DOUGLAS W

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

Evaluator for NEH panel, Division of Preservation and Access, Washington, DC, Dec. 5, 2003

                     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

                      McNair Ph.D. Project Committee(2004-05)
                      Research Associate, Center for Mexican American Studies(2004-2006)
                      Faculty Senate (2008-present)
                     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
                      McNair Ph.D. Project Committee(2004-05)
                      Research Associate, Center for Mexican American Studies(2004-2006)
                      Faculty Senate (2008-present)

College

                     Chairman Review (1987)
         Research Committee (1995-96)
         Post Tenure Review(2008-10)

Department

                     Library Committee (1976-83) (1989-98)
         Search Committee (2008-9)
         Curriculum Committee (1976-79, 1980-82, 1988-95)
         Webb Lectures Committee (1977-78, 1984-87, 2008-10)
          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, 2009-present)
          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 (1999-2009)
          Phi Alpha Theta (1999-2009)
          Grievance (2001-2002); (Chair, 2002-2003); 2008-9)

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

Conference on Latin American History
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies
Gulf South 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

Under Review “The Nationalist Evolution of Carlos Pellegrini and Modern Argentina, 1880-1906.” By
La Revista de Educacion y Humanidades (Chile).

Under Review “Democracy and Disappointment: The Vicente Fox Regime in Mexico, 2000-2006.”
By the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Under Review    “The Emergence of Afro-Tejano Society During the Spanish Colonial Period in Texas,
                          1528-1700.” In African Texans: The Complete History of African Americans in
                          Texas, 4 vols., 1. By the University of Texas Press.

Under Review “The Failure of Mid-Nineteenth Century Liberalism in Yucatan, 1855-1876.”
By The Americas.

Accepted “Colaboracion entre mexicanos y norteamericanos durante la Guerra del 47.” By Provincias Internas
(Saltillo, Mexico).

2009 “Los gobiernos estatales y el regimen de Carranza, 1914-1920.” In 2010: Memoria de las revoluciones
en Mexico, 4 Summer, (50-67.

2008 “Carranza contra los Estados Unidos, 1913-1920.” In Identidad (Monterrey, Mexico), 2:3, 24-33.

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 “La historiografia.” In Ana Herrera Arredondo, ed. Por los Senderos de la Historia, Monterrey: Instituto de Investigaciones
Historicas de Nuevo Leon), 87-88.

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

Forthcoming “Carranza, Venustiano.” In Diccionario de la Revolucion Mexicana. By the Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico Press.

2007 Encyclopedia of United States – American Indian Policy, Relations and Law. 2 entries for CQ Press.

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:

2008                      Adolfo Gilly, The Mexican Revolution, in the Hispanic American Historical Review, 89:1 (Feb.), 172-173. i.

2007                     Andres Resendez, A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: Jose Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe
                             Expedition. In The Americas, 64:1 (July) 172-173.

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

Forthcoming     “A Fratricidial Foundation: Yucatecan Conflicts from Antiquity to 1821.”
                         To be presented at the 43^rd conference of the Southwest Council
                         of Latin American Studies at Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 25, 2010.

2009 “Jose Salazar Ilarregui: A Gulf Coast Reformer in Imperial Yucatan, 1864-1867.” Presented at the 27^th Gulf South
History Conference in Pensacola on Oct. 16.

2009 “The Emergence of Afro-Tejano Society During the Spanish Colonial Period in Texas, 1528-1700.” Presented at the
113^th meeting of the Texas State Historical Association in Austin on March 28.

2009 “The Tragedy of the Restored Republic Era in Yucatan, 1867-1876.” Presented at the 42^nd conference of the
Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 13.

2008              “Enlightened Reform or French Imperialism? El Segundo Imperio in Yucatan, 1864-1867.”
                       Presented at the 41^st conference of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in
                       El Paso on Feb. 22

2007 “La colaboracion entre mexicanos y norteamericanos en la Guerra del 47.”
Presented at the Centro Cultural Vito Alessio Robles in Saltillo, Mexico on Nov. 9.

2007 “The Socioeconomic Dimensions of Yucatecan Political Conflict, 1855-1876.”
Presented at the 26^th meeting of the Gulf South History Conference in Mobile on Oct. 12.

2007 “Choques Sociales en Yucatan Durante la epoca de los Liberales y el Segundo Imperio, 1855-1867” at the 40^th 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 25^th 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 39^th meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in
Albuquerqueon March 3.

2005 Chair and Commentator for “Diplomacy and Counterinsurgency in early 19^th Century Mexico and Spain ” at the 85^th 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 38^th 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 25^th 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 36^th 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 34^th 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

“The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation.”

                       “Yucatan during the Liberal and Second Empire Era, 1855-1876.” Monograph underway

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

PRIZES

2008 Harvey L. Johnson prize awarded for best article by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in El Paso for
“A Conservative Prophet Confronts the Northern Menace: Lucas Alaman and the U.S.-Mexican Conflict, 1822-1848.”

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. Treaty Making during the U.S.-Mexico War, 1846-1848.”

2004 Harvey L. Johnson prize awarded for best article by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in San Antonio on Sept. 17 for “The Legacy of African Slavery in Colonial Mexico , 1519-1810.”

2004 Capitan Alonso de Leon Medal of Merit in History awarded by the Nuevo Leon Society of History, Geography and Statistics on May 17 in Monterrey , Mexico .

1987 The Harvey L. Johnson prize awarded by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Nacogdoches, Texas on March 27 for Essays on the Mexican War.

1985 The Harvey L. Johnson prize awarded by the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies in Waco, Texas, on March 30 for Venustiano Carranza's Nationalist Struggle, 1893-1920.

RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED

2009 University of Texas at Arlington. Travel/Professional Development Award. $1,000.00

2008 University of Texas at Arlington. Travel/Professional Development Award. $850.00

2007 University of Texas at Arlington . Travel/Professional Development
Award. $833.00.

2006 University of Texas at Arlington . Faculty Development Leave.

2006 University of Texas at Arlington .
Travel/Professional Development Award. $718.00.

2005 University of Texas at Arlington . Center for Mexican American
Studies. Faculty Research Association Award. $300.00.

2005 University of Texas at Arlington .
Travel/Professional Development Award. $800.00.

1995 University of Texas at Arlington . Faculty Development Leave.

1991 University of Texas at Arlington . Research Enhancement Program Award. $800.

The Summerlee Foundation. Symposium Grant awarded. $5,000.

1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Matching Grant. Awarded by the Texas Committee for the Humanities. $5,000.

1988 University of Texas at Arlington Research Enhancement Program. Summer research salary grant. $2,500.

1981 American Philosophical Society. Research Grant awarded for research in Buenos Aires during summer. $2,000.

1981 University of Texas at Arlington Organized Research Fund. Travel Grant awarded for research in Buenos Aires during summer. $3,299.

1979 University of Texas at Arlington Organized Research Fund. Full Summer Stipend awarded for writing of manuscript during summer. $2,335.94.

1978 University of Texas at Arlington Organized Research Fund. Travel Grant awarded for research in Saltillo , Mexico , during summer. $2,000.

1977 University of Texas at Arlington Organized Research Fund. Travel Grant awarded for research in Mexico City during summer. $3,000.

1973-74 University of Washington NDEA Institutional Allowance Fund
Grant. Awarded for research in Mexico City . $500.

LINKS

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