DOUGLAS W. RICHMOND

PROFESSOR

 

OFFICE ADDRESS                                                     HOME ADDRESS

            Department of History                                            5608 Atlantis Terrace
            University of Texas at Arlington                               Arlington , Texas 76016
            Box 19529                                                             Telephone:  (817) 457-0720
           Arlington , Texas 76019-0529
           Telephone:  (817) 272-2901
           Fax:  (817) 272-2852
           E-mail:  richmond@uta.edu

EDUCATION

            B.A.,  University of Washington , 1968 (History)
            M.A.,  University of Washington , 1971 (History
            Ph.D., University of Washington , 1976 (History)

            Fields:

            Modern Latin America
            Colonial Latin America and Brazil
            Modern Spain
            U.S. Foreign Policy

TEACHING EXPERIENCE  

            Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington , Summer, 1992 to present
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington , Fall, 1982 to Summer, 1992
Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington , Fall, 1976 to Spring, 1982

COURSES TAUGHT

            United States History Survey (since 1865)
History of Mexico
History of Modern Latin America
History of Colonial Latin America
History of Brazil
History of Spain and Portugal
History of Mexican-Americans
Introduction to Historical Research
Latin American History Colloquium
Colloquium on Post-1500 European History
Seminar in Regional History of the United States
Seminar in Latin American History
World War II
Seminar in Transatlantic History
Colloquium in Transatlantic History

SERVICE

            International

            Comité Académico, Coloquio Internacional de la Revolución Mexicana Ayer,
          Hoy y Perspectivas in Mexico City, June 20-23, 2000
Program Chair,
          1998 meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Havana
Commencement address, University of Nuevo Leon,  May, 2004                

            National

                     Scholarship Committee, 1992-1995,
               Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
         Program Chair,
               1986 meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Fort Worth .

           University

                     Chair, Latin American Studies Committee (1976-83)
         Committee on Student Organizations (1978-86)
         Personnel Benefits Committee (1989-91)
         Speaker, University Lecture Series (1990)
         Ad Hoc Committee on University-Wide Core Curriculum (1990-92)
         Traffic and Parking Appeals Committee (1991-94)
        
Executive Committee, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies
                      and the History of Cartography (1991-1998)
         Chair, Center Fellows, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies (1991-1998)
         Chair, Program and Research Committee, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies (1991-present)
          Mentor Program (1992-95), Office of Multicultural Services
          McNair Research Fellowship Program (1994)(2001)(2003)
          Hispanic Community at UTA (1996-97)
          Center for Mexican American Studies Faculty Advisory Group (1994-96)
          Mexican American Library Advisory Committee (1996-1997)
          Search Committee, Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (1997-98)
          Distinguished Lecture Series, 1997-2002

           College

                     Chairman Review (1987)
         Research Committee (1995-96)

            Department

                     Library Committee (1976-83) (1989-98)
         Curriculum Committee (1976-79, 1980-82, 1988-95)
         Webb Lectures Committee (1977-78, 1984-87)
          Recruitment Committee (1977-78, 1983-84, 1990-91, 1992-93) (1995-96, 2004-2006)
          Tenure and Promotion Committee
              (1978-79, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1996-97, 2000, 2002-2003)
          High School Teaching Committee (1983-85)
          History Fair Committee (1983-85)
          Graduate Studies Committee (1983-2002)
          Newsletter (1985-86)
          Piper/Other Nominations (1988-90)
          Long-Range Planning (1989-90)
          Research Enhancement & Nominations (1979-80, 1982-83, 1990-92, 1995-96, 1999-2002)
          Executive Committee (1992-94)
          Garrett Committee, (1996-1998)
          Media Committee (1992-95, 1997-98)
          History 3300 Review (1999-2000)
          Transatlantic Committee (1999-2003)
          Phi Alpha Theta (1999-2007)
          Grievance (2001-2002); Chair, 2002-2003

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

            Conference on Latin American History
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
Southern Historical Association

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2001                         The Mexican Nation: Historical Continuity and Modern Change Upper Saddle River , NJ :  Prentice-Hall. (author)

2000                         Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexico War, 1846-1848 Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press (co-editor).

1996                   La frontera México-Estados Unidos durante la época revolucionaria, 1910-1920 Saltillo , Mexico :  Gobierno del Estado de Coahuíla. (Compiler)

1989                   Carlos Pellegrini and the Crisis of the Argentine Elites, 1880-1916 New York : Praeger.  (author)

1986                   Essays on the Mexican War College Station : Texas A & M University Press.  (editor)

1986                   La lucha nacionalista de Venustiano Carranza, 1893-1920 Mexico City :  Fondo de Cultura Económica.  (translation)

1983                   Venustiano Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, 1893-1920 Lincoln University of Nebraska Press.  (author)

1979                   Essays on the Mexican Revolution.  Revisionist Views of the Leaders Austin University of Texas Press.  (co-editor)

Articles and Essays

2007                      “Africa’s Initial Encounter with Texas :  The Significance of Afro-Tejanos in Colonial Tejas, 1528-1821.”  By the Bulletin of Latin American Research 26:2, 200-221.

2006                   “A Conservative Prophet Confronts the Northern Menace:  Lucas Alaman and the U.S.-Mexican Conflict, 1822-1848.”  By Jahrbuch Fur Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas ( Hamburg ) 43 (December), 213-228.

2005                         “Climax of Conflicts with Native Americans in New Mexico :  Spanish and Mexican Antecedents to U.S. Treaty Making During the U.S.-Mexico War, 1846-1848.”  By the New Mexico Historical Review, 80:1 (winter), 55-86.  

2003                   “El Primer Jefe Contra la Casa Blanca,” Provincias Internas: 8 (Spring), 59-72.

2001                   “The Legacy of African Slavery in Colonial Mexico , 1519-1810.”   The  Journal of Popular Culture, 35:2 (Fall), 1-16. 

2001                   “Venustiano Carranza y la Constitución de 1917.”  In Sólo Historia: 13.  (Dec.), 60-67.

2000                         "A View of the Periphery: Regional Factors and Collaboration During the U.S.-Mexico Conflict, 1846-1848" in Dueling Eagles: Reinterpreting the U.S.-Mexico War, 1845-1848, 127-154.

2000                         “Carranza ante la historiografia y la historia” in El Siglo de la Revolución Mexicana by the Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, vol. 2, 351-360.

1999                   “Venustiano Carranza ante la Revolución y el mundo.”  In Sólo Historia: 4 (mayo-junio), 10-17.

1999                   “Smoking Cobras: Brazil and World War II.”  In Command: 51 (summer), 32-36.

1998                   “The Carrancista Struggle Against Huertistas and Villistas in Coahuila, 1910-1920.”  Eslabones, 15 (enero-junio), 32-47.

1996                   "El régimen de Carranza y la frontera durante la Revolución Mexicana," Eslabones, 11 (enero-junio), 88-103.

1994                   "Comparative Elite Systems in Latin America and the United States , 1870-1914,"  in Revista de Historia de America, 114 (July-Dec.), 61-89.

1993                   “Comparative Economic and Financial Structures in Argentina and Mexico :  A Study of Elitist Policies, 1880-1916,” Essays in Economic and Business History, XI, 38-48.

1992                   "Yucatán's Struggle for Sovereignty during the Mexican-U.S. Conflict, 1836-1848," in Richard Sanchez, Eric Van Young and Gisela Von Wobeser, eds. La ciudad y el campo en la historia de México (Mexico City:  Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), 173-183.

1991                   “Venustiano Carranza ante la Revolución y el mundo." In Memoria del Congreso Internacional Sobre la Revolución Mexicana, 2 vols.:2, pp. 371-378.

1989                   "The Reformist Evolution of Carlos Pellegrini and Modern Argentina , 1880-1906:  A Comparative Analysis."  In New World :   A Journal of Latin American Studies, 3:2, 107-151.

1988                   "Crisis in Mexico :  Echeverría and López Portillo, 1970-1982," Journal of Third World Studies, V:I (Spring), 160-171.

1987                   "Nationalism and Class Conflict in Mexico , 1910-1920,"  The Americas , 43:3 (January), 279-303.

                           "The Politics of Spanish Financial and Economic Policies During the Second Republic, 1931-1933," The Historian, XLIX:3 (May), 348-367.

1986                   "Andrew Trussell in Mexico :  A Soldier's Wartime Impressions, 1847-1848," in Douglas W. Richmond, ed. Essays on the Mexican War,  85-99.

1984                   " Salvador Alvarado and the Yucatán during the Mexican Revolution, 1914-1920," the Maryland Historian, 15:2 (Fall/Winter), 1-10.

 1984                  "Confrontation and Reconciliation:  Spaniards and Mexicans During the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920," The Americas , 41:2 (October), 215-228.

1982                   "Intentos externos para derrocar al régimen de Carranza, 1915-1920."  Historia Mexicana, 32 (Julio-Septiembre), 106-132.

                           "Mexican Immigration and Border Strategy During the Revolution, 1910-1920," New Mexico Historical Review, 57:3 (July), 269-288.

1980                   "La Guerra de Texas se renova:  Mexican Insurrection and Carrancista Ambitions, 1900-1920," Aztlán:  International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 11:1 (Spring), 1-32.

                           "Factional Political Strife in Coahuila, 1910-1920," the Hispanic American Historical Review, 60 (February), 49-68.

1979                   "Carranza:  The Authoritarian Populist as Nationalist President,"  George Wolfskill and Douglas W. Richmond, eds. Essays on the Mexican Revolution, 47-80.

1976                   "El nacionalismo de Carranza y los cambios socioeconómicos, 1915-1920," Historia Mexicana, 26 (Julio-Septiembre), 107-131.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

1999                Racial and Ethnic Relations in America; 5 entries for Salem Press.

1999                Magill’s Legal Guide; 2 items for Salem Press.

1999                World Conflicts and Confrontations; 1 entry for Salem Press.

1999             Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Leaders; 4 entries for Salem Press.

1999             Popular Mucians; 2 entries for Salem Press

1999                The Encyclopedia of North American History; 3 entries for Salem Press.

1998             Encyclopedia of Family Life.  2 entries for Salem Press.

1998             Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism; 7 entries for Marshall Cavendish.

1997             Encyclopedia of Mexican History; 4 entries for Fitzroy Dearborn.

1997                 Encyclopedia of Propaganda; 2 entries for M.E. Sharpe Press.

1997                 Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America; 1 entry for M.E. Sharpe Press.

1997                 Chronology of European History; 6 entries for Salem Press.

1997                 The United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth Century Expansionism and Conflict;
                   5 items for MacMillan Publishing Co.

1996             Latino Encyclopedia; 5 entries for Marshall Cavendish, Inc.

1995             Encyclopedia of Latin American History; 6 entries for MacMillan Publishing Co.

1994             Encyclopedia of the United States Congress; 4 items for Simon & Schuster.

Research Notes:

1982                   "Researching the Mexican Revolution:  Sources and Suggestions," the Borderlands Journal, 6:1 (Fall), 85-91.

1976                   "The Venustiano Carranza Archive," the Hispanic American Historical Review, 56 (May), 290-294.

Book Reviews:  

2006                   Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution:  The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920.  In the Hispanic American Historical Review, 86:1 (Feb.), 170-171.

2004                    Robinson A. Herrera, Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth Century Santiago de Guatemala.  Terra Incognitae,36, 112-113.

2006                   Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence for the Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:2(May),387-388

2003                          Joseph A. Stout, Schemers and Dreamers: Filibustering in Mexico , 1848-1921 for The Journal of Arizona History,44:3 (autumn), 315-316

2003                         Eric Van Young, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821.  For The Historian, 65:4 (Summer), 1014-1015.

2002                         James P. Brennan and Ofelia Pianetto, Region and Nation: Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina .  In the Hispanic American Historical Review, 82:1 (Feb), 192-194.

2002                         Will Fowler, The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico , 1795-1853.  In The Western Historical Quarterly, XXXII:4, 511-512.

2002                         Peter Henderson, In the Absence of Don Portfirio: Francisco León de la Barra and the Mexican Revolution in the New Mexico Historical Review, 77:2 (Spring), 213-214.

2001                         Fabio Bourbon, The Lost Cities of the Mayas: The Life, Art, and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood in Terra Incognitae, 33, 86-87.

2001                         Mark Anderson, Pancho Villa’s Revolution by Headlines in the New Mexico Historical Review, 76:2 (April), 206-208.

1999                   Terry Rugeley, Yucatan’s Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War in the American Historical Review, 104:2  (April), 616-617

1999                   Adrian Bantjes, As if Jesus Walked on Earth:  Cardenismo , Sonora , and the Mexican Revolution in the New Mexico Historical Review, 74:2 (April), 229-230.

1998                   William A. DePalo, The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852 in Military History of the West, 28:1 (Spring), 95-96.

1997                   Roderic Camp, Polling for Democracy, in the New Mexico Historical Review, 73:3, (July), 285.        

1997                   Michael Burdick, For God and the Fatherland:  Religion and Politics in Argentina , in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 77:3 (August), 535-36.

1997                   Samuel Brunk, Emiliano Zapata:  Revolution and Betrayal in Mexico , in the New Mexico Historical Review, 72:1 (January), 128.

1996                   José Rabasa.  Inventing America :  Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism, in Terrae Incognitae, XXVII, 87.

                           Josefina, Zoraida Vásquez, ed.  De la rebelión de Texas a la Guerra del 47 in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 76:3, (August), 573-74.

1994                   James A. Sandos, Rebellion in the Borderlands in the New Mexico Historical Review, 69:1 (January), 83-84.

                           Barry Gough, The Falkland Islands/Malvinas:  The Contest for Empire in the South Atlantic in the American Historical Review 99:2 (April), 699-700.

1992                   A. Brooke Caruso, The Mexican Spy Company:  United States Covert Operations in Mexico , 1845-48, in The Journal of Military History, 56:4, (October), 694-695.

1991                   Felix Luna, Soy Roca , in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 71:3 (August), 643.

1990                   David G. LaFrance, The Mexican Revolution in Puebla , 1908-1913, in The Americas , XLVII: 2 (October), 242-243.

1990                   John S. D. Eisenhower, So Far From God:  The U.S. War with Mexico , 1846-1848, in the Journal of Southern History, 56:4 (November), 749-750.

                           Nestor T. Auza, Aciertos y fracasos sociales del catolicismo argentino.  2 vols., in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 70:1 (Feb.), 201-202.

1989                   Paul Vanderwood, Border Fury:  A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico 's Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1901-1917, in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCIII:2, (October), 243-44.

1988                   Ilene O'Malley, The Myth of the Revolution:  Hero Cults and the Institutionalization of the Mexican State, 1920-1940, in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 68:2 (May), 381-82.

                           John A. Britton, Carleton Beals:  A Radical Journalist in Latin America, in The Americas , XLIV, (April), 519-20.

 1988                  Jack Jackson.  Los Mesteños: Spanish Ranching in Texas , 1721-1821, in Journal of Southern History, 54:1 (Feb), 101-103.

                           Louis Brister, In Mexican Prisons:  The Journal of Edvard  Harkort, 1832-1834, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCI:3 (Jan.), 393-94.

1986                   Ann L. Craig, The First Agraristas:  An Oral History or a Mexican Agrarian Reform Movement, in New World , 1:1 (Spring), 126-27.                                                                                                                     

1984                   Oscar J. Martínez, Fragments of the Mexican Revolution:  Personal Accounts From the Border,  in New Mexico Historical Review, 59:4 (October), 426-27.

                           Richard W. Slatta, Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier, in the Great Plains Quarterly, 4:3 (Summer), 196-197.

1983                   W. Dirk Raat, Revoltosos:  Mexico 's Rebels in the United States, 1903-1923, in Southeastern Latin Americanist, 26:4 (March), 34-35.

1979                   Isidro Fabela, Mis Memorias de la Revolución, in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 59 (August), 529-530.

1979                   Mark Gilderhus, Diplomacy and Revolution:  U.S. Mexican Relations Under Wilson and Carranza, in New Scholar, 7:2, 354-359.

                           Mario Llerena, The Unsuspected Revolution, The Birth and Rise of Castroism, in Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History, III:3 (Winter), 299-301.

                           "Regional Aspects of the Mexican Revolution," Review essay in New Scholar, 7:2, 297-314.

1977                   John H. Coatsworth, Crecimiento contra desarrollo:  El Impacto Económico de los Ferrocarriles en el Porfiriato,  In New Scholar, 5:2, 414-416.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY AND INVITED LECTURES  

2007                  “Choques Sociales en Yucatan Durante la epoca de los Liberales y el Segundo Imperio, 1855-1867” at the 40th annual conference of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Merida on March 15.

2006                  “ Carranza contra los Estados Unidos, 1913-1920.”  Presented at the Museo de Historia Mexicana in Monterrey , Mexico on Nov. 11.

2006                  “The Final Years of the Vicente Fox Presidency in Mexico , 2004-2006.”  Presented at the 25th meeting of the Gulf South History and Humanities Conference in Pensacola , Florida on Oct. 6.

2006                  “ Africa’s Initial Encounter with Texas :  The Significance of Afro-Tejanos in Colonial Tejas, 1528-1821.”  Presented at the 39th meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in  
Albuquerqueon March 3.

2005                   Chair and Commentator for “Diplomacy and Counterinsurgency in early 19th Century Mexico and Spain ” at the 85th meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association in New Orleans on March 24.

2005                   “ Democracia y Descontento;  El Gobierno de Vicente Fox, 2000-2004.”  Presented at the 38th meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Veracruz on March 11.

2004                   “The Nationalist Evolution of Carlos Pellegrini and Modern Argentina , 1880-1906.”  Presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Las Vegas , Nevada on October 8.

2003                   Commentator for “Politics and Exile in Mexico ” panel at the Southern Historical Association meeting in Houston on Nov. 9.

2003                   “Social Conflict in Yucatan , 1848-1867.”  Presented at the XI Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians in Monterrey , Mexico on October 2.

2003                   “El Primer Jefe Contra la Casa Blanca, 1913-1920” presented in Saltillo , Mexico , on May 22 at the Centro Cultural Vito Alessio Robles.

2003                   “Mexican State Governments and the Carranza Regime, 1914-1920.”  Presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in New Orleans on March 14.

2001                         “Intrigas fronterizas: The Anti-Carranza Exile Movement in the United States, 1915-1920, ”  presented at the Fifth International Congress of the Americas conference in Puebla , Mexico on Oct. 19.

2001                   “The Climax of Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. Conflicts with Native Americans in New Mexico: Treaty Making and the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848” at the 34th annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 22.

2000                   “Carranza ante la historiografia y la historia.”  Invited lecture presented at the Coloquio Internacional: El siglo de la Revolución Mexicana, ayer, hoy y perspectivas, 1910-2000 in Mexico City on June 23.

2000                   “Carranza y los Estados Unidos, 1913-1920.”  Presented at the Universidad de Puebla, March 9.

1999                         Commentator for “Migrations during the Mexican Revolution and Afterward” at the X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians in Fort Worth on November 21.

1999                         Chair and commentator for “la inmigracíon europea en la confirmacíon de la oligarquía mexicana” at the X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians on November 21.

1999                                      Chair and commentator for “Religion, Politics, and Self-Identification in the Peripheries of New Spain” at Social Science History Association in Fort Worth on November 13.

1999                   Participant in the Caribbean Resources for Atlantic History      
                           workshop at Harvard University on November 6-7.

1999                   "Afro-Tejanos in Colonial Texas , 1519-1810."  Presented at the Popular Culture Association meeting with the Fourth International Conference of the Americas at Puebla , Mexico on October 1.

1999                   "Lucas Alamán’s Analysis of the U.S.-Mexican Conflict, 1844-1848."  Paper presented at the 77th annual meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association in San Antonio , April 2, 1999.

1999                   Chaired "Land, Labor, and Ideas in 19th Century Latin America ” at the Southwestern Historical Association on April 1.

1997                   “Colaboración entre mexicanos y estadounidenses durante la guerra del 47.”  Paper presented at the Biblioteca Nacional de México on September 24, 1997 in Mexico City .

1997                         "Native Americans and the Mexican War in New Mexico ."  Paper presented at the 75th annual meeting of Southwestern Historical Association in New Orleans on March 28, 1997.

1996                   "La frontera norte durante la época de Venustiano Carranza."  Speech delivered in governor's palace in Saltillo , Mexico on November 21.

1996                   Co-organizer of "The U.S.-Mexican War Symposium."  A two-day conference held at the University of Texas at Arlington , October 25-26.

1996                   "A View of the Periphery:  Regional Factors in the War."  Paper presented at "The U.S.-Mexican War Symposium" on October 26.

1996                   "Consecuencias de la guerra del 1847 en los Estados Unidos."  Paper presented at the Museo de Intervenciones in Mexico City on August 20.

                           "The Legacy of African Slavery in Colonial Mexico , 1519-1821."  Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Oaxaca , Mexico on March 7.

1995                   Co-organizer of "The Challenge of Statehood."  A symposium held at the University of Texas at Arlington , October 20-21.

1995                   "La herencia de Carranza."  Speech delivered at a public ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the death of former president Venustiano Carranza in Mexico City on November 29.

                           Chair and commentator for "The Role of Medicine in Mexican History" at the 73rd annual meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association in Dallas on March 23, 1995.

1994                   Commentator for "Historia Diplomatica" at  the IX Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians in Mexico City on October 28.

                           "Yucatán during the Liberal Epoch, 1849-1858."  Paper presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Latin American Studies in Guadalajara , Mexico on March 17.

1994                   Commentator for "Foreign Interests and Latin American Revolutions" and "The Mexican-American War" at the 72nd annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association on April 1 and 2, 1994 in San Antonio, Texas.

1993                   "Regional Aspects of Mexican History."  Lecture presented at the Fifth Annual Texas Geography Conference in Dallas , Texas on March 5.  

                           Commentator for "Culture and Development on Mexico 's Northern Frontier" at the 71st annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in New Orleans on March 18.

1993                   Co-organizer of "Discovering Arlington 's Heritage."  A two-day symposium held at the University of Texas at Arlington , March 27-28.

                         Chair and commentator for "United States-Mexican Relations during
                         the Constitutionalist Era" at the 15th Annual Mid-America Conference
                         on History in Stillwater, Oklahoma, September 17.

1992                   Project Director for “The Changing Nature of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship.”  A two-day symposium held at the University of Texas at Arlington , April 2-3.

 1992                  “Comparative Economic and Financial Structures in Argentina and Mexico :  A Study of Elitist Policies, 1880-1916.”  Paper presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society in Seattle on April 24.

1990                   "Venustiano Carranza ante la Revolución y el Mundo."  Paper presented at the Congreso Internacional sobre la Revolución Mexicana in San Luis Potosí , Mexico on October 4.

                           Commentator for Hispanic Month conference at Tarrant County Junior College in Hurst , Texas on September 20.

                           " Texas and Mexico at Each Other's Throats, 1835-1848."  Lecture delivered at the World History Institute in Denton , Texas on June 20.

                           “Comparative Elite Systems in Argentina and Mexico , 1880-1916.”  Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Monterrey , Mexico on March 31.

1989                   “Latin America Since Independence .”  Lecture delivered at the World History Institute in Denton , Texas on June 21.

1988                   "Carranza como gobernador, 1911-1913."  Keynote speech delivered at a ceremony honoring the 75th anniversary of the Carranza revolt in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico on July 28.

                           "Visions of the Carranza Period in Mexico ."  Paper presented at the 21st annual meeting of The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in San Antonio on April 8.

1987                   Commentator for "Latin America and the World Market" at the 65th meeting of the Southwest Social Science Association in Dallas on March 19.

1986                   Commentator for "Colonial Historiography" at the 19th annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Fort Worth on March 15.

1985                   "Provincial Factors During the War of 1847:  The Case of Yucatán."  Paper presented at the VII Conference of Mexican and United States Historians in Oaxaca , Mexico on October 24, 1985.

                           "La Crisis in Mexico :  the Disaster of Echeverría and López Portillo, 1970-1982."  Paper presented at the 18th meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Waco , Texas on March 29.

1984                   Commentator for "Labor in Latin America" at the Tenth Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference in Arlington , Texas on March 30.

1984                   "Mexican Labor during the Madero Era, 1910-1913."  Paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Fort Worth on March 22.

1983                   "Latin American Oligarchies in Comparative Perspective, 1870-1910."  Paper presented at the 98th meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco on December 29.

1982                   "Researching the Revolution:  The Violent Years, 1910-1920."  Paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association in San Antonio on March 19.

1982                   "The Impact of Carlos Pellegrini Upon Modern Argentina , 1880-1906."  Paper presented at the 60th meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association in San Antonio on March 18.

1980                   "Yucatán durante la época carrancista, 1914-1920."  Paper presented at the Segunda Semana de Historia at the Universidad de Yucatán in Mérida on February 29.

1979                   "Se repite la guerra de Texas :  Chicano Insurrection and the Mexican Revolution."  Paper presented at the 8th meeting of the Latin American Studies Association in Pittsburgh on April 7.

1978                   "Coahuila."  Paper presented at the 93rd meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco on December 29.

1978                   "Mexican Politics and Society during the Carranza Epoch, 1913-1920."  Illustrated lecture presented at the 13th Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, March 16.

1974                   "Socioeconomic Aspects of Carrancismo, 1915-1920."  Paper presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association in Seattle on August 28.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

                           “Yucatan During the Liberal Era, 1855-1876”   Monograph underway    

“Civil War in the Countryside:  Carrancista State Governments During  the Revolution, 1913-1920.”    Monograph underway.

PRIZES            

2006                   Harvey L. Johnson prize awarded for best article by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies on March 2, for “The Climax of Conflicts with Native Americans in New Mexico :  Spanish and Mexican Antecedents to U.S.