Prior Employment Record
| Lecturer,
University of Texas, Fall 1991. Latin American History since 1810. Lecturer,
Austin Community College, 1986-1992.
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, 1986-1991. A
Lecturer, University of New Mexico, 1983-1985. History and Culture of the
American Southwest.
Education Program Director, Mennonite Central Committee, Santa Cruz, Bolivia,
1979-1982. Administered a rural education project providing teachers for newly formed
communities of highland peasants relocating to eastern Bolivia. Supervised the program,
selected and placed personnel, and coordinated the program with Bolivian education
officials.
Secondary Teacher, Albuquerque Public Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
1974-1979.
Teacher and Community Development Worker, Mennonite Central Committee, Santa
Cruz, Bolivia, 1971-1973
Secondary Teacher, Iowa Mennonite School, Kalona, Iowa, 1969-1971.
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Professional Affiliations
Latin American
Studies Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
Phi Alpha Theta: National History Honors Societytop |
Conference
Presentations
| Society for the
Historians of American Foreign Relations, Princeton University, 1999:
"Bolivianizing Cuba’s Revolution and Cubanizing Bolivia’s" Middle
Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies Conference, College of New Jersey, 1998:
"Victor Paz Estensorro and the Dynamics of Revolutionary Nationalist Dependency"
Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies Conference, Bucknell College,
1996: "Good Neighborly Interference: The Truman Administration and Bolivia,
1951-1953."
Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. 1995: "Deja Vu all
Over Again: Culture, Power, and Historical Precedent in U.S.-Bolivian Drug Control
Conflicts."
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, Annapolis
Maryland, 1995: Commentator for a panel titled "Aid to Less-Developed
Countries."
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Charlottesville, 1993:
"When Aid Becomes the Only Option: U. S. Tin Policies and Bolivian Dependency on the
1940s."
University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin 1991: "The Politics of
Anti-Americanism in Bolivia: The Time Incident of March, 1959."
Institute of Latin American Studies Conference, Austin 1989: "Explaining
the Failure of Grenada’s Revolution: Comparisons with Bolivia and Cuba."
University of Texas Historical Symposium, Austin, 1987: "Boston’s
Radical Abolitionists and the War with Mexico."
Institute of Latin American Studies Conference, Austin, 1986: "Bolivia--The
Quiet Experiment: An Alternate Form of Intervention."
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Degrees and Education
Ph. D. History, University of Texas at Austin.
Major field: Modern Latin American History.
Minor field: United States History.
M. A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1985.
Concentrations: History, Economics, Sociology.
B. A., History Cum Laude, Eastern Mennonite College, 1969.
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Dissertation:
"US Foreign Assistance and Revolutionary Nationalism in
Bolivia, 1952-1964."
Adviser, Dr. Alan Knight, Committee: Dr. Robert Divine,
Dr. Jonathan Brown, Dr. Richard Graham.
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