Raymond B. CraibAssociate Professor

Department of History, Cornell University436 McGraw HallIthaca NY 14853rbc23@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, Yale University, 2001M.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994B.A., History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990

Publications

Books:Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004)

Published in translation as: México cartográfico: Una historia de límites fijos y paisajes fugitivos (UNAM/Inst. de Geografía/CISAN, 2014)Reviews: American Historical Review; The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History; Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Ethnohistory; Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina (Israel); Hispanic American Historical Review; Historia (Chile); Historia y Sociedad (Puerto Rico); HIST-GEOG; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Investigaciones Geográficas: Boletín del Instituto de Geografía (Mexico); Journal of Historical Geography; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Peasant Studies; Latin American Research Review; Progress in Human Geography; Secuencia (Mexico); Social History

No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms [co-edited with Barry Maxwell] (PM Press, 2015)

The Cry of the Renegade: The politics and poetry of subversion in Santiago, Chile, 1920 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016)

Articles, chapters, and review essays: “Decolonization and Cartography,” in James Akerman, ed., Decolonizing the Map (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2016)

“Decolonization and Independence,” in Mark Monmonier, ed., The History of Cartography: Volume 6. The Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Martirio, memoria, historia: Sobre los subversivos y la expulsión de Casimiro Barrios, 1920 (Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Colección Signos de la Memoria, 2015)

“Anarchism and Alterity: The Expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920,” in Maxwell and Craib, eds., No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms (PM Press, 2015)

[Republished in Geoffroy deLaforcade and Kirk Shaffer, eds., In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (University of Florida Press, 2015).]

“A Foreword” in Maxwell and Craib, eds., No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms (PM Press, 2015)

“Sedentary anarchists,” in Constance Bantman and Bert Altena, eds., Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies. Routledge Studies in Cultural History. (Routledge, 2014)

“The properties of counterinsurgency: On Joel Wainwright’s Geopiracy,” Dialogues in Human Geography 4: 1 (March 2014)

“Mexico City Modern: A review essay,” Scapegoat: Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy 6 (Spring 2014)

“Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge and Nations” (co-authored with Mark Overmyer-Velázquez), Hispanic American Historical Review 92: 2 (May 2012)

“The Firecracker Poet: Three Poems of José Domingo Gómez Rojas,” New Letters: A Magazine of Writing & Art 78: 1 (Fall 2011)

“The Life of a Map,” in Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, eds., Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

“Historical Geographies,” in Jordana Dym and Karl Offen, eds., Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

“The Archive in the Field: Document, Discourse and Space in Mexico’s Agrarian Reform,” Journal of Historical Geography 36: 4 (Oct. 2010)

“Students, anarchists and categories of persecution in Chile, 1920,” A Contracorriente 8: 1 (Fall 2010)

“Relocating Cartography,” Postcolonial Studies 12: 4 (Dec. 2009)

“El archivo en el campo: espacio, conocimiento y deslindes en la reforma agraria mexicana,” in Héctor Mendoza Vargas y Carla Lois (coords), Historias de la Cartografia de Iberoamérica: Nuevos caminos, viejos problemas (Instituto de Geografia, UNAM / Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografia e Informática, Mexico, 2009)

“Daniel Riquelme,” “José Domingo Gómez Rojas,” and “Mexican Liberal Agrarian Policies, Nineteenth Century,” all in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd edition, ed. by Jay Kinsbruner and Erick Langer (Charles Scribner Sons, 2008)

“Peasants, Politics and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography.” Radical History Review 88 (Winter 2004)

“Standard Plots and Rural Resistance.” In Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2003)

“A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 82:1 (February 2002).

“Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain.” Latin American Research Review 35: 1 (Spring 2000).

“Discurso cartográfico en el Mexico del Porfiriato.” In Héctor Mendoza Vargas, coord., Mexico a través de los mapas (Plaza y Valdés Editores y Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, 2000).

“‘Estas cuestiones no se terminan nunca’: Los límites de la propiedad en la sierra de Chiconquiaco, norte de Xalapa, Veracruz, a finales del siglo XIX.” Memorial: Boletín del Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz 3: 7/8 (January/August, 2000).

“Cartografía y conflicto en la sierra veracruzana: El caso de Las Minas, 1897-1912.” Boletín del Archivo General Agrario de Mexico 7 (July-September, 1999).

(with D. Graham Burnett), “Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish American War.” The Historian 61: 1 (Fall 1998).

“Re-‘covering’ Chinese in Mexico.” The American Philatelist 112: 5 (May 1998).

“Chinese Immigrants in Porfirian Mexico: A Preliminary Study of Settlement, Economic Activity and Anti-Chinese Sentiment.” The Latin American Institute Research Paper Series (The Latin American Institute and the University of New Mexico, 1996).

Exhibitions

Contributor: “Political contingencies and escape geographies.” Contingency Plans: or, Living with Unstable Grounds. Organized/curated by Adam Bobbette and Daan Roggeveen. University of Hong Kong/Shanghai Study Center, March 29-June 1, 2014.

Co-curator (with D. Graham Burnett): Insular Visions 1898: The U.S. Imperial Imagination in Image and Text. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, March-May, 1998.

Guides/Archival finding aids

(with Cynthia L. Brock), “Guía general del Archivo Técnico de la Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora de la Mapoteca Manuel Orozco y Berra (Mexico)” (1999)

Book Reviews

Edward Murphy, For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010. Journal of Historical Geography (forthcoming).

James Akerman, ed., The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire. American Historical Review (December 2009).

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina 19: 2 (July-December 2008)

Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. Investigaciones Geográficas: Boletín del Instituto de Geografía de la UNAM 66 (mayo-agosto 2008).

Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, et. al., Atlas ilustrado de los pueblos de indios: Nueva España, 1800. Hispanic American Historical Review 87: 4 (Nov. 2007).

Paul Vanderwood, Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina 17: 2 (July-Dec., 2006).

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and John M. Nieto-Philips, eds., Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 63: 1 (July, 2006).

Jens Andermann and William Rowe, eds., Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies 37: 4 (Nov. 2005).

Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58: 4 (July, 2005).

Susan Schulten, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. Investigaciones Geográficas: Boletín del Instituto de Geografía de la UNAM 55 (2005).

Paula Rebert, La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. Hispanic American Historical Review 83: 4 (November, 2003).

Stephen J. Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57: 1 (October, 2003).

Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, eds., The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest. Hispanic American Historical Review 80: 3 (August 2000).

Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio, eds., Mexico Under Zedillo. New Mexico Historical Review 74: 3 (July 1999).

Victoria Chenaut, coord., Procesos rurales e historia regional: Sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz. Hispanic American Historical Review 79: 1 (February 1999).

(with D. Graham Burnett) Barbara Mundy, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas . Cartographic Perspectives 27 (Spring 1997).

Awards and Fellowships

Institute for Social Sciences Theme Project Team Member, 2012-2015

Institute for the Social Sciences Faculty Fellow, Cornell University, Fall 2012

Brett de Bary/Mellon Interdisciplinary Reading Group Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2010-11

The American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, Fall 2007.

Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Service Learning, 2007.

Humanities Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2005-2006.

Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Spring 2005.

Faculty Fellow-in-Service Grant, Cornell University, Spring, 2004.

Eastern Michigan University Department of History Distinguished Alumni Award, 2004.

National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Summer Stipend Award, 2003.

Arthur and Mary Wright Prize (for outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United States and Europe), Yale University, 2001-02.

Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000.

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1998-99.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998-99.

American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, 1998.

Gertie Emily Gorman Webb Fellowship, Yale University, 1995-98.

Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies Summer Field Research Fellowships, 1996; 1997.

Yale Center for International and Area Studies Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, 1996-97.

Presentations, talks, panels (* by invitation)

*“The Cry of the Renegade: The politics and poetry of subversion in Santiago, Chile,” to be delivered as the Robert Marcus Lecture, Department of History at the College of Brockport, April 2016.

“Social history, anarchism and Latin America: 1950-2010,” to be given at the European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain, March 2016.

*“Anarcho-Capitalist Archipelagoes and Libertarian Enclosures: Oceans, Islands, and Beaches,” to be given at Bergen University, Norway, October 2015.

“Escape geographies and libertarian enclosures,” World Society, Planetary Natures: Crisis and Sustainability in the Capitalocene and Beyond, Binghamton University, July 2015

*“Escape geographies and libertarian enclosures,” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, February 2015

*“Subversive Santiago, 1920,” University of British Columbia, Okanagan, January 2015

*”Latin America and the Pacific,” Chile/Río de la Plata roundtable, American Historical Association annual meeting, New York City, January 2015

*“Santiago subversivo, 1920: El caso de Casimiro Barrios” Cátedra de la Memoria 2014, Museo de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos, Santiago Chile, November 2014

*“Subversive Santiago, 1920,” Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, September 2014

*”Ecologies of Property” and “Peasants, maps and countermaps,” Lectures presented at the National Endowment for the Humanities Mapping Nature Across the Americas summer seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, August 2014

*“Anarcho-Capitalist Archipelagoes and Libertarian Enclosures: Oceans, Islands, and Beaches,” Braudel Center, Binghamton Univ. April 2014

*”Ghost writers: History, Geography and the Routes of Cortés,” Rethinking Spaces in Latin American History, Yale University, March 2014

“Sedentary anarchists,” New York State Latin American History Workshop, Ithaca College, November 2013

*“Pedagogy and activism.” Mexican Studies roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2013

*“Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, politics and anarchism in Chile, 1920.” The Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, University of California at Davis, November 2012

*“Cartography and decolonization.” 8th Michael P. Malone Memorial Conference, Mapping History, Montana State University, October 2012

“Sedentary anarchists, misplaced ideas, and displaced histories.” Global anarchisms: No gods, no masters, no peripheries, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, September 2012

*“Cry of the Renegade: Poetry, politics and anarchism in Chile, 1920.” Janey Latin American Studies Program, New School, September 2012

*“Anarchism and Alterity: The Expulsion of Casimiro Barrios from Chile, 1920.” Desencuentros: Sovereignty, Revolution and Neo-Anarchism in Latin America workshop, Indiana University, April 2012

“No gods, no masters, no peripheries: Misplaced ideas or displaced histories?” The European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, April 2012

*”The Constant Sentinel: Casimiro Barrios, ‘Foreign Agitators,’ and Deportations in Early Twentieth-Century Chile.” Transational Americas Working Group, University of Buffalo, March 2011

“The Constant Sentinel: Casimiro Barrios, July 19, 1920.” Americas colloquium, Department of History, Cornell University, February 2011

*“Migration, Labor and Nation in the Americas: A Roundtable on Teaching and Community Engagement,” Conference on Latin American History’s Presidential Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2011

*“Decolonization and Cartography.” Nebenzahl Lecture Series on the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago, November 2010

*“Ghost writers: Landscape and narrative on the routes of Cortés.” Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago, November 2010

“Students, Anarchists and Categories of Persecution in Chile, 1920.” Americas colloquium, Department of History, Cornell University, September 2010

*“The Archive in the Field: Histories and Geographies in the Mexican Countryside.” Nuevas Fronteras: New Trends and Transformations in Modern Mexican History conference, Yale University, June 2009

“Subversive Santiago: Students and Workers in Chile, 1920.” New York State Latin American History Workshop, SUNY-Albany, April 2009

* “Subversive Santiago: Categories of Persecution in Chile, 1920.” Department of History, Binghamton University, March 2009

“The Killing of José Domingo Gómez Rojas: Santiago, 1920.” Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, September 2008.

*“Artificial Curiosities: Students, Anarchists, and Workers in Early 20th-Century Chile.” Telluride House Summer TASP Lecture, July 2008.

*“El archivo en el campo: Conocimiento, espacio, y cartografías mentales en la reforma agraria mexicana.” Symposium Campesinos y pueblos indígenas en América Latina y Chile, Siglos XIX y XX, held as part of the XVII Jornadas de Historia de Chile, Universidad de la Frontera de Temuco—Pucón, Chile, October 2007. *“The Killing of José Domingo Gómez Rojas: Santiago, 1920.” University of Connecticut Department of History Colloquia, September 2007.

*“The Killing of José Domingo Gómez Rojas: Poetry, Politics, and Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1920.” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami, March 2007.

*Guest Seminar: “Agriculture, Land, and Labor in 19th and 20th Century Mexico,” for the course Migration, Migrant Labor, and Social Movements in the Americas: Miami in Perspective, University of Miami, March 2007

*“Farmworkers,” for the Cornell Public Service Center’s Faculty Fellow-in-Service annual reception, April 2007

*“Fugitive Landscapes: Mapping Mexico in the Nineteenth Century.” Wolleman Family Lecture, The Cornell Club, New York City, May 2006.

*“‘If you don’t speak up’: Students, Workers, and Struggle in Early 20th Century Santiago, Chile.” International Planning Series Lecture, College of Art, Architecture, and Planning, Cornell University, May 2006.

“Time Passages: Nation, Nature, and the Persistence of Cortés.” New York State Latin American History Workshop, Syracuse University, March 2006.

“Time Passages: Landscape and the Persistence of Cortés.” Presented at the Comparative History Colloquium, Dept. of History, Cornell University, February 2006.

*“Time Passages: Nature, Nation and History in Mexico.” Telluride House Faculty Lecture Series, Cornell University, November 2005.

“The Archive in the Field: The Work of Agrarian Reform in Mexico.” Presented at the workshop on Social Histories of Space in Latin America, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, October 2005.

*“Time Passages: Nature, Nation and History in Mexico.” Workshop on Transnational Circulation of Landscape Narratives and Nation Building, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, April 2005.

*“Creating Space for Peasants in the History of Cartography.” Conference on Creating Space: Across Histories, Cultures, and Disciplines, Montana State University, September 2004.

*“Students, Universities, and Politics in Latin America: Four Points of Orientation.” Telluride House Summer Program, Cornell University, August 2004

*“Fugitive Landscapes: Border Fixations and the Limits to Land Division in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Department of Geography Colloquium, Syracuse University, April 2004

“A Topography of Rule: Situated Knowledge, Political Power and the Traverse Surveys of the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora in Rural Veracruz, 1877-1911.” XI Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2003.

“Mapping Mexico From Below (or, why peasants are also protagonists in the history of cartography).” The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Harvard University/University of Southern Maine, June 2003.

* “El discurso cartográfico del Porfiriato.” Guest seminar, Historia de Geografía, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 2003

*“Plotting a Revolution: Surveyors, Campesinos and Ejidos in Postrevolutionary Veracruz.” The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, February 2003.

*“Indians and Land Divisions in Nineteenth-Century Veracruz.” Guest lecture, History of Modern Mexico, Yale University, February 2003.

*“Geographic Practice and Political Power: The Traverse Surveys of Mexico’s Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora.” The Latin American Studies Program Speaker Series, SUNY—Binghamton, October 2002.

*“Spatial Histories: Locating Geography in History.” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Cornell University, June 2002.

*“Standard Plots and Master Narratives: Surveyors, Villagers and the Histories of Communal Land Division in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Department of Rural Sociology Seminar Series, Cornell University, February 2002.

* “Topographies of Rule: Traverse Surveys, Situated Knowledge and Political Power in Rural Mexico, 1880-1910.” Latin American Studies Program Seminar Series, Cornell University, October 2001

“History, Geography and the State in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2001.

“A Nationalist Metaphysics: History, Geography and the Carta General in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” New England Council on Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Amherst, Mass., October 2000.

“State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes in the Sierra Veracruzana.” Andrew W. Mellon Inter-University Latin American History Conference, University of Chicago, April 2000.

“‘Estas cuestiones no se terminan nunca’: The Limits to Land Division in the Sierra Veracruzana, 1869-1904.” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Miami, March 2000.

*“Cartografía y conflicto en el campo rural mexicano al fines del siglo pasado.” V Congreso Nacional de Historia Regional y Local, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, October 1998.

“State Cartography and Fugitive Landscapes in Veracruz, Mexico.” Graduate Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Work in Progress, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, April 1998.

“History and Philately: Recovering the History of the Chinese in Revolutionary Mexico.” 5th Annual Conference on the Chinese American Experience, New York University, October 1997.

“Immigration, Integration and Segregation: The Chinese under the Porfirian State.” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Ft. Worth, February 1994.

Panel chair and/or discussant activities

Chair: “Anarchists, Marxists, and Nationalists in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870s-1940s: Antagonisms, Solidarities, and Syntheses (III),” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, April 2014

Discussant: “Historical Resource Conflicts and Coordination: Political Ecologies of Past Landscapes 1 (Colonial Period)," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 2013

Discussant: “Borders, boundaries, and movements,” Science and Technology Studies Conference on “Imagining the Worst,” Cornell University, April 2013

Discussant: “Imperial and Sub-national Stories of Territorial Configuration in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Spanish America,” American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 2013

Discussant: “Mapping Colonial Frontiers in the Viceroyalty of Río de La Plata: Power, Politics, and Cartography,” New England Council on Latin American Studies conference, New Haven, November 2012

Chair: “Commercialization and Joint Ventures,” Second International Academic Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Cornell University, October 2012

Discussant: “Anarchist Imaginaries in the Americas: Subjectivities, Countercultures, Territorialities and Resistance Movements” European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, April 2012.

Chair/discussant: “Indigenous Governance,” Conference on Sovereignty, Indigeneity and the Law, Cornell University American Indian Program, October 2010

Discussant: Film, La Patagonia Rebelde (Latin American Studies Program), March 2009

Discussant: “Landscapes and the Place of Knowledge,” for conference Places of Knowledge: Relocating Science, Technology and Medicine, Cornell University, October 2008

Discussant: “Science and State Formation in Modern Mexico,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, September 2007

Discussant: “Making Colombian and Venezuelan Territories through Maps,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, September 2007

Discussant: “Issues of Race, Gender and Indigeneity in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2007

Discussant: Film, The Alamo (Latin American Studies Program), February 2007

Discussant: Film, Amores Perros (Latin American Studies Program), April 2007

Discussant: Panel for Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, February 2006

Discussant: “Archeology of Identity, Agency and Reclaiming Culture,” Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2005.

Panel chair: “Political Economy and Wartime,” Agricultural History Society Symposium, Cornell University, September 2004.

Commentary: Eric Worby, “Grasping an Elusive State: Practical Epistemologies of Power in Zimbabwe at a Time of Crisis.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, January 2001.

Commentary: Kathryn Dudley, “The Entrepreneurial Self: Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, March 1996.

Commentary: Cindy Hahamovitch, “‘In America Life is Given Away’: Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, October 1999.

Interviews

Radio: Stand Up Fight Back podcast, July 2015Televisión: Bio-Bio, Santiago, Chile, November 2014Newspaper: The Clinic (weekly) Santiago, Chile, November 2014Newspaper: La Segunda (daily) Santiago, Chile, November 2014Radio: NPR Rochester October 2014Radio: “Against the Grain,” KPFA Radio, San Francisco, April 2014

Professional Service

Advisory Board, The History of Cartography, Volume Five: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, 2009-present

Article referee: American EthnologistAntipode: A radical journal of geographyEnvironment and Planning A

Hispanic American Historical ReviewJournal of Historical GeographyMexican Studies/Estudios MexicanosMosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of

LiteratureNational Identities Political Power and Social TheoryThe AmericasThe Journal of World HistoryTransactions of the Institute of British GeographersUlúa: Revista de Historia, Sociedad, y Cultura

Manuscript referee: Duke University PressPalgrrave MacMillanOxford University PressUniversity of Arizona PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of Chicago PressUniversity of Nebraska PressYale University Press

Chair, Charles A. Hale Fellowship in Mexican History Committee, Latin American Studies Association (2014-15)

Co-Chair, History and Historiography Track, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York City, May 2016

Consultant for University of Connecticut Honors Program, for the creation of a new core service learning course on migrant labor, September 2007

External evaluator for tenure: Dartmouth CollegeIndiana University-Purdue University at Fort WayneMacalester CollegeMassachussetts Institute of TechnologyMichigan State UniversityMontana State UniversityState University of New York at AlbanyUniversity of Massachussetts at Amherst

Faculty facilitator, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship Workshop, Philadelphia, June 2012

Member, International Organizing Committee, Second Iberoamerican Simposium on the History of Cartography, Mexico City, April 2008

Member, James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2005-2006

Member, Bolton-Johnson Book Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2011

Organizer, Conference on Social Histories of Space in Latin America, Yale University, October 2005. Included 12 participants from North America over the course of two days at Yale University. Full funding provided by the Council of Iberian and Latin American Studies at Yale University and Cornell University Society for the Humanities.

Organizer, Workshop on Migrant Workers and Service Learning, Cornell University, April 2010. A workshop involving faculty from around the nation who teach service learning courses on migrant workers.

Organizer, Roundtable on Migration, Labor and Nation in the Americas, a Presidential Session of the Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association, January 2011.

Organizer (with Nancy Appelbaum (Binghamton Univ.) and Karin Rosemblatt (Syracuse Univ.)), New York State Latin American History Workshop, 2005--

Organizer (w/ Greg Grandin and Ted Bromund), 'Nothing so unnatural as the commonplace': Investigating the Boundaries of Narrative History, International Conference, Yale University, April 1996

Organizer (w/ Holly Case, Val Bunce, and Ken Roberts), Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Democracy and Social Movements in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 2006-07

Organizer (w/ Barry Maxwell), “Modern Revolutionaries: History, Theory and Practice.” Brett de Bary/Andrew Mellon Interdisciplinary Writing Group, Society for the Humanities, 2010-11.

Organizer (w/ Barry Maxwell), Global Anarchisms: No gods, no masters, no peripheries, Institute for Comparative Modernities annual conference, Cornell University, Fall 2012

Organizer and director (w/Chuck Geisler and Paul Nadasdy), Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes, Cornell University, 2013. A week-long intensive workshop for 12 abd graduate students from England, the U.S. and Canada, in the fields of history, anthropology, geography and government, working on issues related to the themes of ‘property’ and social life of land. Funding provided by Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences, the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures, and the Social Science Research Council.

Organizer and director (w/Chuck Geisler and Paul Nadasdy), Summer Institute on Contested Landscapes, Cornell University, 2015. A week-long intensive workshop for 12 abd graduate students from Scotland, the U.S. and Canada, in the fields of history, anthropology, geography and government, working on issues related to the themes of ‘occupation.’ Funding provided by Cornell’s Institute for the Social Sciences and the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Futures.

Evaluator, Social Science Research Council, IDRF Grants, 2007-10

Evaluator, Social Science Research Council, IDRF Grants, Preliminary review, 2012; 2013

Evaluator, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Chile), 2015

University/Department Service

Advisory Board, History of the Cornell Migrant Program, 2005-2007

Advisory Board, Olin Library Latin American Acquisitions, Fall 2009

Advisory Board:, Program for the Study of Contentious Politics, 2003-04

Advisory Board: Indigenous Cartography Conference, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, March 2006

Co-Chair, Comparative History Colloquium, Dept. of History, 2002-2004; 2006-2007; spring 2013

Co-founder and coordinator of Farmworkers, an interdisciplinary service-learning course on the world of migrant farm labor in the Americas and especially upstate New York, 2004-present (currently titled Migrant Workers)

College of Arts and Sciences Admissions Committee, 2002

Cornelius DeKiewiet Prize Committee, Spring 2006; Spring 2007; Spring 2013

Curriculum Committee, Latin American Studies Program, Fall 2008

Curriculum Committee, History Department (w/ Garcia, Tagliacozzo, and Case), Fall 2009

Department Search committeesEarly America/American Indian, 2002U.S. Intellectual/Cultural, 2003Modern Africa, 2006Colonial Latin America (chair), 2011

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of History, 2008-2010

Faculty Adviser, Student Farmworker Advocacy Coalition, 2002-2005

Faculty Adviser, Friends of Farmworkers, 2005-2007; 2008-10

Faculty Adviser, International Socialist Organization, 2009-10

Faculty Committee on Program Review, 2011-2013

Faculty Fellow, Knight Institute’s Study of Student Writing, 2003-2004

Faculty-in-Residence, Programa Michigan-Cornell-Penn, Sevilla, Spain, Spring 2008

Faculty Senate, Spring 2002-Spring 2004; Fall 2013--

Health Careers Evaluation Committee interviewer, 2004; 2007

Messenger Chalmers Prize committee (undergraduate), Spring 2003, Spring 2012

Messenger Chalmers Dissertation Prize Committee, Spring 2006

Participant, Future of the Humanities Roundtable, Spring 2005

Program Board, Latin American Studies Program, 2002-2008

Provost’s Sub-committee on Community Engagement, Fall 2009

Reader, Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Applications, 2003-07; 2008-10; 2012

Reader, Tinker/Einaudi/FLAS Grant applications for the Latin American Studies Program, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011

Small group discussion leader, Cornell Freshman Book ProjectFrankenstein, Fall 2003The Grapes of Wrath, Fall 2009

Steering Committee, Latin American Studies Program, 2005-2007; 2009-10

Outreach

Facilitator, Rubén Martínez’s Crossing Over, for The History Center Adult Reading Group on Recent Immigrants, Ithaca, May 2010

Panelist: “Migrant workers.” For the 3rd Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning Global Service Learning Roundtable, Cornell University, March 2010

Presentation: “Labor and Migration: Ithaca and Beyond,” Ithaca High School, April 2009

Presentation: “Labor and Migration in the Americas: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives” for the Current Events Series hosted by the

Cornell Educational Resources for International Studies, Tompkins County Public Library, March 2009

Panelist: “Supporting Re-Entry Through Engagement in Local Transnational Communities” for the 2nd Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning. Cornell University, February 2009

Panelist: Historians Are Writers roundtable, Cornell University, October 2008

Panelist: Post-screening of American Harvest, Cinemopolis, September 2008

Presentation/discussion: “Mexican History and Like Water for Chocolate,” Lehman Alternative Community School, October 2006

Panelist (with Ken Roberts, Dept. of Government): Roundtable on the recent Mexican elections, Latin American Studies Program, September 2006

Panelist: Roundtable on immigration sponsored by the Latino Living Center, Cornell, September 2006

Panelist: Roundtable on farmworkers sponsored by MeCHA, April 2006

Professional Memberships

Latin American Studies AssociationAmerican Historical AssociationConference on Latin American History

Dissertation committees:

CornellChairRyan Edwards (History), “Ecology and Exile: Earth and Elsewhere in the Ushuaia Penal Colony (1902-1947)” In progress. Funded by Fulbright and an IDRF from the Social Science Research Council

Kyle Harvey (History), “Mountains that Connect, Railroads that Divide: Mobile Subjects and the Transandean Railroad” In progress. Funded by Fulbright and an IDRF from the Social Science Research Council

Josh Savala (History), “Class and Nation Across a Shifting Border: The Peruvian-Chilean Maritime World, 1850-1930.” In progress. Funded by Fulbright and a DPDF from the Social Science Research Council

Co-chairJason Colby (History) “Jim Crow Empire: Race and U.S. Colonialism in the Caribbean Basin, 1865-1930” (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Victoria)

Susana Romero Sánchez (History). “Dealing with the Masses: Housing, Credit, and Urban Development during an Age of Reform in Colombia, 1935-1957”

Rebecca Tally (History) “At the Mercy of the Millers: Empire, Science, and Import Substitution in Colombia, 1930-1966” (Asst. Prof., LaGuardia Community College)

Suyapa Portillo (History). “Campeñas, campeños, y compañeros: Life and work in the banana fincas of the north coast of Honduras, 1944-1957.” (Asst. Prof. Pitzer College)

MemberWilliam Schmidli (History) “The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights in U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina.” (Asst. Prof., Bucknell Univ.).

Belinda Rincón (English) “Bodies at War: Genealogies of War and Militarism in Chicana Literature” (Asst. Prof., John Jay College, NY.).

Martín Oyata (Romance Studies/Spanish Literature) “Languages of Culture in Peruvian Literature, 1941-1944” (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Vermont).

Daegan Miller (History). “Witness Tree: Landscape and Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (Mellon Post-doctoral fellow, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison).

Julian Lim (History). “The Future Immense: Race and Immigration in the Multiracial U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1936” (Asst. Prof. Arizona State Univ.)

Pablo Pérez Wilson (Romance Studies). “Against Integration: Intellectuals, Secularization and the State.” (Post-Doc., Columbia Univ.)

Gregg Lightfoot (History). “Manifesting Destiny on Cuban Shores: Narciso López, Cuban Annexation, and the Path of American Empire, 1800-1859”

Mónica Salas Landa (Anthropology). “Living Among a Field of Ruins: Remnants of Violence and Revolution in the Northern Lowlands of Veracruz, Mexico” (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Univ).

Mark Deets (History, ABD).

Alberto Milian (History, ABD).

Alex Harmon (English/American Indian Program, ABD).

Outside of Cornell

Lina del Castillo (History, University of Miami.) “The Science of Nation Building: A History of Geographic Sciences in Colombia, 1808-1910.” (Asst. Prof., Univ. of Texas--Austin).

Ana María Sevilla (FLACSO, Ecuador). “El Ecuador en sus mapas: Estado y nación desde una perspectiva espacial.”

Nilay Ozok-Gündoğan (History, Binghamton Univ.) “The Making of the Modern Ottoman State in the Kurdish Periphery: The Politics of Land and Taxation, 184-1870.” (Asst. Prof., Denison University).

Ezer Vierba (History, Yale University). “The Committee’s Report: Punishment, Power and Subject in 20th century Panamá” (Post-doctoral fellowship, Harvard University).

Sandra Sánchez-López (History, Binghamton Univ.) “Practicing Journalism, Contesting Marginalization: Gender, Class and the Women’s Press in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia.” (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia).

William Veeder (History, University of New Mexico.). “El Metro: The History of a Monument in Motion.”