CURRICULUM VITAE

University of Idaho

 

NAME: Graden, Dale T.                                                                                                  DATE: January 2011

 

RANK OR TITLE: Professor of History

 

DEPARTMENT: History

 

OFFICE LOCATION AND CAMPUS ZIP: Administration 305A, 3175                OFFICE PHONE: (208) 885-8956

                                                                                                                                            FAX: (208) 885-8964

DATE OF FIRST EMPLOYMENT AT UI: August 17, 1992                                     EMAIL: Graden@uidaho.edu

 

DATE OF TENURE: July 1, 1998

 

DATE OF PRESENT RANK OR TITLE: July 1, 2007

 

EDUCATION BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL:

 

                                    Ph.D., Latin American History, 1991, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. Dissertation: “From Slavery to Freedom in Bahia, Brazil, 1791-1900.”

                                    M.A.L.S., Interfield with concentration in American Studies, 1980, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.

             B.A., Political Science, 1974, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

            Teaching and Research Appointments:

 

                                                          2007, Professor in Latin American History, University of Idaho. Director of Latin American Studies Program (1992-2011)

 Member of the faculty in the UI American Studies Program, Film Studies Program and International Studies Program

 1998-2006, Associate Professor in Latin Latin American History. Director of the Latin American Studies Program

 1992-98, Assistant Professor in Latin American History, University of Idaho. Director of Latin American Studies Program

                        1992, Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa

                        1991, Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Connecticut

                        1986-90, Lecturer, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

                        1985, Visiting Lecturer, The University of Connecticut

                        1980-83, Teaching Assistant, The University of Connecticut

                        1975-79, Teacher, Suffield Academy, Suffield, Connecticut

 

            Foreign Languages:

 

                        Portuguese

                        Spanish

 

TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

 

            Courses Taught:

 

                       Universidad Central de Venezuela, Departamento de Historia (UCV, 2008)
                                    Esclavitud y Emancipacion en el Mundo Atlantico, 1440s-1850s
                                    Culturas Negras en las Americas, 1850s-2000

                        University of Alicante, Spain (University Studies Abroad Consortium; 2004)

                                    Reconquest and Spain’s Empire, 1400-1898

                                    Foreigners’ Impressions of Spain in the Twentieth Century (with a focus on the Civil War)

 

                        Federal University of Bahia (UFBA; 1999-2000):

                                    History of the Americas II (19th and 20th centuries)

                                    “Mini-course” (of five days) to graduate students focusing on abolition and freedom in Bahia

 

                        University of Idaho:

                                    Colonial Latin America (to 1825)

                                    Modern Latin America

                                    Seminar in Modern Latin American History

                                    Women’s History in Twentieth Century Central America

                                    Twentieth Century Central America

                                    Twentieth Century Cuba

                                    Modern Mexico

                                    Modern Brazil

                                    Social Revolution in Latin America

                                    Introduction to Latin American Studies
                                    Comparative Latin American Cultures (20th to 21st Century)

                                    Comparative Slavery and Emancipation in the Atlantic World (15th to 19th Century)

                                    Comparative African American Cultures (19th to 21st  Century)

                                    Portuguese Empire

                                    Imperialism

                                    United States to 1877

                                    Intermediate Portuguese language

                                    Contemporary American Experience (year-long core curriculum course for first year students)

                                    Contemporary American Experience (Honors Program)

                                    Reflections on Palestine and Imperialism: Readings in Edward Said

                                    Social Revolution in the Third World

  United States-Latin American Relations Through Literature and Film

  9/11: History and Motive

  Film and History: Oliver Stone, Hollywood and the World
                                    Film and History: Sayles, Soderbergh, Spielberg
                                    Film and History: Spike Lee
                                    Film and History: Modern Latin America
                                    History and Film: The Americas since 1900
                                    Senior Seminar: The Atlantic World, 1400-1900|
                                    Senior Seminar: Popular Culture in the Americas

 

                                    Average student evaluation of 3.6 out of 4.0 in 74 courses taught at University of Idaho

                                    Eighteen independent readings courses directed at University of Idaho

 

                        Cornell College:

                                    Race and Gender in Modern Latin America

 

                        Trinity College:

                                    Colonial Latin America

                                    Modern Latin America

                                    Portuguese and Spanish Empires

                                    Comparative Slavery

                                    Modern Brazil

                                    Rebellion and Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America

                                    Latin American Studies Senior Seminar

                                    Intermediate Portuguese Tutorial

                                   

                        University of Connecticut:

                                    History of Brazil and Perspectives on Latin America (Visiting Assistant Professor)

                                    Comparative Slavery (lecturer)

                                    Teaching Assistant in six courses in US and Latin American History

                       

                        Suffield Academy:

                                    Advanced Placement United States History

                                    European History

                                    Ancient History

           
                Students Advised:

 

                        Graduate Student Activities:

 

MA committees: major professor


                                              Eric Anderson (History)

James Mellen (History)

Abilio Monteiro (History)

Dodam Konlani (History)
                                              David Edwards (History)

Maristela Silva (American Studies at WSU)

 

MA committees: member
 

Justin McGrew (History)

Karen Young (History)

Ken Burchell (History)

Richard Kochansky (History)

Robert Bobier (History)
Joshua Hardy (History)
John Gehring (History)
Paulo Cesar de Oliveira (History, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

Crystal White (History at WSU; head of committee Susan Armitage)

Clayn Lambert (English)

Jim Robinson (English)
                                             Danielle Feige (English)

Shea Meehan (Political Science)

Ari Weinstein (Political Science)

Ryan Moore (Resource, Recreation and Tourism)

Shannon Miller (Environmental Science)

William White (Anthropology)
                                              Brian Schneider (Anthropology)

 

PhD committees: member
 

John Whitmer (History)

Ken Zontek (History)

Dick Wilson (History)

Angie Dorman (History)

Ken Burchell (History)

Marjorie Walker (History at WSU; head of committee John Kicza)

Mee-Ae Kim (History at WSU; head of committee John Kicza)

Rob Whipple (Resource, Recreation and Tourism)

George Grader (Geology)

Ken Faunce (Historical Archaeology)

Kristin Hughes (Education)

 

            Invited Lectures:

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                        Guest lectures in 34 classes in six departments / programs at University of Idaho.

                   

Honors and Awards:

            2012, nominated for ASUI Faculty Teaching Award

            2011, nominated for ASUI Faculty Teaching Award

2008, University of Idaho Excellence in Teaching Award (Vice Provost for Academic Affairs)

1995-2008, Nine University of Idaho Alumni Association Awards for Faculty Excellence

1995, Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Idaho Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society
 

SCHOLARSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

 

Publications:

 

Book:

 

            From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835-1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006). Nominated for the Thomas McGann Prize of the Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies; the James A. Rawley Award in Atlantic History of the American Historical Association; the Frederick Douglass Book  Prize of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University.
http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=11211901981747

 

            Chapters in Books:

 

Graden, Dale and Dennis West, “Film as a Tool for Teaching Latin American History and Culture,” in Perspectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History (Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1999), 49-59, (reprint of article noted below)

 

“The Origins, Evolution and Demise of the ‘Myth of Racial Democracy’ in Brazil, 1848-1998.” In La Reconstrucción Del Mundo en América Latina, ed. Enrique Pérez Arias (Lund, Sweden: Cuadernos Heterogénesis, 1998), 181-197.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:
 


Graden, Dale T. "A Resistencia Escrava e a Abolicao do Trafico Transatlantico dos Escravos para o Brasil em 1850," Revista Africana Studia (Porto, Portugal), no 15 (spring 2011), 313-322.

Graden, Dale T. "Interpreters, Translators and the Spoken Word in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Cuba and Brazil," Ethnohistory, 58:3 (2011), 393-413.

Graden, Dale T. "Slave Resistance and the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Brazil in 1850," Historia Unisinos (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), 14:3 (Sept / Dec 2010), 283-94.
http://www.unisinos.br/publicacoes_cientificas/historia/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=124&menu_ativo=active_menu_sub&marcador=124

                        Graden, Dale T., "Street Art in Revolutionary Venezuela," Nacla: Report on the Americas, July 2009
                                       https://nacla.org/node/6031

                        Graden, Dale T., "Notes from a Fan: Paulo Freire Comes to Idaho," International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 1:2
                                       (2008) 98- 114 : http://freire.mcgill.ca/ojs/index.php/home/article/viewFile/64/36

                  Graden, Dale T., "United States involvement in the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil, 1840-1858," Afro-Asia   
                                       (Salvador, Brazil, no. 35 (2007), 9-35 :  http://www.afroasia.ufba.br/edicao.php?codEd=88

Graden, Dale and Dennis West, “Film as a Tool for Teaching Latin American History and Culture,” Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 36:8 (November 1998), 41-46.

 

Graden, Dale T., and James Martin, “Revolution for the Unacquainted: Oliver Stone’s Salvador,” in Film and History 28:3-4 (Fall 1998), 14-23.

 

Graden, Dale T. “Teaching Latin America with Literature: Arturo Arias’s After the Bombs, in the collection of essays entitled “Teaching With Literature: Novels, Poetry and Testimony in Latin American Studies Courses,” Occasional Papers of the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England, No. 12 (fall 1997), 17-24.

 

Graden, Dale T. “Reação intelectual ao candomblé Afro-Baiano no jornal O Alabama, 1864-1871,” Revista do Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia, 93 (January-December 1997), 275-287.

 

Graden, Dale T. “An Act ‘Even of Public Security’: Slave Resistance, Social Tensions and the End of the International Slave Trade to Brazil, 1835-1856,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 76:2 (May 1996), 249-282.

 

Graden, Dale T. “History and Motive as Seen Through Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves’s ‘Saudação a Palmares’ (1870),” Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Lit­erature (Porto Alegre and Providence), 9:6 (June 1993), 28-44.

 

Graden, Dale T. “Voices from Under: The End of Slavery in Bahia, Brazil,” Review of Latin American Studies, 3:2 (1990), 145-161.

 

Graden, Dale T. “Abolição na Bahia através dos processos da justiça,” Clio/Revista de Pesquisa Histórica (Recife), 11 (1988), 87-93.

 

Refereed Chapters in Books:

 

Graden, Dale, “African Responses to Antislavery and Abolitionist Discourse in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1850-1865,” in José C. Curto and Renee Soulodre-LaFrance, eds., Africa and the Americas: Interconnections during the Slave Trade Era, (Toronto, 2005), 127-140.

 

Graden, Dale, “‘So Much Superstition Among These People!’: Candomblé and the Dilemmas of Afro-Bahian Intellectuals, 1864-1871,” In Culture and Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Afro-Bahia, ed. Hendrik Kraay; series editor, Robert M. Levine (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 85-112.

 

“‘There Are Too Many Slaves Joined Together in This City’: The Abolitionist Crisis of 1848-1856 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil,” In Africa and the African Diaspora: The Walter Prescott Webb Essays, eds. Alusine Jalloh and Stephen E. Maizlish (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1996), 134-152.

 

“Emancipation in Brazil.” In Africans in the Americas, eds. Michael L. Conniff and Thomas J. Davis (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 204-223.

 

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters in Translation:

 

“La voz de los de Abajo: la abolición de la esclavitud africana en Bahía, Brasil.” In Imágenes de la resistencia indígena e esclava: Hacia una perspectiva comparatista, ed. Roger Zapata (Lima, Peru: Editorial Wari, 1990), 159-180 (translation of Review of Latin American Studies article “Voices from Under” cited above).

 

“Resistência escrava, tensões sociais e o fim do tráfico dos escravos entre África e Brasil, 1835-1856,” Estudos Afro-Asiáticos 30 (December 1996), 113-149 (translation of HAHR article “An Act ‘Even of Public Security’” cited above).

 

“História e motivo em ‘Saudação a Palmares’ de Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (1870),” Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Rio de Janeiro), 25 (Spring 1994), 189-205 (translation of Brasil/Brazil article “History and Motive” cited above).

 

Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals:

 

            Review of Laird W. Bergad, The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
       (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), forthcoming in the Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, 2009.  

Review of Larissa Viana, O idioma da mesticagem (Campinas, SP: Editora da Unicamp, 2007),

                     Hispanic American Historical Review 89:3 (2009), 521-22.

 Review of Gerald Horne, The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (New York:
        New York University Press, 2007), Journal of Latin American Studies 41:01 (2009), 159-61.

 

   Review of Maria Helena P.T. Machado, ed., Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865-1866, trans. John M. Monteiro (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), in The Americas 64:3 (2008), 431-32.

 

 Review of Karen Kampwirth, Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas (Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies Ohio University Press, 2004), The International History Review, 28:3 (September 2006), 155-157.

 

 Review of Mieko Nishida, Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808-1888 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003), in Journal of Social History (winter 2004), 536-537.

 

 Review of Gabino la Rosa Corzo, Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression, trans. Mary Todd (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), in The Americas 61:2 (2004), 318-319.

 

 Review of Jailton Lima Brito, A abolição na Bahia, 1870-1888(Salvador: Centro Estudos Baianos, 2003) in Afro-Ásia 29-30 (2003), 421-423.

 

 Review of Thomas O’Brien, The Century of U.S. Capitalism in Latin America (Albuquerque, 1999) in New Mexico Historical Review, 77:3 (summer 2002), 330-332.

 

 Review of Elciene Azevedo, Orfeu de carapinha: a trajetória de Luiz Gama na imperial Cidade de São Paulo (Campinas, 1999) and Joseli Maria Nunes, Entre a mão e os anéis: a lei do sexagenários e os caminhos da abolição (Campinas, 1999) in Afro-Ásia 23 (2000), 381-388.

 

 Review of B.J. Barickman, A Bahian Counterpoint. Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo. 1780-1860 (Stanford, 1998) in World Sugar History Newsletter 27 (December 1998), 1-3.
 

 Review of Louis A. Pérez, Jr., ed., Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899 (Wilmington, Delaware, 1992) in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 19:37-38 (1994), 314-316.

 

 Review of João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, trans. Arthur Brakel (Baltimore, 1993) in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 19:37-38 (1994), 346-348.

 

 Review of Thomas C. Dalton, “Everything Within the Revolution”: Cuban Strategies for Development Since 1960 (Boulder, 1993) in the Journal of Third World Studies 21:1 (spring 1994), 558-561.

 

 Review of John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, edited and with an introduction by Richard Price and Sally Price (Baltimore, 1988) in the Latin American Anthropology Review 5:2 (1993), 91-92.

 

 Review of Barbara L. Solow, ed., Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System (New York, 1991) in the Latin American Anthropology Review 4:1 (1992), 20-21.

 

            Other:

 

“Benedita da Silva,” in The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, second edition, vol. II, ed. Colin A. Palmer (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), 581-82.

 

“Encouraging Values Conducive to Conflict Resolution in the Classroom at the University of Idaho,” Newsletter of the Martin Institute 10 (spring 1997), 1-3.

 

“Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave: Testimonial Literature as History,” article published on the Internet (H-LATAM, H-ETHNIC, H-SLAVERY).

 

“Policy Suggestions to Improve United States-Cuban Relations,” Coalition for Central America Focus Newsletter, spring 1996.

 

“Human Rights in Guatemala,” Coalition for Central America Focus Newsletter, Fall 1995.

 

“The Relevance of Bartolomé de las Casas,” Coalition for Central America Focus Newsletter, Summer 1995.

 

“Argentine Military Rule 1976-1983: The Use of The Shadow by the Door as a text in a modern Latin American history course,” Curbstone INK: Newsletter of the Curbstone Press (Summer 1993), 1, 4.

 

“Brazil 1989: A Transnational Democracy,” MACLAS/Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, Vol. IV (1990), 191-197.

 

“From Abertura to the New Constitution: The Successes and Failures of Brazil’s New Democracy,” MACLAS/Proceedings of the Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, Vol. III (1989), 207-217.

 

 

            Publications (currently scheduled or submitted):

 

                           Book manuscript completed: Oaths can be Cobwebs: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba               
 

            Presentations and Other Creative Activities:

"Fluid Borders and Open Minds: Tools for the incorporation of Mexamerica into Latin American Studies Curricula at US Universities" Pacific Northwest American Studies Meeting,
            Ellensburg, Washington, April 2012
 
"Street Art and the Bolivarian Revolution in Caracas," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Toronto,
            October 2010

"Arte popular en las calles de la paroquia 23 de enero en Caracas," Latin American Studies Association Meeting,
            Rio de Janeiro, June 2009
 

"Arte popular en las calles de la paroquia 23 de enero en Caracas," Fundacion Fulbright, Caracas, June 2008
 

“United States Involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil, 1840-1858,” at the Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2007.

 

“The United States and the End of the International Slave Trade to Brazil, 1835-1856,” paper presented at the Fundação Clemente Mariani, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, March 2005.

 

Participated in the Multicultural Leadership Retreat organized by the UI Office of Multicultural Affairs, September 2003.

 

“War and Peace: The First Phase of Abolition of Slavery in Bahia, 1863-1871,” Fundação Clemente Mariani, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, August 2003.

 

“Comparative History as Multi-Cultural Education,” Presentation at panel discussion “Multi-Cultural Education: International Perspectives from Music, History and Politics,” UI, April 2003.

 

“Addicted to War: Why Militarism and Empire are not Good for Our Health and Well-Being,” Presentation during Earth Day 2003 UI Speakers Series entitled “Alternatives To A Plundered Planet and For A Saner World” April 2003.

 

“Brazil Today,” presentation to grades nine and ten at the Moscow Renaissance Charter School, April 2003.

 

“Fighting Hate in the Classroom and Across the University,” a facilitated workshop with Raúl Sánchez at The Popcorn Forum “Confronting Hate: Humanity’s Greatest Challenge,” North Idaho College, March 2003.

           

“Identity and Cultural Resistance in University Curriculum and Classrooms: Successes and Failures,” at the Mexican American Studies Conference, “La Raza: Identity and Resistance through the Arts,” Boise State University, March 2003.

 

“US Motives for War,” Teach-in on alternatives to war, at WSU, sponsored by Palouse Peace Coalition, WSU Filipino-American Student Organization, WSU No Terror for Nobody, Pullman YWCA, January 2003.

 

“Intellectual Origins of MLK’s Politics of Non-Violence,” Teach-in on MLK, UI Commons, sponsored by the UI office of multi-cultural affairs, January 2003.

 

“US Motives for War,” Teach-in on alternatives to war, at UI Law School, sponsored by the Palouse Peace Coalition and the UI Justice Alliance, January 2003.

 

“Culture and Terror,” paper presented at Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference entitled “Terrorism and Public Policy,” University of Idaho, April 2002.

 

“An African Abolitionist Movement in Bahia, 1850-1865” at the conference “Enslaving Connections: Africa and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade,” York University, Toronto, Canada, October 2000.

 

“Escravidão e relações no Brasil: de escravos a cidadãos,” III Encontro de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, November 1999.

 

Two lectures on Brazilian history and race relations at the Centro Universitário de Barra Mansa (UBM, Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and a presentation about the U.S. presidential race to the Rotary Club of Barra Mansa, September 1999.

 

“Origins intelectuais, legitimação e morte parcial do ‘mito da democracia racial’ no Brasil,” IV Congresso de História da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, September 1999.

 

“Economic Injustice in Latin America,” comments made at the panel “Justice in Latin America, 18th Annual International Exchange Conference, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho, October 1998.

 

“Pan-Americanism as Seen Through Brazilian and United States Abolition, 1850-1888,” paper presented at the XXI Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 1998.

 

“Teaching the Culture of the African Diaspora in the Americas,” paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, April 1998.

 

“The Origins, Evolution, and Demise of the ‘Myth of Racial Democracy’ in Brazil, 1848-1998,” paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, University of Montana, Missoula, April 1998.

 

“Sources for the Forging of Radical Consciousness Among African and African-Brazilian Slaves and Freedpersons in Bahia, 1848-1888,” paper presented at the panel “Brazil in the African Diaspora,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, January 1998.

 

“Teaching Latin America with Literature: Arturo Arias’s After the Bombs,” paper presented as part of the panel “Teaching United States and World History with a Latin American Perspective,” at the New England Historical Association Meeting, University of Connecticut, October 1997.

 

“Should we create a new field of study? History/Anthropology for interpreting the African Diaspora to the Americas,” Invited guest lecture at department of Anthropology, WSU, October 1997.

 

“Teaching With Literature: Arturo Arias’s After the Bombs,” paper presented at the XX International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.

 

“A Comparative Model for the Teaching of African American Studies,” Idaho History Conference, Ricks College, Rexburg, Idaho, March 1997.

 

“Many Empires but One Ideology of Race: The Forging and Maintenance of the ‘Myth of Racial Democracy’ in Brazil, 1500-2000,” paper presented at the Rocky Mountain World History Association Meeting with the theme “Ethnicity, Nationalism and Empires,” University of Utah, October 1996

 

“‘There are too Many Slaves Joined Together in this City’: the Abolitionist Crisis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1835-1856,” paper presented at the III Brazilian Studies Association Meeting, Cambridge University, England, September 1996.

 

“Slave Resistance and the End of the International Slave Trade to Brazil,” paper presented at the Department of History, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, June 1996.

 

“Resistance as Popular Culture: African Brazilian Candomblé in Bahia, Brazil, 1864-1871,” paper presented at University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, June 1996.

 

“United States Relations with Latin America, 1880s-1930,” Invited guest lecture at Department of History, WSU, January 1996.

 

“Candomblé Viewed as Subversion of the Slave Order and Abolitionist Expression in Bahia, Brazil, 1850-1888,” paper presented at the XIX International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 1995.

 

“Slave Resistance, Social Tensions and the End of the International Slave Trade to Brazil, 1835-1855,” paper presented at conference entitled “Explorations in the Political Culture of Latin America: A Symposium in Honor of Hugh Hamill,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1994.

 

“Major Determinants Influencing Brazilian Government Policies for Amazonia, 1980-2000,” paper presented at Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, October 1993.

 

“The Rise and Fall of a Karate Champion: Lessons from the Presidency of Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil,” paper presented at the conference entitled “Church, State, and Society in Latin America: Sociopolitical and Economic Restructuring since 1960,” Villanova University, March 1993.

 

“The Legacies of Indian and African Slavery in the Americas,” panel entitled “Columbus, The Cross, The Crisis,” sponsored by the Martin Institute at the University of Idaho, November 1992.

 

“A Reevaluation of Abolition in the Northeastern Provinces of Brazil,” Department of History, University of São Paulo, May 1992.

 

“Brazil 1989: A Transnational Democracy,” Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, Rutgers University, April 1990.

 

“The International Drug Trade,” Connecticut Global Perspectives Conference, University of Hartford, March 1990.

 

“The End of African Slavery in Bahia, Brazil,” Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Sacramento, California, October 1989.

 

“From Abertura to the New Constitution: The Successes and Failures of Brazil’s Democratic Transition,” Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1989.

 

Grants and Contracts Awarded:

 

2007, University of Idaho Seed Grant.

 

2007, Small travel grant from the UI Research Council

 

2005, Small travel grant from the UI Research Council.

 

2003, Small travel grant from the UI Research Council.

 

2000, University of Idaho Core Curriculum teaching grant.

 

1999-2000, Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution research grant.

 

1999, University of Idaho Seed Grant.

 

1998, Small travel grant from the UI Research Council.

 

            1995-97, Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution research grants.

 

            1996, Two small travel grants from the UI Research Council.

 

            1994, Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution summer stipend.

 

            1993, Small travel grant from the UI Research Council.

 

            1993, University of Idaho Seed Grant.

 

            1993, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.

 

            1980-83, The University of Connecticut Graduate School and Research Foundation Grants.

 

Honors and Awards:

 

2008, Senior Fulbright Award to Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

2008, Sabbatical leave awarded from the University of Idaho

2004, Invited to teach at the University of Alicante, Spain (USAC program)

1999-2000, Sabbatical leave awarded from the University of Idaho

1999, Senior Fulbright Award to the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

1995, First Prize (shared) in the 30th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Essay Competition at the University of Texas at Arlington

1993, Selected as a Panelist/Reviewer for Brazil/Latin American proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities (September)

1993, Selected as an Associate of the Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, University of Idaho

1990, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, The University of Connecticut

1987, Mellon Foundation Fellowship

1985, Fulbright Award for Ph.D. research in Brazil

1983, Gulbenkian Fellowship for study at the University of Lisbon, Portugal

1981-83, Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

1976, Dahltry Fellowship at Wesleyan University

1970-74, four times All New England Soccer Team (1970-73); All America Soccer Team (1973);
Houston Award from Tufts University (1974)

 

SERVICE:

 

            Major Committee Assignments:

 

            State:

                        Rhodes Scholarship Review Committee, 1994-present

                        Fulbright Scholarship Review Committee, 1994-present

                        Jacob Javits Fellowships: Head Advisor and Member of Review Committee, 2001-present

                        Marshall Scholarship Review Committee, 2001-present

 

University:
           
            University Faculty Appeals Committee, spring 2012
            UI Honors Program Advisory Committee, 2011-2014
            University Budget and Finance Committee, 2008-2010; head of committee 2010
            College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences representative to Faculty Senate, 2008-2010

President’s designee on the five-year administrative review of Professor Donald Crowley, Chair of Political Science at UI, 2003

Member of President’s Steering Committee on Diversity and Human Rights, September-December 2002

Special Assistant to the President’s Advisory Group on Diversity Initiatives at the University of Idaho, 2001-03

Diversity and Human Rights Cinema Planning Group, 1998-2003

            Environment and Human Rights Forum Advisory Group, 2003

Member of the General Education Task Force involved in reshaping the University Core Curriculum, 1999-2002

Member of panel representing UI Latin American Student Organization (OELA) to introduce prospective Hispanic high school students to the University of Idaho, November 1997, 1998, 2000

                                    Member of the Advisory Committee for the International Studies Program, 1997

                                    Affirmative Action Committee, 1993-96

                                    University Ethnic Diversity Committee, 1994-96

            Member of the UI Multicultural Recruitment Committee

                        Advisor to the UI Chapter of the Golden Key National Honor Society, 1995-98

                        Member of FACE (Faculty Advising on the College Experience) mentor program through the Department of Athletics at UI

 

                        College:

                                    Member of Third Year Review for Demetrio Anzaldo-Gonzalez
                                    College of Letters and Science Diversity Task Force, 2000-02

                                    College of Letters and Science Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000

 

                        Department:

                                    Head of Third Year Review committee for Assistant Professor Adam Sowards, spring 2007
                                    Member of Third Year Review committee for Assistant Professor William Ramsey, spring 2006

                                    Member of Search committee for historian of 19th century United States, fall 2005

 Member of search committee for assistant professor appointment in Pacific Northwest environment position, 2000

 Member of search committee for one-year visiting professor appointment in U.S. History, spring 1997, and for tenure-track appointment in Modern European History, spring 1999

 

            Membership (past and current) in Professional and Scholarly Organizations:

 

                        External member (invited) of the Centre for the Study of Global Power and Politics at Trent University,
                            Peterborough, Ontario Canada

 

                        American Historical Association

                        Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies

                        Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

                        Conference on Latin American History of the AHA

                        Latin American Studies Association

                        Brazilian Studies Association

                        Northeastern Association of Brazilianists

                        Association of Third World Studies

 

            Outreach Service:


                        National Screening Committee for Fulbright Awards to Brazil in 2011, Denver, Colorado, December 2010

                        National Screening Committee for Fulbright Awards to Brazil and Ecuador in 2010, Denver, Colorado, December 2009
                        Translations of documents from Portuguese to English for students, faculty, staff at UI, 1992-2006

                        Outside Evaluator of the Native American Film Festival for the Idaho Humanities Council, Moscow, Idaho, April 2005

                       Presentation during Career Awareness Day to students of the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), March 2005

                        Led a diversity workshop for Senators of the Associated Students of the University of Idaho (ASUI), October 2004

                       Advised Idaho Hispanic high school students attending “Vandal Friday” orientation at the University of Idaho, October 2004

                        Member of the review committee for the Martin Luther King essay contest (2003-04) at WSU and UI, February 2004

Responsible for US Treasury Department Visa to U of I for two year travel to Cuba. Helped organize a two UI trips in spring 2002 and spring 2003

Corresponding Associate of the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia, August 2002-present

Guest lecture and recruitment of students for the University of Idaho at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho March 1997

Responsible for signing of Memorandum of Understanding and creating ties between the University of Idaho and University of Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua in Bluefields, Nicaragua (URACCAN) and the Faculdades Associadas do Espírito Santo in Vitória, Brazil (FAESA) in 1996

Advisory Board of the Electronic History Journal of the Fundação Clemente Mariani, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

                        Editor of the Coalition for Central America Focus Newsletter

Invited member of the Teaching Committee of the Council of Latin American History of the AHA, 1997-present

                        Major advisor to the Coalition for Central America

                        Advisor to UI Justice Alliance

                        Advisor to Students in Support of Central America

                        Advisor to OELA: Latin American Students Organization

Organized guest lecture by Guatemalan human rights activist Amanda Rodas, October 1997

Judged articles for publication in the Afro-Asia, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Urban History, Luso-Brazilian Review, The Americas, Journal of Latin American Studies and Radical History Review

           
            Community Service:
                         
                      Moscow School District Long-Range Planning Task Force, 2011-12

Board Member Moscow United Soccer Club, 2010-15  

Hosted Witness for Peace Delegation from Bogota, Colombia, October 2009

Hosted Witness for Peace Delegation from Bogota, Colombia, September 200Panel member “Moving Beyond Privilege,” part of the Social Justice Forum organized by the
 Moscow Human Rights Commission, September 2006.

Hosted Professor Ivonne Berliner, Fulbright Scholar visiting UI from University of Los Andes, Santiago, Chile, who gave a public presentation on women in Latin America, November 2005.

Hosted professional photographer Paul Dix, who gave two presentations on Nicaragua, October 2005.

Hosted Professor Luis Heriberto Cargua Rio from Riobamba, Ecuador, a representative of the Ecuador/Idaho partnership in the Partners for the Americas Program, November 2004.

Led a community dialogue at the Harvest of Harmony gathering, sponsored by the Palouse Peace Coalition, Moscow, Idaho, September 2004.

Panel member in discussion of the film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” sponsored by Radio Free Moscow, at the Kenworthy Theater, Moscow, Idaho, September 2004.

“Pacifists, Revolutionaries, Terrorists: The Rocky Road of Comparative History,” paper presented at the U of I Interdisciplinary Forum: Insight and Creativity in the Life of the University, University of Idaho, April 2002.

Participant in the community group “Equality” created to address issues of discrimination and harassment at UI and in the town of Moscow, Idaho.

Hosted Professor David Sheinin of Trent University during The Tools Symposium: Technology and the Making of Humanity, University of Idaho, May 2001.

Invited participant on the panel “Economic Globalization: Sources of Peace, Sources of Conflict?” at the 2001 Borah Symposium, Moscow, Idaho, April 2001.

Hosted member of Nicaragua’s representative to the Central American Parliament and representative of the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, Francisco Campbell, April 1997.

“United States-Cuban Relations,” Member of a panel for Coalition for Central America, April 1996.

“Drumming, Dancing and Trancing: African Brazilian Candomblé,” Presentation to the Initiation Ceremony of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society of the University of Idaho, April 1996.

“‘Nothing But Freedom’: The Failures and Successes of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” UI Women’s Center, October 1995.

“San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, the United States,” Faculty Forum, Campus Christian Center, March 1995.

“An Overview of Haitian-United States Relations in the Twentieth Century,” Panel for Coalition for Central America, October 1994.

“Major Determinants Affecting Brazilian Government Policies Toward Amazônia, 1980-2000,” presentation to Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society of the University of Idaho, October 1993.

“Mexico’s Day of the Dead,” presentation to Idaho Science Camp, University of Idaho, June 1993.

 “Overview of Racism and Diversity in the United States,” presentation and moderator at Workshop on Diversity and Law Enforcement to representatives from
Northern Idaho Federal, State, and Local Police Forces, February 1993.

“Lessons from the Presidency of Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil (1990-1992),” The Rotary Club of Moscow, Idaho, January 1993.

                        “Slavery in Brazil Today,” presentation on behalf of Amnesty International, December 1992.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

 
            Participated in UI Faculty Engagement / Outreach Workshop, April 6, 2011
            Participated in UI Faculty Transdisciplinary Design Workshop, January -February 2011           

Participated in the Core Curriculum Design Workshop, May 2006.

Participated in faculty workshop on integrating social activism, teaching, and performance in the classroom. Led by Danny Hoch; sponsored by the Core Curriculum and the Office of
Human Rights and Diversity, October 8, 2002.

Participated in the “International Human Rights Education Consortium” meeting at the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 17-19, 2001.

Participated in a Technology Workshop for Professors, funded by the United States Department of Education, University of Idaho, July 16-19, 2001.

Participated in the “Workshop on the Concepts and Practices of Interdisciplinarity” led by UI Humanities Fellows as part of “The Tools Symposium: Technology and the Making of Humanity,” May 22-23, 2001.

Participated in the workshop “Infusing Human Rights Education into the Undergraduate Curriculum,” organized by the United States Institute of Peace, at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, March 28-30, 2001.

Attended “The Americas” Exploring Our Common Future” at the Global Business Consortium, Boise State University, March 6, 2001.

Participated in the workshop presented by Omowale Akintunde entitled “White Racism, White Privilege and the Social Construction of Race,” University of Idaho, January 18, 2001.

Participated in “Growing Cognitive Complexity in the College Classroom: A Mentoring Workshop” at the University of Idaho, June 2000.

Participated in the “Schuldt Humanities Faculty Seminar” focusing on “Developing the American Studies 101 Syllabus and Course Pack,” at University of Idaho, May 1999.

Participant in the “Schuldt Humanities Faculty Seminar” focusing on diversity in the university, at Riggins, Idaho, May 1998.

Commented on two papers presented at the Northwest regional meeting of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, April 1998.

Participated in the University of Idaho Diversity Education Conference, April 1997.

Participant in the State Board of Education Grant Supporting Teaching with Technologies in the Humanities, January-June 1997.

Participant in Faculty Teaching Forum entitled “Cultural Diversity: Meeting 21st Century Challenges to Higher Education,” October 1995.

Participant in NEH grant writing workshop at Gonzaga University, June 1995