Elliott Young 2431 SE Sherman St. Department of History Portland, Oregon 97214 Lewis & Clark College 971-506-0963 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. [email protected] Portland, Oregon 97219 _________________________________________________________________________________________________

Education University of Texas, Austin University of Texas, Austin Princeton University

Ph.D. M.A. B.A.

Dept. of History, August 1997 Dept. of History, May 1993 Dept. of History, Latin American Studies Summa Cum Laude, June 1989

Academic Positions Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, May 2014- present Associate Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, September 2003 – 2014 Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, August 1997- August 2003 Chair of History department, Lewis & Clark College, July 2009- July 2011, July 2012- present Director, Latin American Studies Minor, Lewis & Clark College, Aug. 1998- July 2007, Jan.-July 2009 Director, Ethnic Studies Minor, Lewis & Clark College, August 2006- July 2011 Co-Founder /Treasurer Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, 2003- present Co-founder of institute that brings together scholars from North and Latin America to discuss transnational history for a weeklong workshop in Tepoztlán, Mexico. I directed Institute for first five years, and now serve as its treasurer. Organized programs, raised funds to run institute, and recruited participants. The Institute hosts approximately ninety scholars from Latin and North America. Yearly budget of $50,000.

Scholarly Publications Books Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era to WWII, University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, Duke University Press, 2004. Winner of the 2005 Kate Broocks Bates Award for the best book on Texas history up to 1900, awarded by the Texas State Historical Association ($3000 award) Winner of the 2006 Jim Parrish Award by the Webb County Heritage Foundation for documentation and publication of local or regional history

2

Co-editor, Continental Crossroads: Frontiers, Borders and Transnational History in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1821-1940, Duke University Press, 2004. Co-author of Introduction, “Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions and Borderlands.” Chapter 5, “Imagining Alternative Modernities: Ignacio Martínez’s Travel Narratives.” Translations La Revolución de Catarino Garza en la frontera Texas-México, Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas, México, Comisión Organizadora para la Conmemoración en Tamaulipas del Bicentenario de la Independencia y Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana, 2010. "La Revolución de Catarino Garza," in Tamaulipas y su Revolución, Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas, México, Comisión Organizadora para la Conmemoración en Tamaulipas del Bicentenario de la Independencia y Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana, 2010. Journal Articles “Chinese Coolies, Human Rights and the Limits of Freedom in an Age of Empie,”Past & Present, May 2015. Co-authored with Ramón Gutiérrez, “Transnationalizing Border History,” Western Historical Quarterly 41 (Spring 2010): 27-53. Nominated for best article of the year by WHQ. “Between the Market and a Hard Place: Fernando Pérez’s ‘Suite Habana’ in a Post-Utopian Cuba,” forthcoming from Cuban Studies 38 (2007): 26-49. Co-authored introduction with Pamela Voekel for a special issue on Transnational History of the Americas, Social Text, Vol. 25, No. 392 (fall 2007): 9-18. “Red Men, Princess Pocahontas, and George Washington: Harmonizing Race Relations in Laredo at the Turn of the Century,” Western Historical Quarterly, spring 1998, pp. 48-85. "Remembering Catarino Garza's 1891 Revolution: An Aborted Border Insurrection," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 12 (2), summer 1996, pp. 231-272. “Deconstructing La Raza: Culture and Ideology of the Gente Decente of Laredo, 1904-1911,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCVIII (2), October 1994, pp. 226-259. Book Chapters "Before the Revolution: Catarino Garza as Activist/Historian," in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume II, eds. Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Chuck Tatum (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996): 213-236. Encyclopedia, Op-Ed Articles and Other Publications “President Obama got it half right on immigration,” Portland Tribune, 11 Dec. 2014. “The Campaign to Keep Millions of Immigrants in Detention Doesn’t Even Stand up to Sixteenth Century Standards of Natural Rights,” History News Network, 18 Nov. 2014 “The US Should Make Legal Immigration Easier, Oregonian, 11 November 2014. “Mandatory ICE Detainers are Unconstitutional,” Oregonian, 4 May 2014.

3 Co-written with Micol Seigel, “Privatization is a Road to Nowhere,” Quartz, 9 August 2013, http://qz.com/113017. “Maya Will be Back,” commentary on Andrés Guzmán, "From Highways to High-Rises: The Urbanization of Capital Consciousness and Labor Struggles in Ken Loach's Bread and Roses," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 16 (2012): 115-116. “Regions” essay for The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier. New York: Palgrave Press, 2009. “Keeping the Dream Alive for Immigrants," Oregonian, 1 Oct. 2010. "Newcomers help economy so let's treat them humanely," Oregonian, 1 Mar. 2008. “The Federal War on Immigrants is a War on All Workers, published by the History News Network, 29 June 2007, Pub. as “Immigration Raids Hurt ALL Workers, Connecticut Post, 7/1/07; “The Ground War Against Workers’ Rights,” Oregonian, 7/2/07; “US War on Immigrants is War on All Workers,” [CAN] Owen Sound Sun Times, 7/10/07. “A Decisive Day for Democracy in Venezuela and the US,” published by History News Network, 8 August 2004, and picked up by newspapers in Rhode Island and Oregon. "U.S.-Mexican Border (1821-1910)," in Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997), pp. 1496-1500. Biographies of Justo Cárdenas, Nemesio García and Justo S. Penn, in The New Handbook of Texas, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996). Book Reviews Review of John Mckiernan González, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 18481942. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. Journal of American History, Vol. 100 (2013): 234-35. Review of Robert Chao Romero. The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. Bulletin of Latin American Research, forthcoming. Review of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping the US and Mexican National Imaginaries. Nicole Guidotti-Hernández. Duke University Press, 2011. Bulletin of Latin American Research, forthcoming. Review of Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories. Eds. Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R Graybill. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Journal of American History, (2011) 97 (4): 1095-1096. Review of Nation and Migration: Past and Future. Eds. David G. Gutiérrez and Pierrette Honagneu-Sotelo. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Western Historical Quarterly, 41 (Winter 2010): 495-96. Review of Mauro Garcia Triana & Pedro Eng Herrera, The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield , 2009. Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (Jan. 2011): 118-119. Review of Lisa Yun. The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Labor 6(4) (2009): 142-144. “Rethinking the Americas in a Globalized World: Connections and Divisions,” a review of Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, eds. Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007,

4 in A Contracorriente Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2009, 297-306. Review of Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2007), in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2008, p. 513-514. Review of Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Samuel Truett (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), The Americas, Vol. 64, No. 1, (July 2007): 107-108. Review of Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, by Raymond Craib (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 38, No. 1 (summer 2007): 163-164. Review of Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, editors. Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005), American Historical Review, Vol. 111, No. 5 (Dec. 2006). Review of Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. The American Historical Review (October 2005): 1197-1198. Review of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850, by Andrés Reséndez (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Americas, Volume 62, Number 1, (July 2005):119-120. Review of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, by María Josefina SaldañaPortillo.Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Symposium. Vol.59, No. 3 (2006): 187-189. Review of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans, by Benjamin Heber Johnson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, No. 1, Feb. 2005, 195-196. Review of Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890, by Arnoldo de León (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002), The Americas 61.2 (2004) 306-30. Review of Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War, by John Hart (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 2002), Western Historical Quarterly 34, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 383-84. Review of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940, Eds., Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), The Historian, 65:6 (Winter 2003), 1422. Review of Historia: The Literary making of Chicano and Chicana History, by Louis Gerard Mendoza (College Station: Texas A&M, 2001), Pacific Historical Review, 71:4 (Nov. 2002), 678-680. Review of Reinventing Free Labor: Padres and Padrones in the North American West, by Gunther Peck (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000), Pacific Northwest Quarterly, summer 2001. Review of The US-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century, by David E. Lorey (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1999), Hispanic American Historical Review, 81:2 (May 2001), 432-33. Review of Culture y Cultura: Consequences of the US-Mexican War, 1846-1848 (Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1998), Pacific Historical Review, August 2000. Review of Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers, by Richard W. Slatta (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1997), Western Historical Quarterly, summer 1998. Review of To Die on Your Feet: The Life, Times and Writings of Práxedis G. Guerrero, by Ward S. Albro (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University, 1996), Southwestern Historical Quarterly, fall 1997.

5 Review of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America, by Silvia Spitta (Houston: Rice University, 1995), H-Latam, October, 1996. Review of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. by Oscar J. Martínez (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1996), H-Latam, March 1996.

Professional Conferences and Invited Lectures 2014 “Alien Nation: Chinese Crossings in the US-Mexico Borderlands and Beyond,” American Historical Association, Washington DC, 2 Jan. 2014. “Borderlands: State of the Field,” American Historical Association, Washington DC, 4 Jan. 2014, “Contracting Freedom: Coolies in Cuba and Peru in the Age of Freedom,” University of Oregon, Transnational Americas Speakers Series, 29 Jan. 2014. “Chinese Migratory Networks in the Americas,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, Chicago, 23 May 2014. Chair, “Roundtable: Asians in the Americas: Migratory Circuits, Sexuality, and Gender” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Portland, OR, 14 August 2014. “Roundtable: New Directions on Studies of Asians in the Americas,” Asians in the Americas Conference, Rutgers University, October 3, 2014. “Saving the Chinese Coolies: Moral Panics and Human Smuggling,” Global Moral Panics conference, Indiana, University, 10 October 2014. Alien Nation book talk, invited lecture, California State Los Angeles, 5 November 2014. “The Nation and the Globe: Transnational Policing Regimes in North America,” American Studies Association conference, Los Angeles, 6 November 2014. 2013 “Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas,” University of Puget Sound, Dolliver Seminar on "Borders and the Making of Trans-American Studies: Exploring Transnational and Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies of the Americas," 15 May 2013. “National Sovereignty Beyond the Nation’s Borders: Chinese Exclusion in Greater North America,” Canadian Historians Association, June 3-5, 2013, Victoria, BC. “The Rights of Man: Mexican Migration Policy for Chinese from the Porfiriato through the 1930s,” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Washington DC, May 29- June 1. “Alien Nation: Chinese Migration on the US-Mexico Border,” invited lecture, Northwestern University, Chicago, 25 Apr. 2013. Invited Commentator, Newberry Library Seminar in Borderlands and Latino History, Chicago, 27 Apr. 2013.

6 “Catarino Garza’s Writings,” The Mexican American Archival Enterprise at the Benson Latin American Collection: An Historical Appraisal, invited panelist, April 18-19, 2013, University of Texas, Austin. 2012

“Global Borders: Enforcing Asian Exclusion Beyond the Boundary Line,” Borderlands, Migration and Transnational in North America workshop, invited presenter, York University, Toronto, 19-20 Oct. 2012. “Aliens in the Age of Freedom: Chinese Migration in the Americas, 1840s-1940s,” American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, San Diego, 10 Aug. 2012. “Aliens in the Age of Freedom: Chinese Migration in the Americas, 1840s-1940s,” Tepoztlán Institute, Tepoztlán, Mexico, 3 Aug. 2012. “Transborder Sovereignties: Chinese, French and British Defense of Chinese ‘Coolies’ in Cuba,” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, 26 May 2012. “Transborder Sovereignty: Chinese “Coolie” Migration to the Americas and the Limits of the NationState,” WCILOCS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, 18 May 2012. “Deportations in an Age of Freedom,” Immigration Forum, Portland, OR, 13 Apr. 2012. “Narcowars and the Politics of Ungovernability,” World Affairs Council: Great Decisions Series, Portland, OR, 27 Jan. 2012

2011

“Transborder Sovereignties Beneath the Flag: The Coolie Trade to the Americas,” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, 30 July 2011.

2010

Workshop on New Approaches to Circum-Caribbean History, Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Toronto, Oct. 6-10, 2010. “Borderless: Globalization, Migration and Changing Communities,” Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, 2010-2012 Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, Bend, Oregon, 19 Jan. 2010. Wilsonville Public Library, 20 Jan. 2010. Washington County Museum, 19 May 2010. Milton-Freewater Public Library, 10 Aug. 2010. Pendleton Public Library, 11 Aug. 2010. Canby Public Library, 25 Jan. 2011 Midland Branch Library, 31 Jan. 2011 AAUW Beaverton, 3 Feb. 2011 Wilamette University Continuing Education, 15 Feb. 2011 Midland Library, 2 Mar. 2011 City Club of Central Oregon, Bend, 11 May 2011 Springfield Public Library, 12 July 2011 Newport Public Library, 15 Sept. 2011 Tigard Public Library, 27 Oct. 2011 Lower Columbia Diversity Council, Astoria, OR, 8 Mar. 2012 Troutdale Public Library, 14 Mar. 2012 Hood River Public Library, 18 Mar. 2012 Clackamas County Diversity Council, 9 May 2012 Oregon Historical Society, 13 Sept. 2012 Hillsboro Public Library, 27 Sept. 2012

7 2009

Roundtable Panel on Activism and Scholarship in Mexican History, Conference of Latin American History, New York City, Jan. 4, 2009. Roundtable Panel, “Freedom and Bondage in the Circum-Caribbean: Slaves, Free Blacks and Chinese ‘Coolies,’” Latin American Studies International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 1114, 2009. “The Chinese Diaspora in the Americas The First ‘Illegal Aliens,’” Oregon Humanities Chautauqua Lecture: Willamette University Continuing Education, 29 Jan. 2009. Osher Lifelong Learning, University of Oregon, Bend, 26 Feb. 2009. Charbonneau Women’s Association, 9 Mar. 2009. Vernonia Public Library, 12 Mar. 2009. Benton County Historical Society, 14 July 2009. Friends of Historic Champoeg, 26 Sept. 2009. Gold Beach Public Library, 20 Nov. 2009. Rose Villa Retirement Community, “Cuba After Castro,” 16 Mar. 2009.

2008

The Chinese Diaspora in the Americas The First “Illegal Aliens,” Oregon Humanities Chautauqua Lecture: William Kniep Lecture at Pacific University, 29 Sept. 2008. Tualitin Historical Society, 6 Aug. 2008. Lincoln County Museum, 8 Nov. 2008. OASIS, Portland, Oregon. 12 Nov. 2008. "Transamérica and the Japanese Mojados at the Canadian-Mexican-US Borders," Tepoztlán Instititute for Transnational History of the Americas, July 28, 2008, Tepoztlán, Mexico.

2007

“Technologies of Control and Evasion at the Edge of the Nation: Chinese Border Crossings in Greater North America (Cuba, Mexico, US and Canada),” Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Sept. 5-8, 2007, Montreal, Canada. Discussant, “Between and Beyond Nations: The Making of Popular Political Cultures in Latin America” Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Sept. 5-8, 2007, Montreal, Canada. “Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America,” Orientalisms in the Americas working group, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, 6th Encuentro, Corpopolitícas: Body Politics in the Americas, Formations of Race, Class and Gender, Buenos Aires, June 8-17, 2007. Borderlands State of the Field panel, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Mar. 29-31, Minneapolis.

2006

Chair, “Hispanicism, Americanism and PanAmericanism in the Age of US Empire,” Latin Americans Studies Association International Congress, Mar. 16-18, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pettit Memorial Lecture at Colorado College, “Transamérica: Cross-Dressers and Gunslingers in the Borderlands,” March 6.

2005

8 Discussant and Organizer of “Transnational and National Identities along Borders, American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, Aug. 4-7, Corvallis, OR. “The 19th Century Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America: Transnational Migrant Identities and Nation-State Formation in Cuba, Mexico and the US West," invited lecturer at Center for Race and Ethnicity,” University of California, San Diego, May 11. “The Genealogy if Transnational History,” Globalization, Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Conference, hosted by Portland Center for Cultural Studies, May 7, Portland, Oregon. “Towards a Transnational Epic of Greater America,” Organization of American History, Mar. 31Apr. 3, San Francisco. “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas Mexico Border,” University of Texas-PanAmerican, March 18, Edinburg, Texas. “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas Mexico Border,” Museum of South Texas History, March 19, Edinburg, Texas. 2004

“Angustia y Esperanza in Cuba’s Special Period: Abilio Estévez’s ‘El Enano en la Botella’ and Fernando Pérez’s ‘Suite Habana’, Cuba Today Conference, Bildner Center, CUNY, Oct. 4-6, New York City. “Chinese Migrations in the Greater Caribbean: Pan Chino-Latino Identity?” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Oct. 6-9, Las Vegas.

2003

“Catarino Garza and His Revolution,” South Texas Heritage Symposium, invited lecture, May 17, Alice, Texas. “Indigestion in the Belly of the Beast: José Martí and Catarino Garza’s Pan-Latin American Identity in the Late Nineteenth-Century Borderlands” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Mar. 27-29, Dallas, Texas. “Indigestion in the Belly of the Beast: José Martí and Catarino Garza’s Pan-Latin American Identity in the Late Nineteenth-Century Borderlands” International Conference for the Equilibrium of the World, Jan. 27-29, Havana, Cuba.

2002

Co-organizer, “Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History,” Symposium at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 21 Sept., Dallas, Texas.

2001

“Curanderos, Quacks and the Texas Medical Establishment: Preserving Mexican Culture in the Face of Domination, 1880-1920,” Borderlands in Transition, Texas A & M International University and Texas State Historical Society, 10 Nov. 2001, Laredo, Texas. “Chino Cubanos: A Story of Blood Sweat and Historical Erasure,” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Nov 1, 2001, New Haven, CT “Between the Spanish Empire and the Cuban Nation: Regulation and Resistance in the Nineteenth Century Chinese “Coolie,” Trade, Latin American Studies Association, 7 September 2001, Washington DC. “Remembering Conquest: The Difficult Dialogue about Ramón Gutiérrez’s When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away,” American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 10 August 2001, Vancouver BC.

9 Roundtable Discussant on Gunther Peck’s Reinventing Free Labor: Padres and Padrones in the North American West, American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 11 August 2001, Vancouver BC “Coolies and Contamination in Nineteenth Century Cuba,” Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, 1 March 2001, Veracruz, Mexico 1999

“Nuestra América: Beyond the National Boundaries of (Latin) American History,” International symposium on “Imágenes a través del espejo: La nueva historiografia norteamericana sobre América Latina,” Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. “Circuits of Empire and Anti-Empire: Traveling Into and Out of the Borderlands in the Late Nineteenth Century,” X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Dallas-Fort Worth. “Neither Red, nor White, nor Black, But Mexican: Coloring the Race/Nation Map in the US West,” American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Maui, Hawaii.

1998

Chair and Participant, “Empire on the Texas-Mexico Border: Global Networks of Imperial Knowledge from the Lower Rio Grande to the Congo,” Latin American Studies Association XXI International Congress, Chicago, Illinois. “Empire on the Texas-Mexico Border: Global Networks of Imperial Knowledge from the Lower Rio Grande to the Congo,” American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, 91st Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. “A New Spectre Haunting the World: The Zapatista Struggle Against Neoliberalism and For Humanity,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Missoula, Montana. “Blasting History: Picking Up the Pieces in a Crazy World,” Last Lecture Series, Lewis & Clark College.

1997

“Beyond Bi-Polar Racial Theory: Race on the Late Nineteenth Century Texas-Mexico Border,” Western Historical Association Conference, 37th Annual Conference. Discussant, Border Disorder II: A Theoretical Discussion of Identity and Power in Latin America, Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico.

1996

"Nations on the Border of a Nervous Breakdown: Coping with Mexican Revolutionaries on the Texas Border in the 1890s," Southern Historical Association, 62nd Annual Meeting, Little Rock, Arkansas. "Twilight on the Border: Making/Interpreting Texas Mexican Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century," Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico. "La Frontera Norte: La Formación de la Identidad en la Revolución de Catarino Garza," Seminario de Estudios Históricos: Monterrey 400, Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León.

1995

Chair and Participant, “'New Mestiza Conciousness' in the Late Nineteenth Century: Identity Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border,” Latin American Studies Association, XIX International Congress, Washington DC.

1994

“Before the Revolution: Catarino Garza as Activist/Historian,” Third Conference Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Legacies of a Literature: Impact and Implications of the U.S. Hispanic Contribution, University of Houston.

10 Chair and Participant, “Identity as a Means of Struggle and Social Control: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Catarino Garza’s Revolution,” Latin American Studies Association, XVIII International Congress, Atlanta, Georgia. 1993

“La lógica de los hechos: Reading Catarino Garza’s Auto-biography as History,” Seventh Biennial University of Texas, Austin Historical Symposium. “Tall Tales of a Tejano Revolutionary: Race and Class in the Construction of Catarino Garza,” Institute for Latin American Studies Student Association Conference.

1992

“Deconstructing La Raza: Culture and Ideology of the Gente Culta of Laredo, 1904- 1911,” Latin American Studies Association, XVII International Congress, Los Angeles.

Academic Service Peer reviewer for: Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Review and Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Peer reviewer for: Yale, Oxford, Duke, University of North Carolina, Routledge, and University of Arizona. 2014

Secretary of Borderlands Section of Council on Latin American History (CLAH)

2011

Program Committee for American Studies Association, 2011 conference.

2008

Diversity Advisory Committee, Lewis & Clark College, 2008- present.

2007

Committee for Counsel, Earlham College’s Border Studies Program, 2007- present. Appointed to Presidential Committee on Diversity and Social Justice, Lewis & Clark College. Committee on Promotion and Tenure (2007-2009), Lewis & Clark College, chair, 2008-2009. Faculty Representative to Board of Trustees, Lewis & Clark College, 2007-2009.

2006

Budget Advisory Committee (2006-2008), Lewis & Clark College, chair, 2007-2008.

2004-05

Program Committee for American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting 2005, Corvallis, Oregon.

2002

Curriculum Committee (2002-2004), Lewis & Clark College, chair, 2003-2004.

2000

Program Committee for American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, Annual Meeting 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia.

1997

Historical Consultant, “Border on the Edge,” documentary video about Laredo’s Washington’s Birthday Celebration.

1993

Co-organizer, Seventh Biennial University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin, Texas.

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

11 2011

Mellon Senior Sabbatical Extension Fellowship, 2011-12, Lewis & Clark College. Mellon Seminar on the Caribbean Diaspora, 2011-12, developed grant proposal for a year-long seminar with a group of Lewis & Clark Faculty.

2009-10

Conversations Project for “Borderless: Migration, Globalization and Changing Communities,” 201012, Oregon Humanities.

2008

Chautauqua lectureship for “The Chinese Diaspora in the Americas: The First ‘Illegal Aliens,’” 200809, Oregon Council for the Humanities.

2006

Jim Parrish Award for documentation and publication of local or regional history, awarded by the Webb County Heritage Foundation.

2005

Kate Broocks Bates Award for the best book on Texas history up to 1900, awarded by the Texas State Historical Association ($3000 award).

2005-07

Two-year Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. $20,000 grant for my “Chinese Diaspora in Greater North America” project.

2002

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, “The Americas of José Martí,” Tampa, Florida and Havana, Cuba. Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Lewis & Clark College Faculty Research Fellowship, Lewis & Clark College

1998

W. Turentine Jackson Award for most distinguished dissertation on twentieth century history of the US West, American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch. Bert M. Fireman Prize for best student essay in the Western Historical Quarterly, Western History Association. Pamplin Society Teacher of the Year Award, nominated as one of six candidates, Lewis & Clark College.

1996-97

Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin.

1995-96

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mexico. Patterson-Banister Fellowship in U.S. History, University of Texas, Austin (declined in favor of Fulbright-Hays grant).

1995

García-Robles Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mexico. Faculty Sponsored Research Fellowship, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, (declined in favor of Fulbright-Hays grant).

1992-94

Clara Driscoll Fellowship and Texas Sesquicentennial Fellowship Daughters of the Republic of Texas (renewed for second year).

1993

Recovering the U.S.-Hispanic Literary Heritage Grant for my project “Catarino Garza: A Late Nineteenth Century Texas Mexican Intellectual. Southwest Council of Latin American Studies scholarship award, 1993.

12 1992

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Portuguese), Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Teaching Experience

1997- present

Associate Professor, Department of History, Lewis & Clark College Colonial Latin American History (survey) Modern Latin American History (survey) Transnational History of the Americas (seminar) Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (seminar) Human Migration: Freedom and Bondage (Ethnic Studies Colloquium) Modern Cuba (upper division) Modern Mexico (upper division) Latin American Cultural Studies Race and Nation in Latin America (upper division) US-Mexico Borderlands (seminar and 200-level) Senior Research Seminar: American Empire Inventing America, Parts I and II (Core Humanities Course) Race, Ethnicity and Transnational Identity in US America (Core Humanities Course) Human Migration (Exploration and Discovery: Core Humanities Course)

1990-91

Teacher, ninth grade, Social Studies and English, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York.

Art and Politics “RaWaR Live!” video installation, Dumba Art Collective, Dumbo, Brooklyn, July 2005; Backspace gallery, Portland, Oregon, April 2005. Participant in “Venezuela No Está Sola” conference, Caracas, Venezuela, July 2004. Regular commentator on Buenos Aires, Argentina radio program, “Maté Amargo,” 2004 - 2007. Workers’ Rights Board Member, Jobs with Justice, Portland, OR, 2002-present.

Professional Associations American Studies Association American Historical Association Organization of American History Western History Association Latin American Studies Association

References Ramón Gutiérrez History Department University of Chicago [email protected] Alan Knight History Department

Jane Hunter History Department Lewis & Clark College [email protected]

David Montejano Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley [email protected]

13 Oxford University [email protected]