CURRICULUM VITAE

JOSE C. MOYA

 

I. EDUCATION

1988  Ph.D.    History, Rutgers University

1985  M.A.     History, Rutgers University

1982  B.A.      History, Spanish Lit., English Lit., Kean University

 

II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1996-Present   Associate Professor, UCLA

Winter 2000   Visiting  Professor, University of Paris, VII

1988-1996       Assistant Professor, UCLA

Spring 1987     Assistant Professor, Lujan University, Argentina

1984-1985       Research Associate for the Ellis Island Project

 

III. FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

2002           ACLS, Burkhardt Fellowship, $65,000

2001           President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, $33,000

1998           NEH, Fellowship for University Professors, $30,000

1998          Fulbright Fellowship + Fundación Antorchas grant for research in Argentina, $17,400

1997          UCLA, History Department's Summer Research Grant, $6,000

1995, 99    UCLA, ISOP Grant, $3,000, $2,500

1995                     Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, $1,200

1993                     UCLA, Latin American Center Grant, $2,500

1990-03     UCLA, Academic Senate Research Grant, about $3,500 yearly

1989, 96    Del Amo Foundation Fellowship, $5,000, $11,000

1987          Marion Johnson Foundation Fellowship (Rutgers University) $8,000

1986          Fulbright Fellowship, $8,500

1985          Doherty Foundation Fellowship (Princeton University), $9,000

 

IV. AWARDS

2000       Bryce Wood Award (honorable mention) for best book on Latin America by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

2000    Bolton Prize for best book in Latin American History from the American Historical

            Association’s Conference on Latin American History.

1999    Sharlin Memorial Award for outstanding book in social science history from the

            Social Science History Association.

1999          Hubert Herring Prize for best book on Latin America from the Pacific Council on Latin American Studies.

1998    Choice 35th annual Outstanding Academic Book.

 

V. PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Published as an Electronic Book in 2000. Spanish translation to be published October 2004.

 

La inmigración española en la Argentina, co-editor (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 1999)

 

Latin American History and Historiography, editor (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming Spring 2005)

 

Modern Latin American History (co-authored textbook under contract with McGraw Hill, forthcoming Fall, 2005)

 

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Introduction” as guest editor of special issue of Hispanic American Historical Review on immigration, forthcoming first number of 2005.

 

“Tanos y Gaitas: Inmigración, asentamiento y competencia simbólica de los italianos y españoles en la Argentina,” requested article, forthcoming in Estudios Migratorios [Spain], Winter 2004

 

“Immigrants and Associations: A Global and Historical Perspective,” requested lead article forthcoming in special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Winter 2004)

 

“The Positive Side of Stereotypes: Jewish Anarchists in Early-Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires,” in Jewish History 18 (2004):19-28.

 

“Spanish Immigration in Cuba and Argentina,” in Samuel L. Baily and Eduardo J. Miguez eds., Mass Migration to Modern Latin America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003).

 

“Italians in Buenos Aires’ Anarchist Movement: Gender Ideology and Women’s Participation,”  in Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta eds., Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Women around the World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002)

 

“For a Dialectical Approach to the Study of Immigration” Historical Methods v. 34, 1 (Winter, 2001): 46-50.

 

“Los gallegos en Buenos Aires durante el siglo XIX: Inmigración, adaptación ocupacional, e imaginario sexual,” in Xose M. Núñez Seixas, ed., La Galicia Austral (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2000).

 

“Latin America and the World Economy since 1800” in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe [Tel Aviv] (Jan.-June, 2000).

 

"La historia social, el método nominativo y el estudio de la migraciones,” Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 11, 33 (1996).

 

"La 'fiebre' de la emigración: el proceso de difusión en el éxodo transatlántico español, 1850-1930," VIII Xornadas de Historia de Galicia (Spain, 1995).

 

"Preface" to Donald Castro, To Govern is to Populate: The Development and Politics of Argentine Immigration Policy, 1852-1914 (Mellen Research University Press, 1991).

 

"Aspectos macroestructurales y microsociales de la emigración española a Argentina, 1850-1930," V Xornadas de Historia de Galicia (Spain, 1990).

 

"Parientes y extraños: actitudes hacia los inmigrantes españoles en la Argentina en el siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX," Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 13 (December 1989).

 

"Notas sobre las fuentes para el estudio de la inmigración española," Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos  4 (December, 1986).

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Vincent Peloso, Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America in New Mexico Historical Review (forthcoming)

 

José M. Azcona Pastor, Possible Paradises: Basque Emigration to Latin America in American Historical Review (forthcoming)

 

Carlos Forment, Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Vol. I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru in The Historian (forthcoming)

 

Lane R. Hirabayashi, et.al, eds., New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas in Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming).

 

Donna Gabaccia and Fraser Ottanelli, eds., Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States in The Italian American Review (forthcoming)

 

Ricardo Salvatore, Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era in The Americas, 60:4 (April 2004)

 

Alejandro de la Fuente, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba in The Historian (Winter 2004)

 

Enrico dal Lago and Rick Halpern, eds., The American South and the Italian Mezzogornio: Essays in Comparative History in University of Toronto Quarterly, 73:1 (2003). 

 

Arnd Schneider, Futures Lost: Nostalgia and Identity among Italian Immigrants in Argentina in The Americas (October 2003)

 

Arnold Bauer, Goods, Power, History: Latin America’s Material Culture in The Historian (Fall 2003)

 

Stewart Lone, The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908-1940: Between Samurai and Carnival in American Historical Review (June, 2003)

 

Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago, eds., Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean in Journal of Latin American Studies [London] (November 2002)

 

Daniel James, Dona Maria’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity in Journal of Social History (December, 2002)

 

David McCreery, The Sweat of Their Brow: A History of Work in Latin America in The Historian (Spring 2002).

 

Juan Suriano, ed., La cuestión social en Argentina, 1870-1943 in Hispanic American Historical Review (February, 2002).

 

Teresa Caldeira, City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo in Bulletin of Latin American Reseach [Liverpool], (January, 2002)

 

Lois J. Roberts, The Lebanese in Ecuador: A History of Emerging Leadership in American Historical Review (December, 2001)

 

Nancy Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration in Urban Geography (Oct-Nov, 2001)

 

Sandra Gayol, Sociabilidad en Buenos Aires: Hombres, Honor y Cafés, 1862-1910 in The Americas (October, 2001).

 

Clara Aldrighi, et. al., Antisemisitmo en Uruguay: Raíces, discursos, imágines, 1870-1940 in Latin American Jewish Studies (June, 2001).

 

James Brennan, ed., Region and Nation: Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Argentina in Avances [Buenos Aires] (2001).

 

Janet Sturman, Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage in The Americas (July, 2001).

 

Ida Altman, Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620 in International Migration Review (Winter, 2001).

 

Jeffrey Lesser, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil in Journal of Social History (Spring, 2001).

 

Stephen Bell, Campanha Gaucha: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850-1920 in Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire (August, 2000).

 

Ronn Pineo and James A. Baer, Cities of Hope: People, Protest, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930 in American Historical Review (April, 1999).

 

Romana Falcón, Las rasgaduras de la descolonización: Españoles y mexicanos a mediados del siglo XIX in The Americas (April, 1999).

 

Louis A. Pérez ed., Impressions of Cuba in the 19th Century: The Travel Diary of Joseph J. Dimock in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de American Latina y el Caribe [Tel Aviv] (Jan.-June, 1999).

 

Mariano Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: Propaganda, rituales políticos y educación en el régimen peronista, 1946-1955 in Hispanic American Historical Review (May, 1997).

 

Hugo Biagini, Intelectuales y políticos españoles a comienzos de la inmigración masiva in The Americas 53 (October, 1996).

 

Richard C. Jones, Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico in Journal of Third World Studies (Fall, 1996).

 

German Rueda, La Emigración Contemporánea de Españoles a Estados Unidos, 1820-1950: De "Dons" a "Misters in Journal of American Ethnic History 15 (Spring, 1996).

 

Walter Nugent, The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 in The Americas 50 (April, 1994).

 

Blanca Sanchez Alonso, La inmigración española en Argentina, siglos XIX y XX in Revista de Historia Económica [Madrid] 11 (Winter, 1993).

 

Gerald Poyo, "With All, and for the Good of All": The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848-1898 in Labor History (Summer, 1992).

 

Judith Ewell and William Beezley, The Human Tradition in Latin America: The Nineteenth Century in Ethnohistory 38 (Spring, 1991)

 

Antonio Pido, The Pilipinos [sic] in America in Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 3 (August 1986).

 

Magnus Morner, Adventurers and Proletarians: The Story of Migrants in Latin America in Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos [Buenos Aires] 2 (April, 1986).

 

 

VI. PRESENTATIONS

“Transnationalism and Diasporic Studies: New Concepts, Approaches, and Realities?” at SSHA conference, Chicago, scheduled for Nov. 18-21, 2004.

 

“Trans-Atlantic Communities and the [trans]formation of the Atlantic World during the Nineteenth Century” invited speaker at conference on the Atlantic World at the University of Buffalo, scheduled Oct. 16, 2004

 

“Migration and the Domestic Service: A Historical and Sociological Examination of Gendered Ethnic Occupational Niches” invited speaker at conference on “Ethnicity, Niches, and Gender” at University of Leiden, The Netherlands, scheduled for June 17, 2004

 

“Anarchism in a Multi-Ethnic City: Italians, Spaniards, and Jews in Belle Epoque Buenos Aires" invited speaker, California State University, Long Beach, Feb. 12, 2004

 

“Race and Immigration in the African Diaspora: A Comparison of the U.S., Cuba, and Brazil” at Social Science History Association Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 14, 2003

 

“Of Arabes, Moros, and Turcos: Middle-Eastern Immigrants in Latin America” invited keynote speaker, University of Chicago, May 31, 2003.

 

“Diasporic Studies or Immigration History: An Inquiry into Method, Theory, and Ideology” at Social Science History Association annual meeting, St. Louis, October 25, 2002.

 

“Rebels With Many Causes: Jewish Anarchists in Early 20th-century Buenos Aires” at the Latin American Jewish Studies Association meeting, Rio de Janeiro, June 26, 2002.

 

“Regional and Local Patterns in Spanish Overseas Emigration” invited speaker, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, June 7, 2002.

 

“Creating Alterity: ‘The South’ in the U.S., Italy, and the Atlantic World” invited keynote speaker in New Directions in Comparative and Transnational History Conference, University of Toronto, May 30, 2002.

 

“Immigration and Comparative History” invited speaker, Rutgers University, April 27, 2002.

 

“Social and Cultural History: Origins, Theory, and Practice” invited speaker, Tel Aviv University, April 23, 2002.

 

“Gender and Sexuality in Anarchist Discourse (and Practice?)” invited speaker, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 22, 2002.

 

“Italian Immigrant Women in Buenos Aires’s Anarchist Movement” at the European Social Science History Association meeting, The Hague, February 27, 2002.

 

“European Migration and National Formation in the United States and Argentina” at the Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association’s annual convention, January 4, 2002.

 

“History or Political Economy? Long-Term Development in Mexico and Argentina” at the Hewlett Seminar on Political Economy, UCLA, November 13, 2001.

 

“Italian Immigrants and the Labor Movement in the U.S. and Argentina” at the American Studies Association’s annual convention, Washington DC, November 10, 2001.

 

“The Expulsion of Anarchists from Argentina, 1902-1910: The Trials and Tribulations of the Deportees” at Latin American Studies Association’s XXIII International Congress, Washington DC, September 8, 2001. Also commentator in two other panels.

 

“The Latin American Presence in the United States: The Formation of a Pan-ethnic Identity?” at X World Congress of Latin American Studies, Moscow, June 27, 2001.

 

“May Day Demonstrations in the Atlantic World: New York, London, Paris, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires, 1890-1910” at “The Twentieth Century as World History” conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 12, 2001.

 

“Labor, Gender, and Violence in the Argentine Anarchist Movement” invited speaker, New York University, April 19, 2001.

 

“What Country of Immigrants? A Hemispheric Answer” invited speaker, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, March 6, 2001.

 

“Feminism in early twentieth-century Argentina” invited speaker, Occidental College, February 12, 2001.

 

“Practices in Social and Cultural History; or, Can Cliometrics and Hermeneutics Unite?” at the American Historical Association’s annual conference, Boston, January 6, 2001.

 

“Migration as a Diffusion of Information Process” invited speaker, UCLA, Department of Geography, December 8, 2000.

 

”European Settlement Patterns and Socioeconomic Development in the Western Hemisphere,” invited speaker, University of California, Riverside, November 17, 2000.

 

“European Migration to Anglo- and Ibero-America during the Colonial and National Periods: A Comparative View" at the European Social Science History Association Conference, Amsterdam, April 15, 2000.

 

 “A Historical Perspective on the Cuban Revolution” invited speaker, Kean University, New Jersey, April 6, 2000

 

“Wild Women in the Land of the Tango: Anarcho-Feminism in belle epoque Buenos Aires” at LASA XXII International Congress, Miami, March 16, 2000 (also at the All UC Latin American History conference, UC Davis, May 6, 2000).

 

“From Prosopography to the Nominative Method in the Study of Migration,” invited speaker, University of Paris VII, January 18, 2000.

 

“A Critique of Diasporic Studies,” invited speaker, University of Paris VII, January 4, 2000.

 

”Basque Identity and the Web in the U.S. West: A Virtual Ethnicity?” at the Western History Association annual conference, Portland, October 9, 1999.

 

“Visions of Spain in 19th-Century Latin America” at the IX Congreso de la Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre America Latina y el Caribe, Tel Aviv, April 15, 1999.

 

“Anarchism in Argentina,” invited speaker, Northern Illinois University, March 26, 1999.

 

“The World and the Village: A Global/Local Approach to the Study of Transnational Migrations” at the American Historical Association annual meeting,  Washington DC, January  8, 1999.

 

“Hispanism in Progress” invited speaker at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center, November 17, 1998.

 

“European Immigration and Nationbuilding in the United States and Argentina,” invited speaker at the universities of Belgrano, Di Tella, and San Andres, Buenos Aires, September 1998.

 

“Argentine Nationalism and Spain” invited speaker at Centro de Estudios Parque España, Rosario, Argentina, August 7, 1998.

 

"Italian Anarchists in Argentina" at European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 6, 1998.

 

"Immigration History or Diasporic Studies?" at Conference on Latin American History, Seattle, January 8, 1998.

 

"Immigration in the United States and Argentina: A Historical Comparison" at XIV Jornadas de Historia de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires, August 27, 1997.

 

"Hybrid Cultures and Transnational Identities," invited speaker, UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese Department, March 7, 1997.

 

"Historical Evolution of National Identity Rhetoric in Argentina" at I Annual UCLA Conference on Latin American Studies, Los Angeles, June 7, 1996.

 

"A Different Sort of Return: The Lives and Tribulations of Italian Anarchists Expelled from Argentina in the Early 1900s," invited speaker, University of South Florida, Tampa, Conference on Italian Diaspora, April, 1996

 

"Jewish Studies and Immigration History," at VII International Research Conference of Latin American Jewish Studies Association, Mexico City, November, 1995

 

"The Nominative Method in the Study of Migration," invited speaker, Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, Buenos Aires, September, 1995

 

"'Anarquistas y Patriotas': Ideological and Ethnic Loyalties in Belle Epoque Buenos Aires," invited speaker, IV Encuentro de Americanistas, Oviedo, Spain, November, 1994.

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"Foreigners in an ex-Colony: Spanish Immigrants in Argentina during the National Period," at the CLAH program of the American Historical Association annual meeting, Washington D.C., December, 1992.

 

"A Comparative and Micro-historical Analysis of Migration from a Basque and a Galician rural county in the last two centuries," invited speaker, at the X Xornadas de Historia Gallega, Orense, Spain, December 18, 1992.

 

"Re-conceptualizing Migration History," invited speaker, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, December, 1992

 

"A Multi-ethnic group in a Multi-ethnic city: The Assimilation of Spaniards in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930," at Latin American Studies Association conference, Los Angeles, September 25, 1992.

 

Commentator at "Martí, Castro, and the Future of Cuba: A Round Table Discussion by Cuba Experts," UCLA, February 28-29, 1992

 

Commentator in the session "Socio-scientific and Humanist Reactions to Sacred Centers" at the "Conflict and Religion" conference held at UCLA on April, 1991

 

"Making a Living and Making America: Work and Occupational Mobility among Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires," at the American Historical Association annual meeting, New York, December, 1990

 

"Attitudes toward Spanish Immigrants in Argentina during the 19th and early 20th Centuries," at Latin American Studies Association conference, Miami, December, 1989.

 

"Searching for Patterns in Galician Emigration," invited speaker at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, December, 1987

 

"Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Immigration," at Instituto de Desarrollo Economicos Sociales, Buenos Aires, June, 1987

 

"Spanish Immigration to Argentina" at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani,"  Buenos Aires, March, 1987

 

"Immigration to Latin America during the Colonial Period" at Universidad de La Plata, Buenos Aires, October, 1986.

 

 

VII. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

“Folk Music of the Pampas,” including recital by Argentine guitarist Atilio Reynoso, UCLA, January 12, 2002. (attendance=67).

“The Promised Land of the South: The Jewish Presence in Argentina,” UCLA, December 9,

1999. (attendance= 278).

"Thirty Years Later: Reflections on Che Guevara, Twentieth-Century Utopias, and Dystopias,"

UCLA, October 24-25, 1997. (attendance= 257 and 175 in respective days).

"Evita: Historical Contexts and Political Uses," UCLA,  April 8, 1997. (attendance= 245).

I Annual UCLA Conference on Latin American Studies, Los Angeles, June 7, 1996. (attend.= 57)

"Homage to Jose Marti," Los Angeles, October, 1995. (attendance= 187).

"New World, New Rhythms: Cultural Expressions of Latin American History," UCLA Extension, November, 1994. (attendance= 124).

 

 

VIII. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

JOURNAL AND PRESS REFEREE

Journal of Urban History (1 article 2004)

Hispanic American Historical Review (6 articles, 2004, 2002, 1999 and 1994)

University of Illinois Press (1 book series project, 2003)

Peace & Change (1 article, 2002)

Oxford University Press (1 book series project, 2002)

New Line Cinema (1 documentary, 2001)

Longman Publishers (1 book manuscript, 2001)

University of Nevada Press (1 book manuscript. 2001)

The Business History Review (1 article, 2000)

Latin American Research Review (2 articles, 1999 and 1998)

St. Martin’s Press  (1 book manuscript, 1999)

McDougal Littell (1 book manuscript, 1999)

Hartcourt Brace College Publishers (1 book manuscript, 1997)

Pacific Historical Review (1 article, 1997)

International Migration Review (1 article, 1996)

Terrorism and Political Violence (1 article, 1994)

Journal of Development Studies (1 article, 1994)

Comparative Education Review (1 article, 1994)

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Historical Association

Conference on Latin American History

Latin American Studies Association

Latin American Jewish Studies Association

Social Science History Association

Urban History Association

 

 

CONSULTANT AND EDITORIAL SERVICES

University of Illinois Press, World Migration Series, Editorial Board, 2003-present

H-Migration, advisory board 2003-present

Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina (Tel Aviv), International Board, 1998-present.

Estudios Migratorios (Spain), Editorial Board, 2000-present.

The Historian, Regional sub-editor, 2000-present

Advisory Board, Statistical Abstract of Latin America, 1989-present.

Latin American Studies Association, Special Project Committee, 2001-03.

National Endowment for the Humanities, evaluator for proposals, 1993, 2002.

Interviewed on Argentine economic crisis, National Public Radio, New York City, Feb. 6, 2002.

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, evaluator for proposals, 2000.

Conference on Latin American History, Bolton Prize Committee, 2000.

Interviewed for television program on 1930s Argentina, Channel 13, Buenos Aires, August 1997.

Interviewed for documentary "Evita: Her Real Story" by Bluth/Donovan Prod., March 1997.

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, evaluator of proposal, 1997.

Conference on Latin American History, James A. Robertson Memorial Prize Committee, 1995.

The Getty Center of the History of Art and the Humanities, consultant, 1994.

 

 

IX. UNIVERSITY SERVICE

HISTORY DEPARTMENT:

Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, 2003-04, 1997-2000, 1994-95, 1991-92.

Latin American Search Committee, Chair, 2001-02.

Latin American History Field Coordinator, 1994-96, 2000-01

FTE Priorities and Staffing Committee, 1996-98, 2000-01.

Department representative at "Major Blast" program, 1997-2001.

Promotion Committees, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1996.

Latin American Search Committee, Chair, 1997-98.

Advisory Committee, elected, 1995-98.

U.S. 19th Century History Search Committee, 1996-97.

Committee on History 99, 1996-97.

Teaching Committee, 1996-97.

Western History Search Committee, 1995-96

Latin American Search Committee, Co-chair, 1994-95.

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1994-95.

Computing Committee, 1990-1995.

Latin American Search Committee, 1993-94.

World History Committee, 1992-93.

Graduate Admissions Committee, Vice Chair for Minority Recruitment, 1992-93.

Chicano History Search Committee, 1991, 1992.

Quantitative History Search Committee, 1990-91.

Quantitative History Search Committee, 1989-91

Ph.D. Committees: 1990, 1; 1991, 1 as Chair; 1992, 1; 1993, 4 (2 as Chair); 1994, 3 (1 as Chair); 1995, 4 (1 Chair); 1996, 11 (6 as Chair); 1997, 4 (3 as Chair); 1998, 6 (3 as Chair); 1999, 1; 2001, 2 as Chair; 2004, 2 as Chair

 

Ph.D. COMMITTEES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Anthropology, 2002 (1)

Economics, 1991 (4); 1992 (4); 1993 (2); 1994 (1); 1998 (2)

Film & Television, 1991 (1).

Political Science, 1992 (2); 1996 (1); 1998 (1), 2000 (1).

School of Education, 1993 (1).

Sociology, 1993 (1); 2000 (1); 2003 (1).

Spanish and Portuguese, 1991 (1); 1992 (1); 1993 (1); 1995 (1); 1996 (3); 1997 (1), 1999 (2), 2001 (2), 2004 (2).

 

LATIN AMERICAN CENTER:

Latin American Studies IDP, Chair 2003-present.

Latin American Studies Publications’ Monograph Series, 1990-present.

Program on Argentina, Chair, 1999-present.

Faculty Advisory Committee, 1989-2001, 2003-04.

FLAS application selection committee, 2003-04.

Evaluator of research grants applications, 2000-01; chair of committee, 2001-02.

Admissions Committee for the M.A. Program, 1989-98, 2003-04.

Faculty Advisory Committee for the Program on Mexico, 1995-98.

Public Program Committee, 1991-98.

Program on Comparative and Topical Studies, Chair, 1995-97.

Advisory Committee on UCLA visual resources, 1991-95.

Faculty Advisory Committee, Program on Comparative and Topical Studies, 1994-95.

Committee on Latin American Library Development, 1994-95.

 

 

CHICANO STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER

Faculty Advisory Committee, 1994-98.

Evaluator of research grant applications, 1995-98.

Associated Faculty, Chicano Studies Major, 1991-95.

 

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARY:

Traveled to Boulder, Colorado and persuaded Mrs. Olga Hoffman to donate her collection of Argentine books (worth over $75,000) to UCLA's Research Library, 1991.

 

ACADEMIC SENATE:

UCLA representative at the Assembly of the UC Academic Council, 2000-02, 2003-04.

Undergraduate Council, 1995-96, 2000-01.

IDP committee to administer the M.A. program in Latin American Studies, 1993-2001

Council on Educational Development, 1993-95

CUCC, 1994-95.

 

OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR, ACADEMIC PERSONNEL OFFICE

Review and Appraisal Committees, 1996 (2); 1997 (2, [1 as Chair]); 1999; 2001, Chair; 2002

Reviewer of Faculty Career Development Awards applications, 1997.

 

COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Committee on Latin American Studies, 1995-99.

 

ISOP, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Latin American Center, 1989-2001.

 

UCLA GRADUATE DIVISION, Minority Summer Research Program, Faculty Mentor, 1990.

 

ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM

Faculty Advisory Committee, 1997-98.

Mentor in the Graduate Program, 1991, 1995-97.

Department liaison, 1995-97.

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DEVELOPMENT STUDIES PROGRAM, Participating Faculty, 1991-96.

 

MEDIA LIBRARY,  Faculty Advisory Group, 2000-02.

 

EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAM, Faculty Selection Committee, 1997-98.

 

FULBRIGHT, Campus Review Committee to evaluate UCLA fellowship applications and interview applicants, 1992, 1994, 1996.

 

 

X. COMMUNITY SERVICE

Seminar for California teachers going to Argentina on Fulbright program, May 15, 2004.

 

As Faculty-in-Residence, have taken over 500 UCLA students to scores of concerts, museums, and tours of Los Angeles, 1997-2004.

 

Lectured on ancient and contemporary Italian history as guide in trip to Italy organized by UCLA’s Alumni Association, March 22-30, 2004.

 

Lecture on African origins of Salsa music and dance lecture for UCLA students and their families, March 9, 2004.

 

Lecture on veiled continuity of 19th-century ideologies in 21st-century  political rhetoric for political science student club, Feb. 24, 2004.

 

Organized public forum on immigration in California and film The Gatekeeper, with director, UCLA, March 17, 2004

 

Organized public forum on supermarket labor dispute with participation of strikers (management refused invitation to participate), Oct.28, 2003.

 

Organized public forum on California recall election at UCLA, September 30, 2003

 

Fiat Lux seminar on historical perspectives on terrorism for September 11, Fall Quarter 2001

 

A Historical Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the Western Hemisphere” lecture for the History-Geography Project of the Scholar-Teacher symposium at UCLA’s School of Education, November 2, 2000.

 

Organized and conducted a tour of Chicano murals and public art in Los Angeles for UCLA student-residents, May 31, 1998.

 

Judge at Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Contest, UCLA, January 30, 1997.

 

"Diversity and Divisiveness within the U.S. Latino Population," lecture at UCLA's School of

 Education, December 5, 1996.

 

"The Historical Origins of Salsa Music," lecture and dance class for UCLA's Office of Residential

 Life, November 20, 1996.

 

Speaker at AAP's Graduate Mentor Program, November 7, 1996.

 

"Cane, Conga, and Communism: Economic, Cultural, and Social Aspects of the Cuban

 Revolution," lecture for Friends of History, Los Angeles, January 1995.

 

Speaker at "Parents' Orientation" for UCLA's Honors and Undergraduate Programs, 1994.

 

"A Comparison of Argentine and U.S. Immigration and Ethnic History," lecture for the Argentine

American Cultural Foundation, Los Angeles, May 1994.