Ph.D.,1994, Rutgers University

B.A., 1985, Oberlin College

Associate Professor
(Department of History ; Graduate Programme in History)
 

Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico . Duke University Press, 1998 (reprinted 2000).

De los pepines a los agachados: Comics y censura en Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico), 2004.

Going to the Movies in Mexico: Cultural Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Era . Duke University Press, forthcoming (2005).

(co-edited with Gilbert Joseph and Eric Zolov) Fragments of a Golden Age: Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940 . Duke University Press, 2001. (Translation forthcoming, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004).

(co-edited with Victor Macías) Men ' s Rooms: Masculinity, Sexuality and Space in Modern Mexico . University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming (2004).

"The case of the naked starlet in the wax museum's bathtub: Public morals, memory, and the cine de desnudas in the 1950s," in Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato, eds., Case Studies, Cause Célèbres, and Other True-to-Life Adventures in the Social Construction of Deviance in Mexico.  University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming.

“The War on las pelonas : Modern women and their enemies, Mexico City, 1924,” in G. Cano, J. Olcutt, and M.K. Vaughn, eds., Las Olvidadas: Mexican Women after the Revolution . Duke University Press, forthcoming.

“Locating male sexualities in Latin American history: two anthropological models, ” History Compass October 2003.

"El Santo: Many Versions of the Perfect Man," in G. Joseph and T. Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader , Duke University Press, 2003.

"The General's Daughter Disrobes: Nahui Olin's Life and Art," in Jeffrey Pilcher, ed., The Human Tradition in Mexico . Scholarly Resources, 2003.

"Bodies, Cities, Cinema: The Death and Funeral of Pedro Infante as a Political Spectacle," in G. Joseph, A. Rubenstein and E. Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940 . Duke University Press, 2001.

"Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century," in Michael Meyer and William Beezley, eds., The Oxford History of Mexico , Oxford University Press, 2000.

"In the Wax Museum of Mexican Masculinity, or, Wrestling with Mass Media in the 1950s," in Enrique Perez and Ximena Narea, eds., La reconstrucción del mundo en America Latina , Heterogenesis series, University of Lund Press (Sweden), 1999.

"Mexican Magazine Censors vs. the U.S. Marines: A Case Study of Transnational Reception," International Journal of Comic Art , 1/2, Fall 1999: 41-54.

"Raised Voices at the Cine Montecarlo: Sex Education, Mass Media, and Oppositional Politics in Mexico," Journal of Family History , 23/3, July 1998: 312-323.

"Revolted Negroes and the Devilish Principle: William Blake and Conflicting Visions of Boni's War in Surinam" (co-authored with Camilla Townsend) in J. DiSalvo, ed., Blake, History, Politics , Garland Publishing, 1998.

"Leaving the Old Nest: Morality, Modernity, and the Mexican Comic Book at Mid-century." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture XVI, 1997, pp. 115-125.

Courses taught recently:

Modern Latin America

Modern Mexico

 

Modern Mexico, Gender, Popular Culture
 

2002 : Dean ' s Award for Outstanding Research, Faculty of Arts, York University

2002-2003 : Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University

2002-2003 : Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (“small SSHRC”)

2000 : Summer Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago/University of Illinois Joint Center for Latin American Studies

1998 : National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute participant, Brazil

1994 : President's Award for the Best Paper Presented by a Graduate Student, Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

1992-1993 : Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Rutgers University