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Bio-bibliography UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Revised October 15, 2015 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY Last update filed on 12-5-2010. This update refers to the period 7-1-2010 to 6-30-2015 S. Cecilia Méndez-Gastelumendi Associate Professor IV OS Curriculum Vitae Education Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, History, BA, 1986 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Humanities, Licentiate, 1986 State University of New York at Stony Brook, History, MA, 1989 State University of New York at Stony Brook, History, PhD, 1996 Area of Specialization Latin America, The Andean Region/Peru Nationalism, State Formation Peasants, Indigenous groups, and Ethnicity Historiography, World History Professional Experience 1982 Humanities Instructor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Peruvian sixteenth and nineteenth century sources) 1982-83 Social Sciences Instructor, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Colonial Peru) 1985 Humanities Instructor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Peruvian sixteenth and nineteenth century sources) 1986-87 Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga Ayacucho, Peru (Historiography, Theory of History, Nineteenth Century Peru) 1987-90 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook (Colonial and Modern Latin American) 1990 Professor, Academia Diplomática del Perú, Lima (Peruvian Contemporary History) 1990-92 Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Contemporary World History, Early Modern and Modern Europe, Nineteenth Century Peru)
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Bio-bibliography UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARARevised October 15, 2015 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORYLast update filed on 12-5-2010.This update refers to the period 7-1-2010 to 6-30-2015
S. Cecilia Méndez-GastelumendiAssociate Professor IV OS
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, History, BA, 1986Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Humanities, Licentiate, 1986State University of New York at Stony Brook, History, MA, 1989State University of New York at Stony Brook, History, PhD, 1996
Area of Specialization
Latin America, The Andean Region/PeruNationalism, State FormationPeasants, Indigenous groups, and EthnicityHistoriography, World History
Professional Experience
1982 Humanities Instructor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Peruvian sixteenth and nineteenth century sources)
1982-83 Social Sciences Instructor, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (Colonial Peru)1985 Humanities Instructor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Peruvian sixteenth and nineteenth
century sources)1986-87 Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga Ayacucho, Peru
(Historiography, Theory of History, Nineteenth Century Peru)1987-90 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook (Colonial and Modern Latin American)1990 Professor, Academia Diplomática del Perú, Lima (Peruvian Contemporary History)1990-92 Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (Contemporary World History, Early
Modern and Modern Europe, Nineteenth Century Peru)1992-93 Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook (Modern Mexico, Aztec and Inca Civilizations)1994 Adjunct Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature1994-95 Adjunct Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook (Aztec and Inca Civilizations, Modern Latin America)1995 Adjunct Professor, Lehman College, City University of New York (Modern Latin America)1996-97 Post-doctoral Fellow, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies1996-03 Assistant Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of History2003- Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of History
Professional Organizations
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)Instituto Riva Agüero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Art and History Section)
PART I: RESEARCH
Cumulative List of Publications (or Creative Activities)
# YEAR TITLE and AUTHORS PUBLISHER CATEGORY
1 1983 "Artisans and Merchants, the making of an open economy in Lima, Peru 1830-1860" (Thesis by Paul Gootenberg)
Revista Andina, #2, December pp. 583-585
REVIEW
2 1984 "Importaciones de lujo y clases populares: un motin limeño" ["Luxury imports and popular classes: A Lima riot"]
Cielo Abierto, #29, September, pp. 10-15 ARTICLE
3 1985 Aristocracia y Plebe, Lima 1760-1830, by Alberto Flores Galindo[Aristocracts and Plebs, Lima 1760-1830]
Socialismo y Participación, #32, December, pp. 111-113
REVIEW
4 1986 Langa: Historia de Cien Años co-authored with Carlos Contreras[Langa: One Hundred Years of History]
Lima: Grupo de Investigación y Difusión de Historia Popular Taki Onqoy
WORKING DOCUMENT
5 1987 "Penalidad y Muerte en el Perú" ["Criminal Justice and Death in Peru"]
Márgenes, 1, pp. 82-191 ARTICLE
6 1987 "La Otra Historia del Guano: Perú, 1840-1879" ["The Other History of Guano: Peru, 1840-1879"]
Revista Andina, #7, July, pp. 7-81 ARTICLE
7 1987 Los Trabajadores Guaneros del Perú: 1840-1879 [The Guano Works of Peru: 1840-1879]
Lima: Seminario de Historia Rural Andina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
MONOGRAPH
8 1988 "Los Chinos Culíes y la Expoltación del Guano en el Perú" ["Chinese Coolies and Guano Exploitation in Peru"]
Primer Seminario Sobre Poblaciones Inmigrantes, Actas: Lima, 9 y 10 de Mayo de 1986, edited by Wilfredo Kapsoli, Vol. 2, Lima, CONCYTEC (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia), pp. 91-107
CHAPTER
9 1989 Tejidos y Harinas, Corazones y Mentes: el Imperialismo Norteamericano de libre comercio en el Perú: 1825-1840 by Paul Gootenberg [Textiles and Flour, Hearts and Minds: North American Free Trade Imperialism in Peru: 1825-1840]
HISLA, Historia Latinoamericana, Vol. XIII, no. XIV, pp. 171-173
REVIEW
10 1990 "¿Economia Moral versus Determinismo Económico?: Dos Aproximaciones a la Historia de Hispanoamérica Colonial" ["Moral Economy versus Economic Determinism? Two Approaches to the History of Colonial Spanish America"]
Historia y Cultura, #20, pp. 361-66 ARTICLE
11 1990 "Los Indios, la Independencia y la'Herencia Colonial'" ["Indians, Independence, and the
La Revista, supplement to El Peruano, Lima, December 8, p. C-21
ARTICLE
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Colonial Legacy"]
12 1991 Bandoleros, Abigeos y Montoneros: Criminalidad y Violencia en el Perú, siglos XVIII-XX, edited by Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker [Bandits, Cattle Rustlers and Montoneros: Criminal Justice and Violence in Peru: 18th to 20th Centuries]
Revista Andina, #17, pp. 275-278 REVIEW
13 1991 "Los Indios, la Independencia y la'Herencia Colonial': algunas and the "Colonial Legacy': relexiones" ["Indians, Independence, Some Reflections"]
Allpanchis, 35/36 (Vol. I), pp. 139-146 ARTICLE
14 1991 "Los Campesinos, la Independencia y la Iniciación de la República, El Caso de los Iquichanos Realistas, Ayacucho 1825-1828" ["The Peasants, Independence and the Birth of the Republic: The Case of the Royalist Inquichanos, Ayacucho 1825-1828"]
Poder y Violencia en los Andes, edited by Henrique Urbano, Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, pp. 165-188
CHAPTER
15 1992 Una Visión Urbana de los Andes: Génesis y Desarrollo del Indigenismo en el Perú, 1848-1930 by Efraín Kristal [An Urban Vision of the Andes: Genesis and Development of Indigenismo in Peru, 1848-1930]
Revista Andina, 19, July, pp. 253-254 REVIEW
16 1992 "Música Integradora" ["Music that Brings Together"]
La Revista, supplement to El Peruano, Lima, May 26, pp. 4-5
ARTICLE
17 1992 "Entre el mito y el objeto perdido: Dónde está 'lo andino?" ["Between Myth and 'Object Loss': Where is 'the Andean'?"]
Razón Diferente, no. 5, June, pp. 13-14 ARTICLE
18 1992 "Arrestados y Encarcelados de Lima: aproximaciones a una caracterización social para la segunda mitad del siglo XIX;" co-authored with Luis Torrejón ["Inmates and the Arrested Populations: A Social Characterization for Lima in the Second Half of the 19th Century"]
Actas del Primer Congreso de Investigación Histórica (Vol. I), Lima: CONCYTEC
CHAPTER
19 1992 "República sin indios: la Comunidad Imaginada del Perú" ["Republic without Indians: The Imagined Community of Peru"]
Tradición y Modernidad en Los Andes, 1st edition, edited by Henrique Urbano, Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, pp. 15-41
CHAPTER
20 1993 Incas sí, indios no: apuntes para el estudio del nacionalismo criollo en el Perú [Incas Yes; Indians No: Notes on the Study of Creole Nationalism in Peru]
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; Documento de Trabajo#56, Serie Historia. (1st edition)
WORKING DOCUMENT
21 1993 "Cuidadanos Periféricos y demos dividido" by Bruno Revesz ["Peripheral Citizens and
Revista Andina, 22, December, pp. 295-297
COMMENTARY
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Divided Demos"]
22 1993 "La Historiografía Peruana en Debate," co-authored with Juan Carlos Estenssoro, Betford Betalleluz, Susana Aldana and Ricardo Portocarrero ["Peruvian Historiography: A Debate"]
Apuntes, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 33, second semester, pp. 113-120
COMMENTARY
23 1994 "Una vez más la pena de muerte"["Death Penalty, Once Again"]
Crónicas de Historia del Derecho, #1, pp. 51-61.
ARTICLE
24 1994 Commentary to Víctor Peralta and Marta Irurozqui, "La Pugna por el indio" ["The Fight for the Indian"]
La Venida del Reino: Religión, evangelización y cultura en América, Siglos XVI-XX, edited by Gabriela Ramos. Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, pp. 403-405
COMMENTARY
25 1995 Incas sí, indios no: apuntes para el estudio del nacionalismo criollo en el Perú [Incas Yes, Indians No: Notes on the Study of Creole Nationalism in Peru]
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Documento de Trabajo#56, Serie Historia, 2nd edition (revised)
WORKING DOCUMENT
26 1996 "Incas sí, indios no: Notes on Peruvian Creole Nationalism and its Contemporary Crisis" translated by Renzo Llorente
revised and expanded version by the author, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 28, no. 1, February, pp. 197-225
ARTICLE
27 1997 "República Sin Indios: La Comunidad Imaginada del Perú" ["Republic without Indians: The Imagined Community of Peru"]
reprinted, Tradición y Modernidad en los Andes, 2nd edition, edited by Henrique Urbano. Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, pp. 15-41
ARTICLE
28 1997 "Pactos sin Tributo: Caudillos y Campesinos en el Peru Post- Independiente: el Caso de Ayacucho"["Pacts without Tribute: Caudillos and Peasants in Post-Independent Peru, the Case of Ayacucho"]
La Reindianización de América, S. XIX, edited by Leticia Reina, Mexico: Siglo XXI, pp. 161-185
CHAPTER
29 1997 "Pactos sin Tributo: caudillos y campesinos en el nacimiento de la República, Ayacucho: 1825-1850", (revised and expanded version) ["Pacts without Tribute: Peasants and Caudillos in the Birth of the Republic, Ayacucho 1815-1850"]
El Siglo XIX. Bolivia y América Latina, edited by Rossana Barragán, Dora Cajías and Quayum Seemin, La Paz: Historias, Coordinadora de Historia. Travaux de l'Institue Francais d'Etudes Andines, vol. 102 pp. 533-559
CHAPTER
30 1998 "¿Por qué no vivo en el Perú?" ["Why I Do Not Live in Peru"]
Márgenes, No. 16, year 11, pp. 211-214 COMMENTARY
31 1999 Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes 1885-1935 by David Nugent
Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 79:1, February. pp. 166-169
REVIEW
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32 2000 "La Tentación del Olvido: Guerra, Nacionalismo e Historia en el Perú"["The Temptation to Forget: War, Nationalism, and Historians in Peru"]
Diálogos, 2, May, pp. 231-248 ARTICLE
33 2001 "The Power of Naming, or the Construction of 'Ethnic' and National Identities in Peru: Myth, History, and the Iquichanos."
Past and Present, 171, May, pp.125-60 ARTICLE
34 2001 Modernity at the Edge of Empire. State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes 1885-1935 by David Nugent
revised, expanded and translated in Perú Contemporáneo, 2, pp. 167-170
REVIEW
35 2002 El Poder de Nombre, o la Construcción de Identidades Etnicas y Nacionales en el Perú: Mito e Historia de los Iquichanos (translated and expanded version of item 33, translation by José and Cecilia Méndez)
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos,Serie Documentos de Trabajo #115, Serie Historia
WORKING DOCUMENT
36 2002 Indigenous Mestizos, The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru 1919-1991 by Marisol de la Cadena
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Vol. XXXIII, no. 2, Autumn
REVIEW
37 2004 "Tradiciones liberales en los Andes: Campesinos y Militares en la Formacíon de Estatdo Peruano" ["Liberal Traditions in the Andes: Peasants and the Military in Peru's State Formation Process"]
Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe [Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean], Vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 35-63
ARTICLE
38 2005 The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State: Ayacucho, 1820-1850
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 343 pp
BOOK
39 2005 "¿Qué Són y Qué Quiéren los Etnocaceristas? Entrevista con la historiadora peruana." [What Are the Etnocaceristas and What Do They Want?"]
El Viejo Topo (Barcelona), no. 205-206, April, pp. 24-31
WRITTEN INTERVIEW
40 2005 "Tradiciones liberales en los Andes, o La ciudadania por las Armas: Campesinos y Militares en la Formación del Estado Peruano"[Liberal Traditions in the Andes, or Citizenship through Arms: Peasants and the Army in the Making of the Peruvian State]
La Mirada Esquiva: Reflexiones Históricas Sobre la Interacción del Estado y la Ciudanía en los Andes (Boliva, Ecuador y Perú) siglo XIX edited by Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid: Centro Superior de Investigacionjes Científicas) pp. 125-153 (revised and expanded version of item #37)
CHAPTER
41 2006 After Spanish Rule: Post Colonial Predicaments of the Americas edited by Mark Thurner and Andrés Guerrero
Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 86, no. 2, pp. 358-361
REVIEW
42 2006 "Militares, Campesinos y Etnicidad en el Perú: Agenda para una investigación" [Militaries,
Crónicas Urbanas, Vol. XV, no. 11 (Cuzco), pp. 11-20
ARTICLE
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Peasants and Ethnicity in Peru: A research agenda"]
43 2006 "Populismo militar y etnicidad en los Andes. Presentaciôn del dossier."
Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Issue 26, September, pp. 13-16. (Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Sede Académia de Ecuador)
INTRODUCTION
44 "Las paradojas del autoritarismo: ejército, campesinado y etnicidad en el Perú, siglos XIX al XX" [The paradoxes of authoritarianism: army, peasants, and ethnicity in Peru, from XIX to XX centuries"
Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Issue 26, September, pp. 17-34. (Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Sede Académia de Ecuador)
ARTICLE
45 2006[2008]
¿“Una Larga Espera?: Ironías de la Cruzada Postcolonialista en Hispanoamérica” [A Long Wait?: Ironies of the Postcolonialist Crusade in Latin America]
Histórica, vol. XXX, no. 2: 117-128 ARTICLE
46 2008 "Nationalism in Latin America" Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, Volume 5, pp. 353-355
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
47 2008 “Tradiciones liberales en Los Andes: militares y campesinos en la formación del estado peruano”
De la etnohistoria a la historia en los Andes: 51o Congreso Americanistas, Santiago de Chile, Quito: Abya Yala, edited by David Patrick Cahill, John Fisher, and Blanca Tovías, pp. 163-198
CHAPTER(reprint of item # 40)
48 2009 “El Inglés y los Subalternos: Comentario a los artículos de Florencia Mallon y Jorge Klor de Alva” [“English and the Subalterns: Commentary to the articles of Florencia Mallon and Jorge Jorge Klor de Alva”
Repensando la Subalternidad: Miradas críticas desde/sobre América Latina, Pablo Sandoval, editor, Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, pp. 207- 258
CHAPTER
49 2009 “Militares Populistas: Ejército, Etnicidad y Ciudadanía en el Perú” [Populist Militaries: The Army, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Peru]
Repensando la Subalternidad: Miradas críticas desde/sobre América Latina, Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, pp. 561-598
CHAPTER
50 2010 “Una Larga Espera?: Ironías de la Cruzada Post-colonialista en Hispanoamérica
Le Monde Diplomatique, Spanish edition June 10, 2010 , revised version of item # 45 (Cuadernos de pensamiento crítico Latinoamericano)
ARTICLE
51 2010 “El Inglés y los Subalternos: Comentario a los artículos de Florencia Mallon y Jorge Klor de Alva” [“English and the Subalterns: Commentary to the articles of Florencia Mallon and Jorge Jorge Klor de Alva”]
Repensando la Subalternidad: Miradas críticas desde/sobre América Latina, Pablo Sandoval (editor), Bogotá: Envión Editores, second edition, 2010 pp. 197-246 (reprint of item # 48).
CHAPTER(reprint of # 48)
since last approved action
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52 2011 “Guerra, formación del estado imaginario nacional” [War, state formation and national imaginings], co-authored with Carla Granados.
Sarah Albiez, , Nelly Castro Lara Jüssen, and Eva Youkhana, (eds.). Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Belonging: Practices, Theory and Spatial Dimensions, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2011, pp. 91-118.
CHAPTER
53 2011 “Obama y Humala: ¿Democracia y Nacionalismo? [Obama and Humala: Democracy and Nationalism?].
Lamula.pe. Internet. December 15, 2011https://lamula.pe/2011/12/15/obama-y-humala-democracia-y-nacionalismo/lamula/
OPINION ESSAY
54 2011 Obama y Humala: ¿Democracia y Nacionalismo? [Obama and Humala: Democracy and Nationalism?].
Revista Ideele No. 215, December 2011, pp. 26-29.
OPINION ESSAY (Reprint of #53)
55 2011 “¿Democracia o miedo? Razones y sinrazones del no a la inscripción del MOVADEF .“[Democracy or Fear? Reasons and nonreasons for the “no” to MOVADEF’s inscription]
Revista Idelee No. 215, December 2011, Web publication http://revistaideele.com/ideele/content/¿democracia-o-miedo-razones-y-sinrazones-del-no-la-inscripción-del-movadef
OPINION ESSAY
561 2012 “De indio a serrano: Nociones de raza y geografía en el Perú, siglos XVIII-XXI” [From Indian to highlander: Notions of race and geography in Peru]
Histórica. No. XXXV, I , 2011, pp. 53-102 ARTICLE
57 2012 “Cádiz o el liberalismo en varias lenguas: el impacto mundial de la Constitución de 1812” [Cadiz or liberalism in various languages: World impact of the 1812 Cádiz Constitution].
Blog Historia Global on Line, March 22, 2012.http://historiaglobalonline.com/2012/03/22/cecilia-mendez-cadiz-o-el-liberalismo-en-varias-lenguas-los-indios-y-el-impacto-mundial-de-la-constitucion-de-1812/
BLOG POST
58 2012 “Las guerras olvidadas del Perú: formación del Estado e imaginario nacional” [Peru’s Forgotten Wars: State formation and national imaginings] in coauthorship with Carla Granados.
Revista de Sociologia e Politica, vol 20 No. 42, June 2012, pp. 57-71 (Brazil). http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=23 823143006
ARTICLE(Reprint of #52)
59 2013 Response to Alex Loayza, “La imagen a traves del espejo: Comentarios al ensayo de Cecilia Méndez ‘De Indio a Serrano: nociones de raza y geografía en el Perú”
Academic website Reserva Crítica. February 17, 2013http://rcritica.hypotheses.org/tag/cecilia-mendez
COMMENTARY / RESPONSE
602 2013 “La Guerra que no cesa: Guerras civiles, imaginario nacional y la formación del
Clément Thibaud (et. al), Gabriel Entin, Alejandro Gómez and Federica Morelli
CHAPTER
1 Previously listed as D2. Note: The actual year of publication of the 2011 issue was 2012.2 Previous listed as D6; Previously entitled: “The Nation as seen from the Battlefield; Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Bases of the Peruvian State”
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estado en el Perú” [Ceasless War: Civil Wars, National Imaginings and the formation of the State in Peru]
(eds.) L’Atlantique Révolutionnaire. Bécherel: Les Perséides, 2013 pp. 379-420. Note: The title of this chapter is incorrect in the table of contents of the book.
61 2013 Review of Efraín Kristal, Una Visión Urbana de los Andes.
Academic website Reserva CríticaAugust 18, 2013http://rcritica.hypotheses.org/category/resenas-clasicas/page/2
BOOK REVIEW(Reprint of # 15 )
62 2014 “Economía Moral Versus Determinismo Económico; Dos Aproximaciones? [Moral Economy verus Economic Determinism?: Two approximations to the History of Colonial Spanish America]
Academic website Reserva Crítica, May 22, 2014 http://rcritica.hypotheses.org/tag/cecilia-mendez
REVIEW ESSAY (reprint of # 10)
63 2014 “En Defensa del Quechua” [Apology of Quechua].
La Mula.pe. February 11, 2014.https://redaccion.lamula.pe/2014/02/11/en-defensa-del-quechua/albertoniquen/
OP-ED
643 2014 La República Plebeya: La rebelión de Huanta y la formación del Estado Peruano, 1820-1850.
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2014, 410 pp.Spanish revised, expanded, and updated version, with a new prologue.
BOOK (Edited and updated translation of #38)
654 2014 Silenciando el pasado: A propósito del 4 de noviembre” [Silencing the Past: A propos the 4th of November].
Blog El Reportero de la Historia, November 4, 2014. http://www.reporterodelahistoria.com/2014/11/silenciando-el-pasado-proposito-del-4.html
BLOG POST
66 2014 “Incas sí, indios no: Apuntes para el estudio del nacionalismo criollo en el Perú.”
Christine Hünefeldt, Marisol de la Cadena and Cecilia Méndez, Racismo y Etnicidad. Series Diversidad Cultural No 5. Lima: Ministry of Culture. Reprint of # 25 with slight updates and revisions.
ARTICLE(Reprint of # 25)
67 2014 “Independencias y los fantasmas de la insurgencia”. [Independencies and the phantoms of insurgency].
Noticias SER.pe, August 8, 2014 http://www.noticiasser.pe/06/08/2014/polemicas/independencias-y-los-fantasmas-de-la-insurgencia
OP-ED
68 2014 “Independencias y los fantasmas de la insurgencia”. [Independencies and the phantoms of insurgency].
Revista Ideele 241, 2014 http://www.revistaideele.com/ideele/content/independencias-y-los-fantasmas-de-la-insurgenciaReprint of # 66.
OP-ED(reprint of #67)
3 Previously listed as D1.
4 Impact: 7,448 people reached.
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695 2015 “El mundo al borde del historicidio”. [The World on the Verge of “Historicide”]
Ojo Público. (Data Journalism Awards 2015). April 19, 2015 http://ojo-publico.com/47/el-mundo-al-borde-del-historicidio .
OPINION ESSAY
70 2015 “¿Una camaradería profunda y horizontal?” Reflexiones en torno al nacionalismo en América Latina” [A profound and horizontal comradership? Reflections on nationalism in Latin America].
Síntesis Social, Revista de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 6/7, May 2015, pp. 239-245.
ARTICLE
WORK IN PRESS, SUBMITTED, IN PREPARATION
IN PRESS:
B12015 Review of Mark Thurner, History’s Peru.
The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography.
American Historical Review. BOOK REVIEW
SUBMITTED:
None at this time.
IN PREPARATION:
D1 “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Bases of the Peruvian State.”
ESSAY
D2 “The Proscribed Hero: Túpac Amaru, the itineraries of a silenced memory, and the creole historiography of Peru.”
BOOK / ESSAYS
D3 “Des militaires Populistes : L'armée, Citoyenneté, et la question ethnique au Pérou,”
Pour comprendre le Pérou d'aujourd'hui. Edited by Joelle Chassin et Denis Rolland. Paris: L'Harmattan .French translation of item # 49.6
CHAPTER
D4 “Las independencias antes de la independencia: Miradas alternativas desde los pueblos” (Independences after Independence: Alternative perspectives
Juan Carlos Estenssoro and Cecilia Méndez, editors. To be submitted at the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
EDITED VOLUME
5 Impact: Over 3,000 readers, average time reading 5 minutes, 30 seconds. Twitted 212 times, 993 “likes” on Facebook.6 This item was posted previously as B1. Upon an inquiry with the editors I learned it was not yet published, but I was told the project was still on, though they did not mentioned a publication date. For this reason, I thought it was prudent to move it to the “D” section.
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from the pueblos).
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PART II: TEACHINGCourseload for History Department is 4 course equivalents in one year and 5 course equivalents in the next year
Class Instruction History for S. Cecilia Méndez-Gastelumendi in the History Department2010-11 to 2014-15
COURSE SECTION COURSE TITLE CLASS CLASS FUNC UNITS INSTR ENROLL SCH ESCIs/EVALs? TYPE FORM TION HOURS MENT
YEAR = 2010-11
QUARTER = FALL 2011 SPECIAL LEAVE
QUARTER = WINTER 2012 SPECIAL LEAVE QUARTER = SPRING 2012 SPECIAL LEAVE
YEAR = 2011-12 QUARTER = FALL 2011
COURSE RELIEF -- RENTENTION QUARTER = WINTER 2012 HIST 8 1 INTRO HIST LAT AMER PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 147 588 Y HIST 202 1 HISTORICAL METHODS PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 8 32 Y HIST 5007 8 LAB FOR TA'S EI SEM 1 4.0 1 3 12 LAIS 598 2 MASTER'S THESIS EI TUT 1 6.0 1 1 6 QUARTER = SPRING 2012 HIST 151FQ 1 LAT AM HIS THRU FLM PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 10 40 Y INT 94MA8 1 FRSHMAN SEMINARS PRIMARY SEM 1 1.0 3.6 15 15 LAIS 598 5 MASTER'S THESIS EI TUT 1 4.0 1 1 4 ----------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL FOR 2011-12 27.0 16.4 185 697YEAR 2012-13
QUARTER = FALL 2012LEAVE -- NEH
QUARTER = WINTER 2013LEAVE -- NEH
QUARTER = SPRING 2014LEAVE -- NEH
YEAR = 2013-14 QUARTER = FALL 2013 HIST 151B 1 LATIN AMERICAN HIST PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 31 124 Y HIST 202 1 HISTORICAL METHODS PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 7 28 Y QUARTER = WINTER 2014 HIST 8 1 INTRO HIST LAT AMER PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 97 388 Y HIST 5009 10 LAB FOR TA'S EI SEM 1 4.0 1 1 4 HIST 599 21 PH.D. DISS PREP EI TUT 1 12.0 1 1 12
7 Evaluations unable to be located.8 Evaluations unable to be located.9 Evaluations unable to be located.
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QUARTER = SPRING 2014 HIST 151DR10 1 READINGS LATIN AMER PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 6 24 HIST 154LB 1 ANDEAN HISTORY II PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 24 96 Y HIST 599 24 PH.D. DISS PREP EI TUT 1 12.0 1 1 12 ----------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL FOR 2013-14 48.0 18.8 168 688 YEAR = 2014-15 QUARTER = FALL 2014 HIST 154LB 1 ANDEAN HISTORY II PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 13 52 Y HIST 202 1 HISTORICAL METHODS PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 12 48 Y QUARTER = WINTER 2015 HIST 8 1 INTRO HIST LAT AMER PRIMARY LEC 1 4.0 3 102 408 Y HIST 151P 1 PROSEM LATIN AMER PRIMARY SEM 1 4.0 3.4 14 56 Y HIST 50011 9 LAB FOR TA'S EI SEM 1 4.0 1 2 8 Y HIST 596 10 READING & RESEARCH EI TUT 1 4.0 1 1 4 HIST 599 24 PH.D. DISS PREP EI TUT 1 12.0 1 1 12 QUARTER = SPRING 2015
NON TEACHING QUARTER HIST 599 24 PH.D. DISS PREP EI TUT 1 12.0 0 1 12 ----------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL FOR 2014-15 48.0 15.8 146
10 Evaluations unable to be located.11 Evaluations unable to be located.
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Department Graduate Student Advising Contributions:
Last First Yr Deg. Chair/ MA/ First Placement/Other Info.Name Name Compl. Member PHD
Welty Lily -------- chair MA Switched to Spickard as ChairAcevedo-Field Rafaela --------- member PHD Changed to Dutra for DissertationBaranski John 2004 member PHD Teaching Fort Lewis College, COBurden David ------- chair PHD Changed to Cline as ChairGoodwin Lee member PHDIgue José Luis chair PHDMcKiernan Zach member PHDMukerjee Anil 2010 member PHDPacino Nicole member PHDRivera Alicia member PHDSimoes de Carvalho Paul member PHDTorres-Rouff David 2006 member PHD Teaching, Colorado College
since last approved action
Ferrari Serge member PHDGoodwin Lee member PHDMcKiernan Zach 2014 member PHD Assist. Prof., Hampton Uni., VAPacino Nicole -------- member PHD no longer needed for dissertation.Simoes de Carvalho Paul chair PHD
Outside Department Graduate Student Advising Contributions:12
Last First Yr Deg. Chair/ MA/ First Placement/Other Info.Name Name Compl. Member PHD
Becerra Miguel 2009 chair MA Latin American and Iberian Studies Program; Prize for best Master’s thesis in LAIS. Currently studying a PhD at Berkeley
Johnson Claudia 2008 chair MA Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, UCSB
Pent Steven 2009 chair MA Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at UCSB; Prize for best MA thesis in LAIS
Simer Jeremy O. member MA Latin American and Iberian Studies ProgramSimons Briana 2010 member MA History of Art and ArchitectureEngel Emily 2009 member PHD History of Art and Architecture
since last approved action
12 2008-2010 Outside Department Graduate Students previously listed under “Other Advising Contributions.”
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None at this time.
Undergraduate Graduate Projects Directed: 13
Year Student Project Position
2001-02 Veronia Franca BA student in Latin American and Iberian Studies Program and Anthropology
Mentor
2005-06 Andrés Mantilla Senior Honor's Thesis Mentor for, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Mentor
2008-09 Megan White Honors Contract (as part of History 154LB, Andean History) (Fall). Met with student once a week, supervised special assignments and final paper.
Mentor
2009-10 Connor Culhane. Independent Studies, History 199. Met once a week, supervised weekly reports and final paper.
Mentor
since last approved action
2013-2014 Dominic Moretto Honor’s thesis supervisor. Mentor
Other Teaching Contributions:
1997-98 History 154LA -- Nationalisms and Identities in the Andes I: Created new course including lectures, syllabus; ordered slides, ordered purchase of films, ordered purchase of books and journals, prepared reader.
History 202 -- History and Theory: Already existing graduate reading seminar. Created new syllabus, ordered purchase of books.
History 151C -- Latin American History, Twentieth Century: Created new syllabus, lectures; ordered purchase of books, prepared reader, ordered slides
History 154LB -- Nationalism and Identities in the Andes II: Created new course including lectures, syllabus; ordered slides, ordered purchase of films, ordered purchase of books and journals, prepared reader.
History 201LA -- Advanced Historical Literature (State and Society in Mexico and Peru: A Comparative Perspective: 16th to 20th centuries): Created new syllabus, prepared new reading materials.
1998-99 History 154LA -- Nationalisms and Identities in the Andes I: Revised syllabus, wrote new lectures for already
13 Undergraduate Projects Advised from 2001-2010 previously listed under “Other Advising Contributions.”
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existing course. Created new reader, ordered new slides and films
History 202 -- History and Theory: Revised syllabus; prepared new reading material.
History 151P -- Proseminar in Latin American History: Created new syllabus.
History 201LA -- Advanced Historical Literature (Nations and Nationalism in Latin America): Created new syllabus; prepared new reading materials.
1999-2000 History 206, History and Theory -- revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
History 8, Introduction to History of Latin America -- created new syllabus, prepared new readings and new lectures; ordered new slides and films (first time taught this course)
History 151P, Proseminar in Latin American History -- created new syllabus and prepared new reading materials for already existing course
History 597, Independent Study for Master's Comprehensive Examinations and PhD Examinations -- new reading materials for independent seminar with graduate student
2000-01 History 154LB, Andean History: The National Period -- revised syllabus and incorporated new reading materials; ordered slides and books
History 8, Introduction to History of Latin America -- revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials, ordered new slides
Latin American and Iberian Studies 100, Proseminar -- Guest speaker discussing my research on peasants and political violence in Peru
History 202, Historical Methods -- revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
History 599, PhD Dissertation Preparation -- incorporated new reading materials for independent reading course with graduate student
2001-02 History 8, Introduction to History of Latin America -- Revised syllabus, prepared a new reader, ordered new slides and films
History 151C, Latin American History, twentieth century -- Revised syllabus, prepared a new reader
History 151P, Proseminar in Latin American History -- Created new syllabus, prepared a new reader
History 201LA, Advanced Historical Literature (Latin America) -- reading seminar on Nationalism, Race and the State in Latin America; created new syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
2002-03 History 154LA, Andean History: Prehispanic and Colonial Periods -- Revamped course completely. New lectures, new reading and visual materials
History 201LA, Advanced Historical Literature (Latin America) -- New course, new reading materials
History 202, Historical Methods -- Revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
Guest speaker in the Sociology Department, UCSB, undergraduate seminar of the Program of Women, Culture
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and Development (Prof. Kum-Kum Bhavnani) "On the Shining Path and the Recent War in Peru", May
Commentary to Matias Flores's presentation "The Argentine Experiment: Credibility and Democracy in Argentina," Honors thesis presentation, History Department, UCSB, May 27
2003-04 Interdisciplinary 94GE, Freshman Seminar -- First time teaching this course. Created totally new materials
History 8, Introduction to History of Latin America -- Revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
History 154LB, Andean History: The National Period -- Revised syllabus, incorporated new audio-visuals and reading materials
History 201WO, Advanced Historical Literature (World) -- First time teaching this course
History 202, Historical Methods -- Revised syllabus, incorporated new reading materials
Guest speaker in upper division Latin American History class with Dr. Gabriela Soto Laveaga on the Shining Path, May 27
2004-05 Seminar presentation at the core graduate seminar of the International and Global Studies PhD Emphasis Program, UCSB, Fall
LAIS 101, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia--created a new course, including new reader, syllabus, and new audiovisual material
History 154Q, Special Topics in Andean History--created a new course, including new reader, syllabus, and new audiovisual material
History 250B, Foundations of Latin American History--created a new course, including new reader, syllabus, and new audiovisual material
History 253AB, Special Seminar in Latin American History--created a new course, including new reader, syllabus, and new audiovisual material
2005-06 Invited lecture to Policy History class, UCSB, Fall, November 1
Seminar presentation at the core graduate seminar of the International and Global Studies PhD Emphasis Program, UCSB, Fall, November 2
Invited lecture to Latin American and Iberian Studies 100, UCSB, Fall, November 7
Invited seminar, Foundations of Latin American History, The Twentieth Century (History 250C, Foundations of Latin American History), UCSB, Winter
2006-07 Created new Freshmen Seminar INT 94MA, “Terrorism, Political violence and Human Rights in the Andes.” Prepared new syllabus, course reader and audiovisual materials
2008-09 Instructor in the Workshop “La Escritura de la Historia: Métodos y Aproximaciones Teóricas” [“The Writing of History: Methods and Theories”]. University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, August 27-29
Invited Lecture to Latin American and Iberian Studies 100, Fall
Invited presentation at the core graduate seminar of the International and Global Studies PhD Emphasis
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Program, Fall
Freshman Seminar “Terrorism, Political Violence, and Human Rights in the Andes”, UCSB
2009-10 Instructor in the Alternative Methodologies Workshop sponsored by SEPHIS for doctoral students of Latin America. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Lima, August 31 -September 11
Instructor in the workshop “Historia Popular versus Historia Académica?: El Poder y la Producción de la Historia [Popular History versus Academic History?: Power and the Production of History] . Program for Training in Social Sciences, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, August 11-27
Taught History 151B, “Latin America in the Nineteenth Century” for the first time. Prepared new syllabus, reader, and audiovisual materials
Invited Lecture to Latin American and Iberian Studies 100, Fall
Invited presentation at the core graduate seminar of the International and Global Studies PhD Emphasis Program, Fall
Invited presentation at the History Honors Thesis Seminar, October 21
Freshman Seminar “Terrorism, Political Violence, and Human Rights in the Andes”, UCSB
since last approved action
2010-11 “Militarism, War and the Construction of the State in Peru: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective. “Course for Training in the Social Sciences.” Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, July 2010 (four sessions).
2011-12 Invited lecture to LAIS 100/200. Latin American and Iberian Studies Program. UCSB. October 11, 2011.
PhD. committee member for Lourdes Hurtado. Dissertation: “Unido a la Historia por Fecunda y Viril Tradicion": Race, Gender and the Military in Cold War Peru (1961-1980), defended in 2012.Department of History, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
“The Forgotten Wars of Peru and the Formation of the State: A Rural Perspective”. Course for Training in the Social Sciences. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, July 2011 (four sessions).
Keynote address: “What Independence? Proscribed Heroes and the production of silences in the historical narratives” ( ¿Qué Independencia? Héroes Proscritos y la producción de silencios en las narrativas históricas), June 21. Third international congress of students of History (Tercer CIEH). National University of San Marcos. Lima, June 18-22, 2012.
2012-13 Guest lecturer. “Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies: A Critical Approach” (Los Estudios Subalternos y Poscoloniales: Una Visión Crítica). Seminar Theory of History. Department of Arts and Human Sciences, Field of History. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, 18 of June, 2013.
Invited lecture “The Forgotten Rebellion, Huánuco, 1812”. Colloquium “La Rebelión Olvidada, Huánuco, 1812. College of Humanities. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, April 11, 2013.
Invited lecture “Geography and racial imaginings in Peru: On how Indians became the indian, and serranos” (Geografía e imaginarios raciales en el Perú: De cómo los indios se conviertieron en el indio y en serranos). Seminars of Applied History to the Studies of Politics, Society, Religion, Mentalities, and Economy.” National
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University of San Marcos. Lima, October 1, 2012.
Keynote inaugural address, “Centralism and Historiography. An exploration of the silences in the mainstream narratives of Independence” (Centralismo e Historiografía: una exploración de los silencios en las narrativas hegemónicas de la independencia). October 2, III Symposium of Students of History. National University of Trujillo, Peru, October 2-6, October, 2012.
Keynote address “Whatever happened with Túpac Amaru? Official History and Popular Memories in the Peruvian Independence.” (¿Qué pasó con Túpac Amaru?: Historia Oficial y Memorias Populares de la Independencia Peruana”). October 17. VIII Meeting of students and alumni of History. National University Federico Villarreal. Lima, October, 15-17, 2012.
Keynote inaugural address “One Ought to Silence the Silence: Oficial History, and Popular Memories of Peruvian Independence” (Hay que callar al silencio: Historia oficial y memorias populares de la Independencia peruana). October 22, 22nd Internacional Colloquium of Students of History. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, October 22- 26, 2012.
Invited talk, “Historiographical debates on National Identity in Peru.” Centro de Estudiantes de Historia. National University of San Marcos. Lima, October 24, 2012.
Keynote lecture “Proscribed Heroe: Tupac Amaru and the Creole Narratives of Independence in Peru.” Symposium “Balances and Reflections on the Process of Independence of Peru” . National University of Education Guzmán y Valle, UNE Lima. May 28, 2013.
2013-14 Invited lecture to LAIS 100/200. Latin American and Iberian Studies Program. UCSB, April 21, 2014.
PhD. examination committee member for graduate student in FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences) Graduate School. Quito, Ecuador.
2014- 15 Discussant of Adela Contreras’s honors thesis. Honors students’ colloquium. History, UCSB. Spring, 2015.
PART III: PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Lectures Presented:
Year/Month/Title/Location
1997-98 "Royalism without 'Old Regime'," Session on Independence in Latin America, 49th International Conference
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of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July.
"Inventing a Past for the Iquichanos: On National and 'Ethnic' Identities in Nineteenth Century Perú," American Historical Association Conference, session on Andean Studies sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, January
"The Ethnic Unspoken (or the End of the Indian?): War, Nationalism and Historical Representations in Peru," New Faculty Lecture Sponsored by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, April
"The Ethnic Unspoken (or the End of the Indian?): War, Nationalism and Historical Representations in Peru.' Spring Tertulia, South Americanist Network. University of California at Los Angeles, May
"On Royalism in Peru," Round Table on the 19th-century in Peru, sponsored by CENDOC (Centro de Documentacion para la Mujer), Lima, August
1998-99 "Lo Etnico No hablado: Guerra, Nacionalismo y Representaciones Históricas en el Perú." ("The Ethnic Unspoken: War, Nationalism and Historical Representation in Peru") Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, Lima, Peru, September
"La Tentación del Olvido: Guerra, Nacionalismo y Representaciones Históricas el Perú." ("The Temptation to Forget: War, Nationalism and Historical Representation in Peru") SUR-Casa de Estudios del Socialismo, Lima, Peru, September
"El Poder de Nombrar: o la Construcción de Identidades Etnicas y Nacionales on el Perú: Mito e Historia de los Iquichanos." ("The Power of Naming, or the Construction of Ethnic and National Identities in Peru: Myth and History of the Iquichanos") Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, Peru, August
1999-2000 "Después de 1824: Estado, Poder Local y Sociedad Rural en el Perú," ("After 1824: State, Local Power and Rural Society in Peru") XII meeting of the European Association of Latin Americanist Historians (AHILA), Porto, Portugal, September 21-25
"The Ethnic Unspoken or the End of the Indian: War, Nationalism, and Historical Respresentations in Peru." Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sant Louis, Madrid, October
"Guerra, Nacionalismo y Representaciones Históricas," ("War, Nationalism, and Historical Representations") Primer Encuentro Peruano-Ecuatoriano de Estudios Históricos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
"Estado, Poder Local y Sociedad Rural en el Perú," ("State, Local Power, and Rural Society in Peru") Master's Program in History, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, October
2000-01 "The Temptation to Forget: War, Nationalisms and Historians in Peru," Latin American Historians Meeting, University of California at Davis, May 5-7
"The Temptation to Forget: War, Nationalisms and Historians in Peru," Conference Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, May 12-14
2001-2002 "Guerra, Gobierno y los Campesinos de Huanta en el Nacimiento de la República Plebeya," ("War, Government and the Peasants of Huanta in the Birth of the Plebeian Republic"), Escuela Superior de Pedagogía, Filosofía y Letras Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, August 17
"La Sociedad Rural y el Nacimiento de la República Plebeya, 1820-1840" ("Rural Society and the Birth of the Plebeian Republic"). Social Sciences Program, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, August 16
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"Nacionalismos y Regionalismos Andinos: Independencia e Identidad Nacional en Perú y Boliva" ("Andean Nationalisms and Regionalisms: Independence and National Identity in Peru and Boliva"). Conference "Andrés Bello and Latin American Independence," New York University, April 18-20
2002-03 "Plebeian Power: The Language of the State in a High Altitude Andean Society. Huanta 1800-1839,” Conference" New World, First Nations: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Andes under Colonial Rule." University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, October 1-4
2003-04 "Tradiciones Liberales en los Andes" ["Liberal Traditions in the Andes"], 51st International Congress of Americanists, Santiago, Chile, July
"Francisco Laso, El Escritor" ["Francisco Laso, The Writer"], invited lecture a propos a recent book by Natalia Majluf, Museo de Arte de Lima [Museum of Art of Lima], August 3
"Una Nueva Mirada a la Independencia" ["A New Look at Independence"], invited lecture a propos a recent book by Victor Peralta. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, August 14
"Militarismo, Indigenista ya la 'Cuestión Etnica' en el Perú: Una Perspectiva Comparada con Ecuador y Bolivia" ["Indigenist Militarism and the 'Ethnic Question' in Peru: A Comparative Perspective with Ecuador and Bolivia"]. Second LASA Meeting on Ecuadorian Studies, Quito, June 23-26
2004-05 "Militarisimo, Indigenismo y Campesinado en el Perú: Una Visión Comparada con Ecuador y Bolivia" [Militarism, Indigensim, and the Peasantry in Peru: A Comparison with Ecuador and Bolivia]. Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Peru-Section Conference, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, July 7
Speaker in the round table "Desterrando el Olvido: La Historia y las Ciencias Sociales un año después de Informe de la Comisión de la Verdad." [Challenging Oblivion: History and Social Sciences a year after the Truth Commission Report"], Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas, Lima, August 13
"Militares Indigenistas, Campesinado y Etnicidad en el Perú: Una Visión Comparada con Ecuador y Bolivia" [Indigenist Militaries, the Peasantry and the Ethnic Question in Peru: A Comparison with Ecuador and Bolivia]. Key Note Address, Congress of Anthropology. Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga Ayacucho, August 24
Invited seminar with History and Anthropology students, National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga (UNSCH), Ayacucho, August 25
"De la República Plebeya a la Comisión de la Verdad: Viejos Paradigmas y nuevas hipótesis en torno a la exclusion campesina." [From the Plebeian Republic to the Truth Commission: Old paradigms and new hypothesis around peasant exclusion in Peru]. Presented at the International Conference, "Intellectuals and Power in the History of Peru". Catholic University of Peru, Lima, December 14-16 (paper presented December 15).
2005-06 "Militarismo, Etnicidad y Campesinado: los eslabones perdidos de la violencia política en el Perú" [Militarism, Ethnicity and the Peasantry: the lost links of political violence in Peru]. National Congress of Anthropological Research. Catholilc University of Peru, Lima, August 1-6 (paper presented August 4)
Invited lecture and presentation of my book The Plebeian Republic. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, August 10
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Invited lecture and presentation of my book The Plebeian Republic. National University of San Marcos, Lima, August 24
"From Region to Nation: War and Nationalism in the Historiography of Independence: A comparison between Bolivia and Peru." Andean Studies Committee Panel of the Conference in Latin American History (CLAH). 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Asociation (AHA). Philadelphia, January 5-8 (paper presented January 6)
"The Army, the Peasants and the Ethnic Question: the Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru". Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference. Puerto Rico, March 15-18 (paper presented March 16)
"The Army, the Peasants and the Ethnic Question: the Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru". Invited paper at the Conference "Race, Ethnicity and Political Violence in the Andes, 7th to 21st Centuries." University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 8
"The Andinization of the Indians, and the Backwardization of the Andes: Rethinking the problem of Peasant Exclusion in Peru". Invited paper at the Conference "Truth and Rights in Times of Terror: The Politics of Violence in Contemporary Latin America". University of Washington, Seattle, April 21
"The Army, the Peasants and the Ethnic Question: The Los Links of Political Violence in Peru." Invited paper at the Conference "Culture and Violence". University of California in San Diego, June 3
2006-07 Cómo Enfrentar el Racismo desde la Historia? [How can Historians Confront Racism?]. Invited talk .Week Against Racism,Catholic University of Peru, Lima, September 20
“El Odio A Juan Velasco Alvarado” [The Hatred to Juan Velasco Alvarado]. Invited paper at the panel “Hatred and Pardon in the History of Peru” in the XXVI Latin American Congress of Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Legacy at 150th Years of his Birth”. Lima 5-8 October, 2006 (talk on the 6th).
Invited speaker at the round table “Left Behind or Left Ahead? Current Andean Political Trends in Hstorical Perspective” Conference on Latin American History. American Historical Association Meeting. Atlanta, January 6
“Paradoxes of Authoritarianism: The Army, the Peasants, and the Ethnic Question in Peru, 19 th to 21st Centuries”. Invited paper at the colloquium “Citizenship, revolutions, and political violence in the formation of the Latin American republics.” Center for Latin American Studies. Stanford University, April
“Is a National Rural History Possible?: Trails of an Absence in the Peruvian historiography on the Nineteenth Century” Invited paper at the Workshop “Common Vocabularies, Different Perspectives: New Political History on Nineteenth-Century Latin America”. Columbia University. May 4-5
“Is a National Rural History Possible? Verbal Violence and Historiographical Silences.” Invited paper at the Conference “Culture and Violence II”, University of California at San Diego, June 2
“De la República Plebeya a la Comisión de la Verdad: Old “From the Plebeian Republic to the Truth Commission: Old Paradigms, and New Hypothesis around Peasant Exclusion”. Keynote lecture at Interdisciplinary Colloquium of Historical Research. National University Federico Villarreal. Lima, November 8
2007-08 “Rites of Violence: Soldiers, Guerrillas and Women in the War of the Peruvian Bolivian Confederation”, paper presented at 2007 the Latin American Studies Association. Montreal, Canada, September 5-8
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Racismo Peruano: Rezago Colonial o Creación Republicana?” [Peruvian Racism: Colonial Legacy or Republican Creation?” Paper, Third Conference on Human Rights: The Role of University and its Contribution to Human Rights. Panel “How to Face Racism from the Law, the Publicity, and Education”? Department of Social Sciences. Catholic University of Peru. Lima, September 20”
“Los Derroteros de una Ausencia en la Historiografía Peruana del Siglo XIX” [Trails of an Absence in the Peruvian Historiography on the Nineteenth Century”]. Invited lecture at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, October 16
“Es Posible Una historia Rural Nacional? Los Derroteros de Una Ausencia en la Historiografía Peruana sobre el siglo XIX” [“Is a National Rural History Possible?: Trails of an Absence in Peruvian Historiograpy on the 19th Century”). Invited Paper at the International Conference Commemorating the 20th Aniversary of FLACSO (Latin American Faculty of Social Science). Quito, October 30
“New Paradigms on Andean History” Keynote presentation at round table with anthropologist Tristan Platt. International Conference Commemorating the 50th Aniversary of FLACSO. Quito, October 31
“The Proscribed Hero: The Silencing of Túpac Amaru in the Creole Historiography of Peru”Writing the Republic: Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America. University of Warwick, UK. November 6-7 (talk on the 7)“La Dictadura Cívico-Militar” [“The Civilian-Military Dictatorship”]. Key Note Lecture at The Week of History and Geography. San Marcos National University. Lima, November 12
“Nociones de Raza y Geografía en el XIX: ¿De Indio Colonial a Serrano Republicano?”“ [Notions of Race and Geography in the Nineteenth Century: From Colonial Indian to Republican Highlander?]. Invited paper at the Colloquium Sebastián Lorente and the First National School Our Lady of Guadalupe Lima: San Marcos National University, November, 22 & 23 (talk on the 22)
“The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion 1820-1850.” Invited lecture at the British Academy Workshop “Republicans Without Republics: European Studies Center, and Center for International Studies. Oxford University, UK, June 14
2008-09 “De Indio Colonial a Serrano Republicano: Ideas de Raza y Geografía en el Perú del Siglo XIX” [From Colonial Indian to Republican Highlander: Ideas of Race and Geography in 20 th Century Peru.” Paper presented at the Congress of Ethnohistory, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima August 6
“De Indio a Serrano: Ideas de Raza y Geografía en el Perú: Siglos XIX ald XXI” [From Indian to Highlander: Ideas of Race and Geography in Peru, 19th to 21st Centuries”]. Invited lecture. Master’s Program. National University of San Marcos. Lima, August 18
De Indio a Serrano: Ideas de Raza, Geografía y el Mito de las Tres Regiones Naturales del Peru”. [From Indian to Highlander: Ideas of Race and Geography and the Myth of the Three Natural Regions of Peru”]. Invited lecture at the Master’s Program in Andean Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima September 4
“La Región Andino Quechua en la historia nacional” [The Andean Quechua Region in National History]. Keynote inaugural address in the event Formando Docencia para el Mundo Andino [Forming Teachers for the Andean World]. Cuzco, September 18
“From Indio to Serrano: Race, Geography, and the Myth of the Three Natural Regions in Peru” Invited paper for the Workshop “Common Vocabularies, Different Perspectives” Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New York, February 13-14
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“The Nation as Seen From the Battlefield: Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Civil Wars in Post-Sendero Peru”, Invited paper at the Symposium “Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars Before Mass Politics, 1810-1910” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign April 2-4
“ ‘Y nosotros…que hizimos más de lo que debíamos…’: El Sinuoso Camino de la Violencia Legítima y las Bases Rurales del Estado en El Perú” [And we who did more than we should have…: The Circuitous Path of Legitimate Violence, and the Rural Bases of the State in Peru”] Paper presented at the 2009 Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, June 12
2009-10 “Las Guerras Olvidadas del Perú: Algunas razones para recordarlas” [“The Forgotten Wars of Peru: Some reasons to remember them”]. Keynote Address, International Seminar: Memory, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Andes.” University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, August 3-6 (talk on August 4).
“De Indio a Serrano: Nociones de Raza y Geografía en el Perú, siglos XVIII-XXI” (From Indian to Highlander: Notions of Race and Geography in Peru, 18th to 21st centuries”,Workshop on Ethnicity. International Seminar “Memory, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Andes.” University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, August 5
“Guerra y Nacionalismo en la Historiografía de la Independencia Hispanoamericana: El Perú y Bolivia en Perspectiva Comparada” [War and Nationalism in the Historiography of Spanish American Independence: Peru and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective]. Invited paper, Colloquium “Democracy and Independence in Peru: Problems and Debates” Lima, August 12-14.
“La Nación Vista desde el campo de batalla: reflexiones sobre las guerras civiles del siglo XIX en el Perú post-Sendero”. Invited presentation at the International Conference “Latin America: crisis and global change. Politics, citizenship and population.”Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) . Madrid, November 26 and 27.
"Subversion or Citizenship?: Civil Wars, State-making, and National Imaginings in Peru: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective" Invited lecture. Latin American and Iberian Studies Program Talk, UCSB. May 10.
“Memorias Ausentes: Guerra Interna, Heroes Proscritos e Imaginario Nacional” [Absent Memories: Inner War, Proscribed Heroes, and National Imaginings]. Second International Student Conference. National University of San Marcos, Lima. Keynote address June 18
“El Estado en marcha o la nación vista desde el campo de batalla: razones para recordar una guerra olvidada,” [The State en route, or the nation as seen from the battlefield”]. Invited paper at the Colloque International Les Empires du Monde Atlantique en Révolution. Une perspective transnationale (1763-1865), L’ École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 30.
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2010-11Invited lecture “Absent Memories: Inner War, State Formation, and National Imaginings: Peru in Comparative Perspective.” (Memorias Ausentes: Guerra Interna, Formación del Estado e Imaginario Nacional. El Perú en Perspectiva Comparada). University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, August 5, 2010.
Invited talk. “The Blurry Boundaries of the Patria: Guerrillas, Royalism and Construction of the State in the Wars of Independence in Peru” (Los Linderos Ambiguos de la Patria: Guerrillas, Realismo y
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Construcción del Estado en las Guerras de Independencia en el Perú). II Meeting of Peruvian and Argentinean Historians. National University Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires August 9 y 10, 2010.
Invited talk. “The Nation As Seen From the Battlefield: Soldiers and Peasants and in the Making of Independent Peru”. Panel “Republiques nouvelles: construction de nations en Amérique Latine au XIXe siècle” (New Republics: Nation-Building in 19th Century Latin America”). The International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) Conference. Amsterdam. August 22-27, 2010
Invited paper. “Subversion or Citizenship? Inner war, state formation and national Imaginings” Conference on Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging. University of Bonn, 4-8 October, 2010.
Invited talk at the roundtable “Who Speaks for ‘Latin America’? Independence through another Lens.”. Featured panel organized by the Latin American Research Review. Latin American Studies Association. LASA International Congress, Toronto, October. 6-10, 2010.
Invited lecture. Symposium on the Bicentennial of Latin America's independence from Spain (1810) and the Mexican Revolution (1910). School of Humanities, University of California at Irvine. November 22, 2010.
Invited paper “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings and the Rural Bases of the Peruvian State”. SHC, Stanford Humanities Center. Stanford University, March 1, 2011.
Invited lecture, “Proscribed heroes: Landmarks and silences in the narratives of Peruvian independence”. Center for Latin American Studies. Stanford University, March 29, 2011.
2011-12 Invited paper, “The Forgotten Wars of Peru: Rural Society, National Imaginings, and the Formation of the State.” (Las Guerras Olvidadas del Perú: Sociedad Rural, Imaginario Nacional y Formación del Estado). Memory Group Colloquium. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima. September 1, 2011.
Invited talk, “Inner Wars, the State, National Imaginings, and Rural Andean society in Republican Peru” (Guerras Internas, Estado, Imaginario Nacional y Sociedad Rural Andina en el Perú Republicano). Program in Andean Studies. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, September 15, 2011.
Invited speaker at the roundtable “Utopias: The Unfinished debate between Carlos Iván Degregori and Alberto Flores Galindo.” Organized by TEM (Workshop for Studies on Memory). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima. May 14, 2012 (via SKYPE).
Paper presented “From Indian to Highlander: On How indios in Peru Became Serranos”, International conference “Mobilizing Ethnicity, Competing Identity Politics in the Americas: Past and Present.” Research Network for Latin America. University of Bielefeld. 27 June- 6 July 2012.
2012-13 Keynote address “Guerras internas, imaginario nacional y formación del Estado en el Perú, siglos XIX-XXI” (Inner Wars, national imaginings and the formation of the State in peru, 19th – 21st centuries”). August 7. International Colloquium “The Army and Society in History: Methods and Perspectives of the New Military History. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, August 6 and 7, 2012.
Invited lecture. “Túpac Amaru: Official History and Popular Memories of Peruvian Independence (Túpac Amaru: Historia Oficial,y Memorias Populares de la Independencia Peruana). Memory Group Colloquium. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, October 18, 2012.
Invited talk, “From Historicide to Vindicated History: Historical and Moments and Monuments” (Del Historicidio a la Historia Vindicada…Momentos y Monumentos Históricos). International Colloquium
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“Policies of recognition, Difference and Citizenship. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, October 30 -31, 2012.
Keynote inaugural address, “Civil wars, national imaginings and the rural bases of the Peruvian State (Guerras civiles, imaginario nacional y las bases rurales del Estado Peruano). November 22. International seminar “Orden Liberal, Actores y Respuestas Sociales en la Construcción del Estado en América Latina y Colombia en el siglo XIX” Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. November 22 and 23, 2012.
Invited paper Paper. “From Indian to Highlander: On How Indios in Peru Became Serranos. The American Historical Association Conference, New Orleans, January, 2013. Invited lecture, “The Fallen Heroe: Túpac Amaru and the Itineraries of a Proscribed memory” (Túpac Amaru y los Itinerarios de una Memoria Proscrita), School of Political Science. University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. May 2, 2013.
Invited talk, “From Proscribed Heroe to Popular Icon: Construction and Destruction of Túpac Amaru as an Independence Heroe.” Colloquium of Historical Studies “Rethinking Contemporary Peru”. Center of Historical Studies for the 20th Century. May 6-9, 2013, Casa Mariátegui, Lima, May 9, 2013.
Invited talk, “Cuzco, 1814 or the Independence Nobody Celebrates—was Basadre Right? Colloquium “The presence of Basadre at 110 years of his Birth”. Program of Humanities, University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. Lima, May 23, 2013.
2013-14 Invited lecture “The Entrepreneurial Republic: Thoughts on the Neoliberal Revolution in Peru.” Workshop “Culture, Person, and Power.” Department of Anthropology. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. Lima, July 11, 2013.
Keynote address, “Towards an Understanding of Neoliberalism as a cultural regime in Peru”. Colloquium “In Search for an Inc.: New Subjectivities and Utopias in Contemporary Peru”. Department of Social Sciences. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, November 21 and 22, 2013.
Invited talk, “How to Name it? The 1980-2000 Violence Period as a Civil War in Historical Prespective” (¿Cómo nombrarlo? El período de la violencia 1980-2000 como una guerra civil en perspectiva histórica). August 22. International Seminar on Transitional Justice Policies: Historical and Comparative Gaze at the Legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Lima, Ministry of Culture, Universidad Ruiz de Montoya, and Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. August 20-22, 2013.
“The Erasure of civil wars in Peru, and the need of their study”. Invited paper presented at the panel Memories of Democracy in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Spanish America. Latin American Studies Association Conference. (LASA) Chicago, May 21 -24, 2014.
2014-15 Invited Talk, “When Theories Travel”. The Power of Place, and the Place of Power in the Production of History” (Cuando las teorías viajan: el poder del lugar y el lugar del poder en la producción de la historia). International Colloquim “New Research Tendencies in Contemporary Historiography”. College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, July 21, 2014.
Keynote inaugural address “Markham and Túpac Amaru,” 6 th National Congress of History, August 5. National University San Antonio de Abad del Cusco. Cuzco, August 4-7, 2014.
Official book presentation. La República Plebeya. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, September 4, 2014.
Keynote Address, “Why do We Celebrate Independence on July 28 th? Genealogy of a Silence” (¿Por qué celebramos la independencia el 28 de julio? Genealogías de un Silencio), September 22. Meeting of
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History Teachers. National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle, La Cantuta, 22-26 September, 2014.
Invited lecture, “The Silences that founded the Nation” (Los silencios que fundaron la nación). 3 rd Meeting of Peruvian and Bolivian Historians and Intellectuals. Peruvian Embassy in Bolivia La Paz, October 21, 2014 (via SKYPE).
Invited talk, “The Blurry Boundaries of the State: The War of Resources, the Insurgent Order, or the Political Logic of Peru in the 19th Century,” International Colloquium “The State as an Institution in Latin America”. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Lima, November 11-12, 2014.
Paper presented, “Social and Political History in the Peruvian Independence: A Historiographical reassessment,” at the Latin American Studies Association, LASA, Puerto Rico, May 29, 2015.
Invited presentation at the round table “Power and Politics in Peru of Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”. Featured panel organized by the Peru Section of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA, Puerto Rico, May 27, 2014.
Grants and Contracts: Principal
Years Source Amount Investigator
1984-85 "Economy and Religion in Colonial Peru" directed by Dr. Henrique Urbano by Université Laval/Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Québec, Canada
$3,000.00 pi
1991-92 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grant for dissertation research in Peru
$9,000.00 pi
Social Science Research Council (US) grant for dissertation research in Peru $11,000.00 pi
1992-93 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (renewed dissertation grant)
$3,000.00 pi
1993-94 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation dissertation grant $10,000.00 pi
1994-95 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Research Fellowship(Spain), for research in the Archives of Indias, Seville
$3,000.00 pi
1996-97 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University $30,000.00 pi
1997-98 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Grant (UCBS) for project "Peasant Justice and State Rule in Huanta, Ayacucho, 1828-1878"
$1,500.00 pi
Academic Senate Research Grant for "Peasant Justice and State Rule in $3,200.00 pi
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Huanta, Ayacucho, 1828-1878"
Academic Senate Research Travel Grant for 49th International Congress of Americanists (Quito, Ecuador)
$963.00 pi
1999-2000 Academic Senate, Humanities and Arts Grant for the project "The Peasants of Huanta and the Birth of the Plebian Republic, Peru 1820-1850"
$3,000. pi
2004-05 Academic Senate Travel Grant for international conference "Intellectuals and Power," Catholic University of Lima.
$1,200. pi
2005-06 Academic Senate Research Grant for "The Army and the Peasants: The Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru."
$5,700. pi
Academic Senate Travel Grant Latin American Studies Association Conference in San Juan de Puerto Rico.
$1,030. pi
2008-09 “The Army and the Peasants: The Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru”. $7,000 pi
UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant for “The Army and the Peasants: The Lost Links of Political Violence in Peru”
$5,000 pi
2010-11 Stanford Humanities Center (SHC) Fellowship for the project “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Basis of the Peruvian State.”
$60,000 pi
Institute of Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin for “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Basis of the Peruvian State” (declined)
$37,000 pi (declined).
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Individual Research Grant for “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Basis of the Peruvian State
$1,000 pi
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2012-13 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for the
project “The Wars Within: Civil Strife, National Imaginings, and the Rural Basis of the Peruvian State.”
$ 50,400 pi
2014-15 Academic Senate Travel grant to present a paper at the Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA) in Puerto Rico. May 2015.
$ 1,350 pi
Awards and Honors:
2007-08 Howard Cline Memorial Prize for the book The Plebeian Republic as the “most significant contribution to the study of Indians in Latin America” awarded by the Conference of Latin American Historians (CLAH), U.S
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2009-10 Latin American and Iberian Studies Faculty Prize for Exemplary Mentorship of Graduate and Undergraduate Students, UCSB.
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2014 -15 La República Plebeya voted “the Best Book of History” of 2014 (among over 120 titles). Second international survey of Historians specialized in Peru. El Reportero de la Historia (ERH) and Librería Sur. http://www.reporterodelahistoria.com/2015/01/estos-son-los-diez-mejores-libros-de.html
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Reviewing and Refereeing Activity:
2002-03 Reviewed article for Journal of Latin American Studies
2005-06 Reviewed article for Historica (Journal of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).Reviewed article for Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, published by the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences, Quito, EcuadorRefereed two articles for journal Americas (US)Refereed article for journal Historica (Peru),Invited to review article for journal LACES, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, U.S. (declined)
2008-09 Refereed book manuscript for Stanford University PressRefereed tenure case for Case Western Reserve University (US)Refereed research competition CONICYT, Chile
Prize Committee Member, Best Social sciences essay in Latin America (FLASCO, Quito)Prize Committee Member, Howard Cline Prize (Conference on Latin American Historians, CLAH, USA)
Reviewer of admissions and fellowships for the Workshop on Alternative Methodologies for International PhD Students sponsored by SEPHIS, South-South Exchange, the University of the Philippines, Quezon City, the Philippines.
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2010-11 Refereed articles for the following journals:Current Anthropology (USA).
Outside reviewer of grant application for SSHRC (Social Science Humanities Research Council) of Canada.
2011-2012 Referred articles for:LARR, Latin American Research Review (USA)Anuario de Estudios Americanos (Seville, Spain).
2012-2013 Refereed articles for the following journals: Historia Crítica (Bogotá, Colombia),
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Revista Andes (Salta, Argentina) Bulletin de l’Institu Francais d’Ètudes Andines (Peru)
2013-2014 Refereed research proposal for FONDECYT, National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development. (Chile).
2014-15 Referred articles for the following journals:LARR (Latin American Research Review), USA.JILAS (Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia).Anthropológica, Journal of the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Peru).
Invited to review applications for NEH summer grants in Washington DC (declined for schedule conflicts).
Refereed 60 applications for the contest of essays “Narrate independence from your village, your district or your city”. Lima, Peru.
Special Appointments:
2004-05 Contributing Editor, Library of Congress's Handbook of Latin American Studies for History, Peru chapter of Volume 64, focusing on the post-independent era (declined appointment)
Editor, special dossier on Military and Ethnicity for Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, a journal of the Latin American Faculty on Social Sciences (FLACSO). Forthcoming issue no. 26, September 2006
2006-09 Graduate Studies Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, UCSB
2004-10 Member, International Advisory Committee of the journal Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Quito, Ecuador)
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2010-12 Member, International Advisory Committee of the journal Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Quito, Ecuador)
2012-13 Chair of the Howard Cline Book Prize Committee, appointed by the Conference on Latin American History CLAH, affiliated with the American Historical Association.
Member, International Advisory Committee of the journal Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales
2014-15 Appointed by Peru’s Ministry of Culture member of the Peruvian delegation of writers and artists headed by Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa to the International Book Fair of Bogotá (FILBO) Colombia. May 2014. Gave two public lectures (Note: Peru was the “guest country” in this book fair).
Member, International Advisory Committee of the journal Iconos, Revista de Ciencias Sociales
Other Professional Contributions:
1999-2000 Chair and organizer of the panel “The Uses of the Incas: Representations, Imaginary, and Historical
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Discourse in Peru, 16th to 20th centuries)” (Los Usos de los Incas: Representaciones, Imaginario y Discurso Histórico en el Perú, siglos XVI-XX", the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March
Interviewed by Local TV (Santa Barbara, California) on Peru's presidential crisis
2000-2001 Organizer of the lecture "'Only a Joke': Andean Village Politics and Ethnicity In the 17th Century", by Dr. Karen Spalding in the History Department, co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Program In Latin American and Iberian Studies, UCSB, April 17
Organizer of the lecture "Philippine Nationalism Viewed from Spanish America: Contrast and Parallels", by Dr. Benedict Anderson, McCune Conference Room, Humanities and Social Science Bldg, co-sponsored by the History Department, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Political Science, the Department of East Asian Studies, the Program of Latin American and Iberian Studies, the Program of Global and International Studies, the Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities center, UCSB, Friday, December 1
Organizer of the seminar by Dr. Benedict Anderson on his book The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, South East Asia and the World, Department of History, UCSB, December 2
Organizer of the seminar "What's Critical about White Studies", by Dr. Paul Spickard, History Department Brown Bag on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, May 14
Organizer of the seminar "Manchus Memories of Manchoukuo" by Dan Shao, History Department Brown Bag on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, June 4
2001-02 Organizer of the round table "Nationalism, Patriotism and Race: Historicizing the U.S. response to the September 11th Attacks", with UCSB history professors Douglas Daniels, Nelson Lichtenstein, Alice O'connor, Paul Spickard, and Zaragosa Vargas," History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, October 8
Organizer of the seminar "The Few, the Proud, the Manchus: Thoughts on Ethnicity in early Modern China, " by Dr. Mark Elliott, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, October 15
Organizer of the seminar "Between Citizens and Subjects: Troupes Indigenes, Race and Nationality In the French Army During the Great War, " by Rick Fogarty, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, November 5
Organizer of the seminar "Travails of Independence: State-Building in Virginia During the American Revolution and Civil War" by Dr. John Majewski, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, November 19
Organizer of the seminar "Ethnic Identity and Military Service in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, by Dr. John Lee, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, December 3
Organizer of the seminar "Seductions and Betrayals: La Frontera Gauchesque, Argentine Nationalisms, and the Predicaments of Hybridity," by Dr. James Brooks, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, February 11
Organizer of the seminar " The Fragmented Nation: Genealogy and Identity In Soviet Turkmenistan," by Dr. Adrianne Edgar, History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, UCSB, February 25
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Organizer of the joint seminar "Unpaid Debts: Marriage, Mutiny and Family in Colonial India," by Dr. Erika Rappaport and "Poisoned Relations: Marriage and Homicide in Medieval Bologna," by Dr. Carol Lansing. Joint presentation of the History Department Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood, and the History Department Gender Brown Bag group, UCSB, March 4
Discussant on the panel "The War on Drugs," organized by HOLA (student organization), Multicultural Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring
Guest speaker in KCSB radio, panel about media coverage on the "War and Terrorism" from the Latin American point of view, Monday, June 3
Guest speaker at the Roundtable "Latin America Resist!" organized by the student organization H.O.L.A. (Honor and Orgullo Latinoamericano) [Latin American Honor and Pride], UCSB, Winter Quarter
Interview with KCSB radio regarding current events in Venzuela, UCSB, Winter Quarter
2003-04 Commentator to Betsy Konefal "Reinas Indigenas and the Struggle for Social Justice in Guatemala," paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student conference "Women and Conflict: Historical Perspective," UCSB, October 10-12
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Marc Coronado, "A Chronology of Change: The Identity of Politics in the Multiethnic Autobiography," October 13
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Leslie Sargent, "Armenian and Azerbaijani Communities in the 19th Century: The Reconstitution of 'South Caucasian' Culture During the Russian Colonial Rule," November 17
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Joan Judge, "Nationalism and Beyond: Constituting the Feminine Historical Subject in China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," February 9
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Sharon Farmer, "European Ascetics and Oriental Treasures: The Meeting of Two Worlds in the Thirteenth Century," March 1
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Joshua Fogel, "Competing Nationalisms, 1862 and 1944: Two Seminal Moments in Sino-Japanese Relations Folded into One," April 12
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Roberta Gilman, "A Different Sort of Visual Anthropology: 'Anglo' Interpretations of 'Indian' Comics," April 26
Organized Brown Bag Series on Race, Ethnicity and Nationhood talk by Nancy Gallgher, "Academic Freedom, Ethnicities and Middle East Studies," May 10
2004-05 Organizer of the round table “Desterrando el Olvido: La Historia y las Ciencias Sociales un año después de Informe de la Comisión de la Verdad.” Challenging Oblivion: History and the Social Sciences a year after the Truth Commission Report”, Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas, Lima. August 13th, 2004
Interview with the program Boca Ancha, TV Cable Channel 6, Lima, Peru, regarding forthcoming book The Plebeian Republic, September 23
Chair and Organizer of the Panel "Militarism and Ethnicity in Three Andean Countries." Latin American
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Studies Association (LASA) Conference, Puerto Rico, March 15-18
Organizer of the Panel “Truth Commissions, Violence and Human Rights,” in the Conference “On the Edges of Development: Critical Interventions” organized by the Women, Research and Development Program, UCSB, October 15th and 16th, 2004.
2005-06 Organizer of the lecture “Questions of Violence and Racism in a Diverse Society: The Findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission” by Dr. Carlos Iván Degregori. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center , UCSB , April 11th, 2005., April 2005
Organizer of a seminar by Dr. Carlos Iván Degregori with graduate students and faculty. Department of Political Science, UCSB, April 11, 2005
Co-organizer with Nathan Craig of the Andean Film Series, Department of Anthropology, Winter 2006
Chair and Organizer of the Panel "Militarism and Ethnicity in Three Andean Countries." Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, Puerto Rico, March 15-18 2
2006-07 Speaker in the round table a propos the publication of Journal Iconos, special Dossier “Militarismo y Etnicidad en los Andes”. Video Conference transmitted in Quito (FLACSO), and Lima (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). Fall
Guest Lecturer in the course “Social History” taught by professor Jesus Cosamalón. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú., Lima (Fall).
2007-08 Discussant in the presentation of the book La Experiencia Burguesa by Carmen Mc Evoy, (editor). Instituto Riva Aguero, Lima (Fall)
Chair and Organizer of the Panel “Civil Wars, Citizenship and the Peasantry in the Andes: From the Montoneras to the Self-Defense Committees” LASA 2007. September 5-8, Montreal
Co-organizer of the Annual LAIS Graduate Student Conference, UCSB (Spring).
2008-09 Chair and Commentator of the panel “Indigenous Intellectuals” organized by Gabriela Ramos at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New York City, January 2-5 2008 (comment delivered on January 2). Commentator of Edwina Barbosa’s book presentation, Mestiza Consciousness. Department of Political Science, UCSB.
Co-organizer of the Annual LAIS Graduate Student Conference, UCSB (Spring).
Co-Chair and Co- Organizer with Rossana Barragán and Fernanda Wanderly of the Panel “The Ethnography of the State: “Construction of Power and Authority of the State in Latin America, 19 th and 20th centuries revisited”. Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro
Coordinator of the Workshop on Ethnicity. International Seminar: Memory, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Andes.” University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, August 5
Commentator of Panel: “Community, ethnicity and Memory” , International Seminar: Memory, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Andes.” University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Ayacucho, August 3-6
Discussant of the panel on indigenous rebellions at the Congress of Ethnohistory, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima August
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2009-10 Chair and Commentator of the panel “New Perspectives on Peru`s Shining Path: Past, Present, Future” organized by Miguel La Serna. American Historical Association Meeting. San Diego, January 10.
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2010-11 Discussant of Roberto Amigo’s paper “José Gil de Castro, Militarización e iconografía republicana” (José Gil de Castro, “Militarization and republican iconography) International Symposium al “Cultura visual y revolución: Hispanoamérica 1808-1830.” Museum of Art of Lima, August 30 -September 3, 2010.
Invited speaker at the round table “100 años de José María Arguedas” (A Hundred Years of José María Arguedas). ILAC. Stanford University, April 21, 2011.
Audited Quechua lessons. Stanford University. Language Center, Special Language Program.
2011-12 Invited lecture. “Decentering the Independence of Perú (Decentrando la independencia peruana) Pre-university School ADUNI, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, September 10 th
2012-13 Discussant of Lurigo Gavilán’s book, Memorias de un Soldado Desconocido. Autobiografía y Antropología de la Violencia. Official book presentation at National University de San Cristóbal de Huamanga. Organized by the Institute for Peruvian Studies. Ayacucho City, April, 2013
Discussant of Nils Jacobsen’s book Ilusiones de la transición. El altiplano peruano, 1780-1930. Official book presentation. Institute for Peruvian Studies (IEP), Lima, June 27, 2013.
2013-14 Co-organizer with Carla Granados and María Eugenia Ulfe of the colloquium “Dialogs for Peace and Memory: Sources and testimonies for the reconstruction of the recent war”. Instituo de Estudios Peruanos, IEP, Lima, January 24, 2014.
Discussant of Lurgio Gavilán’s presentation at the First Colloquium “Dialogues for the Peace and Memory: Sources and testimonies for the reconstruction of the recent war”. Lima. Instituo de Estudios Peruanos, January 24, 2014.
Invited discussant of the panel “Provincial Intellectuals and the Construction of the Andean Past” (Los intelectuales provincianos y la construcción del pasado andino) Latin American Studies Association. LASA Conference. Chicago, May 2014.
2014-15 Co- organizer with Juan Carlos Estenssoro (history professor and director of the Center of Latin American Studies at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle) of the International Conference “Independence before Independences”, sponsored by the French Institute for Andean Studies, the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (CRAEC), the History Department at UCSB, the Ministries of Culture and Education of Peru., and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Lima, August 7-8, 2014.
Official book presentation of La Republica Plebeya. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, September 4, 2014. Watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBIsX8Qr5yQ
PART IV: UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE
University Service
Year Type of Service
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2000-01 Department of History Committees:Member, Diversity CommitteeMember, Language Committee
Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Appointed History Department representative for the ad hoc committee working on campus-wide Interdisciplinary Theory Project
Reviewed and assessed Education Abroad Program project to open a new program in Chile, and provide advise in Latin America generally
2001-02 Department of History Committees:Member, Curriculum and Academic Planning CommitteeMember, Language CommitteeMember, Prize Committee
Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
2002-03 Department of History Committees:Member, Language CommitteeMember, Prize Committee
Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
2003-04 Department of History Committees:Member, Graduate Financial Aid/TA Selection CommitteeMember, Personnel CommitteeMember, World History Committee
Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Department of History representative to the Global Studies PhD Emphasis
2004-05 Department of History Committees:Member, Curriculum Committee (includes Summer)Chair, World History CommitteeMember, Graduate Admissions Committee (in lieu of D. Rock)
Administrative Committees:Member, Campus-wide Committee for Graduate Student Central Fellowships Member, Advisory Board of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian StudiesAffiliated Faculty to the UCSB Women, Culture, and Development ProgramDepartment of History representative to the Global Studies PhD Emphasis Committee
2005-06 Department of History Committees:Member, Colloqium CommitteeMember, ad hoc Committee on workload
Administrative Committees:Member, Advisory Board of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
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Affiliated faculty of the UCSB Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies
Affiliated Faculty to the UCSB Women, Culture, and Development Program
Department of History representative to the Global Studies PhD Emphasis CommitteeAcademic Senate Committees:Latin American and Iberian Studies Program representative in the Task Force for Faculty Diversity
2006-07 Department of History Committees:Member, Curriculum Committee (including summer) (WS)Member, Graduate Financial Aid; TA Selection Committee (WS)Interviewed candidates for the China faculty search. American Historical Association Meeting in Atlanta (January). (volunteer)
Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Studies
2007-08 Department of History Committees : Member, Diversity CommitteeMember, Graduate Financial Aid: TA Selection (WS)Member. Ad-hoc Committee for UC-Postdoctoral Fellow faculty.
Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Studies
2008-09 Department of History Committees:Member, Diversity CommitteeMember, Graduate AdmissionsMember: Ad-hoc Search Committee for Second Africanist Historian
Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Studies
2009-10 Department of History Committees:Member, Diversity CommitteeMember, Graduate Studies Committee
since last approved action
2010-11 On leave
2011-12 Department of History Committees:Convener, Latin America (G)Member, Graduate Admissions Committee
University Committees:Member, Search Committee for the position of Latin American Librarian.Member, Faculty Legislature.
Organized lecture by Dr. Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge University, the U.K), “The Incas and sacred space in colonial Cuzco.” Department of History, UCSB. November, 5 2011
2012-13 On leave
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2013-14 Department of History Committees:Convener, Latin America (C&G)Member, Language Committee, graded language exams.Member, EOR Search Committee
2014-15 Department of History Committees:Member, Graduate Admissions Committee.
Graded language exams.
Member, Ad Hoc Promotion CommitteeChair, Public History Research cluster. As such I organized the following events:
- Lecture by professor Alicia Civera (Cinvestav, Mexico), “The Ayotzinapa student massacre and the teacher training rural schools in Mexico… “ in co-sponsorship with of the UCSB Departments of Anthropology and Spanish and Portuguese, the Program in Latin American an Iberian Studies, the Department of Education, the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. HSSB, February Lecture was video recorded by the University video services.
- “Egypt after the Revolution: A conversation with UCSB professors Sherene Seikaly and Adam Sabra. Department of History. June 3, 2015.
- The Public History Cluster also co-sponsored the lecture by Edward Linenthal on Memory and Trauma organized by Ann Plane, Spring 2015.
Public Service
Year Type of Service
2005-06 Outreach talk to school children at UCSB, December 7
Interview with history students at the National University of San Marcos regarding the historical profession (recorded for instructional use), Lima, September.
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Invited guest to discuss the film "State of Fear". Opening night of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, co-organized with UCSB Arts and Lectures, Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, May 19.
2008-09 Orientation lecture on Peru to Engineers Without Borders, UC Santa Barbara, Spring.
2009-10 Interview in Public Television (channel 7), program “Sucedió en el Perú” (It Happened in Peru) concerning the bicentennial of Latin American Independence, September 2009.
Invited speaker in the annual Latina Youth Leadership Conference, Latina Youth Leadership organized by Lambda Theta Nu Sorority Inc Saturday 27th of February 2010, UCSB.
Orientation lecture on Peru to Engineers Without Borders, UC Santa Barbara, Spring.
since last approved action
2010 - 11 Interviewed by José Zepeda, director of the Spanish Section of Radio Netherlands, Hilversum, Holland. Special program on Indigenous Groups and the bicentennial of Independence in Latin America. July, 2010. Rebroadcast on August 2010.
Invited talk, “What Independence? Proscribed Heroes, and Creole Silences in the Narratives of the Independence of Peru” (¿Qué Independencia? Héroes Proscritos y Silencios Criollos en las Narrativas de la Independencia del Perú). Congress of the Republic of Peru. Colloquium “New Historiographical Perspectives on Peruvian Independence “Nuevas Perspectivas Historiográficas”. Lima, December 17, 2010.
2011- 12 Interviewed by Manuel Marcos. “Estudios subalternos, crítica poscolonial y paradojas en la Historia” [Subaltern studies, postcolonial critique and paradoxes in history], in Artificios. Sociedad, reflexión, artes No. 3, December 2011- January 2012, pp. 66-71.
Reprinted as “El poder y la producción de la historia: Las paradojas de los estudios subalternos y la crítica postcolonial” in Heraldos, Revista de Investigaciones del Centro de Estudiantes de Historia, year 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 135-141.
Interviewed by journalist Paola Ugaz . “We ought to redefine democracy and revalue the word citizen”Video Interview for La Mula.pe, December . 20, 2011. Hay que redifinir la democracia y revalorar la palabra ciudadano
2012 -13 Blog post for Historia Global Online, in homage to historian Alberto Flores Galindo "Nunca ha sido facil vivir en el Peru": Ensayos en homenaje a Alberto Flores GalindoAug 2, 2012
Interviewed by Patricia Wiesse and Gerardo Saravia, director and editor respectively of Revista Ideele, “History has to be thoroughly rewritten”. Revista Ideele Lima, Nro 229. http://www.revistaideele.com/ideele/content/cecilia-méndez-“la-historia-hay-que-reescribirla-todita
Blog post reproduced by La Mula.pe “El Perú es una república empresarial” (Peru is an Entrepreneurial Republic"). May 15, 2013 Cecilia Mendez: "El Peru es una Republica Empresarial"Impact: Over 2,500 views and shares.
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2013-14 Interviewed by Javier Torres Seoane, director of the web TV program El Arriero. “Cecilia Méndez presents Contest of essays about independence”. August 2, 2013.https://redaccion.lamula.pe/2013/08/02/cecilia-mendez-presenta-concurso-de-ensayos-sobre-la-independencia/jorgepaucar/
Interviewed by Manolo Bonilla in Vela Verde political magazine. Lima, October 24, 2013
Interviewed by journalist Jorge Paredes, regarding Independence, and the contest of essays “Narrate Independence...” Newspaper El Comercio.
Interviewed by Radio Station RRP concerning contest of essays… Interviewed by Enlace Nacional web TV concerning contest of essays…Interviewed by Ministry of Culture web TV channel concerning contest of essays…
Co-organizer with Juan Carlos Estenssoro of the contest of essays “Narrate the Independence from your village, your district or your city”, sponsored by the French Institute for Andean Studies, the Ministries of Culture and Education of Peru, the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, the History Department at UCSB, and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos , Lima. July 2013- April 2014.
Intereviewed by José Miguel Munive Vargas, “The legacy of terrorism prevents us from thinking in the rebels of the past” In Revista Ideele # 237.http://revistaideele.com/ideele/content/cecilia-méndez-la-herencia-del-terrorismo-impide-pensar-en-los-rebeldes-del-pasado
Reprinted in La Mula.pe, March 17, 2014.
“¿Is an Ethnic Citizenship posible? A Historical Perspective from Peru.” Public lecture. International Book Fair of Bogota (FILBO). Colombia, Bogotá. Invited guest lecturer May 2, 2014.
Invited public lecture “¿Historicide? The Impact of Terrorism and Neoliberalism in the Historical Narratives: the Itineraries of a Proscribe Hero in Peru”. Public Lecture. Invited guest lecturer. International Book Fair of Bogotá. (FILBO). Colombia, Bogotá May 4, 2014.
2014-15 Invited public lecture: “Racism in Peru” (El racismo en el Perú), Roundtable “Todas Las Sangres “(All the Bloods). Organized by the Intercultural office of the Ministry of Culture and the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, July 2, 2014.
Interviewed by Javier Torres Seoane regarding La República Plebeya Library El Virrey Lima, October 16, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLRYNDj-8w
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