -- Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Regional de Pueblos Indígenas), San José, Costa Rica, a branch of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (1990-95) Consultant Federación de Comunidades Indígenas de Nicaragua (Federation of Indigenous Communities, 1992-95 Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, at Austin, (1991-1992) Research Associate: Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Heredia, Costa Rica (1985-1986) Coordinadora Regional de Estudios Economicos y Sociales (1984-1990), Managua, Nicaragua Centro de Investigaciones Históricos de Historia Centroamericana, San José, Costa Rica (1995) REFEREE: Books: Duke University Press, Monthly Review Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Texas Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Oxford University Press, University of Wisconsin Press Journals: American Historical Review, Political Power and Social Theory, Americas, American Ethnologist, Contemporary Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Historian, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Contemporary History, Mesoamerica, Radical History Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Peasant Studies University of Michigan 1993 University of Chicago 1998 UCLA 1998 University of Texas at Austin 2006 UCLA 2008- OUTSIDE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES 12
New York University 2011 University of Michigan, 2014- INVITED LECTURES Universidad de Costa Rica 2013, Columbia University 2013, Yale University 2013, Institute for Advanced Study, 2012; University of Illinois, 2011, Case Western Reserve, 2011; University of Chicago, 2010; Universidad Tecnológica, (El Salvador) 2009, Universidad de Costa Rica, (2008); University of Illinois, 2006, University of California at Berkeley, 2004, Ohio State University, 2004, Tulane University, 2003, Newberry Library, 2002, Universidad Centroamericana, 2001-02,, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001, University of Pittsburgh (1999), The Kellogg Institute at Notre Dame (1998), The Mellon Seminar on New Nationalisms, New Identities, New Perspectives, Duke University (1997), Universidad de Mar de Plata,(Argentina, 1995), Universidad de Neuquén (Argentina, 1995), Universidad de Costa Rica, (1995) Ministry of Culture, Costa Rica, (1995), Illinois University (1994), Northern Illinois University (1994), Duke University (1994), Yale University (1993), Curso Superior de Historia de Centroamérica (Managua, 1993), Comité Histórico de Sutiava, Nicaragua (1993), The Rockefeller Lecture, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1992), Latin American Student Association, University of Texas (1991), History Department and Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991) Universidad Nacional Aútonoma de Nicaragua, Universidad Centroamericana (Managua 1990), Seminario Sobre las Luchas Campesinas (UNAG, Leon, 1990), Indiana University, (Diálogos) 1988, 1991, The Quadrangle Retirement Community, Haverford, Pa, Western Connecticut State University (1988), The Unitarian Church, Paramus N.J. (1984, 1988). TELEVISION APPEARANCES HITN (New York City) Discussion following presentation of Scars of Memory 2007 Channel 10 (San Salvador) Interview on La Palabra en el Bosque Channel 12 (San Salvador) Interview on To Rise in Darkness, 2009 Channel 10 (San Salvador) Hour long interview on To Rise in Darkness 2009 COURSES TAUGHT Indiana University: Undergraduate Lecture Courses: Colonial Latin American History Modern Latin American History Central American History Race and Racism US Interventions in Latin America Undergraduate Seminars: Latin American Labor History, United States Interventions in the Caribbean Basin; Race and Racism in Latin America 13
Graduate: Introduction to Latin American Studies Colloquium on Ethnic Relations in Latin American History Colloquium on Modern Latin America; Seminar on Latin American Social History Seminar in Comparative Social Movements Colloquium on Race and Racism in Latin America Seminar on the Promise and Failure of Latin American Revolutions. Seminar on Utopian Thought and Practice in Latin America Seminar on Yale College: Puerto Rican History Chicano History Caribbean History Central American History. Universidad Nacional Autónoma (Costa Rica): Central American Historiography Popular Movements In Latin America Agrarian Problems in Central America 20th Century United States History. Universidad de Costa Rica: Seminar on Social Movements and Collective Identities Universidad Centroamericana (Managua): Curso Superior, Ethnicity and Social Movements 14