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HEATHER FOWLER-SALAMINI

EDUCATION

  • 1970 Ph.D. History (Latin America), The American University
  • 1963 M.A. History (Modern Europe), University of Toronto
  • 1962 A.B. History, Cornell University

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 2012 Visiting Professor, CEH, El Colegio de México, DF
  • 2010 Visiting Professor, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, Puebla
  • 1998 Visiting Professor, Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-sociales, Universidad Veracruzana
  • 1979-2008 Professor of History, Bradley University
  • 1974-79Associate Professor of History with Tenure, Bradley University
  • 1970-74 Assistant Professor of History, Bradley University
  • 1969-70 Temporary Instructor of History, University of Texas at Austin

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • 2010 Medalla de Mérito, Universidad Veracruzana, September 27, 2010
  • 2001-8 Caterpillar Professor for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Latin American History (research award with annual stipend) 2000-8 Phi Kappa Phi
  • Fall 2006 Sabbatical Leave, Bradley University
  • Spring 1999 Sabbatical Leave, Bradley University
  • Fall 1998 Fulbright-García Robles Senior Lecturer/Researcher Fellowship, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.
  • 1997 Ford Foundation Summer Fellowship, Faculty Development. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Curriculum Transformation in Gender Studies, IROW, SUNY (Albany).
  • Fall 1991 NEH Research Fellowship for College Teachers (El Colegio de México affiliation).
  • 1985 NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, «Economic History of Latin America,» University of Chicago
  • Fall 1983 Fulbright-Hayes Research Grant, Mexico (El Colegio de México affiliation) Spring 1984 Sabbatical Leave, Bradley University
  • 1981 Professional Excellence Rothberg Award, Bradley University
  • 1981 Summer Research Grant, BRAC, Bradley University
  • Fall 1976 Sabbatical Leave, Bradley University
  • 1976-77 BRAC Research Grant, Bradley University for sabbatical research
  • 1972 Summer Research Grant, Bradley University
  • 1969 Summer Research Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas
  • 1968-69 University Fellowship, The American University. Granted but not accepted.
  • 1967-68 OAS Research Grant (El Colegio de México affiliation)

BOOKS

  • Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution: the Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska (spring 2013).
  • Agrarian Radicalism in Veracruz, 1920-1938. Lincoln: Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
    La movilización campesina en Veracruz, 1920-1938. México: Siglo XXI, 1979. Spanish Translation.

COEDITOR

  • and Raymond Buve. “La Revolución Mexicana en el oriente de México 1906-1940,” Estudios de Historia Latinoamericana. AHILA, 7, 2010. 
  • and Mary Kay Vaughan. Women of the Mexican Countryside, 1850-1990. Creating Spaces, Shaping Transition. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994, 2000.
  • and Mary Kay Vaughan. Mujeres en el campo mexicano, 1850-1990. Trans. Paul Kersey. Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán/BUAP, 2003. Revised Introduction.

CONTRIBUTOR

  • “La movilización obrera veracruzana y la cuestión de género (1915 a 1919).” In Coralia Gutiérrez Álvarez (coorda.), La revolución en la Sierra Nevada. Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. (forthcoming).
  • “El campesinado y la Revolución Mexicana: movimientos sociales, liderazgo, y la construcción del campesino.” In Tanalis Padilla (coorda.), Campesinos y su persistencia en la actualidad mexicana. Mexico City: Conaculta. (Forthcoming in 2012).
  • “’La Negra Moya’: alma, leyenda y líder de las desmanchadoras de café de Veracruz, en el México posrevolucionario.” In Rosa María Spinoso Arcocha and Fernánda Núñez Becerra (coordas), Mujeres en Veracruz, vol. 2. Xalapa: Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, 2010, 46-66.
  • “Revuelta popular y regionalismo en Veracruz, 1906-1913.” In Bernardo García Díaz and Davíd Skerritt (eds.), La Revolución Mexicana en Veracruz. Xalapa: Gobierno del Estado, 2009, 155-207. (Reprint of 1993 Eslabones article).
  • “Caciquismo, sindicalismo y género en la agroindustria cafetalera de Córdoba, Veracruz.” In Nicolás Cárdenas and Enrique Guerra (coords.), Integrados y marginados en el México posrevolucionario. Los juegos de poder local y sus nexus con la política nacional. Mexico City: Porrúa/UAM-Xochimilco, 2008, 205-46.
  • “Género y la Revolución Mexicana de 1910.” In Gumersindo Vera Hernández et al. (coords.) Los historiadores y la historica para el siglo XII: Homenaje a Eric J. Hobsbawm. Mexico City: CONACULTA/ENAH. 2007, 369-400.
  • “Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women’s Culture in Postrevolutionary Veracruz.” In Gabriela Cano, Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan (eds.), Sex in Revolution. Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006, 162-180. [Spanish edition published by FCE in 2009]
  • «Gender, Work, and Coffee in Córdoba, Veracruz, 1850-1910.» In Women of the Mexican Countryside, 51-73.
  • “Introduction,” (coauthored with Mary Kay Vaughan). In Women of the Mexican Countryside, xi-xxvi.
  • «Caciquismo and the Mexican Revolution: The Case of Manuel Peláez.»  In Roderic A. Camp, Charles A. Hale, and Josefina Zoraída Vázquez (eds.). Intellectuals and Power in Mexico. Proceedings of the VI International Congress of Mexican and United States Historians, Chicago, 1981. Los Angeles: El Colegio de México and UCLA, 1991, 189-209.
  • «Tamaulipas: Land Reform and the State.» In Thomas Benjamin and Mark Wasserman (eds.), Provinces of the Revolution: Essays on Regional Mexican History, 1910-1929. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990, 185-217.
  • «Revolutionary Caudillos in the 1920s: Francisco Múgica and Adalberto Tejeda.» In D.A. Brading (ed.), Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, 169-92. (Spanish translation, FCE, 1986).
  • «Peasant Radicalism in the State of Veracruz during the Mexican Revolution.» In Steffen W. Schmidt and Helen Hoyt Schmidt (eds.), Latin America: Rural Life and Agrarian Problems. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1977, 47-54.»Adalberto Tejeda and the Veracruz Peasant Movement,» In James W. Wilkie, Michael Meyer, and Edna Monzón de Wilkie (eds.), Contemporary Mexico. Proceedings of the IV International Congress of Mexican Studies. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976, 274-292.

ARTICLES

  • “Las escogedoras confrontan a los exportadores de café y al estado revolucionario de Veracruz.” In “La Revolución Mexicana en el oriente de México 1906-1940,” Estudios de Historia Latinoamericana. AHILA, 7, 2010, 127-49.
  • “Women Workers in a Changing Latin American Economy” Vol. 3, February 2005. History Compass. www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/history.
  • “Haciendas, Ranchos and Indian Communities: New Perspectives on the Agrarian Question and Popular Rebellion in Veracruz,” Ulua, Revista de Historia, Sociedad y Cultura 2 (julio-diciembre 2003): 205-246.
  • “Gender, Work, and Working-Class Culture in the Veracruz Coffee Export Industry, 1920-1945,” International Labor and Working-Class History 63 (Spring 2003): 102-121.
  • “Women Coffee Sorters Confront the Mill Owners and the Veracruz Revolutionary State, 1915-1918,” Journal of Women’s History 14:1 (Spring 2002): 34-63.
  • «Fotografía y mujeres: las escogedoras de café,» Memorial, Boletín del Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz II: 5 (mayo-agosto 1999): 3-9.
  • «De-Centering the 1920s: Socialismo a la Tamaulipeca,» Estudios Mexicanos, 14:2 (Summer 1998): 287-327.
  • “Adalberto Tejeda Olivares,” “Agrarian Policy: 1910-1940,” and Manuel Peláez Gorrochtegui.” In Encyclopedia of Mexico. History, Society, and Culture. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
  • “Adalberto Tejeda Olivares” and “Veracruz (City).” In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. V: 216, 400-2.
  • «Revuelta popular y regionalismo en Veracruz, 1906-1913,» Eslabones (Jan/June.1993): 99-117.
  • «The Boom in Regional Studies of the Mexican Revolution: Where Is It Leading?» Review essay in Latin American Research Review 28: 2 (Spring 1993): 175-190.
  • «Teaching Central American Social History with Women Writers,» CLAH Newsletter, Fall 1989.»The Mexican Revolution: A Peasant Revolution?» Review essay on Alan Knight’s, The Mexican Revolution, Peasant Studies 15:3 (Spring 1988): 191-205.
  • “Los orígenes de las organizaciones campesinas en Veracruz: Raíces políticos y sociales,” Historia Mexicana 85 (July/Sept. 1972): 52-76.
  • “Orígenes laborales de la organización campesina en Veracruz,” Historia Mexicana 78 (Oct/Dec. 1970): 235-64. Republished in Actores políticos y desajustes sociales. Lecturas de Historia Mexicana, Romana Falcón (ed.). Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 1991.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Leticia Gamboa Ojeda, “Los barcelonnettes en México. Miradas regionales, siglos XIX-XX.” Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 88, abril de 2010. 135-36.
  • James Alex Garza, “The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City.” Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 87, October 2009. 137-39.
  • Francie Chassen-López, “From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca.” Hispanic American Historical Review 86: 1 (February 2006): 166-8.
  • Karl B. Koth, “Waking the Dictator. Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism, and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927.” Hispanic American Historical Review 84: 4 (November 2004): 750-1.
  • Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León, “Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83:2 (May 2003), 442-444.
  • Heidi Tinsman, “Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in The Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-73.” The Americas 59:4 (April 2003): 602-5.
  • Eli Bartra et al., “Feminismo en México, ayer y hoy.” Hispanic American Historical Review 81: 3-4 (November 2001): 795-6.
  • Jennie Purnell, “Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico.” American Historical Review (February 2001): 228-9.
  • Timothy Henderson, «The Worm in the Wheat. Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1972.» American Historical Review 105: 2 (April 2000): 586-7. Jeffrey W. Rubin, «Decentering the Regime. Ethnicity, Radicalism and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico.» American Historical Review (October 1999): 1351-2.
  • Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph, «Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915.» International Labor and Working-Class History 54 (Fall 1998): 194-8.
  • Dana Markiewicz, “The Mexican Revolution and the Limits of Agrarian Reform, 1915-1946.” American Historical Review (January 1995): 274-5.
  • Edward J. Williams and John T. Passé-Smith, «The Unionization of the Maquiladora Industry: The Tamaulipan Case in National Context.» Hispanic American Historical Review 73 (1995): 718-9.
  • Alfred H. Siemens, «Between the Summit and the Sea. Central Veracruz in the Nineteenth Century. Americas (1992): 427-8.
  • David LaFrance, «The Mexican Revolution in Puebla, 1908-1913,» American Historical Review. (February 1991): 295-6.
  • Romana Falcón, «La semilla en el surco. Adalberto Tejeda y el radicalismo en Veracruz, 1883-1960,» and three other books on Veracruz. Hispanic American Historical Review 68:2 (May 1990): 382-6.
  • Samuel León and Ignacio Marván, “La clase obrera en la historica de México. Vol. 10. En el cardenismo (1934-1940).” Hispanic American Historical Review 67: 4 (November 1989): 725-6.
  • Dudley Ankerson, «Agrarian Warlord.» American Historical Review 91: 3 (June 1986): 766-7.
  • Ann L. Craig, «The First Agraristas: An Oral History of a Mexican Agrarian Reform Movement.» Hispanic American Historical Review 44: 3 (August 1984): 576-7.
  • Steven E. Sanderson, «Agrarian Populism and the Mexican State.» American Historical Review 57: 3 (June 1982).
  • Marte R. Gómez, «Vida política contemporánea, Cartas de Marte R. Gómez.» Hispanic American Historical Review 61: 4 (November 1981): 753-4.
  • Franz Schryer, «The Rancheros of Pisaflores. The History of a Peasant Bourgeoisie in Twentieth Century Mexico.» Hispanic American Historical Review 61: 3 (August 1981): 538-9.
  • Romana Falcón, «El agrarismo en Veracruz. La etapa radical, 1928-1935.» Hispanic American Historical Review 59: 2 (May 1979): 333-4.
  • Ronald Chilcote and Joel C. Edelstein, «Latin America: The Struggle with Dependency and Beyond.» Hispanic American Historical Review 56: 2 (1976): 151-3
  • Jane Fishburne Collier, «Law and Social Change in Zinacantán. The Americas (October 1974): 227-8.
  • Frank Cancian, «Change and Uncertainty in a Peasant Economy. The Mayan Corn Farmers of Zinacantán. The Americas (April 1973): 525-6.
  • Richard Craig, «The Bracero Program, Interest Groups, and Foreign Policy.» The Americas, 29: 4 (October 1972): 271-2.
  • Albert Meister, «Les avatars d’une participation Populaire en developpement.» Hispanic American Historical Review 52: 3 (August 1972): 283-4.
  • Raymond Wilkie, «San Miguel, A Collective Ejido.» The Americas 28; 2 (October 1971): 224-5.
  • Ivan Vallier, «Catholicism, Social Control and Modernization in Latin America.» Journal of Church and State (1971): 148-50.
  • Paul Friedrich, «Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village.» Hispanic American Historical Review 51: 3 (August 1971): 526-8/
  • Moisés González Navarro, «Las huelgas textiles en el porfiriato.» Hispanic American Historical Review LI: 1 (1971).

PAPERS

  • “Una cultura transatlántica española: los empresarios cafetaleros de Córdoba, Veracruz, 1900-1940.” Seminario Permanente México-España, Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, March 14, 2012.
  • “Cinco exploraciones en la historia social regional.” Conferencia Magisterial, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, September 27, 2010.
  • “Exportando el café en tiempos revolucionarios en Veracruz.” Coloquio sobre la Revolución Mexicana, April 2010, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP.
  • “Una cultura migratoria sin fronteras: los empresarios españoles de la agroindustria cafatelera de Córdoba, Veracruz, 1900-40.” XV Congreso Internacional de AHILA, August 26-29, 2008, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • “Córdoba has always been a Spanish City: Spanish Migrant Culture without Borders.” XII Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses, y Canadienses, 4-8. October, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • “Los cambios en la naturaleza de la elite cordobesa en la economía cafeteria.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Assocation, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-8, 2006.
  • “Uncovering Working-Class Women’s Culture: Dances, Bands, and Theater.” Third International Colloquium on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, September 22-24, 2005, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • “Seasonal Women Workers, Organized Labor, and the Mexican Revolutionary State: The Coffee Sorters of Coatepec and Jalapa, Veracruz, 1915-1940.” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, Monterrey, Mexico, October1-4, 2003.
  • Commentarist for labor session at II Coloquio Internacional de Historia de Mujeres y Género en México. Guadalajara, September 4-6, 2003.
  • “Gender, Autonomy, and Leadership in the Córdoba Coffee Sorters’ Union, 1915-45.” XXIV International Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, March 27-9, 2003, Dallas, Texas.
  • “The Making of the Veracruz Coffee Sorter, 1920-40.” Post-Revolutionary Women’s and Gender History Conference, Yale University, May 11-13, 2001.
  • “The Agrarian Question and Popular Rebellion in Veracruz: A Historiographical Perspective.” Agrarian Issues and the Mexican Revolution Conference, University of Chicago, November 17-18, 2000.
  • “La revolución y la obrera: nuevos actores sociales en la agroindustria cafetalera de Veracruz,” El Siglo de la Revolución, INEHRM, Mexico City, June 20-23, 2000.
  • «Shaping Urban Spaces: Technology, Immigration and Migration in the Construction of the Cordoban Coffee Export Industry and Culture, 1890-1940.» X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Fort Worth, Texas, November 19-22, 1999.
  • «Transforming Peasant Women’s Identity within a Revolutionary Framework: The Desmanchadoras of Veracruz.» Conference on Peasants in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective: Landscapes of Identity, Nature and Power, University of Illinois, April 9-10, 1999.
  • «Villismo without Villa in the Gulf States,» Conference on Revolutionary Frontiers: Popular Forces in the Mexican Revolution in Comparative Perspective. University of Chicago, November 5-7, 1998.
  • “De-Centering Mexican Politics in the 1920s: Socialism, One party Rule and the Middle Class.” XX International Conference of Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16-18, 1997.
  • “What Difference Does Gender Make to the Agrarian Politics of the Mexican Revolution” co-authored with Mary Kay Vaughan. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Conference on Latin American History. Chicago, January 1995.
  • “A Gendered Approach to the Study of Mexican Rural History.” October 1993. Mexican Studies Seminar, University of Chicago.
  • “A Regional Approach to the Mexican Revolution in the State of Veracruz, 1906-1917.” Primero Coloquio Internacional sobre La Revolución en el Sur y Sureste de México, Campeche, Campeche, October 14-15, 1992.
  • “Women, Work, and the Commercialization of Coffee in Córdoba, Veracruz, 1890-1950.” Conference on Crossing Borders, Creating Spaces: Mexican and Chicana Women: 1848-1992, University of Illinois-Chicago, April 9-11, 1992.
  • “Rural Women in Tamaulipas and Veracruz on the Eve of the Revolution of 1910.” VIII Conference of U.S. and Mexican Historians, San Diego, California, October 17-20, 1990.
  • “Women Writers and Central American Social History.” CLAH Social History Workshop, American Historical Association, December 1988.
  • “The Agrarista Movement in Tamaulipas: A Grassroots or a State-created Movement?” XIII International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, October 23-25, 1986, Boston, Mass.
  • “Women and Rural Development: Proletarianization and Feminization of Agricultural Labor in the Mezzogiorno.” VI Convention of the National Women’s Studies Association, June 15-19, 1986, Urbana, Illinois.
  • “Caciquismo and the Mexican Revolution: The Case of Manuel Peláez.” VI Conference of Mexican and Unites States Historians, Chicago, Illinois, September 8-12, 1981.
  • “Paige’s Theory of Rural Class Conflict and the Mexican Agrarian Revolution,” IX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Bloomington Indiana, October 16-20, 1980.
  • “Peasant Radicalism in the State of Veracruz.” Midwest Association of Latin American Studies, Iowa State University. October 1975.
  • “Adalberto Tejeda and the Veracruz Peasant Movement.” IV International Congress of Mexican Studies, Santa Monica, California, October 17-23, 1973.

LECTURE 2011.

  • “Gender and the Mexican Revolution of 1910,” University of Houston, April 14,
  • “Género y la Revolución Mexicana de 1910.” Conferencia Magistral. UAM:Azcapolzalco. June 29, 2007.
  • “El debate intenso sobre la inmigración mexicana en los Estados Unidos.” Conferencia Magistral, May 4, 2007. UAM-Xochmilco.
  • “The Immigration Debate as seen from Two Sides of the Border.” (four lecture series). Institute for Learning in Retirement. Bradley University. October 2007.
  • “Mexico and the Immigration Issue.” Peoria World Affairs, March 20, 2007.
  • “Uncovering Working Women’s Culture,” Friedrich Katz Center, University ofChicago, May 9, 2006.
  • “Los empresarios españoles de la agroindustria cafetalera y sus redes sociales: Córdoba, Veracruz, 1900-1940.” Posgrado de la Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, December 9, 2006.
  • “Como hacer historia.” Conferencia Magistral. Facultad de Historia, Universidad Veracruzana, June 14, 2004.
  • “La mujer rural en el Porfiriato,” and “La mujer rural en la revolución mexicana.” Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, November 17-18, 2002.
  • La transformación de la identidad de las desmanchadoras: género, trabajo, anarcosindialismo y revolución.” Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, June 14, 2000.
  • «Veracruz y la revolución mexicana: Algunas consideraciones historiográficos.” El Colegio de Michoacán, May 21, 1999.
  • “La cuestión de género en la investigación rural.” Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Veracruzana, February 1999.
  • «Métodos de investigación histórica.» Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, September 18, 1998.
  • “Why did Peasants Rebel in Chiapas?” May 4, 1994, Knox College. Illinois.
  • «US Involvement in Latin America: The Reagan-Bush Years.» Bradley University, Latin Student Association Forum, March 1990.
  • «The Invasion of Panama and its Implications for U.S. Race Relations.» Spectrum, WCBU, January 1990.
  • «The Politics of Brazilian Deforestation,» Global Warming Week, October 1989. Bradley University.
  • Agrarian Reform and the State: Tamaulipas in the 1920s.» University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1988.
  • «Central America: Politics and Poetics.» Teaching Interdisciplinary Bilingual Courses. Illinois State University, May 1988.
  • «Was Emilio Portes Gil an Agrarista?» Comparative Social History Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1983.
  • “El Salvador.” WCBU, March 1981.
  • «Agrarian Revolution in the State of Veracruz.» and «Tejeda and Cárdenas: A Comparison of Two Non-Peasant Leaders,» University of Toronto, April 20, 1980.
  • «American Women and the ERA.» Peoria Chapter of the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs of America, Fall 1979.
  • “The Equal Rights Amendment.” Channel 47 (WTVP), 1975. “Portuguese Revolution.” Peoria World Affairs Council, Fall 1975.
  • “Peasant Allies: The Case of Veracruz,” Comparative Social History Workshop. University of Chicago, February 197
  • “Chile: After the Military Coup.” Peoria World Affairs Council, 1973.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

  • 2011-14 Comité Conjunto de la XIV Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canada, 2014, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2007-10 Comité Conjunto de la XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá. October 2010. Querétaro, Qro.
  • 2006-7 Chair of the Department of History, Bradley University
  • 2001 Consultant for PBS documentary. Paradigm Productions. “The Wind that Swept Mexico.”
  • 2000 International Observer for Mexican Presidential Elections, July 2, 2000, for Global Exchange and Alianza Civica in Guerrero.2003-2008 Student Academic Coordinator, Department of History, Bradley University
  • 1999-2003 Chair of the Department of History, Bradley University
  • 1996-7 CLAH Tibesar Prize Committee, Chair
  • 1990-2004 Reader of manuscripts for HAHR and Mexican Studies every year.
  • 1990-1 Distinguished Service Award Committee, Conference on Latin American Historians (CLAH).
  • 1986-7 Women’s Task Force of Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
  • 1980-2 Scholarly Resources Committee of LASA.
  • 1980-1 Alternate to National Executive Committee of LASA.
  • 1981-2 Chairperson of the Steering Committee of Illinois Conference of Latin Americanists (ICLAS).
  • 1978-83 Steering Committee of ICLAS.
  • 1978 Reader for National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • 1977 Nominating Committee of Mexican Historians in CLAH.

COURSES

  • El Colegio de Mexico, Programa del Doctorado en Historia, January to June 2012: “Lo rural: paisaje, actores y movimientos sociales en el siglo XX”.
  • Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, ICSYH, Programa de Maestría, January to April, 2010:“Trabajo y género en el siglo XX.”
  • Universidad Veracruzana, Programa del Doctorado en Historia Regional, September to December 1998: “Historiografía del Porfiriato”
  • Bradley University, 1970-2008
  • Introduction to Latin American Society; Modern Mexico; Argentina, Brazil, and Chile; U.S.- Latin American Relations; Politics and Poetics in Central America (interdisciplinary); Latin American History before 1830; Latin American History since 1830; 1492-1992 Encounter of Three Cultures; Race and Gender in Latin America
  • Women in the Americas; Women in Global Perspective; 20th Century Revolutions; Peasant Societies
  • Research Seminar: U.S.-Latin American Relations; The Year 1968; Historical Methods; Women and History.
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