PATRICK J. IBER
Curriculum Vitae455 N Park Street [email protected]
Madison, WI 53706 (608) 298-8758
EMPLOYMENT
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Associate Professor of History, 2020- Assistant Professor of History, 2017-2020
University of Texas at El Paso
Assistant Professor of History, 2015-2017
University of California, Berkeley
Lecturer in International and Area Studies, Program in Political Economy, 2014-2015 Lecturer in the Department of History, 2013-2014
Stanford University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in History, 2011-2013
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in History, with distinction, 2011.
Dissertation: “The Imperialism of Liberty: Intellectuals and the Politics of Culture in Cold War Latin America.”
Committee: Mauricio Tenorio (chair), Emilio Kourí, Dain Borges, Bruce Cumings.
Stanford University, M.A. in History, 2003.
Stanford University, B.S. in Mathematics, 2003.
BOOKS
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2015 (winner of the 2017 Luciano Tomassini book prize).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book manuscript in progress: Poverty of the Imagination: Social Science, Inequality, and the Politics of the
Poor in Latin America (expected completion 2024)
“The Cold War, 1945-1989,” in Jonathan Beck Monroe (ed.), Roberto Bolaño in Context, Cambridge University Press (to be complete in June with expected publication in 2020).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Building the Cold War Together: The Origins of the American Federation of Labor’s Cold War Diplomacy in Latin America,” forthcoming in Journal of Cold War Studies.
“The Cultural Cold War,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Oxford University
Press, published online in October 2019, doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.760
“Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in Latin America in the 1960s,”
pp. 96-114, in The Global Sixties: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture, edited by Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney and Tamara Chaplin, Routledge, 2017.
“Debating Political Economy: An Approach to Teaching the U.S. and the World,” Journal of
American History 103, no. 4 (March 2017): 997-1003.
“The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores,” Journal of Latin
American Studies 48, no. 2 (May 2016): 247-272.
“Who will Impose Democracy?: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the Anticommunist Left in Latin America,” Diplomatic History 37, no. 5 (November 2013): 995-1028.
“Managing Mexico’s Cold War: Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Uses of Political Intelligence,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 19, no. 1 (July 2013): 11-19, Special
Dossier “Spy Reports: Content, Methodology, and Historiography in Mexico’s Secret Police Archives,” eds. Tanalís Padilla and Louise E. Walker.
“El imperialismo de la libertad: el Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura en América Latina,”
117-132 in La guerra fría cultural en América Latina: desafíos y límites para una nueva mirada de las
relaciones interamericanas, edited by Benedetta Calandra and Marina Franco, Biblos, 2012.
“Anti-Communist Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Cultural Cold War in Latin America,”
pp. 167-186, in De-centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change, edited by Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney and Fabio Lanza, Routledge, 2012.
FELLOWSHIPS,GRANTS AND AWARDS
“The Future of the Left in the Americas,” grant from the Open Society Foundation to support a conference and publications on that theme, organized by me in cooperation with
Dissent magazine, 5-6 October 2018.
Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, from the Latin American Studies Association, 2017.
UC-AFT Unit 18 Professional Development Grant, 2015.
Berkeley International and Area Studies Travel Grant, 2014.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, 2011-2013.
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2010-2011.
Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, Fall 2010.
George C. Marshall-Baruch Research Fellowship, 2008.
Ignacio Martín-Baró Prize Lectureship, Fall 2008.
CLAS Summer Travel Grant, 2006 and 2007.
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2005-2010. President’s Scholar, Stanford University, 1999-2003.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP,ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES,ESSAYS, AND REPORTING Contributing editor, The New Republic, 2019-
Editorial board, Dissent magazine, 2017-
“Witnessing War, with Carolyn Forché,” interview, Dissent, 7 April 2020,
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/witnessing-wars-with-carolyn-forche
“The Ongoing Crisis in Venezuela: A Forum,” Dissent, 7 February 2020,
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/ongoing-crisis-venezuela-maduro-guaido
“Year One of AMLO’s Mexico,” with Carlos Bravo Regidor and Humberto Beck, Dissent (Winter 2020): 109-118, and https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/year-one-of-amlos-mexico
“El resurgimiento socialista en Estados Unidos,” Nueva Sociedad no. 281 (mayo-junio 2019): 52-71; https://nuso.org/articulo/el-resurgimiento-socialista-en-estados-unidos/
“The U.S. Needs to Stay out of Venezuela,” New York Times, 31 January 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/us-intervention-venezuela.html
“After the Pink Tide,” Dissent (Winter 2019): 18-22.
“El populismo de minorías de Donald Trump,” Nueva Sociedad (noviembre 2018), http://nuso.org/articulo/el-populismo-de-minorias-de-donald-trump/
“History in an Age of Fake News,” Chronicle of Higher Education Review, (3 August 2018): B15-16; and https://www.chronicle.com/article/History-in-an-Age-of-Fake-News/
“El socialismo democrático en Estados Unidos: sobre la victoria de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,”
Nueva Sociedad (julio 2018),
http://nuso.org/articulo/el-socialismo-democratico-en-estados-unidos/
“Mexico’s Bid for Change,” (with Carlos Bravo Regidor), Dissent, 5 July 2018,
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mexico-election-results-2018-amlo-morena-democracy
“A New Hope for Mexico?,” (with Carlos Bravo Regidor), Dissent (Spring 2018), 94-105, and: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/mexico-elections-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-amlo
“The South is Our North,” Jacobin, no. 25 (Spring 2017): 97-98.
“Socialism’s Return,” The Nation 304, no. 8 (13 March 2017), 27-31.
“Fidel Without Illusions,” Dissent, 3 December 2016, https://www.dissentmagazine.org/ online_articles/fidel-castro-myths-left-right-obituary
“Stop Calling the U.S. a Banana Republic,” (with Patrick Blanchfield), The Baffler, 7 Nov. 2016, http://thebaffler.com/blog/banana-republic-iber-blanchfield
“Karl Polanyi for President,” (with Mike Konczal), Dissent, 23 May 2016,
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/karl-polanyi-explainer-great-transformation-bernie-sanders
“The Path to Democratic Socialism: Lessons from Latin America,” Dissent, Spring 2016, 115-121, and in Spanish for Horizontal, 11 May 2016, http://horizontal.mx/los-caminos-al-socialismo-democratico-ensenanzas-de-estados-unidos-y-america-latina/
“What should the world learn from the experience of inequality in Latin America?” in What do we
do about inequality?, ed. Chris Oestereich (Journal Review Foundation Press, 2016), 102-107.
“The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda,” Dissent, Winter 2016, 88-97, and in Spanish for Nexos, 1 May 2016, http://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=28265
“Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked,” The Awl, 24 August 2015,
https://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-socialists-funded-by-the-cia-ranked/
“Arguing Against Evil: Liberal Hawks and Neocons’ Congress for Cultural Freedom Delusion,”
The New Republic, 4 August 2015,
https://newrepublic.com/article/122452/arguing-against-evil
“Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas,” in Iconic Mexico, ed. Eric Zolov (ABC-CLIO, 2015), 96-104.
“Paraíso de espías: la ciudad de México y la Guerra Fría,” Nexos XXXVI, no. 436 (April 2014): 68-73; anthologized as one of the most significant essays in the history of the magazine in Las
décadas de Nexos, vol. II, (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018), pp. 292-297.
“¿Padece el liberalismo una tentación imperial?,” Letras Libres XV, no. 172 (April 2013): 31-33, and published in English as “Empires of Liberty,” Eurozine, 24 April 2013, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-04-24-iber-en.html
“Balas de papel, ¿tigres de papel? Sobre la guerra y la creación de opinión pública [Paper bullets,
paper tigers? War and the creation of public opinion],” Istor XIII, no. 50 (Fall 2012): 95-120.
“A Conversation with Jorge Edwards,”Chicago Review 55:1 (Winter 2010): 118-125; and in Spanish as “El escritor y la política: entrevista con Jorge Edwards,” Letras Libres (ver. España), no. 104 (May 2010): 42-45.
Other online contributions to public debate at the: Washington Center for Equitable Growth; Inside Higher Ed; Slate; Fellow Travelers, and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
I have been interviewed by or quoted in articles appearing in the Dallas Morning News, BBC Newsnight, Forbes, Business Insider, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post,
Confabulario de El Universal, Radio Francia Internacional, Al-Jazeera America, TeleSur, Prensa Latina,
Xinhua, and Radio Habana.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Hideaki Kami, Diplomacy meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), forthcoming in Cuban Studies
Review of Paul Gillingham, Michael Lettieri, and Benjamin T. Smith, (eds.), Journalism, Satire, and
Censorship in Mexico, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), forthcoming in
“The World The Economist Made,” review of Alexander Zevin, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, Verso, 2019 in The New Republic (January-February 2020), and https://newrepublic.com/article/155962/liberalism-at-large-book-review-the-economist-magazine
“Pioneers of Cultural Relativism,” review of Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of
Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Doubleday, 2019,
in The New Republic, 14 August 2019,
https://newrepublic.com/article/154752/pioneers-cultural-relativism
Review of Pedo L. San Miguel, “Muchos Méxicos.” Imaginarios históricos sobre México en Estados Unidos, (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2016), in Historia Mexicana
69, no. 1 (273, julio-septiembre 2019): 428-433.
“Socialism’s Comeback,” review of Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto (New York: BasicBooks, 2019), in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, no. 53 (Summer 2019): 110-116 and https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/53/socialisms-comeback/
“The Metamorphosis,” review of Mario Vargas Llosa, Sabers and Utopias: Visions of Latin America
in The Nation 308, no. 12 (29 April 2019), pp. 27-31 and online,
https://www.thenation.com/article/mario-vargas-llosa-sabres-and-utopias-book-review/
“How the Cold War defined Scientific Freedom,” review of Audra Wolfe, Freedom’s Laboratory:
The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018),
for The New Republic, 25 March 2019, and
https://newrepublic.com/article/153383/cold-war-defined-scientific-freedom
“Off the Map,” review of Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire, for The New Republic (March 2019): 42-47; and online at https://newrepublic.com/article/153038/how-america-reinvented-empire-review-daniel-immerwahr
Review of Teishan Latner, Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left,
1968-1992 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), in the American Historical
Review 124, no. 1 (February 2019): 297-298.
Review of Richard Cándida Smith, Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Journal of Latin American Studies 50, no. 4 (November 2018): 1021-1023.
Review of Abraham F. Lowenthal and Martin Weinstein, eds. Kalman Silvert: Engaging Latin
America, Building Democracy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016), The Latin
Americanist 62, no. 3 (September 2018): 461-463.
Review of Aldo Marchesi, Latin America’s Radical Left: Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), for H-Net, July 2018, https://networks.h- net.org/node/23910/reviews/2122206/iber-marchesi-latin-americas-radical-left-rebellion-and-cold-war
“Worlds Apart,” review of Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of
Neoliberalism (Harvard, 2018), for The New Republic (May 2018): 51-54; and online at
https://newrepublic.com/article/147810/worlds-apart-neoliberalism-shapes-global-economy
“The Cuban Sphere,” review of Jonathan C. Brown, Cuba’s Revolutionary World (Harvard, 2017), and Dirk Kruijt, Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America (Zed Books, 2016); for The Nation, 19/26 March 2018, 31-34, and online at https://www.thenation.com/article/in-the-cuban-sphere/
“Cold War World,” review of Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A World History, (Basic Books, 2017), for The New Republic (November 2017): 60-67; and online at https://newrepublic.com/article/144998/cold-war-world-new-history-redefines-conflict-true-extent-enduring-costs
“The Party’s Over: Looking Back on Communism,” review of A. James McAdams, Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017) and Kristen Ghodsee, Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017), for the Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 October 2017, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-partys-over-looking-back-on-communism/
Review of Aragorn Storm Miller, Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the
Latin American Cold War (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), in
Journal of Latin American Studies 49, no. 3 (August 2017): 682-684.
“The Spy who Funded Me,” review of Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg (eds.), Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), for the Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 June 2017, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-spy-who-funded-me-revisiting-the-congress-for-cultural-freedom/
“An Economic Prophet for Our Time,” review of Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left
(Columbia University Press, 2016), for the Chronicle Review 63, no. 25 (24 February 2017): B14.
“Literary Agents,” review of Joel Whitney, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers
(O/R Books, 2016), for The New Republic (January/February 2017): 68-70.
Review of Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2016): 868-869.
“Helpless Collector: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda” (in conversation with Tess Taylor), about
Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) for the Barnes & Noble
Review, 9 August 2016,
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/helpless-collector-the-lost-poems-of-pablo-neruda
“Brazil’s Billionaire Problem,” review of Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country (Spiegel & Grau, 2016), for The New Republic, 1 August 2016, https://newrepublic.com/article/135691/brazils-billionaire-problem
“The Spain Orwell Never Saw,” review of Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), for The New Republic, 28
April 2016, https://newrepublic.com/article/133146/spain-orwell-never-saw
Review of Jorge García Robles, At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 2 (May 2016): 412-414.
“Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go,” review of Rafael Rojas, Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution (Princeton, 2015), for the Los Angeles Review of
Books, 28 April 2016,
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/words-weapons-weapons-must-go-cuban-revolution-american-left/
Review of Nick Witham, The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and the Central American
Revolutions (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), for H-Diplo, 27 December 2015,
Review of Antonio Niño and José Antonio Montero (eds.), Guerra fría y propaganda: Estados Unidos y su cruzada cultural en Europa y América Latina (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2012), in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 26, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 104-106.
Review of Deborah Cohn, The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War, (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012) in The Latin Americanist 59, no. 2 (June 2015): 90-92.
Review of Phillip Deery, Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York, for the
Australasian Journal of American Studies 34, no. 1 (July 2015): 90-92.
“La diplomática historia diplomática de México,” review of Roberta Lajous Vargas, Las relaciones exteriores de México (1821-2000), in Letras Libres XV, no. 175 (July 2013): 68-70.
“Cuauhtémoc: congruencia y contradicción,” review of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Sobre mis pasos
(México: Aguilar, 2010), in Nexos XXXIII, no. 400 (April 2011): 117-118.
TEACHING
Awards.
Honored Instructor Award, University Housing, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2018.
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
LACIS 260. Latin America: An Introduction. Spring 2018, Spring 2020. History 242. Modern Latin America. Fall 2019.
History 434. U.S. Foreign Policy since 1898. Fall 2017, Fall 2018. History 500. Latin American Revolutions. Fall 2018.
History 600. Poverty and Inequality in the Americas. Fall 2017. History 600. The History of Now. Fall 2019.
History 706. Transnational Intellectual History. Spring 2018. History 730. Cold War Latin America. Spring 2020.
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso.
History 1302. History of the U.S. since 1865. Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2016. History 3312. History of American Foreign Relations since 1914. Fall 2015.
History 4325. The United States and the World: Junior/Senior Seminar. Spring 2017.
History 5305. Ideas across Borders: Transnational Intellectual Histories of the United States. Fall 2016.
Lecturer, University of California-Berkeley.
International & Area Studies 150. Market Empire and American Foreign Intervention. Spring 2015.
Political Economy 160. Ideologies of Social Justice in the Twentieth Century. Spring 2015. International & Area Studies 194. The Problem of Inequality (and how to solve it). Fall 2014. History 8B. Modern Latin America. Fall 2013.
History 100E. Latin America and the World. Spring 2014.
History 103E. Artists, Intellectuals, and Social Change in Latin America. Spring 2014.
History 103E. Latin American Revolutions: Causes, Consequences, Myths and Memories. Fall 2013.
Lecturer, Stanford University.
History 70/170B. Culture, Politics and Society in Latin America. Fall 2011, 2012, and 2014. History 75/175. Modern Mexico. Spring 2012.
History 220/320. Left, Right, and the Intellectual Life: Politics and Intellectuals in the Short Twentieth Century. Fall 2012.
Instructor, University of Chicago.
History 16205. Democracy in Central America. Fall 2009. History 26405. U.S. Imperialism in Latin America. Fall 2008.
Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago.
History 16101, Latin American Civilization / 1 (pre-contact to 1640), Professors Dain Borges and Alan Kolata, Fall 2007.
History 16103, Latin American Civilization / 3 (1880-present), Professor Mauricio Tenorio, Winter 2007.
History 26505, Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America. Professor Alma Guillermoprieto, Fall 2008 & Fall 2009.
Teacher, Mountain View High School. Mountain View, California, 2004-2005. Recognized for exceptional dedication to students.
Teacher, Mary Hoge Middle School. Weslaco, Texas, 2003-2004.
Volunteer Teacher, Instituto Nacional San Antonio/Los Ranchos, Chalatenango province, El Salvador, 2001 and 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED LECTURES
“Peace and National Liberation in the Mexican 1960s,” at Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom in the Global South, Princeton University, 29 February 2020.
“La diplomacia cultural y las relaciones Cuba-EE.UU. de la revolución hasta nuestros días,”
Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, 14 June 2019.
“La Guerra Fría Cultural en América Latina: entre política y literatura,” El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 30 May 2019.
“Exhibiendo la Guerra Fría en América Latina,” closing speech of “Historia de las Exposiciones en México,” Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 23 May 2019.
“Oscar Lewis and the Cold War on Poverty,” U.S. Intellectual History Conference, Chicago, 10 November 2018.
“Karl Polanyi: the History of Ideas and the History of Capitalism,” Cornell University American
Studies Colloquium, 13 September 2018.
“The Many Meanings of Freedom in the Cultural Cold War,” as part of the exhibition Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 15 December 2017.
“U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Idea of World Government,” U.S. Intellectual History
Conference, Dallas, 27 October 2017.
“Antifascism in Exile: Mexico and the Foundations of the Cultural Cold War,” Trajectories of
Antifascism, Rutgers, New Jersey, 4 March 2017.
“The Red Scare and the Arts,” part of “Copland and the Cold War,” program of the Music
Unwound series, University of Texas at El Paso, 20 February 2017.
“Anticomunismo de izquierda y hegemonía estadounidense durante la Guerra Fría: el Congreso
por la Libertad de la Cultura en México y Cuba,” III Congreso de Historia Intelectual de América Latina, Mexico City, 10 November 2016.
“Social Democracy and the Labor Movement in Early Cold War Latin America,” Society for the History of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, 23 June 2016.
“An Evening with Patrick Iber and Karen Paget on the Cultural Cold War,” Brooklyn Public
Library, New York, 31 May 2016.
“Social Science is Fire: The Ford Foundation and Latin America in the 1960s,” Latin American
Studies Association, New York City, 27 May 2016.
“Ironic Gramscianism: Implications of the Cultural Cold War in Latin America,” for “From Cold War to Theory Wars: A Symposium of Latin American Thought,” Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 28 April 2016.
“Humanismo, revolución, y las leyendas negras del siglo XX,” Cátedra Internacional Friedrich Katz, Chicago, Illinois, 30 October 2015.
“Painters, Poets, and Spies: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America,” University of Texas at El Paso, 2 October 2015; New Mexico State University, 16 October 2015; Northwestern University, 29 October 2015; Commonwealth Club of California, 5 January 2016; Tamiment Library at New York University, 22 February 2016; Princeton University, 23 February 2016.
“El Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura y las izquierdas latinoamericanas,” Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en Argentina, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 March 2015.
“La diplomacia cultural y el diplomático culto: Jaime Torres Bodet y las ciencias sociales en la
UNESCO,” XIV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Chicago, Illinois, 19 September 2014.
“Che Guevara’s Cold War,” program on American Uprisings, Yale Programs in International Educational Resources, New Haven, Connecticut, 7 July 2014.
“Building the Cold War Together: The AFL and the U.S. Government in Latin America, 1944
-1951.” 128th Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 4 January 2014. “The Movement for National Liberation, 1961-1964: The Mexican Left between the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the United States.” Latin American History Working Group, University of California-Berkeley, 22 March 2013.
“Painters, Politicians and Spies in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Building Latin America’s Cultural
Cold War in the 1930s and 1940s.” Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 22 February 2013.
“The ‘Americas’ Before the Americas.” Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program, Stanford
“What is the Purpose of Democracy?” Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 8 October 2012.
“Making the World Unsafe for Social Democracy: The United States in Cold War Latin America.” University of Connecticut Foreign Policy Seminar, 14 September 2012.
“Displacing Social Democracy: Imperialism and Exile in Cold War Mexico and Cuba.” Yale
International History Workshop, 13 September 2012.
“Mexicanizing Americanization: The Foundations and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores.” Latin
American Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 26 May 2012.
“Anti-Communist Entrepreneurs and the Response to the Peace Movement in Latin America.”
De-centering Cold War History conference, University of Arizona, 5 November 2010.
“The Partisans of Peace and the Aesthetic of Socialist Realism.” Cold War Cultures conference,
University of Texas-Austin, 2 October 2010.
“Who will Impose Democracy?: The United States, Anticommunism, and the Democratic Left in
the Cold War in Latin America.” Latin American History Working Group, University of California-Berkeley, 24 September 2010.
“Mexico City: Capital of the 20th Century Cultural Congresses.” 124th Meeting of the American
Historical Association, San Diego, California, 8 January 2010.
“Cold Words in the City of Exiles: Antecedents to the Cultural Cold War.” Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 29 October 2009.
“Doves and Vipers: Mexico in the Origins of the Cominform’s Peace Movement.” Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 20 November 2008.
“The Weapon of Peace and the Imperialism of Liberty: Communism and Anticommunism in Latin America, 1949-1954.” Mellon Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, 3
May 2008.
“The Liberal Mind in a Radical Age: The Politics of Culture and the Cold War in the Americas, 1937-1991.” Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 1 November 2007.
“Forty Years of Chilean Political History.” ITP-Chile program, Northwestern University Law School, 22 January 2007.
“CIA by day, Castro by Night: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Cuban Revolution.”
Globalizing Political History Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17 November 2006.
“The Congress for Cultural Freedom as Americanization.” American Political History Workshop, University of Chicago, 19 October 2006.
“Comprometido con qué? The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America, 1953-1972.” Latin
American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 5 October 2006.
“Intellectuals and the Cultural Cold War in Latin America.” 3rd Annual Midwest Regional
Workshops on Latin America, Notre Dame University, 16 May 2006.
PANEL PARTICIPATION
Participant: “Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico,” with
Jennifer Josten and Rita Eder, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 21 May 2019.
Co-organizer (with Daniel Bessner): “Historians and the Public Sphere in Turbulent Political
Times,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2019.
Organizer: “Liberal Utopias at Midcentury,” U.S. Intellectual History conference, Dallas, October
2017. Chair: Howard Brick. Members: Duncan Moench, Elizabeth Borgwardt, Patrick Iber. Organizer: “Social Democracy, Covert Diplomacy, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations, 23 June 2016. Chair: Hugh Wilford. Members: Patrick Iber, Quenby Hughes, Karen Paget.
Chair and discussant: “Latin American Intellectuals and the World,” Latin American Studies Association, 30 May 2016. Members: Teresa Davis, Roberto Saba, Iwa Nawrocki.
Organizer: “The Inter-American Cultural Cold War,” Latin American Studies Association, 27 May 2016. Chair: Monica Rankin. Discussant: Elizabeth Cancelli. Members: Elisa Servín, Patrick Iber, Jorge Nállim.
Chair: Socialist Internationalism: Cold War Legacies conference. Berkeley, 12 April 2014. Members: Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney and Elizabeth McGuire.
Organizer: “Workers, Labor, and Transnational Politics in Latin America,” American Historical
Association, January 2014. Members: Patrick Iber, Rafael Ioris, John Lear, Ernesto Semán. Commentator: Joel Wolfe. Chair: Angela Vergara.
Organizer: “Culture and Society in Cold War Mexico,” American Historical Association, January
2010. Members: Claire Fox, Patrick Iber, Jaime Pensado, Elisa Servín. Commentator: Eric Zolov. Chair: Alex Saragoza.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES
Spanish – fluent spoken and written Spanish. French – reading and speaking competence. Portuguese – reading and speaking competence. German – developing reading knowledge.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Undergraduate Council, History Department, UW-Madison, 2018-
Steering committee, Harvey Goldberg Center, UW-Madison, 2017-. Chair 2019-. Steering committee, Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, UW-Madison, 2018- Chair, History Department Web committee, UW-Madison, 2018-
Chair, SHAFR task force to hold annual conference outside United States, 2019.
Reviews for: Oxford University Press, Duke University Press, Macarthur Foundation, Hispanic American Historical Review, Latin American Research Review, The Latin Americanist, The Historical Journal, The Americas, Humanity, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research,
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies,
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, Palabra Clave, Cold War History, and Diplomatic History. Faculty Senate Alternate, UW Madison, 2017-2018; 2019-2020.
Local talks and panels:
“The Historical Origins of Neoliberalism in Latin America,” Center for the Humanities,
UW-Madison, 26 April 2019.
“Post-coloniality and Cold War Latin America,” Post-Imperial Asia in the World, UW-Madison, 5 April 2019.
“Historians and Alternative Facts,” History Department Colloquium, UW-Madison, 11 February 2019.
“Getting Organized for the Academic Job Market,” UW-Madison, 22 March 2018.
Moderator, History Department Colloquium on Latin American history, UW-Madison, 26 February 2018.
“History & the Present,” History Department Colloquium, UW-Madison, 2 October 2017.
“Using technology to generate discussion in large classrooms,” 3rd Annual Winter Teaching Workshop, Innovative Teaching Showcase, UTEP, 12 January 2017.
“The Presidential Election in Historical Context,” UTEP, 1 November 2016.
Talks organized and introduced:
Kathleen Belew, “Bring the War Home,” UW-Madison, December 6, 2018. Daniel Bessner, “Democracy in Exile,” UW-Madison, November 7, 2018.
Al McCoy, “Thinking about American Empire and its Impending Decline,” UW-Madison, 9 April 2018.
Sebastian Junger, “Tribe,” UTEP, 13 April 2016.
Graduate Student Marshall Committee, UTEP, 2017. Chair, UTEP U.S. History Caucus, 2016-2017. UTEP Phi Alpha Theta faculty advisor, 2016-2017.
Contributing writer, Teaching United States History collective, Spring 2016. UTEP Borderlands Search Committee, 2015.
DISSERTATION AND THESIS SUPERVISION
Dissertation supervisor: Adela Cedillo, “Intersections between the Dirty War and the War on Drugs in Cold War Mexico (1969-1985),” Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin, 2019.
M.A. thesis supervisor: Elgin Karls, “Chilean Privatized ‘Social Security,’ A Comparative View of Women’s Experiences,” M.A. thesis in Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin, 2019.
B.A. thesis supervisor: Matt Scharpf, “The Changing of the Guard: Why U.S. Senior Leadership Contributed to the Rise of the Somoza Dynastic Dictatorship through the Guardia Nacional of
Nicaragua,” senior thesis, History, University of Wisconsin, 2019.
Committee member: Matthew Reiter, “A Midwestern Right: Anti-Union Mobilization & Conservatism in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin,” Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin, 2019. Committee member: Brett Reilly, “The Origins of the Vietnamese Civil War and the State of Vietnam,” Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin, 2018.
Committee member: Bridgette K. Werner, “To make rivers of blood flow”: Agrarian Reform,
Rural Welfare, and State Expansion in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia, 1952-1974,” Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin, 2018.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association
Society for the History of American Foreign Relations Latin American Studies Association
