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Dr. Kimberly H. Breuer
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Dr. Kimberly H. Breuer
Lecturer-History
 
Office LocationMail Box: 19529, UH, Room No.: 324 
Email  breuer@uta.edu   
Keywords Latin America, Colonial Americas, Mesoamerica, Mexico, North American Indians, Mayas, World Civilization   
 Professional Preparation
 DegreeMajorInstitutionYear
 Ph.D.HistoryVanderbilt University2004
 M.A.HistoryThe University of Texas at Arlington1993
 B.S.Aerospace EngineeringUniversity of Texas at Austin1985
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2001
Published
Book Review, The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings by David Drew, for H-LatAm.
Category: Review
Book reviews
2001
Published
Book Review, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848: Papers of the Sesquicentennial Symposium, 1848-1998 by the Dona Ana County Historical Society, for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105(1): 190-191.
Category: Review
Book reviews
2000
Published
Book Review, Defiant Peacemaker:  Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War by Wallace Ohrt, for Southwestern Historical Quarterly 104(3): 492-493.
Category: Review
Book reviews
1999
Published
Book Review, Texas & Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690 by Juan Bautista Chapa, edited with an introduction by William C. Foster, for Great Plains Quarterly 19(4): 299.
Category: Review
Book reviews
1998
Published
Book Review, Postconquest Coyoacan, Nahua Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 by Rebecca Horn, for H-LatAm.
Category: Review
Book reviews
 Presentations and Projects
Conference Papers    
2008  "Knowledge is Power; but Attitude is Everything: Religion and Evolution from the Other Side of the Lectern." Co-authored with Patricia Kramer, University of Washington. Teaching Evolution and Promoting Quality Science Education symposium, American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting. April.
2003  "Exceeding Proper Bounds:  Challenges to Religious and Civil Authority by the Encomenderos of Valladolid, Yucatan in the Sixteenth Century."  Annual Meeting of the Conference on Latin American History. Chicago. January.
2002  "'In out of the way and hidden places...'" Maya-Franciscan Contestations of Religious Space in Early Colonial Yucatan." Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin American History. San Francisco. January.
1999  "'Which comes down to us from ancient times': The Conception of Space and Maya Self-Identity in Early Colonial Yucatan."  Tennessee Conference of Historians, Gallatin, Tennessee, September.
1999  "Life on an Eastern Frontier:  Maya-Spanish Interaction in Early Colonial Yucatan."  Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, April.
1999 "'With words of their former idolartry...': Yucatec Maya Women and the Preservation of Maya Religion in the Early Colonial Period." Women and Power Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, February.
1997  "Reconstruction the Cosmos:  Continuity and Change in the Maya Conception of Space in Early Colonial Yucatan." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, November.
1996  "A Reconsideration of the Great Maya Revolt (1546) and its Implications for the Study of the History of the Yucatan."  Portland, Oregon, November.
1995  "Change and Continuity:   Yucatec Maya Women After the Spanish Conquest." Tennessee Conference of Historians, Nashville, October.
1995  "Change and Continuity:  Maya Land Tenure in Colonial Ebtun, Yucatan." Symposium on Women in Latin America, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, January.
1994  "The Ritual Role of Yucatec Maya Women Before and After Conquest. "Southern Association for Women Historians, Houston, June.

 Affiliations
Professional Affiliationns
American Historical Association
Council of Latin American History
American Society for Ethnohistory
 Appointments
DurationRankDepartment / SchoolCollege / OfficeUniversity / Company
2005-currentLecturerHistory DepartmentCollege of Liberal ArtsThe University of Texas at Arlington
2005-2005Adjunct InstructorHistory Tarrant County College/Southeast Campus
2001-2004Adjunct Instructor/Assistant ProfessorHistoryLiberal ArtsTennessee State University
1998-2001Adjunct InstructorHistory Volunteer State Community College
1994-2001Graduate Student/ Teaching Assistant/InstructorHistoryLiberal ArtsVanderbilt University
1985-1993Senior Aircraft Structures Engineer  Vought Aircraft Company
 Teaching
 
HIST 2302-002 - History of Civilization since 1500
Fall 2009
Major trends in world civilization since 1500 such as industrialism, nationalism, imperialism, socialism, and the more complex problems and conflicts of the 20th century.  Particular interest is paid to the emergence of a global civilization and interactions among the world's peoples through mass migration, imperial expansion, trade and cultural exchange.
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Contact Information
UH, #324
Email: breuer@uta.edu

 
HIST 1311-010 - US History to 1865
Fall 2009
An introduction to the political, socio-economic, and cultural history of the United States to 1865 with special emphasis on cultural and political development in the colonial period and early republic.
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Contact Information
UH, #324
Email: breuer@uta.edu

 
HIST 4388-002 - Gender, Sexuality and Social Deviance in Colonial Latin America
Fall 2009
 This class will explore the history of gender, sexuality and social deviance and its impact on the development of the colonial Latin American social order.  Some major themes include gender, marriage, family, patriarchy, honor, homosexuality, mestizaje, social controls such as the Inquisition, legal and social status of distinct groups of women (slaves, Indians, elites, etc.) and the religious and public lives of women.  This class will utilize first person accounts/ memoirs and film in addition to modern historical analysis to investigate how the day-to-day lives of the colonies’ inhabitants helped shape imperial policies and led to a new multi-ethnic colonial culture and society.
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Cross-listed as WOMS 4392-002
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UH, #324
Email: breuer@uta.edu


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