PUBLICATIONS
Books and Book Manuscripts "Uncivil Society: Catholics and Revolutionary Politics in Mexico, 1929-1940," under contract with Duke University Press.
"The Yucatec Maya and the Mexican Revolution, 1915-1935," under contract with University of Texas Press.
Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001).
Edited Collections and Journal Special Editions
"Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan," co-edited with Edward Terry, Gilbert Joseph, and Eric Baklanoff (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010).
“Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940,” special edition of the Americas 65:4 (April 2009), co-edited with Matthew Butler.
Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America, co-edited with Samuel Brunk (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
“The Maya Identity of Yucatán: Re-Thinking Ethnicity, History, and Anthropology," special edition of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology " 9:1 (Spring 2004), co-edited with Quetzil Castañeda.
Articles, Essays, and Chapters "From Acrimony to Accommodation: Church-State Relations in Revolutionary-era Yucatán, 1915-1940," in Ben Fallaw, Edward Terry, Gilbert Joseph, and Eric Baklanoff, eds., " Peripheral Visions: Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan," (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010).
Varieties of Mexican Revolutionary Anticlericalism: Radicalism, Iconoclasm, and Otherwise, 1914-1935," the Americas 65:4 (April 2009): 477-505.
"Bartolomé García Correa and the Politics of Maya Identity in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, 1915-1993," Ethnohistory 55:4 (Fall 2008): 553-578.
"'Anti-Priests' versus Catholic-Socialists in 1930s Campeche: Federal Teachers, Revolutionary Communes, and Anticlericalism," in Matthew Butler, ed. Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007): 203-223.
"Martyr or Cesar?: Felipe Carrillo Puerto’s Life and Hero Cult in Revolutionary Yucatán," in Sam Brunk and Ben Fallaw, eds., Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
"Los Límites de la Revolución: Plutarco Elías Calles, Felipe Carrillo Puerto y El Socialismo Yucateco, 1921-1924," ("The Limits of the Revolution: Plutarco Elias Calles, Felipe Carrillo Puerto and Yucatecan Socialism") Boletín del Archivo Plutarco Elías Calles (Bulletin of the Presidential Archives of Plutarco Elías Calles) No. 27 (August 2006): 1-32.
"Prácticas políticas en la elección gubernamental de Yucatán, 1933," ("Political practice in the gubernatorial election of Yucatán, 1933") in Sergio Quezada, ed. Encrucijadas de la ciudadanía y la democracia. Yucatán 1812-2004 (Crossroads of Citizens and Democracy. Yucatán, 1812-2004) (Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and Congreso del Estado de Yucatán, 2005): 123- 152.
"Repensando la resistencia maya: Cambios de las relaciones entre los maestros federales y los comunidades mayas en el oriente, 1929-1935," ("Rethinking Maya Resistance: Changes in the Relations between Federal Teachers and Maya Communities in the East, 1929-1933") in Juan Castillo Cocom and Quetzil Castañeda, eds., Estrategias identitarias: Educación y la antropología histórica (Strategies of Identity: Education and Historical Anthropology) (Mexico City: Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 2005).
"Rethinking Mayan Resistance: Changing Relations between Federal Teachers and Mayan Communities in Eastern Yucatán, 1929-1935," Journal of Latin American Anthropology special edition "The Maya Identity of Yucatán: Re-Thinking Ethnicity, History, and Anthropology" 9:1 (Spring 2004): 151-178.
"The Life and Deaths of Felipa Poot: Women and Myth in Cardenista Mexico," Hispanic American Historical Review 82:4 (November 2002): 645-683.
"Dry Law, Wet Politics: Drinking and Prohibition in Revolutionary-era Yucatán, 1915-1935," Latin American Research Review 37: 3 (Summer 2002): 37-64.
"¿Acuerdo o Acrimonia?: Iglesia y Estado en Yucatán revolucionario y postrevolucionario, 1926-1940," ("Accommodation or Acrimony?: Church and State in Revolutionary Yucatán, 1926-1940") Unicornio (the Sunday arts and cultural magazine supplement of the Mérida newspaper Por Esto!) #516 and #517 (18, 25 March 2001): 3-10 (each).
"Tinta Roja: La prensa socialista y los periodistas en el Yucatán revolucionario y postrevolucionario, 1915-1940," ("Red Ink: The Socialist Press and Journalists in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Yucatán, 1915-1940") Unicornio #492 and #493 (1, 8 October 2000): 3-11 (each).
"Antonio Betancourt Pérez, la educacíon y la izquierda en Yucatán, 1931-1937," ("Antonio Betancourt Perez, Education, and the Left in Yucatán, 1931-1937") Unicornio #459-461 (February 13, 20 and 27, 2000): 3-9 (each).
"The Southeast was Red: Left-State Alliances and Popular Mobilizations in Yucatán, 1930-1940," Social Science History 23:2 (Summer 1999): 241-268.
"La caída del gobernador César Alayola Barrera," ("The Fall of Governor César Alayola Barrera") Unicornio #432 and #433 (August 8, 15 1999): 3-9 (each).
"La Sombra de la Guerra de Castas: Política y memoria del conflicto étnico en Yucatán durante la época Cardenista," ("In the Shadow of the Caste War: Politics and Memory of Ethnic Conflict during the Cardenista Era") Una guerra sin fin: los cruzoob ante el umbral del milenio Memorias del Congreso (War without end: The people of the cross on the edge of the millenium. Memories of the Congress) (Mexico City: Lascasiana).
"The Socialist Party of the Southeast" and "Felipe Carrillo Puerto," in Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy & Dearborn, 1998).
"Bartolocallismo: Calles, García Correa, y los Henequeneros de Yucatán," ("Bartolocallismo: Calles, García Correa, and the Henequeneros of Yucatán") Boletín del Archivo Plutarco Elías Calles (Bulletin of the Presidential Archives of Plutarco Elías Calles) No. 27 (April 1998): 1-32.
"Cárdenas and the Caste War that Wasn't: Land, Ethnicity, and State Formation in Yucatán, 1847-1937," the Americas 53:4 (April 1997): 551-577.
"Alayola contra el bartolismo: Cultura política y conflicto en el antiguo Yucatán callista, 1933-1935" ("Alayola Against Bartolismo: Political Culture and Conflict in Late Callista Yucatán, 1933-1935") Unicornio #346 and #347 (December 14, 21, 1997): 3-9 (each).
"Los fundamentos económicos del bartolismo: García Correa, los hacendados yucatecos y la industria del henequén, 1930-1933," ("The Economic Foundations of Bartolismo: García Correa, the Yucatecan Hacendados, and the Henequen Industry, 1930-1933") Unicornio Year 7 #338 and #339 (October 19, 26 1997): 3-9 (each).
"Cardenismo Comprometido: Florencio Palomo Valencia, Temozón y la cuestión agraria en Yucatán" ("Cardenismo Compromised: Florencio Palomo Valencia, Temozón, and Yucatán's Agrarian Question, 1936-1938") Unicornio #307 and #308 (February 16, 23, 1997): 3-11 (each).
"Rogerio Chalé: El líder caído," ("Rogerio Chalé: The Fallen Leader") Unicornio #119 (July 4, 1993): 3-10.
PAPERS PRESENTED “Personal Enemies of God: Anticlericalism and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico,” Council on Iberian and Latin American Studies seminar, Yale University, April 15, 2009.
“The Seduction of Revolution: Anticlerical Campaigns against Auricular Confession,” Conference on Latin American History annual meeting, New York, New York, January 5, 2009.
"Varieties of Anti-religious Experiences in Revolutionary Mexico: Iconoclasm, Alternative Creeds, and Opportunism," Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal, September 5, 2007.
"'Sumisos pero no vencidos' (Submissive but not defeated): Catholics and the Postrevolutionary state in Coahuila, 1924-1940," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, October 28, 2006.
"Enemies of the Current Regime and Completely Fanaticized: Salvador Azanza and the Catholics of Dolores Hidalgo, Northern Guanajuato, 1926-1936," Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2006.
"'Pistols, Pesos, Coyotes, and Scorpions,'" comments on the book Caciquismo in Twentieth Century Mexico eds. Alan Knight and Wil Pansters, Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2006. "Praetorian Politics, Militant Jacobinism and Generalized Corruption: Francisco J. Múgica in Campeche and Yucatán (1934-35) and José Domínguez Cota in Guanajuato (1938-1940)," Southwestern Conference for Latin American Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 4, 2006.
"Bartolomé García Correa: Batab, El Indio Bartolo, or 'Mayan Booker T.,'" New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 1, 2005.
"Anti-priests, Fanatics, and Catholic-Socialists: Federal Teachers, Religion, and the Consolidation of the Postrevolutionary State in Campeche, 1934-1940," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 2004.
"Asociaciones Beatas y Fanáticos (Beatific and Fanatical Associations): Catholics, Camarilla Politics, and the Consolidation of the Postrevolutionary State in Guerrero, 1932-1940," Latin American Studies Association XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 8, 2004.
"The Life of the Party: From Revolution to Institutionalization in Socialist Yucatán, 1918-1935," Colby Humanities and Social Science Faculty Colloquium, November 20, 2003.
"Kulturkampf or Collusion: Catholics and the Postrevolutionary Mexican State, 1929-1940," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18, 2003.
"Church and Man in Yucatán: Reflections on Hernán Menéndez’s Iglesia y Poder," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 18, 2003.
"Brown Over White?: Rethinking Ethnic Conflict and Political Identity in Revolutionary Yucatán, 1918-1923," "Ethnicity, Violence and Memory" conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, February 28-March 1, 2003.
"The Little Republic of Opichén and the Red Battalion of Kanasín: Popular Socialism in Revolutionary Yucatán, 1919-1925," Boston Area Latin American Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 10, 2002.
"How Red Was My Village: Folk and Official Socialism in Revolutionary Yucatán (Mexico)," Colby Humanities and Social Science Faculty Colloquium, March 2002.
"Macehualo’ob Into Mexicans?: Federal Teachers and Indigenous Communities in Campeche and Southern Yucatán State, 1930-1935," Latin American Studies Association XXIII Congress, Washington DC, September 7, 2001.
"Women In Red: Political Mobilization, Work, and Family in the Socialist Women’s Movement of Yucatán, 1915-35," Global Perspectives on Women in Postcolonial Societies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, April 28, 2001.
"Red Terror or Boss Rule?: Political Homicide in Revolutionary Yucatán, 1917-23," Colby Humanities and Social Science Faculty Colloquium, November 2000.
"The Political Geography of Yucatán: Yucatecanism as Conservative Regionalism, 1915-1940," "A Country Unlike Any Other (?): New Approaches to the History of Yucatán" conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 5, 2000.
"Accommodation or Acrimony?: Church and State in Revolutionary Yucatán, 1915-1940," en absentia, International Conference on Church-State Relations, Mérida, Mexico, April 12, 2000.
"'These Distant Corners of Our Country far from Civilization and Progress': Making Maya and Mexican Identity in the 'Indigenous Zone' of Quintana Roo and Eastern Yucatán, 1928-35," Latin American Studies Association XXII Congress, Miami, Florida, March 18, 2000.
"The Red Triangle: Corruption and the Political Culture of Post-revolutionary Yucatán, 1915-1935," the Midwestern Association of Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Charleston, Illinois, November 6, 1999.
"The Life and Three Deaths of Felipa Poot," Latin American Studies Association XXI Congress, Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 1998.
"In the Shadow of the Caste War: Politics and Memory of Ethnic Conflict during the Cardenista Era," First International Conference of the Caste War, Mérida, Mexico, July 28, 1997.
"The Southeast Was Red: Left-State Alliances in Yucatán, 1930-1940," Latin American Studies Association XX Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 18, 1997.
"Cárdenas and the Caste War that Wasn't: Land, Ethnicity, and State Formation in Yucatán, 1847-1937," American Society for Ethnohistory Convention, Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 4, 1995.
"Jacobinismo y Callismo en Yucatán, 1933-1936," (“Jacobinism and Callism in Yucatán, 1933-1936") the conference La relación Estado-Iglesia durante los siglos XIX y XX en la perspectiva historiográfica contemporánea (State-Church Relations in the 19th and 20th centuries from the Perspective of Contemporary Historiography), organized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Merida, Yucatán, November 7, 1994.
"Maya into Mexicans(?): Anticlericalism, Prohibition, and the Politics of Social Reform in Revolutionary Yucatán, c.1925-1940," the IX Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Mexico City, Mexico, October 28, 1994.
"Bartolismo: Caciques, Machine Politics, and Cultural Reform in García Correa's Yucatán, 1930-1933," Latin American Studies Association XVIII Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, March 10, 1994.
BOOK REVIEWS Jurgen Buchenau, Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (Lahnham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), the Americas 64:3 (January 2008): 454-455.
Matthew Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion, Michoacan, 1927-29 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), forthcoming in The Historian.
Alexander S. Dawson, Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2004), forthcoming in Hispanic American Historical Review.
Michael Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), Social History 30:3 (August 2005): 381-383.
R. Tripp Evans, Romancing the Maya (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10:1 (April 2005): 233-235.
Christopher Boyer, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920-1935 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), Social History 29:2 (May 2004): 243-45.
Terry Rugeley, Of Wonders and Wisemen: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001), Mesoamerica 44 (December 2002): 221-225.
Tim Henderson, The worm in the wheat: Rosalie Evans and agrarian struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) and David Nugent, Modernity at the edge of empire: state, individual, and nation in the northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935 (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997), Ethnohistory, 48:1/2 (Winter/Spring 2001): 368-372.
Donald Dumond, The Machete and the Cross (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), The Historian 62:1 (Fall 1999): 146-147.
"The Peninsular Kulturkampf (1857-1917)," review of Hernán R. Menéndez, Iglesia y Poder, Unicornio #255 (February 18, 1996).
PANELS Chair and Organizer, panel “Seduction of Revolution: Popular Anticlericalism, Predatory Priests, and Reformed Piety in Modern Mexico,” Conference of Latin American History, New York City, January 5, 2009.
Chair and Organizer, panel "'Personal Enemies of God': Anticlericals and Anticlericalism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1915-1940," Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal, September 5, 2007.
Chair and Organizer, panel "Religion and Politics," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, October 28, 2006.
Chair and Organizer, panel "Recentering Church-State Relations in Postrevolutionary Mexico," Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 17, 2006.
Organizer, panel "Representing and Contesting Maya Identity in the Modern Period," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, October 1, 2005.
Chair and Organizer, panel "Catholics and the State in Postrevolutionary Mexico," New England Council for Latin American Studies conference, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 2004.
Co-organizer, panel "Facing the State," Latin American Studies Association XXIV International Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 8, 2004.
Co-organizer, panel "The Limits of Identity: State Boundaries and Ethnicity in Latin American Frontier Regions," Latin American Studies Association XXIII Congress, Washington, D.C., September 7, 2001.
Discussant, panel "Peripheral Feminism, Feminist Periphery: Women’s Organizing in Post-Revolutionary Yucatán," Latin American Studies Association XXIII Congress, Washington, D.C. September 7, 2001.
Chair and discussant, panel "Church-State Relations in Mexican History," 66th Conference of the New England Historical Association, Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island, April 21, 2001.
Co-organizer, conference "A Country Unlike Any Other (?): New Perspectives on History in Yucatán," Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 4-5, 2000.
Organizer, panel "New Perspectives on Maya Identity," Latin American Studies Association XXII Congress, Miami, Florida, March 18, 2000.
Chair and co-organizer, panel at Midwest Association of Latin American Studies Conference, Charleston, Illinois, October 1999.
Organizer, panel "Dangerous Liaisons: Women and the State in Yucatán," Latin American Studies Association XXI Congress, Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 1998. Co-organizer, panel "Peripheral Visions of Post-revolutionary Mexico: Regional Political and Social Histories, 1917-1946," Latin American Studies Association XX Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 18, 1997.
Co-organizer, Chicago Area Graduate Student Conference on Latin America "(Re)constructing 'lo popular': Culture, Identity and the State," University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-25, 1994.
HONORS THESES DIRECTED
Sarah de Liefde (Latin American Studies), “Gendering the Guatemalan Counterinsurgency,” 2008-2009.
Catherine Coffman (History), “The Dust Between Two Fires: Civilian Militias in Ayacucho, Peru and Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia,” 2008-2009.
Stephanie Bowman (Latin American Studies), “In the Absence of Family: How Private Honduran Children’s Homes Meet the Needs of At-Risk Youth,” 2007-2008.
Abigail Hall (Latin American Studies), “The Penguins’ Revolution: An Analysis of Student Response to the Multi-Dimensional Chilean Educational Crisis,” 2007-2008.
Nicole Terrillion (International Studies), “Cultivating Urban Ecological Citizenship: NGOs and Environmental Perception in Quito, Ecuador,” 2007-2008.
Cornelia Sage (History), “Museo de la Memoria: An Exploration through Memory of ESMA,” 2006-2007.
Laura Snider (International Studies), “Mobilized Mothers and Women Warriors in Sri Lanka and Chile,” 2005-2006. Gabriel Reyes (Latin American Studies), “The Continuous Struggle for Representation in the Venezuelan State,” 2004-2005.
Melissa Rosales (Latin American Studies), “Education, Vocational Skills, and Active Participation as Vehicles to Empowerment: The Impact of Non-governmental Organizations on Street Children in La Paz, Bolivia,” 2003-2004.
Eliza Kittredge (International Studies), “A Time of Pachakutik: An Examination of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement, 2001-2002.
LANGUAGES Spanish: excellent reading and speaking, good writing abilities Yucatec Maya: some speaking, reading, and writing abilities
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