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EDUCATION

University of California, Riverside (Riverside, California)

Ph.D., History, June 2001.

M.A., History, March 1998.

University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)

B.A., History, December 1995.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Lee University (Cleveland, Tennessee)

Associate Professor, 2009-present

Assistant Professor, 2002-2009

University of Redlands (Redlands, California)

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2002

 

University of California, Riverside (Riverside, California)

Teaching Assistant, 1997-2000

Selected PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

?Response to Spickard,? published in The Proceedings of The Maryville Symposium: Conversations on Faith and the Liberal Arts, vol. 5, Frontiers, Borders and Citizens: Membership in American Society, 2012, 127-131.

Presented a response to a paper by Dr. Paul Spickard, given at the Maryville Symposium, held 5-6 October, 2012, at Maryville College (Maryville, TN).

Review of Jack Child, Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008) in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe 22:1 (Jan-Jun 2011), 192-4.

?Conquistadors,? in John J. McCusker, ed., History of World Trade Since 1450 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005).

?Encomienda and Repartimiento,? in John J. McCusker, ed., History of World Trade Since 1450 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005).

?Laborers, Aztec and Inca,? in John J. McCusker, ed., History of World Trade Since 1450 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005).

?New Spain,? in John J. McCusker, ed., History of World Trade Since 1450 (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005).

?El Libertador: Sim?n Bol?var’s Ideals and the Reality of Latin American Independence,? Lecture to Sigma Delta Pi, 9 November 2004, Lee University.

?The Other Atlantic World,? in History Compass 1:1 (August, 2003).

Chair, ?Environmental Challenges of the Twentieth Century,? Phi Alpha Theta session at the Southwestern Social Science Association 2003 Annual Meeting, 17 April 2003 (San Antonio, TX).

?The Place of World History.? Keynote address to the Tennessee Regional meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, 1 February 2003, Lee University.

?Constructing a Colonial Hegemony: Trade, Labor, and the State in Late Colonial Michoac?n.? Paper presented at the All-University of California Latin American History Conference, Graduate Student Session, University of California, San Diego, 5 May 2001 (San Diego, CA).

?Consumption, Identities, and Environments in Colonial Michoac?n.? Paper presented at the Hagley Fellows Conference: ?Consumption and the Environment,? Hagley Museum and Library, 9 March 2001 (Wilmington, DE).

?Colonialism, Commodity Chains, and the Organization of Space in Michoac?n.? Paper presented at the ?Modernity?s Histories: Rethinking Regions? Conference, University of California, Irvine 3-4 February, 2001 (Irvine, CA).

?The Origins of Mexican Liberalism: Revolutionary Philosophy during the Spanish Interregnum, 1808-1814.? Paper presented at the ?Second Annual Southern California Graduate Student History Conference,? University of California, Riverside, 27 May 2000 (Riverside, CA).

?How Hegemony Works: Nationalism, Consumption, and Resistance in Michoac?n and Kongo.? Paper presented at the ?Modernity?s Histories: The Long Nineteenth Century? Conference, University of California, Davis 20-21 May 2000 (Davis, CA).

?Commodities, Consumption, and the Repartimiento de Efectos in Colonial Latin America.? Paper presented at the ?Modernity?s Histories in Global Perspective: Colonialism, Memory and Modernity? Workshop/Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, 16-17 May 1998 (Santa Cruz, CA).

Recent SERVICE

Attended Snell Lecture Series, 10 and 12 April, 2013, held at Lee University

Attended Southeast Tennessee Student History Conference, 9 April 2013, held at Bryan College (Dayton, TN)

Attended and chaired a panel at the John A. Sims Colloquium, 11 April 2013, held at Lee University.

Attended Phi Alpha Theta regional History Conference, 23 February 2013, held at Belmont University (Nashville, TN)

Attended and chaired a session at the Hess-Thompson History Colloquium, 19 November 2012, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the John A. Sims Colloquium, 11 April 2012, held at Lee University

Attended Southeast Tennessee Student History Conference, 3 April 2012, held at Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA)

Attended Phi Alpha Theta regional History Conference, 24 March 2012, held at

Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN)

Attended and chaired a panel at the Snell Lecture Series, March 2012, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a session at the Hess-Thompson History Colloquium, 17 November 2011, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the John A. Sims Colloquium, 13 April 2011, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the Snell Lecture Series, 19-20 April 2011, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the John A. Sims Colloquium, 14 April 2010, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference, 27 Mar 2010, held at Lee University

Attended and chaired a panel at the Snell Lecture Series, 8-10 March 2010, held at Lee University

Attended Southeast Tennessee Historical Conference, 16 Feb 2010, held at Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN)

Faculty advisor for Enlightenment, vol. 4 (2009), undergraduate research journal of the Arts & Sciences at Lee University

Attended Phi Alpha Theta 2009 Regional Conference, 28 February 2009, held at Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN)

Faculty advisor for Enlightenment, vol. 3 (2008), undergraduate research journal of the Arts & Sciences at Lee University

Attended Southeast Tennessee Historical Conference, 2 April 2008, held at Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA)

Participant in Asian Studies Program development, 2007-present

Lee University Latin American Studies Program Committee, 2002-present

Co-sponsor for Kappa Lambda Iota (Lee Historians) academic club, 2003-present

Member of Phi Alpha Theta

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current research project: Everyday Commodity Consumption and Everyday Colonialism in Michoac?n

Exploring such themes as:

• ?Market consumption and colonialism in early modern Mexico.
• ?Relationships between economics, culture, and power in practices of consumption within cross-cultural and multi-ethnic environments.
• Impact of changing consumer habits upon larger economic changes during the shift to industrial economies.
• Construction and maintenance of cultural hegemony.

Future projects:

• Early Modern Atlantic World commodity consumption patterns, among other things to get beyond the slave trade to a meaningful evaluation of the economic and cultural significance of the Atlantic World for all of the societies linked thereby.
• Examination of the emergence of a nationalistic ideology among both elite and everyday Mexicans during the transition from colony to independent state, and the ramifications of the Enlightenment and liberalism for the politically-mobilized masses in parts of southern Mexico.