Faculty Research
Recent books by our faculty
2022
- Jesús Escobar, Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Penn State University Press)
- Claudio Benzecry, The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (University of Chicago Press)
2021
- Mary Weismantel, Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots (University of Texas Press)
- Pablo Boczkowski (co-author), The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now (MIT Press)
- James Mahoney, The Logic of Social Science (Princeton University Press)
- Mark Hauser, Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (University of Washington Press) [available in an open access edition]
- Pablo Boczkowski, Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Oxford University Press)
- Paul Gillingham, Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship (Yale University Press)
2020
- Lina Britto, Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press)
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando (co-author), The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge)
- Mark Hauser (co-editor), Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate (University Press of Florida)
- James Mahoney (co-editor), The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science (Cambridge University Press)
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South (Lexington Books)
2019
- Marcela Fuentes, Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America (University of Michigan Press)
- Jorge Coronado (co-editor), Visiones de los Andes. Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región (Plural Editores and Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
- Paul Gillingham (co-editor), Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico (University of New Mexico Press)
2018
- Jorge Coronado, Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- César Braga-Pinto, A violência das letras: amizades e inimizades na literatura brasileira Rio de Janeiro,1888-1940 (EdUERJ - Editora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
- Paul Ramírez, Enlightened Immunity: Mexico's Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason (Stanford University Press)
2017
- Harris Feinsod, The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures (Oxford University Press)
- Héctor Carrillo, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men (University of Chicago Press)
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Crime Statistics in the News: Journalism, Numbers and Social Deviation (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Claudio Benzecry (co-editor), Social Theory Now (University of Chicago Press)
2016
- Ana Arjona, Rebelocracy: Social Order in the Colombian Civil War (Cambridge University Press)
- Alejandra Uslenghi, Latin America at Fin-de-Siècle Universal Exhibitions: Modern Cultures of Visuality (Palgrave Macmillan)
2015
- Krista Thompson, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press)
- Ana Arjona (co-editor), Rebel Governance in Civil War (Cambridge University Press)
2014
- Sherwin Bryant, Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito (University of North Carolina Press)
- Rebecca Seligman, Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves: Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Paul Gillingham (co-editor), Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968 (Duke University Press)
2013
- Michelle Molina, To Overcome Oneself: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767 (University of California Press)
- Cynthia Robin, Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan (University Press of Florida)
- Edward Gibson, Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies (Cambridge University Press)
Earlier
- Cynthia Robin (editor), Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community (University Press of Florida, 2012)
- Emily Maguire, Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida, 2011, 2nd edition 2018)
- Paul Gillingham, Cuauhtémoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2011)
- Mark Hauser (co-editor), Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean (University of Alabama Press, 2011)
- Claudio Benzecry, The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Mark Hauser (co-editor), Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica (University of Alabama Press, 2011)
- James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- Jorge Coronado, The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)
- Doris L. Garraway (editor), Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2008)
- Mark Hauser, An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica (University Press of Florida, 2008)
- Krista Thompson, An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Duke University Press, 2007)
- Reuel Rogers, Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Recent articles and book chapters by our faculty
2021- Harris Feinsod, “Postindustrial Waterfront Redevelopment and the Politics of Historical Memory,” Comparative Literature 73.2 (2021)
- Paul Gillingham, “A Short History of Violence and Elections in Mexico,” Noria Research, June 2021
- Emily Maguire, “From Technological Realism to the Science Fictional Turn in Latin American Literature (1985-2017),” in Silvia G. Kurlat Ares and Ezequiel De Rosso (eds.), Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction (Peter Lang, 2021)
- Jorge Coronado, “On Entrenched Inequalities in the Research University: Activism and Teaching for Tenured Faculty Members,” PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Volume 136, Issue 3 (May 2021)
2020
- Emily Maguire, “New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latinx Poetry,” in Anke Birkenmaier (ed.), Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism (Rutgers University Press, 2020)
- Paul Gillingham, “Thoughts on Citizenship in Latin America, with Particular Reference to Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2020) 36 (1-2)
- Jorge Coronado, “Gamaliel Churata y las prácticas letradas indígenas,” in Elizabeth Monasterios (ed.), Gamaliel Churata. Interpelaciones al excepcionalismo de los saberes universales desde una concepción ambiciosamente crítica del pensamiento humano (UNICApress, 2020)
- Lina Britto, “The Drug Wars in Colombia,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (September 2020)
- Mary Weismantel, “The Lanzón’s Tale: Animist Practice and Political Authority at Chavín de Huantar,” in
Steve Kosiba, John Wayne Janusek, and Thomas B. F. Cummins (eds.), Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2020) - Drew Edward Davies, “Colonialism and Music in Habsburg New Spain,” in Andrew H. Weaver (ed.), A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Brill, 2020)
- J. Michelle Molina, “‘Consolation Without Previous Cause’? Consolation, Controversy, and Devotional Agency,” in Colby Dickinson, Hugh Miller, and Kathleen McNutt (eds.), The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (T&T Clark/Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
- Emily Maguire, “Ficciones científicas para un país emergente: los ‘eslabones perdidos’ de la ciencia ficción cubana,” in Teresa López-Pellisa y Silvia G. Kurlat Ares (eds.), Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana I: Desde los orígenes hasta la modernidad (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2020)
- James Mahoney (co-author), “Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research,” Sociological Methods & Research (2020)
2019
- Harris Feinsod, “World Poetry: Commonplaces of an Idea,” Modern Language Quarterly 80.4 (December 2019)
- Ana Arjona, “Subnational Units, the Locus of Choice, and Theory Building: The Case of Civilian Agency in Civil War,” in R. Snyder, A. Giraudy, and E. Moncada (eds.), Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- Marcela Fuentes, “#NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess): Hashtag Performativity, Memory, and Direct Action against Gender Violence in Argentina,” in Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon (eds.), Women Mobilizing Memory (Columbia University Press, 2019)
- César Braga-Pinto, “The Pleasures of Imitation: Gabriel Tarde, Oscar Wilde, and João do Rio in Brazil's Long Fin de Siècle,” Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 56, No. 1 (2019)
- Drew Edward Davies, “Arranging Music for the Liturgy: Contrafacts and Opera Sources from New Spain,” Early Music, Volume 47, Issue 2, May 2019
- Mark Hauser, “Huge Oceans, Small Comparisons: Danish Enclaves in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans,” in Christopher R. DeCorse (ed.), Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (State University of New York Press, 2019)
- Alejandra Uslenghi, “Cartes-de-visite: el inconsciente óptico del siglo XIX,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Tomo 53, Número 2, Junio 2019
- César Braga-Pinto, “Eccentrics, Extravagants, and Deviants in the Brazilian Belle Époque, or How João Do Rio Emulated Oscar Wilde,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Volume 28, Issue 3 (2019)
- Harris Feinsod, “Canal Zone Modernism: Cendrars, Walrond and Stevens at the ‘Suction Sea,’” English Language Notes 57.1 (April, 2019)
- Pablo J. Boczkowski (co-author), “The Reception of Fake News: The Interpretations and Practices That Shape the Consumption of Perceived Misinformation,” Digital Journalism Volume 7, 2019 - Issue 7 (2019)
- Lina Britto, “‘Legalización o Represión’: How a Debate in Colombia Steered the Fate of the ‘War on Drugs’” in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 33: 1 (Spring 2019)
- Héctor Carrillo, “Cultural Archipelagos and Immigrants’ Experiences,” City & Community Volume18, Issue1 (March 2019)
- Claudio Benzecry, “El infierno es que las cosas sigan así. Violencia y representación etnográfica,” Revista Hispánica Moderna 72 (1). 2019.
2018
- Pablo Boczkowski, “‘News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure’: Understanding the practices of incidental news consumption on social media,” New Media & Society 2018, Vol. 20(10)
- Marcela Fuentes, “Making Change: Performance and the Workings of the Event,” in Stephani Etheridge Woodson and Tamara Underiner (eds.), Theatre, Performance and Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
- Claudio Benzecry (co-author), “The Cultural Life of Objects,” in Laura Grindstaff, Ming-Cheng M. Lo, and John R. Hall (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2018)
- Emily Maguire, “The Heart of a Zombie: Dominican Literature’s Sentient Undead,” Alambique: Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 , Article 4 (2018)
- Mark Hauser (co-author), “The Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up,” Environmental Archaeology Volume 23, 2018 - Issue 1
- Jorge Coronado, “Sobre la noción de lo andino: ciencia, literatura, y consumo,” in Carlos Abreu Mendoza and Denise Y. Arnold (eds.), Crítica de la razón andina (Editorial A Contracorriente, 2018)
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando (co-author), “When Geopolitics Becomes Moral Panic: El Mercurio and the Use of International News as Propaganda against Salvador Allende’s Chile (1970–1973),” Media History, Volume 24, Issue 3-4 (2018)
- Claudio Benzecry (co-author), “Habitus and Beyond: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant Looking at the Seams,” in Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu (Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018)
- Jorge Coronado, “Instances of Agency: Julio Cordero’s Archive and Photographic Portraits,” Bolivian Studies Journal Vol. 23-24 (2017-2018)
- Jairo Lugo-Ocando, “International Cooperation, Foreign Aid and Changes in Media Agenda: The Case of Voces,” Journal of Latin American Communication Research Vol 6, No 1-2 (2018)
2017
- Ana Arjona, “Civilian Cooperation and Non-Cooperation with Non-State Armed Groups: The Centrality of Obedience and Resistance,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, Volume 28, Issue 4-5 (2017). Reprinted in Isabelle Duyvesteyn (ed.), Rebels and Legitimacy: Processes and Practices (Routdledge, 2018).
- Paul Ramírez, “Double Vision: Dichotomies in the Study of Latin America,” in Karen Melvin and Sylvia Sellers-García (eds.), Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 2017)
- Jesús Escobar, “Philip II and El Escorial,” in Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Art History (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Claudio Benzecry (co-author), “The Practical Logic of Political Domination: Conceptualizing the Clientelist Habitus,” Sociological Theory Volume: 35 issue: 3 (2017)
- Emily Maguire, “Deformaciones literarias: Embriología, genealogía y ciencia ficción en El Informe Cabrera de José ‘Pepe’ Liboy,” Revista Iberoamericana Vol. LXXXIII, Num. 259-260, abril-septiembre 2017
- Doris Garraway, “Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Colonization, and the African Origins of Civilization in Postrevolutionary Haitian Writing,” in Damien Tricoire (ed.), Enlightened Colonialism: Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (Springer, 2017)
- Michelle Molina, “Fluid indigeneity: Indians, Catholicism, and Spanish law in the mutable Americas,” The Immanent Frame, July 12, 2017
- Claudio Benzecry, “What did we say they’ve said? Four encounters between theory, method and the production of data,” Ethnography Volume: 18 issue: 1 (2017)
- Emily Maguire, “Temporal Palimpsests: Critical Irrealism in Generation Zero’s Cuba in Splinters,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Tomo 51, Número 2, junio 2017
- Claudio Benzecry (co-author), “What is political about political ethnography? On the context of discovery and the normalization of an emergent subfield,” Theory and Society Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2017)
2016
- Ana Arjona, “Institutions, Civilian Resistance and Wartime Social Order: A Process-Driven Natural Experiment in the Colombian Civil War,” Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 58(3) (2016)
- Jesús Escobar, “Architecture in the Age of the Spanish Habsburgs,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 75/3 (2016)
- Doris Garraway, “Print, Publics, and the Scene of Universal Equality in the Kingdom of Henry Christophe,” L'Esprit Créateur Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2016
- Ana Arjona (co-author), “Conflict, Violence, and Democracy in Latin America,” Introduction to the first bilingual issue of Politica y Gobierno (CIDE, Mexico), Vol. XXIII (1), 2016
2015
- Emily Maguire, “Walking Dead in Havana: Juan of the Dead and the Zombie Film Genre,” in Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (eds.), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
2014
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Claudio Benzecry (co-author), “The High of Cultural Experience: Toward a Microsociology of Cultural Consumption,” Sociological Theory Volume: 32 issue: 4 (2014)