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Professor of History and Dean of New Students
Departmental affiliations: Environmental Studies ; European Studies ; History
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Courses in Fall 2007
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Seminar on Race and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present
Courses in Spring 2008
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Environmental History of Latin America
Popular Revolution in Modern Mexico
Courses in Fall 2008
 Seminar on Race and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
 Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present
Courses in Spring 2009
 Environmental History of Latin America
 Popular Revolution in Modern Mexico
Courses in Fall 2010
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Popular Revolution in Modern Mexico
Reading Nature
Courses in Spring 2011
 Environmental History of Latin America
 Fascism
Courses in Fall 2011
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Encounters with Nature
Proseminar: Research and Writing
Courses in Spring 2012
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Seminar on Race and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderland
Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present

Courses in Fall 2012
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Encounters with Nature
Popular Revolution in Modern Mexico
Courses in Spring 2013
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Environmental History of Latin America
Wine, History and the Environment
Courses in Spring 2014
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Struggles for Democracy in Modern Latin America, 1820 to the Present
Wine, History and the Environment
Courses in Fall 2014
 Encounters with Nature
Courses in Spring 2015
 Environmental History of Latin America
Courses in Fall 2015
 Mexican Material and Visual Culture
Courses in Spring 2016
 Wine, History, and the Environment
Ph.D., Yale University (2001)
M.A., Yale University (1998)
B.A., Amherst College (1993)
Books
Science, Nationalism, and Aesthetics in the Shaping of Mexico’s Environmental Imagination
(in progress).
A Territory Cleaved: Nation, Nature, and Ethnicity on the U.S.-Mexican Frontier (in progress)

Crafting Mexico: Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State After the Revolution (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2010).
Co-edited with Beatriz Canabal, Aline Hemond, et al, Moviendo Montañas: Transformando la
Geografía del Poder en el Sur de México
(Chilpancingo, Guerrero: Colegio de Guerrero, 2003).
Articles
“Olinalá y la indigenización trasnacional de la cultura nacional mexicana,” Mestizo, indígenas, estranjeros: Nuevos miradas sobre nación y alternidad , edited by Daniela Gleizer and Paula
López Caballero (Mexico, DF: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2015).
“Anita Brenner, Jewish Roots, and the Transnational Creation of a National Identity,” in
Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in the United States
(Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2013).
“Nature as Subject and Citizen: The Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain (1787-1803)” in
A Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico , edited by Chris Boyer
(University of Arizona Press, 2012)
"The Noche Mexicana and the Exposition of Popular Art: Two Ways of Exalting Indianness," in
The Eagle and the Virgin: National Identity, Memory and Utopia in Mexico, 1920-1940 , edited by Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
"Forging a Mexican National Identity in Chicago: Mexican Migrants and Hull-House: 1920-
1937," Pots of Promise: Mexicans, Reformers, and the Hull-House Kilns, Chicago, 1920-1940 , edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel (Chicago: University of Illinois-Chicago Press,
2004).
"Visiones cartográficas de un Guerrero Bronco, 1791-1940," in Moviendo Montañas:
Transformando la Geografía del Poder en el Sur de México (Chilpancingo, Guerrero: Colegio de
Guerrero, 2003).
"The India Bonita Contest of 1921 and the Ethnicization of Mexican National Culture," Hispanic
American Historical Review 82(2) (May 2002): 291-328.
"The Morrows in Mexico: Nationalist Politics, Foreign Patronage, and the Valorization of
Mexican Popular Aesthetics," in
Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular
Arts , ed. Susan Danly (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002).
See also: Research Interests , Teaching Interests , and Awards and Honors
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