Oliver Dinius

Croft Institute for International Studies

University Circle

P.O.Box 1848

University, MS 38677

ph.: 662-915-1500

dinius@olemiss.edu

POSITIONS

Executive Director, Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi, Aug. 2016-

present

University of Mississippi, Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies, 2010-present.

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, Visiting Professor of History, Spring 2010.

University of Mississippi, Croft Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, 2004-2010.

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ph.D. in History, 2004.

M.A. in History, 1996.

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Language Study, Intensive Portuguese and Spanish, 1993-94.

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Non-Degree Graduate Student in History and American Studies, 1992-93.

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Zwischenprüfung (equivalent to Bachelor of Arts), History (Major) and German (Minor), 1992.

LANGUAGES

GERMAN, native speaker.

PORTUGUESE, fluent.

ENGLISH, near-native fluency.

SPANISH, advanced speaking, reading.

FRENCH, conversational, reading.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964

(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities. Co-Edited with Angela

Vergara (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011).

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

“Transnational Development on the Frontier: The FAO’s Fishery and Forestry Missions in the Brazilian

Amazon,” International History Review, published online April 24, 2018.

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“Paternalismo estatal, bienestar y control social en la construcción de Volta Redonda,” in Avances del Cesor

(Rosário, Argentina), Año X, Nº 10 (2013), 151-172.

“Central Intelligence Agency”, “Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL)”, “Export-Import Bank”,

“Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda”, “Nikita Khrushchev”, “Operation Condor”, and “Soviet Union, Latin American

policy”, in Encyclopedia of United States-Latin American Relations, ed. by Thomas Leonard (Washington,

D.C.: CQ Press, 2012).

“Glory Days No More: Labor Relations and Catholic Paternalism in Brazil’s Steel City,” in O. Dinius and Angela

Vergara, eds., Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities (Athens:

University of Georgia Press, 2011), 134-157.

“Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control,” in Jens

Hentschke, ed., Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), 173-205.

“Brazilian Industrialists and the Transition to State Capitalism,” Entreprises et Histoire 41 (Décembre 2005), 35-

50. (Thematic Issue: “Élites Managériales et Mondialisation”)

DATABASE

Co-creator of Dissídios: Trabalhadores e Justiça de Trabalho, the first fully searchable online database of

Brazilian labor court cases, with over 1.500 entries and over 40 fields per entry. Co-designed the database

structure based on research in original documentation as part of a collaborative project with Brazilian scholars

during my stay as Visiting Researcher at UNICAMP, Campinas (Brazil), in Spring 2010.

See: http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/cecult/dissidios/

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Book

Unlocking the Amazon’s Riches: Dreams of Development and their Environmental Impact on Brazil’s Northern

Frontier. Monograph, completion of full manuscript draft anticipated for 2022.

Articles

“Shifting Strategy on the Northern Development Frontier: Postwar Brazil and the Drive to ‘Valorize’ the

Amazon.” Article manuscript, to be submitted to the Journal of Latin American Studies, 2020.

“Belíndia and the Limits of the Developmental State: Bureaucratic Autonomy at the Core and in the Periphery in

Postwar Brazil.” Completed chapter for State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Rise and Fall of

the Developmental State 1930-1990, ed. by Agustin Ferraro and Miguel Centeno (Cambridge UP). Removed at

last minute by press to balance the volume. Plan to resubmit to journal, 2020.

“Regulating Autonomy and Mobility: Transport Workers and the Labor Law in Postwar Brazil,” revise and

resubmit to the International Review of Social History, 2022.

BOOK REVIEWS

Transforming Brazil: A History of National Development in the Postwar Era, by Rafael R. Ioris, Journal of Latin

American Studies, 48:2 (May 2016).

The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889, by Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein, for the

Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies 48:1 (February 2016).

A Justiça do Trabalho e sua História. Os direitos dos Trabalhadores no Brasil, edited by Ângela de Castro

Gomes and Fernando Teixeira da Silva, International Review of Social History 60:1 (April 2015).

Kleine Geschichte Brasilians, by Stefan Rinke und Frederick Schulze, and Brasilien: Eine Kulturgeschichte, by

Ursula Prutsch und Enrique Rodrigues-Moura, H-Soz-u-Kult, online (published July 3, 2014).

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Mining and the State in Brazilian Development, by Gail Triner, American Historical Review 119:1 (January

2014).

Die Souveränität der Schwachen: Lateinamerika und der Völkerbund, 1920-1936, by Thomas Fischer, Journal of

Latin American Studies 45:3 (August 2013).

Autos and Progress: the Brazilian Search for Modernity, by Joel Wolfe, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of

Inter-American Cultural History 68:3 (January 2012).

Um Nordeste em São Paulo: Trabalhadores Migrantes em São Miguel Paulista (1945-66), by Paulo Ribeiro

Fontes, Journal of Latin American Studies 43:2 (May 2011).

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks: Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil, by Laura

Jarnagin, Hispanic American Historical Review 90:4 (November 2010).

‘Verbrasilianerung’ und Akkulturation: Deutsche Protestanten im brasilianischen Kaiserreich am Beispiel der

Gemeinden in Rio de Janeiro und Minas Gerais (1822-1889), by Roland Spliesgart, International History

Review 30:4 (December 2008).

Homens Partidos, by Marco Aurélio Santana, for Cadernos do Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth 11: 20/21 (2006), 295-

302. (Special Issue: Populismo e Trabalhismo). In Portuguese.

Nation gegen Hinterland: der Krieg von Canudos in Brasilien: ein diskursives Ereignis (1874 – 1903), by Dawid

Danilo Bartelt, the Hispanic American Historical Review 86:2 (May 2006).

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture, by John D. French, The Americas: A Quarterly

Review of Inter-American Cultural History 62:4 (April 2006).

Operários sem Patrões: Os trabalhadores da cidade de Santos no entreguerras, by Fernando Teixeira da Silva,

Hispanic American Historical Review 86:1 (February 2006).

Brazil since 1985: Politics, Economy, and Society, by Maria D’Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley (eds.), Bulletin

of Latin American Research 24:2 (April 2005).

Die Sklavenbefreiung in Brasilien, eine soziale Frage für die Kirche?, by Katharina Bosl, Hispanic American

Historical Review 84:1 (February 2004).

For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, by Barbara

Weinstein, História Social 5 (Nov. 1999). In Portuguese.

Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955, by Joel

Wolfe, História Social 3 (Nov. 1996). In Portuguese.

PRESENTATIONS

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Belíndia and the Limits of the Developmental State: Bureaucratic Autonomy at the Core and in the Periphery in

Postwar Brazil”, second workshop with revised papers on “State and Nation Making in Latin America and

Spain: Rise and Fall of the Developmental State 1930-1990”, Princeton University, January 20, 2017.

“Shifting Strategy on the Northern Development Frontier: Postwar Brazil and the Drive to ‘Valorize’ the

Amazon”, Center for Latino & Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, October 21, 2015.

“Belíndia and the Limits of the Developmental State: Bureaucratic Autonomy at the Core and in the Periphery in

Postwar Brazil”, workshop on “State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Rise and Fall of the

Developmental State 1930-1990”, Princeton University, September 19, 2015.

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“B as in BRIC: Brazil in the 21st Century”, Trinity University in San Antonio, Center for the Study of Mexico, the

Americas, and Spain (MAS), November 5, 2012.

“Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964, ”

Linha de Pesquisa - História Social de Trabalho at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas (Brazil),

April 8, 2010. In Portuguese.

“Company Towns in the Americas: An Introduction” and “Glory Days No More: Labor Relations and Catholic

Paternalism in Brazil’s ‘Steel City’”, Sawyer Seminar on “Globalizing the Americas: World Economies and

Local Communities”, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada), March 23, 2007.

“Mapping the History of Internal Migration in 20th Century Brazil: A Preliminary Exploration”, Latin American

Studies Group at the University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada), March 21, 2007.

“The Limits of Brazil’s Import-Substituting Industrialization as Strategy for Social and Economic Development,”

Workshop on “The Development of Development Policies: Theories, Actors, and Structures, 1945-70,”

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar (Netherlands), June 8, 2004.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

** Indicates presentations as part of panels that I organized.

“Reframing Brazil’s Developmentalism as Transnational: The Treaty of Amazon Cooperation,” Annual Meeting

of the Conference for Latin American History (CLAH), New York, January 5, 2020.

“Development Policies in the Brazilian Amazon: Balancing Local, Regional, National, and Transnational

Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Denver, January 6, 2017.

“Foreign Expertise and Development in Postwar Brazil: The FAO’s Fishery and Forestry Missions to the

Amazon”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Atlanta, January 7, 2016.

“Shifting Development Priorities: The FAO’s Fishery and Forestry Missions in the Brazilian Amazon”, Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Charleston, SC, March 13, 2015.

“The Social History of Labor meets the Strategic Analysis of the Economy: Reading Labor Court Rulings in

Postwar Brazil”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), New Orleans, January 3,

2013.

“Shifting Strategy on the Northern Development Frontier: Postwar Brazil and the Drive to ‘Valorize’ the

Amazon”, XI Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), Urbana-Champaign, September 7,

2012. **

“Extending the Reach of 'Development': The State in Postwar Brazil”, XXX Congress of the Latin American

Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, May 26, 2012. **

“Development as Recovery? 'O Observador Econômico e Financeiro' and Industrial Development Policies under

Brazil's Estado Novo (1937-1945) ”, XXIX Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),

Toronto (Canada), October 8, 2010.

“Processos Trabalhistas como Fontes da História Social de Trabalho: um banco de dados”, written jointly with

Fernando Teixeira da Silva and Samuel Fernando Souza, X Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association

(BRASA), Brasília (Brazil), July 24, 2010.

“The Formation of an Industrial(ist) Class in Postwar Brazil: Evidence from ‘Quem é Quem no Brasil’”, XXVIII

Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 14, 2009.

“Brazilian Labor Courts and Industrial Relations under State Capitalism,” European Social Science History

Conference (ESSHC), Lisbon (Portugal), February 29, 2008. **

“Paternalist Wages vs. Union Wages: The Case of Brazil’s Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (1941-1964)”, III

Congress of the Mexican Association for Economic History (AMHE), Cuernavaca (Mexico), October 29, 2007.

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“’It’s the law, after all’: The Re-Shaping of Industrial Relations in the Brazilian Labor Courts”, XXVII Congress

of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal (Canada), September 5, 2007. **

“Glory Days No More: Labor Relations and Catholic Paternalism in Brazil’s ‘Steel City’” (revised), workshop on

“Living the Cycles of Capitalism: Company Towns in the Americas,” Oxford (MS), February 23, 2007. **

“Technology, the Division of Labor, and Workers’ Power in Brazil’s National Steel Company”, International

Economic History Conference 2006 (IEHC 2006), Helsinki (Finland), August 24, 2006.

“O trabalhismo e os limites do desenvolvimentismo: uma história das relações industriais na Companhia

Siderúrgica Nacional, 1941-1964”, II Simpósio Internacional da História do Brasil (CPDOC/BRASA), Rio de

Janeiro, June 21, 2006.

“Labor Relations, Labor Politics, and the Limits of Brazil’s Developmentalism (1941-1964)”, Annual Conference

of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan (Puerto Rico), March 17, 2006.

“Pintando militantes como ‘comunistas’: O papel da polícia política na repressão dos trabalhadores da CSN

(1941-1964)”, XXIII Simpósio Nacional de História (ANPUH), Londrina, Paraná (Brazil), July 19, 2005.

“Glory Days No More: Labor Relations and the Undoing of Catholic Paternalism in Brazil’s ‘Steel City’”, Annual

Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Seattle, January 08, 2005. **

“A Tool of Labor Control or Workers’ Power? – Brazil’s Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda,

1943-1964”, Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October 09, 2004.

“Migração interna no interior: Volta Redonda nos anos 40”, Annual Conference of the Brazilian Studies

Association (BRASA), Rio de Janeiro, June 12, 2004. **

“Defending Ordem e Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labour Control in Volta Redonda”,

Annual Meeting Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Leiden (Netherlands), April 03, 2004.

“Repressing Communists and ‘communists’: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control”,

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Berlin (Germany), March 26, 2004. **

“Internal Migration to (New) Industrial Cities in Brazil: Volta Redonda in Comparative Perspective”, Annual

Meeting of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung”, Freiburg (Germany), Nov. 14, 2003.

“In Defense of National ‘Progress’: Political Policing and Organized Labor in Brazil’s ‘Steel City’ during the

Populist Republic”, New England Conference for Latin American Studies, Hanover (NH), October 18, 2003. **

DISCUSSANT

Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) XII, panel G8, “The Meanings of ‘Development’

in Brazil: New Historical Perspectives”, London (United Kingdom), August 22, 2014.

Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin American History (CLAH), panel 64, “Beyond Reaction: New

Approaches to Catholic Anti-Communism in Latin America”, New Orleans, January 5, 2013.

Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), panel AHA 154 entitled “Governing

Communities: The Latin American Municipality in the Long Nineteenth Century”, Chicago, January 7, 2012.

On Yovanna Pineda, “Industrialization without Development: Argentine Investment in Imported Technology,

1890-1930”; Social Science History Association (SSHA), Chicago, November 18, 2004.

GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS

INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Freeman Foundation, renewable grant received since 2017, $100,000 annually.

Establishment of an internship program entitled “UM Experiential Learning in East Asia: The Freeman

Foundation International Internship Initiative at the University of Mississippi.” Competitive grant to allow 18

undergraduates to spend eight weeks on a summer internship in East Asia.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Korea Foundation, five-year grant, 2017-2022, $293,818.

Establishment of a tenure-track professorship in Korean Studies, joint position at Croft Institute for International

Studies & Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. Goal to strengthen Korean

Studies in order to build it up to a strength comparable to Chinese and Japanese studies the Croft Institute and UM

more broadly.

GRANTS for SCHOLARSHIP

Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, Faculty Research Grant, 2016.

Visiting Professor and Visiting Researcher at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, one

of the three most highly ranked research universities in Brazil. Funded by a Grant from the Fundação de

Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). Spring Semester 2010.

University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014,

2016.

University of Mississippi, Faculty Research Fellow, 2005 and 2007.

Harvard Graduate Society Fellowship, Fall 2000.

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Fellowship in Business History and Institutional Economic History, Summer 2000.

Harvard Eliot Fellowship, 1999-2000 (declined).

Mellon Fellowship for Latin American History, 1999-2000.

Dissertation Fellowship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Fundação Coordenação de

Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for field research in Brazil, 1997-98.

Sawyer Fellowship for the Study of Developing Societies, 1996-97.

Summer Research Fellowships – David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University),

funded by Tinker Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Jorge P. Lehman Fund (1995, 1996, 2000, 2002).

Fellowship for the Study of the United States by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD;

Amerikanistenprogramm) for a year in the United States as special student, 1992-1993.

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

BRAZIL

Ministries of the Treasury and of the Army; Rio State Archive, CPDOC/FGV, National Archives, FIERJ,

SENAI, Centro da Memória de Eletricidade, Brazilian Steel Institute (all Rio de Janeiro); CSN Archive (Volta

Redonda); National Archives, Ministry of Labor, Arquivo do Itamaraty (Brasília); Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth

(Campinas); SUDAM, Banco da Amazônia (Belém).

OTHER COUNTRIES

International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam, Netherlands); International Labor Organization (Geneva,

Switzerland); U.S. National Archives (College Park/Maryland); UN Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome,

Italy); U.K. National Archives (London, England).

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DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

CROFT INSTITUTE for INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Committees

Chair, Steering Committee, UM Experiential Learning in Eastern Asia, 2017-present.

Committee of Tenured Faculty and Senior Administrators that advises and implements the grant by the Freeman

Foundation to send 18 UM undergraduates to Eastern Asia for an Internship.

Member, Curriculum Committee, 2016-present.

Assessing the pedagogical goals of the “Introduction to International Studies” (INST 101) and evaluating the

purpose of INST 300-level classes within the larger curriculum.

Member, Steering Committee, 2012-2016.

Committee of Tenured Faculty in International Studies that advises the Executive Director.

Member, Scholarship Interview Committee, 2014.

Interviewed candidates for the Croft Scholarship.

Member, Curriculum Committee, 2013-2014.

Studied the implications of an expansion of the International Studies major to entering classes of 80 students,

including the best deployment of faculty across different levels of INST classes (100, 200, and 300-level).

Chair, Search Committee for a Historian of the Modern Middle East, Joint Position with the Department of

History, 2010-2011.

Disseminated advertisement to strong programs in Middle East history, communicated with candidates,

conducted face-to-face interviews at MESA conference, organized on-campus visit of three finalists.

Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2010-2011.

Revised the core curriculum to accommodate the creation of a new regional concentration in the Middle East.

Studied practices in 200-level INST classes and the need for a standardization of reading and writing

requirements.

Member, Scholarship Interview Committee, 2011.

Interviewed candidates for the Croft Scholarship.

Member, Search Committee for a Cultural Anthropologist of Latin America, Joint Position with the

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 2008-09.

Member, Curriculum Committee, 2007-2008.

Revised the thematic concentrations, which included moving from five to three concentrations, the addition of a

methods class, and drawing clear lines between classes counting for thematic vs. regional credit.

Organization of Lecture Series and Workshops

Croft Visiting Speaker Series, 2015-16

Co-organized a year-long lecture series with five external speakers on various aspects of “Security in the 21st

Century.” My invitees focused on US-Mexican intelligence cooperation, the environmental security of the

Brazilian Amazon, and the current European refugee crisis.

Croft Visiting Speaker Series on “Inequality”, Spring 2012

Organized Semester-long lecture series with three prominent external speakers, complemented by a panel of

Croft faculty.

Workshop: “Living the Cycles of Capitalism: Company Towns in the Americas”, 02/22-02/24, 2007

Workshop convened on UM campus (Croft Institute) with participants from Latin America and the U.S. in

preparation for the publication of the edited volume on “Company Towns in the Americas.”

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ARCH DALRYMPLE III DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Committees

Chair, Dalrymple Sub-Committee for Faculty Research, 2015-2016.

Head sub-committee to evaluate faculty research applications and recommend awards to the full Dalrymple

Committee. Created online application forms for faculty research component of the Dalrymple fund.

Member, Dalrymple Committee for the Enhancement of the Department, 2015-2016.

(1) Developed policies and procedures for the use of the Dalrymple Endowment to Enhance the Department of

History. Established priorities and guidelines for the use of funds and set an annual calendar.

(2) Evaluate applications for Dalrymple support (faculty research, graduate student support library fund, speaker

series) twice a year. Full committee makes awards, communicates results, and justifies decisions.

Member, Salary Committee, 2014.

Evaluated the publication record of all departmental colleagues to award merit raises based on research

productivity.

Chair, Assessment and Planning Committee, 2012-2014

Revamped the departmental assessment process, introducing new outcomes and rubrics useful for the

departmental planning process in order to integrate assessment and planning. Completed the 2013 assessment

report and the 2014 plan for the next cycle based on new outcomes and rubrics.

Member, Committee for Future Faculty Needs, Spring 2012.

Developed hiring plan for six years based on current faculty composition, quantitative analysis of student

demand, and anticipated retirements. Regularly updated the plan since as chair of the planning committee.

Regularly Chair, Search Committee for Modern Middle East, Joint Position with the Croft Institute for International

Studies, 2010-2011.

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2009.

Member, Salary Rules Committee, 2007.

Revised the departmental policies for merit-based awards of salary increases. Established rules and procedures

for the annually rotating salary committee to follow in its assessment of faculty productivity for merit raises.

Advising

Advising history majors (between 10 and 25 per semester) in their course selection in order for them to fulfill

the College of Liberal Arts’ and the history department’s graduation requirements.

Organization of Academic Conference

Porter J. Fortune, Jr., Symposium, “Cold War Development and Developmentalism in Global Perspective”,

03/03-03/05, 2016

Annual symposium of the the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History. Invited speakers from Europe and the

United States. Revised proceedings will be submitted to a recognized university press with strengths in Cold War

studies for publication as an edited volume.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Task Force, Faculty Excellence, 2016-18.

Served on the University’s newly created Task Force on Faculty Excellence. Explored metrics for faculty

excellence, developed best practices on faculty hiring and retention, and identified peer instititions for comparison

of faculty excellence. Reported to the university’s Strategic Planning Council.

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Vice-Chair, Faculty Senate, 2014-2016.

Served as Vice-Chair in years with major initiatives driven by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, giving

the faculty a strong voice on issues such as a removal of the state flag from campus, the process that led to end

of Chancellor Dan Jones’ tenure, and the selection of Dr. Jeff Vitter as our new Chancellor. Other major

initiatives included a reform or the Senate’s Constitution and Bylaws, fair and transparent leave policies,

university-sponsored on-campus childcare, and guidelines for the appointment of Distinguished Professors.

Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2012-2016.

Coordinated major Faculty Senate initiatives and assisted the Senate Chair in setting the agenda. Monthly

meetings to prepare the full Senate meetings.

Task Force, Faculty Excellence, 2013-14.

Led the work of the Faculty Senate serving as Task Force on Faculty Excellence tasked by the Strategic

Planning Council. Solicited and organized input from the full faculty, led focus sessions, and drafted the “Report

on Faculty Excellence”, adopted on April 8, 2014, as a resolution by the full Faculty Senate.

Member, Strategic Planning Council, 2012-present

University’s advisory body on campus-wide strategic initiatives of major scope. Served as main liaison to the

Faculty Senate for both the Faculty Excellence Report and for the Key Performance Indicators.

Member, Chancellor's Standing Committee on International Student Programs, 2012-2015

To advise the Office of International Programs regarding the adjustment, integration and inclusion of

international students and scholars on campus.

Chair, Faculty Senate Finance Committee, 2012-2014

Committee works for the Faculty Senate on all matters pertaining to the university's finances.

Member, Faculty Senate, 2012-present.

Represent the faculty in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History, regularly updating the departmentral

faculty on major Senate initatives or matters of debate.

TEACHING

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI

CROFT INSTITUTE for INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Lecture Courses

INST 101: “Introduction to International Studies”

INST 207: “Introduction to Latin America” (as single-taught and co-taught courses)

Seminars

INST 314/361: “The War on Drugs in Latin America”

INST 314: “The Problem of Inequality in Latin America”

INST 316: “Soccer Madness – From Brazil to the World”

INST 421/422: Senior Thesis Seminar (First Half/Second Half)

Senior Thesis Adviser

Advised twenty-one senior theses (two-semester sequence; 50-80 pages in length) on a wide range of themes and

countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay).

Prize-Winning Senior Theses

Four of my senior thesis advisees won prizes:

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Amanda Boozer, Terasawa Prize for the best Senior Thesis in International Studies, 2009: “Sex Trafficking

and the State in Argentina: Theoretical Perspectives, Government Policies, and a Proposal for a

Comprehensive Approach”

Julie Magee, Prize for the best Senior Thesis in Latin American Studies, 2014: “Coca Policy in 21st Century

Peru: An Exercise in Contradiction”

Ben Jackson, Prize for the best Senior Thesis in Latin American Studies, 2008: “Soy and the Ambiguities of

Globalization: Argentine Agribusiness in Transition”

Jessica Bryant, Prize for the best Senior Thesis in Latin American Studies, 2007: “Elusive Peace: A

Comparative Analysis of Civil Wars and Conflict Resolution in El Salvador and Colombia”

Senior Thesis, Third Reader

Commented on prospectus and full thesis draft; served as examiner in the thesis defense (twelve theses overall).

ARCH DALRYMPLE III DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Undergraduate Lecture Courses

HIS 343: “Latin America and the Cold War”

HIS 393: “State, Citizen, and Nation in Modern Latin America”

HIS 160: “Introduction to Latin American History”

Undergraduate Seminars

HIS 470: “The Cold War in Latin America”

Graduate Seminars

HIS 691: “Topics in Modern Brazilian History”

HIS 691: “Latin American Labor History”

HIS 691: “Capitalist Development in Latin America”

HIS 691: “The Cold War in Latin America”

Other Graduate Teaching

Member of three Ph.D. committees (two in history and one in political science; all completed).

Member of two M.A. thesis committees (one in history and one in anthropology, both completed).

Two major field and seven minor field comprehensive exams in Latin American history for PhD students.

UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS, CAMPINAS (BRAZIL)

Graduate Seminar: "Capitalismo e Trabalho Industrial"; taught in Portuguese.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Tutor, History Department

Taught all three parts of the tutorial sequence (sophomore, junior, and senior thesis) and served on the

department’s tutorial board, 1999-2004.

Tutor, Social Studies

Co-taught sophomore tutorial, a two-semester sophomore introduction to major works of social theory.

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Head Teaching Fellow

Recruited teaching fellows, managed course logistics, and taught sections for a class of 100+ students.

“Slavery and Slave Trade in Africa and the Americas” (Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong), Fall 2002.

Prize

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to “promote excellence in the art of teaching” for advising the prize-winning senior

thesis by Rodrigo Cruz, Spring 2000.

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (Germany)

Tutor/Teaching Fellow

Taught tutorial on research methods for seminars in medieval and modern history, Spring 1992 and 1994.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

PEER REVIEWER

Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2013

Member of Review Panel for Full-Year Fellowships, at NEH Offices in Washington D.C.

Manuscripts

Oxford University Press

Journal of Latin American Studies (JLAS)

Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR)

International Review of Social History (IRSH)

Luso-Brazilian Review (LBR)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Historical Association (AHA)

Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)

Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

ORGANIZATION of CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS

Mellon Conference for Latin American History, 11/2000-04/2001.

Invited guest speakers from Latin America and over 50 participants from U.S. universities; established program;

responsible for conference logistics, budget $15,000. Conference date: April 27/28, 2001.

Boston Area Workshop for Latin American History, 09/2000-06/2002.

Selected and invited presenters for bi-weekly workshop; arranged transportation and accommodation for out-of-

town presenters; organized pre-distribution of papers; maintained participant list; recruited new participants.

Conference on “Industrial Labor in 20th Century Latin America,” 05/1999-11/1999.

Initiated international conference; budgeted event and secured funds; selected and invited participants; arranged

travel, accommodation and conference day logistics. Conference date: November 05, 1999.

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Directory of Scholars in Brazilian Studies, 02/2002-08/2004.

Coordinated the creation of a web-based, searchable database: established format; gathered data; supervised

research and data entry; directed IT staff in web launch; maintains directory and communicates with users.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Inter-University Consortium for

Social and Political Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 25-July 20, 2007

Two workshops: (1) Regression Analysis I and (2) Quantitative Historical Analysis. Supplementary classes on

(3) Mathematics for Social Science I and (4) Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis I.

Faculty Development Seminar with the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), Santiago

de Chile and Buenos Aires, June 6-15, 2006.

Topic: “Economic Reform, Regional Integration, and Democratization in Chile and Argentina”

Focused on contemporary Argentina and Chile; comparative political, social, and economic realities. Focused

on providing materials and ideas for teaching in history and international studies.

Certificate – Graduate Writing Fellow, Spring 1999.

Seminar at Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning to strengthen teaching fellows’ ability to

design written assignments and to respond to undergraduate writing.

MISCELLANEOUS

Military Service, 1988-1989.

Served as driver of an amphibious armored personnel carrier (TPz Fuchs) in an Engineer Unit in the Armed

Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Sports

Volleyball. Competitive player for over a decade; continue to play regularly for recreation.

Swimming. Regular swimming for fitness.

Other Interests

Flute. Play traverse flute; past experience in classical orchestras and marching bands.

Outdoors. Skiing (both downhill and cross-country), hiking, kajaking, rafting.