Latin American History
The Department of History offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Latin American History. A number of graduate students also choose Latin American History as their minor field of study. Students may choose to work with Professors Robert Haskett and/or Carlos Aguirre, and may concentrate on different chronological, geographical, or thematic areas of study.
Colonial Conquest (Haskett)
History of Mexico (Haskett)
Latin American Indian Peoples (Haskett)
Spiritual Conquest in Latin America (Haskett)
Missions (Haskett)
Crime in Latin America (Aguirre)
Race and Ethnicity in Modern Latin America (Aguirre)
Revolutions in Modern Latin America (Aguirre)
Slavery in Latin America (Aguirre)
Social Movements in Mexico and the Andes (Aguirre)
United States and Latin America (Aguirre)
Intellectuals & Ideas in Modern Latin America (Aguirre)
Terror & History in Modern Latin America (Aguirre)
Cities & Society in Modern Latin America (Aguirre)
Latin American History through Film (Wood)
AGUIRRE, Carlos. Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1996, Minnesota), specializes in Modern Latin America. His research interests include the history of slavery, race and racial relations, crime and criminal justice history, and law and society in Peru and Latin America . He is the author of three books: Agentes de su propia libertad. Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegracion de la esclavitud, 1821-1854 (Agents of Their Own Freedom: The Slaves of Lima and the Desintegration of Slavery, 1821-1854; 1993), The Criminals of Lima and their Worlds: The Prison Experience, 1850-1935 (2005), and Breve Historia de la Esclavitud en el Perú. Una herida que no deja sangrar ( A Brief History of Slavery in Peru , 2005). He has coedited three books on banditry, prisons, and crime in Peru and Latin America, including Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times (2001), Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America (2000), and The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America : Essays on Criminology, Prison Reform, and Social Control, 1830-1940 (1996). Professor Aguirre is currently working on a history of political imprisonment in 20th-century Peru . (For more detailed information see Professor Aguirre's personal web page ). caguirre@uoregon.edu
HASKETT,
Robert. Professor and Undergraduate Director (Ph.D., 1985, UCLA), specializes in the history of colonial Latin America, with a concentration on Mexico . His research has addressed issues related to the impact of the Spanish invasion on the Nahua peoples of central Mexico , which is reflected in his first book, Indigenous Rulers: An Ethnohistory of Town Government in Colonial Cuernavaca (1991). Professor Haskett's ongoing investigations explore the nature of post-contact indigenous constructions of the past and the community in 17th-century Nahuatl-language local histories. This work is embodied in a book manuscript entitled, Visions of Paradise: History and Identity in Cuernavaca's Primordial Titles . He has additional interests in the areas of mining and mine labor, as well as in the so-called "spiritual conquest" and the emergence of indigenous Christianity. He is coeditor, with Stephanie Wood, of the "Mesoamerican Ethnohistory" section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies , a semiannual annotated bibliography published by the Library of Congress. rhaskett@uoregon.edu
WOOD, Stephanie. Adjunct Professor (Ph.D., 1984, UCLA), specializes in Latin America . Professor Wood teaches various courses in an adjunct capacity and guides independent studies on the history of Latin American women, Latin American history through film, Nahuatl, and Mexican culture. She is the author of Transcending Conquest: Exploring Indigenous Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico (2003) and has coedited three anthologies, Indian Women of Early Mexico (1997), De tlacuilos y escribanos (1998), and Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnology (2007). She coordinates the interdisciplinary Gender in History course, offered in alternating years by History and Women's and Gender Studies, and works as a senior research associate at the Center for the Study of Women and Society , creating digital resources for the study of Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, including the Gender in Early Mesoamerica database, the Mapas Project, the Early Nahuatl Virtual Library Project, the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive, and the online Nahuatl Vocabulary, all in collaboration with Judith Musick and the team at Wired Humanities. swood@uoregon.edu
Graduate students interested in Latin American history can also benefit from a growing variety of resources at the University of Oregon . A number of faculty members in the departments of Romance Languages , Anthropology , Political Science , Geography , the Honors College, and Ethnic Studies offer courses and conduct research on Latin American literature, culture, politics, ethnicity, social movements, and Latino immigration into the United States. Faculty and courses in Women's Studies , International Studies , and other inter-disciplinary programs are also available. Academic and cultural activities on campus (lectures, conferences, international events) contribute to the growing visibility of Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon (see the Latin American Studies web page for information and updates).
