An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914. Pittsburgh University Press, 1999.

Co-editor (with Aviva Chomsky)Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950. Duke University Press, 1998.
 
 
 
 

  Lanndscapes of Struggle: Community and Politics in El Salvador, Pittsburgh University Press, 2004.

Articles/Book Chapters:

“El campesinado ladino de Chalchuapa,” Revista Repositorio-Archivo General de la Nacion, I:1, Summer 2003.

“The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador” in When the State Kills, Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez, eds. University of Texas Press, 2004.

”’They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage:’ Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931,” coathored with Jeffrey Gould, Hispanic American Historical Review, Spring 2004.

“‘They work that they may live’--An Account of Life in El Salvador in the 1880s,” Mesoamerica, (23:43 June 2002): 104-133.

”Local History, Politics and the State in El Salvador,” introduction to Landscapes of Struggle: Community and Politics in El Salvador, Pittsburgh University Press, forthcoming February 2004.

"Land, Community, and Revolt in Indian Izalco, 1860-1900," Hispanic American Historical Review,79:3, August 1999. NECLAS Criscenti Best Article Prize 2000.

"La Historia Regional del Cafe en El Salvador, 1850-1920," Revista de Historia (Costa Rica) #38 1999.

"'That a Poor Man be Industrious:' Coffee, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador's Ladino Peasantry, 1760-1900." in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).

"Identity and Struggle in the Historiography of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America 1860-1950," with Aviva Chomsky, in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1850-1950 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).

"Una contribución biográfica a la historia del Partido Comunista de El Salvador," Revista de Historia #33, 1998. (Costa Rica).

"Historical Research and Sources on El Salvador," Latin American Research Review, Spring 1995.

"Los Indigenas de Cojutepeque, la politica faccional, y el estado nacional en El Salvador, 1830-1890" in Construccion de las identidades y del estado moderno en Centro America, Arturo Taracena, ed. (San José: UCA Editores/CEMCA/FLACSO, 1995).

"Las bases de la republica agraria liberal, 1860-1900," in Historia de El Salvador vol. 2, Knut Walter, Coord. Ed., (San Salvador: Ministerio de Educacion, 1994).

Book Reviews:

Review of Jeff Gould, To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990), Labor History, (Summer 1992) 33: 418-420.

Review of William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson & Mario Samper Kutschbach, eds. Coffee Society and Power in Latin America. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), Food and Foodways, 1997.

Review of Ivan Molina Jimenez and Steven Palmer, eds. El paso del cometa: Estado, politica y culturas populares en Costa Rica (1800-1950) (San José: Editorial Porvenir-Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, 1994), Hispanic American Historical Review,  1998.

Review of Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter, Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1997), Journal of Developing Areas, forthcoming
 

New Research and Publication Projects

Peasant Communities, Coffee Production, and Ethnic Transformation in Eastern Mexico during the Nineteenth Century, 2003-

A research project on the relationship between the commercialization of peasant coffee production, ethnic identity and regional state formation in Western Veracruz, Northern Puebla and North-Eastern Oaxaca. Focus is on role of peasant-controlled market-oriented production and its social and political implications for Mexican nation-state formation and mestizaje.
El Salvador durante el Siglo 19-Estudios y documentos, book proposal.

Latino Labor History in New York City, 1880-1960
A proposal to various funding institutions for research on the experiences of Latin-American and Puerto Rican-descent workers in New York city. Focus is on identifying and using new archival sources.

"The Social Origins of Revolt and the Memory of Repression: Ethnic Conflict and Local Politics in Western El Salvador," book manuscript with Jeffrey Gould.

A co-authored book project that focuses on the origins, process and effects of the 1932 revolt and massacre and El Salvador ethnic relations and Mestizaje. Combines extensive archival with oral history sources.

Grants and Fellowships

2004 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2003 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2002 Research Grant, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, Arte Publico Press/University of Houston
2002 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2002 Multimedia Development Grant, Hewlett Mellon Presidential Fund
2001 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2001 Research Grant, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, Arte Publico/University of Texas
2001 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2000 New England Council of Latin American Studies, Criscenti Best Article Prize
2000 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
2000 Faculty Research Award, College of the Holy Cross
1999 Ford Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, College of the Holy Cross
1998 Faculty Research Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1998 Mellon Faculty Multimedia Development Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1997 Faculty Research Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1996 Faculty Multimedia Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1996 ACLS Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad
1996 Faculty Research Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1995 Faculty Research Grant, College of the Holy Cross
1995 Faculty Development Grant, New School for Social Research
1993 Curriculum Development Grant, New School for Social Research
1993 Faculty Development Grant, New School for Social Research
1992 Faculty Development Grant, New School for Social Research

1991-1992 Ford Foundation/National Research Council Minority Dissertation Fellowship
1990-91 Dorothy Danforth Compton Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
1990 Recognition Award, Ministry of Education, El Salvador
1989-90 Dept. of Education Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship held at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), El Salvador
1989-90 Social Science Research Council/Advanced Council of Learned Societies; Dissertation Research Fellowship
1989 IIE Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (Declined)
1987, 1988 Tinker Foundation Travel Grants, The University of Chicago, Research in El Salvador & Costa Rica
1987, 1988 International Studies Fellowships, Consortium for Institutional Cooperation, El Salvador & Costa Rica
1986-89 CIC Minority Fellowship for Graduate Study at The University of Chicago
1981-83 Competitive Assistantships, New York University
1977-81 Tuition Scholarships, Princeton University

Papers. Lectures, and Presentations

Convenor and facilitator, Panel on “Institutional Context and Program-Building,” First Conference of the Boston Latino Studies Council, Tufts University, May 2004.

"'Una Virgen Roja hacía Milagros:' Peasant Messianism in Eastern Guatemala,” Presented at the Seventh Congress of Central American History, Honduras, July 2004.

Organizer, Social and Agrarian history Section, Seventh Congress of Central American History, Honduras, July 2004.

"El Salvador's Military and the 1954 Coup in Guatemala,” Presented at the Council of Latin American Historians of the AHA, January 2004.
Organizer, Nineteenth Century Section, Primer Encuentro de Historia de El Salvador, San Salvador, July 2003.

Comment to papers in panel “Repression, Remembering and Responsibility: Historical Interrogations of State Security in Twentieth -Century Latin America,” CLAH/AHA, Chicago, January 2003.

“Los Historiadores y la Formación del Estado y la Nación en El Salvador,” Lecture presented at the Spanish Embassy in San Salvador, sponsored by the National Archive, the Academy of History and CONCULTURA, July 2002.

“The Social Origins of Revolt and Repression in 1932 El Salvador,” with Jeffrey Gould, Social History Section, Sixth Central American History Congress, Panama, July 2002.

Coordinator, Social and Agrarian History Panels, Sixth Central American History Congress, Panama, July 2002.

“Holding the City Hostage: Popular Sectors and Elites in San Miguel, El Salvador, 1875,” paper presented at the Conference of the Council of Latin American Historians, AHA, San Francisco, 6 January 2002.

“Ethnicity, Class and Communism: Social Origins of the 1932 Revolt in El Salvador,” Columbia University Anthropology Seminar, 19 November 2001.

“Rural Women, Gender and the State in Nineteenth-Century El Salvador,” V Congress of the Americas, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, October 17-20, 2001.

Comments to Allen Wells’s “Altruism's Cost: FDR, Trujillo, and the Dominican Republic Settlement Association," Harvard Workshop on Latin American History, October 3, 2001, Cambridge, MA.

Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Land, Capital and Labor in the Consolidation of Salvadoran Elites during the 1920s” to be presented at the “Land, Elites, Commercial Economies and Politics in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1910-1930s,” LASA August 2001, Wash. DC.

Guest Discussant, “Latinos, Language and Globalization: Law, Education and the Media,” A Conference sponsored by the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies the University of Connecticut, April 20, 2001

“Linkages in El Salvador's history: Peasants, Land, and Politics in the 1880s and the 1980s,” presented at Vassar College, April 18, 2001.

“Main Themes in the History of Cuba, 1820-1992,” Cuba: Past History, Present Realities, Future Possibilities. Association of International Educators Country/Culture Workshop Hosted by Harvard University’ International Office and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Cambridge March 24, 2001.

“The New Historiography on El Salvador,” Roundtable discussion, Council on Latin American Studies, January 2001.

"Preludio a la Matanza: Política y mobilización popular en El Salvador, 1927-1931"  Paper presented at the Fifth Latin American History Congress, San Salvador, El Salvador, July 2000

Coordinator, Agrarian and Social History Panels, Fifth Latin American History Congress, San Salvador, El Salvador, July 2000.  Organized 7 sessions with 20 papers.

“Teaching History with the Web,” presentation at the Syllabus Puerto Rico Educational Techology Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 22-24 2000.

Chair, Panel on “El Salvador: Popular Responses to Political Tranformation--The Importance of the Local for Understanding the Global,” 22nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.

”Bringing Local History Back in: The Importance of Regional Variation for the Study of Social Transformation in El Salvador,” paper presented at the 22nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.

"Why study Marx after the fall of 'Communism'?," Faculty debate, First Year Program, November, 1999.

Organized panel on: "Gender, Export Economies, National Ideologies, and Class in the Formation of Nation-states in Central America," Conference on Latin American History Meeting at the American Historical Association, January 1998.

"Peasant Communities and Land in El Salvador, 1780-1880," paper presented at the 44th annual South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, San Jose, Costa Rica, February, 1997.

"The Colonization of the Volcan de San Vicente, El Salvador 1860-1900," paper presented at the Third Congress on Central American History, Ciudad Universitaria "Rodrigo Facio" de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 15-19 July 1996.

"Land, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador's Ladino Peasantry, 1760-1900," paper presented at the XIX Internatinal Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Wash. D.C. September 29-30, 1995.

"State Formation, Sovereignty, and Peasant Politics in Nineteenth-Century El Salvador," paper presented at the Third New School Latin American Studies Conference, Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science, New School for Social Research, New York, April 20-21 1995.

"Traditional and Innovative Methods of Research Using Computer-Assisted Technologies and the Internet," Faculty Workshop, Fogelman Library, New School for Social Research

"The Formation of the Salvadoran National-State from Above and Below during the Nineteenth Century," paper presented at the Political History of Central America Conference, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, February 1995.

"National State, Regionalism and the Peasantry in Nineteenth-Century El Salvador," paper presented at the American Historical Association/Consortium on Latin American History Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, January 1995.

Chair and Commentator to papers in the Archival Sources and Historical Research session of the First Annual Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, Waltham, MA., October 1994.

Comments to papers by D. Poole, R. Salvatore & J. Gould, presented at the "Ethnicity and the Making of Nations in Latin America" conference. Janey Program in Latin American Studies, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, May 1994.

"Land, Community and Capitalism in El Salvador, 1860-1900" paper presented to the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1994.

"Latinos and the Great Divide Between Professional and Academic Education: Is the Gap Worth Bridging?," presentation to Latinos Unidos, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 1994

Session Chair and Commentator, "Labor Issues in Central American History, 1900-1950," Latin American Studies Association XVIII International Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, March 10-12, 1994.

"Land, Community and Capitalism in El Salvador, 1860-1900" paper presented to the Department of History, Boston College, April 1994.

"El Campesinado y la Formacion del Estado Nacional en El Salvador, 1860-1902," (The Peasantry and Nation-State Formation in El Salvador) Paper presented at the FLACSO Conference "Balance Historico del Estado-nacion Centroamericano," San Salvador, November 1993.

"Reassessing Ethnicity, Social Structure, and Revolt in El Salvador, 1880-1932," Paper presented at the American Historical Association Meeting, Wash. D.C, December 1992.

"Revising the Claim to Revolutionary Continuity: Comments to Diane Davis' 'The CNOP and Mexico's Uncommon Democracy,'" Sociology Department Faculty Seminar, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, November 1992.

"The Social and Historical Construction of Repression in El Salvador," Paper presented at the Central America in the 1990's: Domestic and International Change Conference, Columbia University & New York University Consortium on Latin America and Caribbean Studies, April 1991.

"State Power without Hegemony: Repression, Legality, and the Construction of an Authoritarian Order in El Salvador, 1979-1989," Paper presented at the Repression and Legality in Latin America Session, Consortium of Latin American Historians Meeting, American Historical Association Convention, December 1990.

"La Función del Archivo General de la Nación y la Investigación Histórica," (The Function of the National Archive and Historical Research) Public Lecture, Centro Cultural El Salvador-Estados Unidos, (US-El Salvador Cultural Center), August 1990.

"Coffee, Local Agrarian Structure, and Peasant Revolt in El Salvador: Izalco in Regional and National Perspective," Paper presented at the Las Sociedades Agrarias Centroamericanas, Siglos xix y xx Conference, Universidad Nacional De Costa Rica, July 4-6 1990.

Comments to Hector Perez Brignoli's 'Las huelgas bananeras en perspectiva comparada,' Las Sociedades Agrarias Centroamericanas, Siglos xix y xx Conference, Universidad Nacional De Costa Rica, July 4-6 1990.

"Local Agrarian History and the 1932 Revolt in El Salvador," Paper presented at the Peasant Rebellion and Ideology Workshop, The University of Chicago, February 1990.

"Panama's Foreign Relations," Public Lecture, Conference on Culture and Foreign Relations, Oakton Community College, Chicago, March 1989.

Comments to Hector Perez Brignoli's "La rebelion campesina de 1932 en El Salvador," Conference on Coffee and Class in Latin America since 1930, Sponsored by the SSRC and the National University of Colombia, September 1988.

"Latinos and the Transition to Graduate Education: Obstacles and Opportunities," Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Workshop for Minority Students and Academic Careers, June 1988.

"Problems and Joys of Conducting International Research," Lecture Consortium for Institutional Cooperation Minority Fellows Conference, Chicago, November 1988.