john mckiernan-gonzález curriculum vitae
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John Mckiernan-González
Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin,
1 University Station B7000, Garrison Hall 0.108, Austin, TX 78712
(512) 475 7260 (office), (512) 475 7222 (fax)
EDUCATION
The University of Michigan, Ph.D., United States History, 2002. Dissertation: Fevered Measures: Race,
Communicable Disease and Community Formation on the Texas-Mexico Border, 1880–1923.
The University of Michigan, M.A., United States History, 1995.
Oberlin College, B.A., Art History, Latin American Studies, 1991.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005 – present Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
2008 – 2009 Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
2008 – present Faculty Affiliate, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas,
Austin, Texas.
2007 – present Faculty Affiliate, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin,
Texas.
2006 – present Faculty Affiliate, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
2003 – 2004 Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mexican American
Studies, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies,
University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
2003 – 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa,
Florida.
2002 – 2003 Lecturer, Department of History, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
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PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:
John Mckiernan-González, Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the
TexasMexico Border, 1848-1942 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, August 2012).
424 pages.
Co-Edited Collection:
Martin Summers, Laurie Green, and John Mckiernan-González, co-editors. Making Race,
Making Health: Race, Medicine and Public Health in Historical Perspective, full
manuscript submitted to the University of Minnesota Press, 05/07/2012, 382 double-
spaced pages. Co-authored “Introduction,” with Martin Summers and Laurie Green, pp.
2-24. Authored chapter “Making the Nation’s Edge: African Americans, Smallpox and
Medical Citizenship in the Mexican/American Borderlands, 1895,” pp. 198-231,
submitted 05/07/2012.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
“Building Austin, Building Justice: Immigrant Construction Workers, Precarious Labor
Regimes and Social Citizenship.” Co-authors: Rebecca Torres, Rich Heyman, Solange
Muñoz, Lauren Apgar, Emily Timm, Cristina Tzintzun, Charles R. Hale, John
Mckiernan-González, Shannon Speed, Eric Tang. Accepted pending minor revisions on
2/7/12. Geoforum. 41 double-spaced pages.
Book Chapters:
John Mckiernan-González, “Science and Medicine,” commissioned book chapter for the
Organization of American Historians / National Park Service, The Making of the United
States: American Latino Theme Study. Accepted pending revisions, 04/27/2012, revisions
submitted 05/30/2012. Revisions accepted 06/30/2012. Page proofs submitted
07/14/2012. In production, publication date, 11/2012. 25 double-spaced pages.
John Mckiernan-González, “Everyday Disturbances: Respectability, ‘Indian’ Marathon
Runners, Medical Inspection and the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.” Book chapter for
Race and Sports in Greater Los Angeles, Jose Alamillo and Michael Willard, eds.
Accepted for collection by co-editors, November 2010. 17 double-spaced pages.
John Mckiernan-González, “Going Public? Tampa Youth, Racial Schooling, and Public
History in the Cuentos de mi Familia Project,” in Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in
Latina/o America, eds. Gina M. Pérez, Frank A. Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, Jr. (New
York, NY: New York University Press, 2010), pp.189-210. (Peer reviewed.)
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Encyclopedia Entry
John Mckiernan-González, “Alabama Blacks to Mexico,” The New Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture, V.23: Race, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013),
Collection submitted for peer review, November 2011. In press since May 2012,
expected publication May 2013. 5 double-spaced pages.
Translation
John Mckiernan-González, El cuaderno de ejercicios de opciones para tu embarazo:
Para mujeres que están tomando una decisión difícil sobre un embarazo. Co-translators:
John Mckiernan-González, Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarrez. (Ferre Institute, 2010). 88
pages. Translation from English to Spanish of, Pregnant? Need Help? Pregnancy
Options Workbook (Ferre Institute, 1998), revised in 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009 by Margaret
R. Johnston. Distributed by Ferre Institute, Binghamton, New York.
Exhibitions
John Mckiernan-González, “Bodies of Evidence: Representation and Recognition on the
Mexican Border,” in The Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures: Research
and Museums Conference Documentation, (Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives,
Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, 2003).
(http://latino.si.edu/researchandmuseums/presentations/mckiernan_paper.html). Online
publication since 2003. 22 printed pages.
John Mckiernan-González, “1848: Una Frontera Nueva, Una Nación Nueva,” (“1848:
New Border, New Nation”). Researcher and writer on exhibit team: Fath Davis Ruffins,
John Mckiernan-González, Marvette Pérez, Odette Diaz Schuler. National Museum of
American History, the Smithsonian Institution, 1998. 42 page script. Exhibition March
1998 to January 1999. (Internal Smithsonian/National Museum of American History
review and external advisory panel review.)
John Mckiernan-González, “1848: Encrucijadas de caminos/Interwoven Paths -,”
National Museum of American History, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution,
1998). 2 page single-spaced 2 column English/Spanish museum handout for “1848: Una
Frontera Nueva, Una Nación Nueva,” (“1848: New Border, New Nation”).
John Mckiernan- González, “1848: The Guardian—La llavera/Eulalia Pérez,” National
Museum of American History, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1998). 2 page
single-spaced 2 column English/Spanish museum handout for “1848: Una Frontera
Nueva, Una Nación Nueva,” (“1848: New Border, New Nation”).
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John Mckiernan- González, “1848: Vaqueros y cowboys /Vaqueros and
Cowboys,” National Museum of American History, (Washington, DC: Smithsonian
Institution, 1998). 2 page single-spaced 2 column English/Spanish museum handout for
“1848: Una Frontera Nueva, Una Nación Nueva,” (“1848: New Border, New Nation”).
John Mckiernan- González, “1848: Legal Tender—Las monedas de curso legal/Dueling
Eagles—El duelo de las águilas,” National Museum of American History, (Washington,
DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1998). 2 page single-spaced 2 column English/Spanish
museum handout for “1848: Una Frontera Nueva, Una Nación Nueva,” (“1848: New
Border, New Nation”).
John Mckiernan-González, “Teodoro Vidal: A Collector and His Collection.” Researcher
and writer on exhibit team. Fath Davis Ruffins, John Mckiernan-González, Marvette
Perez, Odette Diaz Schuler. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institution, 1998. 47 page script. Exhibition June 1998 to January 2000. (Internal
Smithsonian/National Museum of American History review and external advisory panel
review.)
Web Portals / Digital Archives
John Mckiernan-González, “Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience,”
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/onda_latina/index. Co-authors John Mckiernan-González and
Claudia Rueda. Posted October 2009 to present. 230 different web entries.
John Mckiernan-González, “Mapping the Latino Borderlands: Regionally Linked Latino
American Archive,” http://www.laits.utexas.edu/borderlands/. Web site production team:
John Mckiernan-González, Blake Grugett, Michelle Yang, Suzanne Rhodes. 5 portals, 49
web entries. Posted October 2008 to present.
Book Reviews
John Mckiernan-González, Review: Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations:
Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877-1898, By Daniel
S. Margolies. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), Southwestern Historical
Quarterly. Accepted 02/01/2012, expected publication October 2012. 3 double-spaced
pages.
John Mckiernan-González, Catherine S. Ramirez, The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender,
Nationalism and the Cultural Politics of Memory, (Durham: Duke University Press,
2009), in Journal of American History, 31: 2 (Winter 2012), pp. 139-40
John Mckiernan-González, Richard Griswold del Castillo (ed.), Chicano San Diego:
Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007),
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in Journal of American Ethnic History, 29:1 (Fall 2009), pp. 95-96.
John Mckiernan-González, Caroline Brettel, Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries:
Race, Ethnicity, and Migration, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), in Journal of
American Ethnic History 27:3 (spring 2008), pp. 116-117.
Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in
Modern America, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) in Western Historical
Quarterly, 38:1 (spring 2007), pp. 88-89.
Research Report
John Mckiernan-González, ed. Cuentos de mi Familia: Selected Works, the University of
South Florida, 2003. 170 pages.
John Mckiernan-González, ed Cuentos de mi Familia: Dowdell, the University of South
Florida, May 2005. 40 pages.
John Mckiernan-González, ed Cuentos de mi Familia: McLane Middle School, the
University of South Florida, May 2005. 33 pages.
John Mckiernan-González, ed Cuentos de mi Familia: Pierce Middle School, the
University of South Florida, May 2005. 34 pages.
Other Publications
John Mckiernan-González, “Radio and Community: The Mexican American
Experience,” Not Even Past (http://www.notevenpast.org/listen/radio-community). 1
online page. May 2011.
John Mckiernan-González, “Opinion: Existing ethnic divide will shape U.S. H1N1
epidemic,” The University of Texas at Austin Know,
(http://www.utexas.edu/know/2009/09/09/mckiernan-gonzalez_op/). 1 online page.
September 2009.
John Mckiernan-González, “Latino History’s Lessons for American Public Health,” The
Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, 15: 6 (December 13, 2004) page 88.
John Mckiernan-González, “’Cuentos de mi Familia’ en Hillsborough” La Gaceta
(December 13, 2002) page 7.
John Mckiernan-González, “Becoming American: A Cautionary Tale,” The Hispanic
Outlook in Higher Education, 12:15, (May 6, 2002), page 84.
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Organizations of American Historians / National Park Service American Latinos and the making
of the United States Theme Study, “Science and medicine,” $5,000.00, (February 2012)
“Super Sounds of the 70s: the Public Face of the Mexican American Experience,” Center for
Mexican American Studies Summer Research Fellowship, the University of Texas at Austin
(summer 2011), $5,000.
“Onda Latina 3.0 – A esta hora conversamos,” Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services
Award, the University of Texas at Austin (2010-2011), $3,000.
“Voicing the Americas: The Ondas Latinas/Ondas Indigenas Radio Archive Project,” The
National Endowment for the Humanities, (requested $290,000) (co P.I. with Luis Carcamo
Huechante), (applied summer 2010), asked to revise and resubmit, not awarded.
Onda Latina: “Digitizing the Mexican American Experience,e” Liberal Arts Instructional
Technology Services Development Project, University of Texas at Austin, (2008-2010), $8,800.
“Black Odyssey, 1895: Connecting Race, the Mexican Border and the Rush to Progress,”
Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Junior Faculty Career Enrichment Fellowship, Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey (2008-2009), $30,000.
Latina/o Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign,
March 2008 ($45,000) (declined).
“Black Odyssey, 1895: Race, the Mexican Border and the Rush to Progress”, Faculty Research
Assignment, the University of Texas at Austin (fall 2007).
“Fevered Measures: Communicable Disease and Community Formation at the Texas-Mexico
Border,” Summer Research Assignment, the University of Texas at Austin, (summer 2006),
$5,000.
“Mapping the Latino Borderlands: A Regionally Linked Latino American Archive,” Faculty and
Student Teams for Technology (FASTex) – Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Service, the
University of Texas at Austin, (2006-2007), $3,000.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
05/2011. “The Importance of Recent History,” at “The American Social History Project: Teachers
as Researchers Project,” Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Austin, Texas.
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09/2010. “The trouble with Field-work: It Will Change You.” The Mellon-Mays Distinguished
Lecture Series, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
04/2010. “Local Politics, the Texas Mexico Border and the Making of American Public Health,”
The DeLeon Symposium in the Humanities, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, Texas.
03/2007. “Racial Schooling? Youth, Public History, and Cultural Citizenship in Cuentos de mi
Familia,” at “Beyond the Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America,” University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.
11/2008. “Connecting Race and Public Health at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1880-1930,” lecture
for the Department of History, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
10/2008. “Race across the Border: the Tlahualilo-Tuscaloosa Connection, 1895,” Woodrow
Wilson National Foundation Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship Conference,
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
10/2007. Comment: “Asian and Mexican Settlement in the American Southwest,” and “Asia in
Latin America: Across Four Continents.” Conference: Center for Asian American Studies, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
09/2007. Panel Member: “Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine,” Department of
History, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. 04/2006. “The Devil’s Highway: Mayor’s Book Club,” Public book discussion, Hampton Branch
Library at Oak Hill, Austin Public Library, Austin, Texas.
10/2005. “On Place and Possibility: ‘Indian’ Marathon Runners, the El Paso Border and 1932 Los
Angeles Olympics,” Center for Mexican American Studies Plática, The University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas.
09/2004. “Latinos in American Culture,” for Electronic Network for Latin American Careers and
Employment (ENLACE) Day – Hillsborough Community College, Brandon, Florida.
06/2004. Keynote Respondent, “The Legacy of Benjamin Mays Keynote Address,” Social
Science Research Council Mellon Mays Fellowship Conference, Washington University-St.
Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
03/2004. “Against the Calculus of Fitness: Black Colonists, Coahuila, and the Making of
American Citizenship, 1895.” Brown Bag Series, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
02/2004. “Fevered Measures: Health Against Citizenship on the Medical Border, 1880-1930,”
Center for Mexican-American Studies Platica Series, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas.
11/2003. “Bodies and Borders: Research Notes,” lecture for Department of American Studies,
Lehigh University, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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10/2003. “Cuentos de mi Familia,” University of South Florida Library Hispanic Heritage Month
Speaker, Tampa, Florida.
10/2003. “Cuentos and Crossroads: Latino Artists and their Worlds,” Tampa Museum of Art,
Tampa, Florida.
03/2003. “Everyday Disturbances: Respectability, ‘Indian’ Marathon Runners, and the Practice of
Medical Inspection, 1932,” at “Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy, and Everyday Life,”
Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.
11/2002. “Bodies of Evidence: Legal Representation and Medical Recognition on the Border,
1900-1930,” for “The Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures: Research and
Museums, a National Conference at the Smithsonian Institution,” S. Dillon Ripley Gallery, The
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
10/2002. “Rights, Recognition and Revolution: The United States Public Health Service and the
Mexican Border, 1900-1930,” Hispanic American History Month Lecture, the National Library of
Medicine, National Institute of Health, Lister Hill Auditorium, Bethesda, Maryland.
11/2001. “Entrecruzados: Latinos, Americanos y los Estados Unidos,” Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Lecture Series, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
10/2001. “Americanos: Latino Communities in the United States,” for Art of the Spirit Lecture
Series, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
02/2001. “Camp Jenner and Other Field Trials: Black Exodus, Agricultural Labor and Federal
Smallpox Therapy in the New South Northern Mexico Borderlands, 1895,” Distinguished
Speaker Series in Ethnic Studies, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California.
10/2000. “Latinos and American Culture: The National Museum of American History and the
Contradictions of Colonialism.” Guest Lecture, Residential College Humanities 305, “Cultural
Conflicts in the Arts,” University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
06/2000. “Popular Culture y Cultura Popular: Nationalism, Nativism and Gender in North
American Soccer, 1998-1999, American Culture 200.” Leisure in American Culture conference,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
05/2000. “Model Minority/Yellow Peril/Worthy Rival: Framing Asian, American and Immigrant
Athletes in American Soccer, 1998-1999. American Culture 201.” Asian Americans and Popular
Culture conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
11/1999. “Mall Stories: Framing Latino History in the National Museum of American History.”
History of Art 394. “Displaying Culture: The History and Politics of Museums,” the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
04/1997. “The El Paso Typhus Bath Riots and the Invention of the Modern Mexican Border,”
National Museum of American History Tuesday Colloquium Series, National Museum of
American History, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Academic Presentations International Associations
10/2012. Roundtable accepted. “Scholarship, community and responses to Crimmigration complexes in the
Global Nuevo South,” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico
05/2012. “who gets to be an American doctor: the case of Latino Texas, 1900-1945,” Latin American Studies
Association, San Francisco, CA
05/2012. Presentation accepted, “Circulating Germs, Riots and Quarantines: Connecting the Laredo
Smallpox Riot and the Monterrey Yellow Fever Uprising, 1895-1905,” Latin American Studies Association,
San Francisco, CA
05/2012. Panel accepted. “Historia Americana o American Histories: Contemporary transnationalism,
race and the early national history of medicine, » Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco,
CA
01/2012. “Puro Cuento: Everyday People and Transnational Public Health Formations at the
Texas Border,” American Historical Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
10/2011. “Working Spectacles: Translating Pain into Policy in Texas, 1948-2010,” American
Studies Association meeting, Washington, D.C.
03/2011. Panel comment: “New Directions in Multiracial Texas,” Organization of American
Historians meeting, Houston, Texas.
11/2009. “Translating Community Healing into Foto-Fantastic Public Art,” American Studies
Association meeting, Washington, D.C. (Presentation accepted, but declined due to partner’s
child-birth).
11/2009. Panel organizer, “Framing America's Hard Edges: Photographs, Health Imagery and the
(De)Construction of Racialized Belonging.” American Studies Association meeting, Washington,
D.C.
03/2009. “What Does it Feel Like to be a Problem? Immigrant Rights and Civil Rights,”
Abriendo Brecha Activist Scholarship Conference, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin,
Texas.
10/2008. Panel Member, “New Directions in Race and the American West,” Western Historical
Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (Presentation declined due to schedule conflict with
Woodrow Wilson National Foundation).
03/2008. Panel Comment, “Race and Colonialism in the American West,” Organization of
American Historians meeting, New York, New York.
10/2007. “Ondas Chicanas: The Cross-Border Impulse of University-Based Radio at the Dawn of
the Reagan Era,” American Studies Association meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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10/2007. Panel Organizer, “Dissident Sounds, Resonant Frequencies: Activist Community
Formation and the Production of History across the New Borderlands, 1976–2006,” American
Studies Association meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
09/2007. “¿Porque Familia?: Building from difference in Latino History Classrooms in a Florida
and a Texas Borderlands” Latin American Studies Association meeting, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
04/2007. “Racial Schooling? Youth, Public History, and Cultural Citizenship in Cuentos de mi
Familia,” Inter-University Partnership for Latino Research meeting, Austin, Texas.
04/2007. Panel Organizer: “Public Schooling & Public Housing: Domesticity and the Spatial
Politics of Latino Cultural Citizenship,” Inter-University Partnership for Latino Research
meeting, Austin, Texas.
03/2007. “The Tlahualilo-Tuscaloosa Crucible: Labor Recruitment, Black Citizenship and Public
Health in the Mexican Borderlands, 1895,” Texas State Historical Association meeting, San
Antonio, Texas.
10/2006. “El Niño Fidencio and the Visibility of Childhood Illness.” American Studies
Association meeting, Oakland, California. 10/2006. Panel Organizer: “Mexicali, Managua, Mexico, and the Mission: Situating Ethnic
Transnationalism in Everyday Americas Culture,” American Studies Association meeting,
Oakland, California.
02/2006. “Domestic Incorporation? The Work of Gender in the Texas-Mexican Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1882,” The Southern Association for the History of Medicine meeting, San Antonio,
Texas.
01/2006. “¿Domestic Tensions?: Laundries, Street Cars, and the Definition of Wage Labor in El
Paso, 1914-1920,” for “Abriendo Brecha: On Crisis, Politics and Performance in the Americas”
conference, Austin, Texas.
03/2005. Co-presented with Patricia Alvarez McHatton, Ph.D, “Mesticize this! The Shifting
Spaces of Latino Collaborative Research in Public Contexts,” for Abriendo Brecha/The Politics
of Mestizaje Activist Scholar Symposium, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. 11/2004. “Cuentos de Mi Familia: At the Crossroads of Schooling and Montage,” American
Studies Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. 11/2004. Panel organizer: “Modeling Minorities: Countering Twentieth Century Racial
Schooling,” American Studies Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. 11/2004. Roundtable participant, “Comparative Mestizajes and Hybridities: A Workshop in the
Discourse and Politics of Race and Place,” American Studies Association meeting, Atlanta,
Georgia.
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03/2004. “Black Transnational Civil Rights: Tlahualilo, Mexico and the Case of Tuscaloosa in
1895, Race and Place III: the Civil Rights Movement,” Bankhead Memorial Conference,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
03/2003. “To Fix the Labor Question with the Southern Negro: Southern Black Bodies and
American Citizenship in a Mexican Industrial Experiment, 1895,” Latin American Studies
Association meeting, Dallas, Texas.
11/2002. “Passing Glances: Medical History, the Mexican Border and the Politics of
Recognition,” American Anthropological Association meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
11/2002. “Everyday Disturbances: Respectability, ‘Indian’ Marathon Runners, and the Practice of
Medical Inspection, 1932,” American Studies Association meeting, Houston, Texas.
11/2002. Panel Organizer, “Mismatched Modernities: Mapping U.S.—Mexico Interactions
Across Technologies of Labor and Leisure, 1930-1950,” American Studies Association meeting,
Houston, Texas.
10/2002. “Defining Ambiguities: Mexican Mobility, Public Health and Political Conflict in South
Texas after Reconstruction, 1880-1882,” Social Science History Association meeting, St. Louis,
Missouri.
01/2002. “Bodies that Don’t Matter: American Vaccination Policies, ‘Mexican Unreliability’ and
Anti-revaccination Politics on the Border, 1900-1920,” American Historical Association meeting,
San Francisco, California.
01/2000. “Fevered Measures: Typhus, Medical Reform and Public Space between the United
States and Mexico, 1915-1920,” American Historical Association meeting, Washington, D.C.
11/1997. Angel Island on the Rio Grande: Typhus and the Re-negotiation of Mexican Cultures of
El Paso, 1916-1917. American Studies Association of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.
11/1997. Panel Organizer: “Up and Down the Valley: Circulation, Contagion and Culture (at,
around and through) the Border, 1910-1950,” American Studies Association of Texas meeting,
San Antonio, Texas.
05/1995. “‘To Interest Them in their Own Salvation’: Race, Hookworm and Colonial Redemption
in Puerto Rico, 1898-1913.” Panel, “1898, Before and Beyond.” American Ethnological Society
Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
ACADEMIC ADVISING
Dissertation Co-Chair:
Irene Garza, Department of American Studies, (2010-present)
Claudia Rueda, Department of History (2009-present)
Master’s Thesis Advisor:
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Claudia Rueda, Department of History (2006-2008)
Amanda Posson, Latin American Studies, (2009-2010)
Plan II Honor’s Thesis Advisor:
Andrea Gaspar (2010-2011)
Mexican American Studies Honor’s Thesis Advisor:
Ferhi Mahmood, (2006-2007)
Dissertation Committee Member
Neel Baumgardner, Department of History (2009-present)
Claudia Carreta-Beltran, Department of History (2007-2011)
Lilia Rosas, Department of History (2008-2011)
Erin Atwood, College of Education (2010-2011)
Veronica Martinez-Matsuda, Department of History (2006-2009)
Marion Barber, Department of History (2007-2009)
Laura Padilla, Department of English (2006-2008)
Miguel Levario, Department of History (2005-2008)
Master’s Committee Member
Katherine Boone, Department of History, (2007-08)
Kristen Petros, Latin American Studies, (2006-2007)
Allison Schottenstein, Department of History, (2010-2012)
Liz O’Brien, Latin American Studies, (2011-2012)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Advisory Committee Member, Social Science Research Council – Mellon-Mays Program, –
Social Science Research Council, Brooklyn, New York, 2008 – present.
Manuscript Review, Social History of Medicine, June 2011.
Manuscript Review, Western Historical Quarterly, May 2011.
Manuscript review, Drugs, Thugs and Divas: Narco-Dramas and Telenovelas in Latin America,
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009).
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Planning Advisory Committee Member, The Building Austin, Building Injustice Project, Workers
Defense Project, Austin, Texas, 2007-2009.
Board Member, Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral, Austin, Texas, 2006-2009.
Conference Co-Chair, Making Race, Making Health: Historical Approaches to Race, Health and
Medicine, Institute of Historical Studies, Department of History, the University of Texas at
Austin, 11/2008.
Advisory Committee Member, Social Science Research Council – Mellon Mays Undergraduate
Fellowship Summer Conference, summer 2000–summer 2004, and summer 2006–summer 2011.
Conference Co-Chair, Abriendo Brecha III: Crisis, Politics and Performance, 08/2005 – 05/2006.
Conference Co-Chair, Mellon-Mays Summer Conference, Washington University-St. Louis, St.
Louis, Missouri, 2004.
Planning Committee Member, Mellon-Mays Summer Conference, Social Science Research
Council, 2003-2005.
Workshop Organizer, “Latin America – Research Proposal Workshop,” Social Science Research
Council Mellon Mays Fellowship Conference, Washington University-St. Louis, St. Louis,
Missouri, 2004.
Panel Moderator, “Getting Published in the Social Sciences.” Social Science Research Council –
Mellon Mays Summer Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
2003.
Paper Discussant, “Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: A Challenging Synthesis,” Panel:
“Scholarly Spaces: Social Science Research Council” – Mellon Summer Conference, 2003.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
Conference Rapporteur, Recent PhD Conference, Social Science Research Council – Mellon
Minority Fellowship Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
Conference Planning Meeting, Annual Social Science Research Council Mellon Minority
Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
OTHER AWARDS AND HONORS
“Fevered Measures: Race, Communicable Disease and Community Formation at the Texas-
Mexico Border, 1880-1930”, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, in residence at the Center for
Mexican American Studies and Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the University
of Texas at Austin, (2003-2004), $30,000.
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“Cuentos de mi Familia”, Community Engagement Grant, University of South Florida, (2003-
2005), $3,000.
Dissertation Grant, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the University of Michigan, (summer
2001) $5,000.
Mellon-Mays Summer Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, (summer 2000), $2,500.
Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, (fall 1997), $5,000.
Rackham Merit Fellowship, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The University of Michigan,
(1993-2000), $72,000.