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CURRICULUM VITAE
OF
VICTOR M URIBE-URAN
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ndash COLLEGE OF LAW
EDUCATION_________________________________________________________________
PhD University of Pittsburgh History 1987-1993
MA University of Pittsburgh Political Science 1986-1987
Abogado (JD) Universidad Externado De Colombia Law 1978-1983
FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE_________________________________________
Florida International University Professor History ndash Law 2016- Present
Florida International University Chair History 2013- Present
Florida International University Associate Professor History ndash Law 2002- 2016
Florida International University Associate Professor History March 2000 - 2016
Florida International University Assistant Professor History August 1993 ndash March 2000
Universidad Nacional Colombia Associate Professor History June-1997-June 1998
Universidad Nacional Colombia Assistant Professor History June-1996-June 1997
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE________________________________________________
Florida International University Chief of Party Justice Reform and
Modernization Project under contract
with USAID June 2006-June 2009
CINEP Bogotaacute Director Project of Legal Aid January 1984-July 1985
CINEP Bogotaacute Lawyer-Researcher Project of Legal Aid January 1983- Dec 1984
CINEP Bogotaacute Legal Assistant Project of Legal Aid January 1982- Dec 1982
EMPLOYMENT RECORD AT FIU______________________________________________
Professor 2016-Present
Associate Professor of History and Law 2002- 2016
Associate Professor of History 2000-2016
Assistant Professor of History 1993-2000
2
PUBLICATIONS IN DISCIPLINE_______________________________________________
REFEREED
BOOKS
1 Fatal Love Spousal Homicide Law and Punishment in the late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford
Stanford University Press 2016) p 409 A comparative history of spousal murder and battering in late
colonial and early post-colonial Mexico Colombia and Spain emphasizing law and punishment Murdo J
Macleod Book Prize LACS-SHA Fall 2016 for the best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean
American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic World history Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas
Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject SECOLAS Spring 2016 Honorable
Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation Colombia
Fall 2016 highest scientific recognition in Colombia extoling investigations that ldquomake a creative and
rigorous contribution to the field and respond to the realities of contemporary Colombian societyrdquo
2 Vidas Honorables Abogados Familia Sociedad y Poliacutetica en Colombia 1780-1850 (Bogotaacute Banco
de la Repuacuteblica-EAFIT 2008) p 441 Translation and expanded edition of Honorable Lives
3 State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution author and editor Anthology with
essays by Samuel Amaral John C Chasteen Richard Doringo Elizabeth Kuznesof Marti Lamar Sonya
Lipset-Rivera Richard Salvucci Mark Szuchman Victor Uribe and Eric Van Young (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 2001) p 261
4 Naciones Gentes y Territorios Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el
Caribe author and co-editor with Luis Javier Ortiacutez Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten
Anthology with comparative essays by Charles Bergquist Malcolm Deas Herbert Klein Allan Knight
Hans Konig Robert Macaa Mark Szuchman Ann Twinam Victor Uribe and Eric Van Young
(Medelliacuten Universidad de Antioquia 2000) p 449
5 Honorable Lives Lawyers Family Society and Politics in Colombia 1780-1850 A social history of the
legal community of late colonial and early republican Colombia (Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh
Press 2000) p 276
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
1 ldquoSpanish American Royalism in the Age of Revolutionrdquo Review Essay Co-authored with Rene Silva
Latin American Research Review 49 1 (Spring 2014) 270-281
2 ldquoFrom lsquoDomestic Violencersquo to Violence(s) Against Women in Modern Mexico and Latin Americardquo
Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 5-13
3 ldquoInsurgentes de provincia Tunja Nueva Granada y el constitucionalismo en el mundo hispaacutenico en la
deacutecada de 1810rdquo Historia y Memoria 5 (July-December 2012) 17-48
4 ldquoCaacutediz contra las Provincias Constitucioacuten Revolucioacuten y Reaccioacuten en Nueva Granada 1811-1821rdquo
Boletin de Historia y Antiguedades 97 849 (20 Julio 2010) 295-319
5 ldquolsquoIglesia me llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spain and Colonial Spanish Americardquo
Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 1 (2007) 446-472
6 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides the Punishment of Indians and the Law
in Colonial Mexico 1740sndash1820srdquo Journal of Latin American Studies 38 4 (2006) 793-828
7 ldquoSociabilidad poliacutetica popular abogados guerra y bandidismo en Nueva Granada 1830s-1850s
3
respuestas subalternas y reacciones elitistasrdquo Historia y Sociedad No 9 (March 2003) 89-116
8 ldquoColonial Baracunatanas and their Nasty Men Spousal Homicides and the Law in New Granada 1750-
1810rdquo Journal of Social History 35 1 (Fall 2001) 43-72
9 ldquo lsquoMaten a todos los abogados Los abogados y el movimiento de independencia en la Nueva Granada
1809-1820rdquo traducido por Cecilia Ineacutes Restrepo de M Historia y Sociedad No 7 (December 2000) 7-
48 [translation of ldquo Kill all the Lawyersrdquo]
10 ldquoThe Birth of a Public Sphere in Latin America During the Age of Revolutionrdquo Comparative Studies in
Society and History 42 2 (April 2000) 425-457
11 ldquoCartas ineacuteditas sobre las memorias del General Tomaacutes Cipriano de Mosquerardquo Historia y Sociedad 6
(December 1999) 209-219
12 ldquoThe Enigma of Latin American Independence Analyses of the Last Ten Yearsrdquo Latin American
Research Review 32 1 (Spring 1997) 237-255
13 ldquoDisputas entre estado y sociedad sobre la educacioacuten de los abogados a finales de la etapa colonial en la
Nueva Granadardquo Historia y Sociedad Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten No 3 (Diciembre
1996) 33-57
14 ldquoWorld War II and Its Aftermath in Latin Americardquo Review Essay Latin American Perspectives 23 4
(Fall 1996) 108-114
15 ldquoPreparando mandarines Apuntes sobre la historia de la ciencia administrativa en Nueva Granada durante
la colonia y comienzos de la repuacuteblica 1590-1850rdquo Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y
Sociales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute No 7 (Enero-Junio 1996) 87-97
16 ldquoThe Lawyers and New Granadas Late Colonial Staterdquo Journal of Latin American Studies 27 3 (October
1995) 517-549
17 ldquoKill all the Lawyers Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada 1809-1820rdquo The
Americas 52 2 (October 1995) 175-210
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1 ldquoColombia Ungoverned Territory and the Proliferation of Non-state Actorsrdquo Brian Fonseca and
Eduardo Gamarra eds Culture and National Security in the Americas (New York Rowman and
Littlefield 2017) p 33-60
2 ldquoDistintos tonos de gris Los juristas y las independencias de Iberoameacuterica 1808-1821rdquo in Santiago
Muntildeoacutez Machado ed Historia de la abogacia espantildeola (Cizur Menor Navarra Editorial Arazandi
2015) vol 1 p 897-937
3 ldquoPhysical Violence Against Wives and the Law in the Spanish American World 1820s-2000srdquo in
Ricardo Salvatore Pieter Spierenburg and Eric Johnson eds Murder and Violence in Modern Latin
America (London Blackwell-Wiley 2013) p 49-80
4 ldquoEl impacto de la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1812-1814rdquo in Andreacutes Botero Bernal
Coord Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada Ocho estudios sobre la constitucioacuten gaditana en el periacuteodo de la
independencia Neogranadina (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2013) p 243-278
5 ldquoJuristas sociedad independencia y estado en la Nueva Granada 1790-1830rdquo in Joseacute Mariacutea Peacuterez
Collados y Samuel Rodriacuteguez Barbosa eds Juristas de la Independencia (Madrid Editorial Marcial
4
Pons 2012) p 159-204
6 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821rdquo in Heraclio Bonilla
ed La Constitucioacuten de 1812 en Hispanoameacuterica y Espantildea (Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad Nacional de
Colombia-Alcaldiacutea Mayor de Bogotaacute 2012) p 273-303
7 ldquoLas Varias Caras de la Opinioacuten Puacuteblicardquo in Francisco Ortega and Alexander Chaparro eds Disfraz y
pluma de todos Opinioacuten puacuteblica y cultura poliacutetica siglos XVIII y XIX (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional
de Colombia 2012) p 529-548
8 ldquoLa vida privada de los hombres puacuteblicosrdquo in Historia de la Vida Privada en Colombia Vol 1 Las
Fronteras difusas Del Siglo XVI a 1880 in Jaime Humberto Borja y Pablo Rodriacuteguez comps (Bogotaacute
Taurus 2011) p 105-127
9 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo with assistance from Harry Mora in Mary Volcansek and John Stack eds Courts and Terror
Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011) p 199-
223
10 ldquoHistoria de la Cultura en la Nueva Granada 1810-1830rdquo in Eduardo Posada-Carboacute and Adolfo
Meisel Roca eds Ameacuterica Latina en la Historia Contemporaacutenea Volume I Colombia Crisis
imperial e independencia 1808-1830 (Madrid Editorial Fundacioacuten MAPFRE-Taurus 2010) p 249-
298
11 ldquoAbogados Independencia y Muerte en la Nueva Granada 1813-1819rdquo in Pablo Rodriacuteguez ed
Historia que no Cesa La Independencia de Colombia 1780-1830 (Bogotaacute Universidad del Rosario
2010) p 133-148
12 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Constituciones Justicia Plural y Democracia en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Justicia
poliacutetica y derechos en Ameacuterica Latina edicioacuten a cargo de Juan Manuel Palacio y Magdalena Candioti
- 1a ed (Buenos Aires Prometeo Libros 2007) p 83-104
13 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA y su contribucioacuten al
derecho internacional puacuteblico de la integracioacutenrdquo in Myriam Salcedo Castro ed Constitution et Inteacutegration
(Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad del Rosario 2006) p 115-139
14 ldquoEl constitucionalismo provincial colombiano vida puacuteblica y vida privada en el periacuteodo postcolonialrdquo in
Andreacutes Botero Bernal ed Origen del Constitucionalismo colombiano Coleccioacuten memorias Juriacutedicas No
1 (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2006) p 33-51
15 ldquoDerecho y cultura legal durante la lsquoEra de la Revolucioacutenrsquo en Meacutexico Colombia y Brasil 1750-1850rdquo in
Mariacutea Teresa Calderoacuten and Cleacutement Thibaud coords Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico (Bogotaacute
Tauros 2006) p 251-297
16 ldquoThe Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture ldquoThe Publicrdquo and ldquoThe Privaterdquo in the
Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850rdquo in Joseph W
Esherick Hasan Kayali and Eric Van Young eds Empire to Nation Historical Perspectives on the
Making of the Modern World (New York Rowman Littlefield Publishers 2005) p 68-105
17 ldquoIntroduction Beating a Dead Horserdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in Spanish America
During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p xi-xix
18 ldquoThe Changing Meaning of Honor Status and Class The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in
5
the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periodrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in
Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p 59-87
19 ldquoIntroduccioacuten Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Cariberdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten and Luis J
Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe (Medelliacuten
Univ de Antioquia 2000) p xix-xxxiv
20 ldquoLa Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyosrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten
and Luis J Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe
(Medelliacuten Univ de Antioquia 2000) p 229-269
21 ldquoColonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Spanish Americardquo in
Eduardo Zimerman ed Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London 1999) p 25-48
22 ldquoEducacioacuten legal y formacioacuten del Estado colombiano durante la transicioacuten de la colonia a la Repuacuteblica
1780-1850rdquo in Javier Guerrero Baroacuten (comp) Etnias educacioacuten y archivos en la historia de Colombia
(Tunja Univ Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia 1997) p 179-203
BOOK REVIEWS
1 State of Ambiguity Civic Life and Culture in Cubarsquos First Republic Edited by Steven Palmer Joseacute
Antonio Piqueras and Amparo Saacutenchez Cobos (Durham NC Duke University Press 2014) Hispanic
American Historical Review 96 4 (2016) 751-753
2 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World Creating Modernity Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-
Century Latin America By James Sanders (Durham Duke University Press 2014) Ethnohistory 63 3
(2016) 587-588
3 The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
(Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2014) American Historical Review 120 5
(December 2015) 1940-1941
4 Ambitious Rebels Remaking Honor Law and Liberalism in Venezuela 1780-1850 by Ruben Zahler
(Tucson The University of Arizona Press 2013) The Americas 72 3 (July 2015) 507-508
5 Native Claims Indigenous Law against Empire 1500-1920 By Saliha Belmessous (Oxford Oxford
University Press 2012) Itinerario International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 36 3 (2012) 138-140
6 Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacaacute 1821-1900 By Joshua
Rosenthal (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Latin Americanist Southeastern
Conference on Latin American Studies 56 3 (September 2012) 125-126
7 For Tranquility and Order Family and Community on Mexicorsquos Northern Frontier 1800-1850 By
Laura M Shelton (Tucson AZ The University of Arizona Press 2010) Bulletin of Latin American
Research 31 3 (July 2012) 395-396
8 Nation and State in Latin America Political Language during Independence By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) and Fundamentos intelectuales y poliacuteticos de las
independencias Notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoameacuterica By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) Hispanic American Historical Review 92 2 (May 2012)
366-368
9 Justicia y tortura en los Andes Recurso de Judas Tadeo Andrade ante la Audiencia de Charcas
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
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November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
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1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
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Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
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Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
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society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
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Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
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Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
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Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
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1998
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History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
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American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
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Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
2
PUBLICATIONS IN DISCIPLINE_______________________________________________
REFEREED
BOOKS
1 Fatal Love Spousal Homicide Law and Punishment in the late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford
Stanford University Press 2016) p 409 A comparative history of spousal murder and battering in late
colonial and early post-colonial Mexico Colombia and Spain emphasizing law and punishment Murdo J
Macleod Book Prize LACS-SHA Fall 2016 for the best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean
American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic World history Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas
Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject SECOLAS Spring 2016 Honorable
Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation Colombia
Fall 2016 highest scientific recognition in Colombia extoling investigations that ldquomake a creative and
rigorous contribution to the field and respond to the realities of contemporary Colombian societyrdquo
2 Vidas Honorables Abogados Familia Sociedad y Poliacutetica en Colombia 1780-1850 (Bogotaacute Banco
de la Repuacuteblica-EAFIT 2008) p 441 Translation and expanded edition of Honorable Lives
3 State and Society in Spanish America during the Age of Revolution author and editor Anthology with
essays by Samuel Amaral John C Chasteen Richard Doringo Elizabeth Kuznesof Marti Lamar Sonya
Lipset-Rivera Richard Salvucci Mark Szuchman Victor Uribe and Eric Van Young (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 2001) p 261
4 Naciones Gentes y Territorios Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el
Caribe author and co-editor with Luis Javier Ortiacutez Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten
Anthology with comparative essays by Charles Bergquist Malcolm Deas Herbert Klein Allan Knight
Hans Konig Robert Macaa Mark Szuchman Ann Twinam Victor Uribe and Eric Van Young
(Medelliacuten Universidad de Antioquia 2000) p 449
5 Honorable Lives Lawyers Family Society and Politics in Colombia 1780-1850 A social history of the
legal community of late colonial and early republican Colombia (Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh
Press 2000) p 276
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
1 ldquoSpanish American Royalism in the Age of Revolutionrdquo Review Essay Co-authored with Rene Silva
Latin American Research Review 49 1 (Spring 2014) 270-281
2 ldquoFrom lsquoDomestic Violencersquo to Violence(s) Against Women in Modern Mexico and Latin Americardquo
Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 5-13
3 ldquoInsurgentes de provincia Tunja Nueva Granada y el constitucionalismo en el mundo hispaacutenico en la
deacutecada de 1810rdquo Historia y Memoria 5 (July-December 2012) 17-48
4 ldquoCaacutediz contra las Provincias Constitucioacuten Revolucioacuten y Reaccioacuten en Nueva Granada 1811-1821rdquo
Boletin de Historia y Antiguedades 97 849 (20 Julio 2010) 295-319
5 ldquolsquoIglesia me llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spain and Colonial Spanish Americardquo
Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 1 (2007) 446-472
6 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides the Punishment of Indians and the Law
in Colonial Mexico 1740sndash1820srdquo Journal of Latin American Studies 38 4 (2006) 793-828
7 ldquoSociabilidad poliacutetica popular abogados guerra y bandidismo en Nueva Granada 1830s-1850s
3
respuestas subalternas y reacciones elitistasrdquo Historia y Sociedad No 9 (March 2003) 89-116
8 ldquoColonial Baracunatanas and their Nasty Men Spousal Homicides and the Law in New Granada 1750-
1810rdquo Journal of Social History 35 1 (Fall 2001) 43-72
9 ldquo lsquoMaten a todos los abogados Los abogados y el movimiento de independencia en la Nueva Granada
1809-1820rdquo traducido por Cecilia Ineacutes Restrepo de M Historia y Sociedad No 7 (December 2000) 7-
48 [translation of ldquo Kill all the Lawyersrdquo]
10 ldquoThe Birth of a Public Sphere in Latin America During the Age of Revolutionrdquo Comparative Studies in
Society and History 42 2 (April 2000) 425-457
11 ldquoCartas ineacuteditas sobre las memorias del General Tomaacutes Cipriano de Mosquerardquo Historia y Sociedad 6
(December 1999) 209-219
12 ldquoThe Enigma of Latin American Independence Analyses of the Last Ten Yearsrdquo Latin American
Research Review 32 1 (Spring 1997) 237-255
13 ldquoDisputas entre estado y sociedad sobre la educacioacuten de los abogados a finales de la etapa colonial en la
Nueva Granadardquo Historia y Sociedad Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten No 3 (Diciembre
1996) 33-57
14 ldquoWorld War II and Its Aftermath in Latin Americardquo Review Essay Latin American Perspectives 23 4
(Fall 1996) 108-114
15 ldquoPreparando mandarines Apuntes sobre la historia de la ciencia administrativa en Nueva Granada durante
la colonia y comienzos de la repuacuteblica 1590-1850rdquo Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y
Sociales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute No 7 (Enero-Junio 1996) 87-97
16 ldquoThe Lawyers and New Granadas Late Colonial Staterdquo Journal of Latin American Studies 27 3 (October
1995) 517-549
17 ldquoKill all the Lawyers Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada 1809-1820rdquo The
Americas 52 2 (October 1995) 175-210
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1 ldquoColombia Ungoverned Territory and the Proliferation of Non-state Actorsrdquo Brian Fonseca and
Eduardo Gamarra eds Culture and National Security in the Americas (New York Rowman and
Littlefield 2017) p 33-60
2 ldquoDistintos tonos de gris Los juristas y las independencias de Iberoameacuterica 1808-1821rdquo in Santiago
Muntildeoacutez Machado ed Historia de la abogacia espantildeola (Cizur Menor Navarra Editorial Arazandi
2015) vol 1 p 897-937
3 ldquoPhysical Violence Against Wives and the Law in the Spanish American World 1820s-2000srdquo in
Ricardo Salvatore Pieter Spierenburg and Eric Johnson eds Murder and Violence in Modern Latin
America (London Blackwell-Wiley 2013) p 49-80
4 ldquoEl impacto de la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1812-1814rdquo in Andreacutes Botero Bernal
Coord Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada Ocho estudios sobre la constitucioacuten gaditana en el periacuteodo de la
independencia Neogranadina (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2013) p 243-278
5 ldquoJuristas sociedad independencia y estado en la Nueva Granada 1790-1830rdquo in Joseacute Mariacutea Peacuterez
Collados y Samuel Rodriacuteguez Barbosa eds Juristas de la Independencia (Madrid Editorial Marcial
4
Pons 2012) p 159-204
6 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821rdquo in Heraclio Bonilla
ed La Constitucioacuten de 1812 en Hispanoameacuterica y Espantildea (Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad Nacional de
Colombia-Alcaldiacutea Mayor de Bogotaacute 2012) p 273-303
7 ldquoLas Varias Caras de la Opinioacuten Puacuteblicardquo in Francisco Ortega and Alexander Chaparro eds Disfraz y
pluma de todos Opinioacuten puacuteblica y cultura poliacutetica siglos XVIII y XIX (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional
de Colombia 2012) p 529-548
8 ldquoLa vida privada de los hombres puacuteblicosrdquo in Historia de la Vida Privada en Colombia Vol 1 Las
Fronteras difusas Del Siglo XVI a 1880 in Jaime Humberto Borja y Pablo Rodriacuteguez comps (Bogotaacute
Taurus 2011) p 105-127
9 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo with assistance from Harry Mora in Mary Volcansek and John Stack eds Courts and Terror
Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011) p 199-
223
10 ldquoHistoria de la Cultura en la Nueva Granada 1810-1830rdquo in Eduardo Posada-Carboacute and Adolfo
Meisel Roca eds Ameacuterica Latina en la Historia Contemporaacutenea Volume I Colombia Crisis
imperial e independencia 1808-1830 (Madrid Editorial Fundacioacuten MAPFRE-Taurus 2010) p 249-
298
11 ldquoAbogados Independencia y Muerte en la Nueva Granada 1813-1819rdquo in Pablo Rodriacuteguez ed
Historia que no Cesa La Independencia de Colombia 1780-1830 (Bogotaacute Universidad del Rosario
2010) p 133-148
12 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Constituciones Justicia Plural y Democracia en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Justicia
poliacutetica y derechos en Ameacuterica Latina edicioacuten a cargo de Juan Manuel Palacio y Magdalena Candioti
- 1a ed (Buenos Aires Prometeo Libros 2007) p 83-104
13 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA y su contribucioacuten al
derecho internacional puacuteblico de la integracioacutenrdquo in Myriam Salcedo Castro ed Constitution et Inteacutegration
(Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad del Rosario 2006) p 115-139
14 ldquoEl constitucionalismo provincial colombiano vida puacuteblica y vida privada en el periacuteodo postcolonialrdquo in
Andreacutes Botero Bernal ed Origen del Constitucionalismo colombiano Coleccioacuten memorias Juriacutedicas No
1 (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2006) p 33-51
15 ldquoDerecho y cultura legal durante la lsquoEra de la Revolucioacutenrsquo en Meacutexico Colombia y Brasil 1750-1850rdquo in
Mariacutea Teresa Calderoacuten and Cleacutement Thibaud coords Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico (Bogotaacute
Tauros 2006) p 251-297
16 ldquoThe Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture ldquoThe Publicrdquo and ldquoThe Privaterdquo in the
Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850rdquo in Joseph W
Esherick Hasan Kayali and Eric Van Young eds Empire to Nation Historical Perspectives on the
Making of the Modern World (New York Rowman Littlefield Publishers 2005) p 68-105
17 ldquoIntroduction Beating a Dead Horserdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in Spanish America
During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p xi-xix
18 ldquoThe Changing Meaning of Honor Status and Class The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in
5
the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periodrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in
Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p 59-87
19 ldquoIntroduccioacuten Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Cariberdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten and Luis J
Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe (Medelliacuten
Univ de Antioquia 2000) p xix-xxxiv
20 ldquoLa Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyosrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten
and Luis J Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe
(Medelliacuten Univ de Antioquia 2000) p 229-269
21 ldquoColonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Spanish Americardquo in
Eduardo Zimerman ed Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London 1999) p 25-48
22 ldquoEducacioacuten legal y formacioacuten del Estado colombiano durante la transicioacuten de la colonia a la Repuacuteblica
1780-1850rdquo in Javier Guerrero Baroacuten (comp) Etnias educacioacuten y archivos en la historia de Colombia
(Tunja Univ Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia 1997) p 179-203
BOOK REVIEWS
1 State of Ambiguity Civic Life and Culture in Cubarsquos First Republic Edited by Steven Palmer Joseacute
Antonio Piqueras and Amparo Saacutenchez Cobos (Durham NC Duke University Press 2014) Hispanic
American Historical Review 96 4 (2016) 751-753
2 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World Creating Modernity Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-
Century Latin America By James Sanders (Durham Duke University Press 2014) Ethnohistory 63 3
(2016) 587-588
3 The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
(Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2014) American Historical Review 120 5
(December 2015) 1940-1941
4 Ambitious Rebels Remaking Honor Law and Liberalism in Venezuela 1780-1850 by Ruben Zahler
(Tucson The University of Arizona Press 2013) The Americas 72 3 (July 2015) 507-508
5 Native Claims Indigenous Law against Empire 1500-1920 By Saliha Belmessous (Oxford Oxford
University Press 2012) Itinerario International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 36 3 (2012) 138-140
6 Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacaacute 1821-1900 By Joshua
Rosenthal (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Latin Americanist Southeastern
Conference on Latin American Studies 56 3 (September 2012) 125-126
7 For Tranquility and Order Family and Community on Mexicorsquos Northern Frontier 1800-1850 By
Laura M Shelton (Tucson AZ The University of Arizona Press 2010) Bulletin of Latin American
Research 31 3 (July 2012) 395-396
8 Nation and State in Latin America Political Language during Independence By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) and Fundamentos intelectuales y poliacuteticos de las
independencias Notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoameacuterica By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) Hispanic American Historical Review 92 2 (May 2012)
366-368
9 Justicia y tortura en los Andes Recurso de Judas Tadeo Andrade ante la Audiencia de Charcas
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
3
respuestas subalternas y reacciones elitistasrdquo Historia y Sociedad No 9 (March 2003) 89-116
8 ldquoColonial Baracunatanas and their Nasty Men Spousal Homicides and the Law in New Granada 1750-
1810rdquo Journal of Social History 35 1 (Fall 2001) 43-72
9 ldquo lsquoMaten a todos los abogados Los abogados y el movimiento de independencia en la Nueva Granada
1809-1820rdquo traducido por Cecilia Ineacutes Restrepo de M Historia y Sociedad No 7 (December 2000) 7-
48 [translation of ldquo Kill all the Lawyersrdquo]
10 ldquoThe Birth of a Public Sphere in Latin America During the Age of Revolutionrdquo Comparative Studies in
Society and History 42 2 (April 2000) 425-457
11 ldquoCartas ineacuteditas sobre las memorias del General Tomaacutes Cipriano de Mosquerardquo Historia y Sociedad 6
(December 1999) 209-219
12 ldquoThe Enigma of Latin American Independence Analyses of the Last Ten Yearsrdquo Latin American
Research Review 32 1 (Spring 1997) 237-255
13 ldquoDisputas entre estado y sociedad sobre la educacioacuten de los abogados a finales de la etapa colonial en la
Nueva Granadardquo Historia y Sociedad Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten No 3 (Diciembre
1996) 33-57
14 ldquoWorld War II and Its Aftermath in Latin Americardquo Review Essay Latin American Perspectives 23 4
(Fall 1996) 108-114
15 ldquoPreparando mandarines Apuntes sobre la historia de la ciencia administrativa en Nueva Granada durante
la colonia y comienzos de la repuacuteblica 1590-1850rdquo Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas y
Sociales Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute No 7 (Enero-Junio 1996) 87-97
16 ldquoThe Lawyers and New Granadas Late Colonial Staterdquo Journal of Latin American Studies 27 3 (October
1995) 517-549
17 ldquoKill all the Lawyers Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada 1809-1820rdquo The
Americas 52 2 (October 1995) 175-210
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1 ldquoColombia Ungoverned Territory and the Proliferation of Non-state Actorsrdquo Brian Fonseca and
Eduardo Gamarra eds Culture and National Security in the Americas (New York Rowman and
Littlefield 2017) p 33-60
2 ldquoDistintos tonos de gris Los juristas y las independencias de Iberoameacuterica 1808-1821rdquo in Santiago
Muntildeoacutez Machado ed Historia de la abogacia espantildeola (Cizur Menor Navarra Editorial Arazandi
2015) vol 1 p 897-937
3 ldquoPhysical Violence Against Wives and the Law in the Spanish American World 1820s-2000srdquo in
Ricardo Salvatore Pieter Spierenburg and Eric Johnson eds Murder and Violence in Modern Latin
America (London Blackwell-Wiley 2013) p 49-80
4 ldquoEl impacto de la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1812-1814rdquo in Andreacutes Botero Bernal
Coord Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada Ocho estudios sobre la constitucioacuten gaditana en el periacuteodo de la
independencia Neogranadina (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2013) p 243-278
5 ldquoJuristas sociedad independencia y estado en la Nueva Granada 1790-1830rdquo in Joseacute Mariacutea Peacuterez
Collados y Samuel Rodriacuteguez Barbosa eds Juristas de la Independencia (Madrid Editorial Marcial
4
Pons 2012) p 159-204
6 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821rdquo in Heraclio Bonilla
ed La Constitucioacuten de 1812 en Hispanoameacuterica y Espantildea (Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad Nacional de
Colombia-Alcaldiacutea Mayor de Bogotaacute 2012) p 273-303
7 ldquoLas Varias Caras de la Opinioacuten Puacuteblicardquo in Francisco Ortega and Alexander Chaparro eds Disfraz y
pluma de todos Opinioacuten puacuteblica y cultura poliacutetica siglos XVIII y XIX (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional
de Colombia 2012) p 529-548
8 ldquoLa vida privada de los hombres puacuteblicosrdquo in Historia de la Vida Privada en Colombia Vol 1 Las
Fronteras difusas Del Siglo XVI a 1880 in Jaime Humberto Borja y Pablo Rodriacuteguez comps (Bogotaacute
Taurus 2011) p 105-127
9 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo with assistance from Harry Mora in Mary Volcansek and John Stack eds Courts and Terror
Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011) p 199-
223
10 ldquoHistoria de la Cultura en la Nueva Granada 1810-1830rdquo in Eduardo Posada-Carboacute and Adolfo
Meisel Roca eds Ameacuterica Latina en la Historia Contemporaacutenea Volume I Colombia Crisis
imperial e independencia 1808-1830 (Madrid Editorial Fundacioacuten MAPFRE-Taurus 2010) p 249-
298
11 ldquoAbogados Independencia y Muerte en la Nueva Granada 1813-1819rdquo in Pablo Rodriacuteguez ed
Historia que no Cesa La Independencia de Colombia 1780-1830 (Bogotaacute Universidad del Rosario
2010) p 133-148
12 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Constituciones Justicia Plural y Democracia en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Justicia
poliacutetica y derechos en Ameacuterica Latina edicioacuten a cargo de Juan Manuel Palacio y Magdalena Candioti
- 1a ed (Buenos Aires Prometeo Libros 2007) p 83-104
13 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA y su contribucioacuten al
derecho internacional puacuteblico de la integracioacutenrdquo in Myriam Salcedo Castro ed Constitution et Inteacutegration
(Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad del Rosario 2006) p 115-139
14 ldquoEl constitucionalismo provincial colombiano vida puacuteblica y vida privada en el periacuteodo postcolonialrdquo in
Andreacutes Botero Bernal ed Origen del Constitucionalismo colombiano Coleccioacuten memorias Juriacutedicas No
1 (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2006) p 33-51
15 ldquoDerecho y cultura legal durante la lsquoEra de la Revolucioacutenrsquo en Meacutexico Colombia y Brasil 1750-1850rdquo in
Mariacutea Teresa Calderoacuten and Cleacutement Thibaud coords Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico (Bogotaacute
Tauros 2006) p 251-297
16 ldquoThe Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture ldquoThe Publicrdquo and ldquoThe Privaterdquo in the
Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850rdquo in Joseph W
Esherick Hasan Kayali and Eric Van Young eds Empire to Nation Historical Perspectives on the
Making of the Modern World (New York Rowman Littlefield Publishers 2005) p 68-105
17 ldquoIntroduction Beating a Dead Horserdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in Spanish America
During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p xi-xix
18 ldquoThe Changing Meaning of Honor Status and Class The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in
5
the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periodrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in
Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p 59-87
19 ldquoIntroduccioacuten Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Cariberdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten and Luis J
Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe (Medelliacuten
Univ de Antioquia 2000) p xix-xxxiv
20 ldquoLa Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyosrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten
and Luis J Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe
(Medelliacuten Univ de Antioquia 2000) p 229-269
21 ldquoColonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Spanish Americardquo in
Eduardo Zimerman ed Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London 1999) p 25-48
22 ldquoEducacioacuten legal y formacioacuten del Estado colombiano durante la transicioacuten de la colonia a la Repuacuteblica
1780-1850rdquo in Javier Guerrero Baroacuten (comp) Etnias educacioacuten y archivos en la historia de Colombia
(Tunja Univ Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia 1997) p 179-203
BOOK REVIEWS
1 State of Ambiguity Civic Life and Culture in Cubarsquos First Republic Edited by Steven Palmer Joseacute
Antonio Piqueras and Amparo Saacutenchez Cobos (Durham NC Duke University Press 2014) Hispanic
American Historical Review 96 4 (2016) 751-753
2 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World Creating Modernity Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-
Century Latin America By James Sanders (Durham Duke University Press 2014) Ethnohistory 63 3
(2016) 587-588
3 The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
(Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2014) American Historical Review 120 5
(December 2015) 1940-1941
4 Ambitious Rebels Remaking Honor Law and Liberalism in Venezuela 1780-1850 by Ruben Zahler
(Tucson The University of Arizona Press 2013) The Americas 72 3 (July 2015) 507-508
5 Native Claims Indigenous Law against Empire 1500-1920 By Saliha Belmessous (Oxford Oxford
University Press 2012) Itinerario International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 36 3 (2012) 138-140
6 Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacaacute 1821-1900 By Joshua
Rosenthal (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Latin Americanist Southeastern
Conference on Latin American Studies 56 3 (September 2012) 125-126
7 For Tranquility and Order Family and Community on Mexicorsquos Northern Frontier 1800-1850 By
Laura M Shelton (Tucson AZ The University of Arizona Press 2010) Bulletin of Latin American
Research 31 3 (July 2012) 395-396
8 Nation and State in Latin America Political Language during Independence By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) and Fundamentos intelectuales y poliacuteticos de las
independencias Notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoameacuterica By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) Hispanic American Historical Review 92 2 (May 2012)
366-368
9 Justicia y tortura en los Andes Recurso de Judas Tadeo Andrade ante la Audiencia de Charcas
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
4
Pons 2012) p 159-204
6 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821rdquo in Heraclio Bonilla
ed La Constitucioacuten de 1812 en Hispanoameacuterica y Espantildea (Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad Nacional de
Colombia-Alcaldiacutea Mayor de Bogotaacute 2012) p 273-303
7 ldquoLas Varias Caras de la Opinioacuten Puacuteblicardquo in Francisco Ortega and Alexander Chaparro eds Disfraz y
pluma de todos Opinioacuten puacuteblica y cultura poliacutetica siglos XVIII y XIX (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional
de Colombia 2012) p 529-548
8 ldquoLa vida privada de los hombres puacuteblicosrdquo in Historia de la Vida Privada en Colombia Vol 1 Las
Fronteras difusas Del Siglo XVI a 1880 in Jaime Humberto Borja y Pablo Rodriacuteguez comps (Bogotaacute
Taurus 2011) p 105-127
9 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo with assistance from Harry Mora in Mary Volcansek and John Stack eds Courts and Terror
Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law (Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2011) p 199-
223
10 ldquoHistoria de la Cultura en la Nueva Granada 1810-1830rdquo in Eduardo Posada-Carboacute and Adolfo
Meisel Roca eds Ameacuterica Latina en la Historia Contemporaacutenea Volume I Colombia Crisis
imperial e independencia 1808-1830 (Madrid Editorial Fundacioacuten MAPFRE-Taurus 2010) p 249-
298
11 ldquoAbogados Independencia y Muerte en la Nueva Granada 1813-1819rdquo in Pablo Rodriacuteguez ed
Historia que no Cesa La Independencia de Colombia 1780-1830 (Bogotaacute Universidad del Rosario
2010) p 133-148
12 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Constituciones Justicia Plural y Democracia en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Justicia
poliacutetica y derechos en Ameacuterica Latina edicioacuten a cargo de Juan Manuel Palacio y Magdalena Candioti
- 1a ed (Buenos Aires Prometeo Libros 2007) p 83-104
13 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA y su contribucioacuten al
derecho internacional puacuteblico de la integracioacutenrdquo in Myriam Salcedo Castro ed Constitution et Inteacutegration
(Bogotaacute Editorial Universidad del Rosario 2006) p 115-139
14 ldquoEl constitucionalismo provincial colombiano vida puacuteblica y vida privada en el periacuteodo postcolonialrdquo in
Andreacutes Botero Bernal ed Origen del Constitucionalismo colombiano Coleccioacuten memorias Juriacutedicas No
1 (Medelliacuten Universidad de Medelliacuten 2006) p 33-51
15 ldquoDerecho y cultura legal durante la lsquoEra de la Revolucioacutenrsquo en Meacutexico Colombia y Brasil 1750-1850rdquo in
Mariacutea Teresa Calderoacuten and Cleacutement Thibaud coords Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico (Bogotaacute
Tauros 2006) p 251-297
16 ldquoThe Great Transformation of Law and Legal Culture ldquoThe Publicrdquo and ldquoThe Privaterdquo in the
Transition from Empire to Nation in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850rdquo in Joseph W
Esherick Hasan Kayali and Eric Van Young eds Empire to Nation Historical Perspectives on the
Making of the Modern World (New York Rowman Littlefield Publishers 2005) p 68-105
17 ldquoIntroduction Beating a Dead Horserdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in Spanish America
During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p xi-xix
18 ldquoThe Changing Meaning of Honor Status and Class The Letrados and Bureaucrats of New Granada in
5
the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periodrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in
Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p 59-87
19 ldquoIntroduccioacuten Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Cariberdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten and Luis J
Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe (Medelliacuten
Univ de Antioquia 2000) p xix-xxxiv
20 ldquoLa Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyosrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten
and Luis J Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe
(Medelliacuten Univ de Antioquia 2000) p 229-269
21 ldquoColonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Spanish Americardquo in
Eduardo Zimerman ed Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London 1999) p 25-48
22 ldquoEducacioacuten legal y formacioacuten del Estado colombiano durante la transicioacuten de la colonia a la Repuacuteblica
1780-1850rdquo in Javier Guerrero Baroacuten (comp) Etnias educacioacuten y archivos en la historia de Colombia
(Tunja Univ Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia 1997) p 179-203
BOOK REVIEWS
1 State of Ambiguity Civic Life and Culture in Cubarsquos First Republic Edited by Steven Palmer Joseacute
Antonio Piqueras and Amparo Saacutenchez Cobos (Durham NC Duke University Press 2014) Hispanic
American Historical Review 96 4 (2016) 751-753
2 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World Creating Modernity Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-
Century Latin America By James Sanders (Durham Duke University Press 2014) Ethnohistory 63 3
(2016) 587-588
3 The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
(Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2014) American Historical Review 120 5
(December 2015) 1940-1941
4 Ambitious Rebels Remaking Honor Law and Liberalism in Venezuela 1780-1850 by Ruben Zahler
(Tucson The University of Arizona Press 2013) The Americas 72 3 (July 2015) 507-508
5 Native Claims Indigenous Law against Empire 1500-1920 By Saliha Belmessous (Oxford Oxford
University Press 2012) Itinerario International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 36 3 (2012) 138-140
6 Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacaacute 1821-1900 By Joshua
Rosenthal (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Latin Americanist Southeastern
Conference on Latin American Studies 56 3 (September 2012) 125-126
7 For Tranquility and Order Family and Community on Mexicorsquos Northern Frontier 1800-1850 By
Laura M Shelton (Tucson AZ The University of Arizona Press 2010) Bulletin of Latin American
Research 31 3 (July 2012) 395-396
8 Nation and State in Latin America Political Language during Independence By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) and Fundamentos intelectuales y poliacuteticos de las
independencias Notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoameacuterica By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) Hispanic American Historical Review 92 2 (May 2012)
366-368
9 Justicia y tortura en los Andes Recurso de Judas Tadeo Andrade ante la Audiencia de Charcas
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
5
the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periodrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten ed State and Society in
Spanish America During the Age of Revolution (Wilmington Scholarly Resources 2001) p 59-87
19 ldquoIntroduccioacuten Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Cariberdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten and Luis J
Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe (Medelliacuten
Univ de Antioquia 2000) p xix-xxxiv
20 ldquoLa Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyosrdquo in Victor M Uribe-Uraacuten
and Luis J Ortiz eds Ensayos de Historia e Historiografiacutea Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina y el Caribe
(Medelliacuten Univ de Antioquia 2000) p 229-269
21 ldquoColonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Spanish Americardquo in
Eduardo Zimerman ed Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London 1999) p 25-48
22 ldquoEducacioacuten legal y formacioacuten del Estado colombiano durante la transicioacuten de la colonia a la Repuacuteblica
1780-1850rdquo in Javier Guerrero Baroacuten (comp) Etnias educacioacuten y archivos en la historia de Colombia
(Tunja Univ Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia 1997) p 179-203
BOOK REVIEWS
1 State of Ambiguity Civic Life and Culture in Cubarsquos First Republic Edited by Steven Palmer Joseacute
Antonio Piqueras and Amparo Saacutenchez Cobos (Durham NC Duke University Press 2014) Hispanic
American Historical Review 96 4 (2016) 751-753
2 The Vanguard of the Atlantic World Creating Modernity Nation and Democracy in Nineteenth-
Century Latin America By James Sanders (Durham Duke University Press 2014) Ethnohistory 63 3
(2016) 587-588
3 The Work of Recognition Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship
(Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2014) American Historical Review 120 5
(December 2015) 1940-1941
4 Ambitious Rebels Remaking Honor Law and Liberalism in Venezuela 1780-1850 by Ruben Zahler
(Tucson The University of Arizona Press 2013) The Americas 72 3 (July 2015) 507-508
5 Native Claims Indigenous Law against Empire 1500-1920 By Saliha Belmessous (Oxford Oxford
University Press 2012) Itinerario International Journal on the History of European Expansion and
Global Interaction 36 3 (2012) 138-140
6 Salt and the Colombian State Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacaacute 1821-1900 By Joshua
Rosenthal (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2012) The Latin Americanist Southeastern
Conference on Latin American Studies 56 3 (September 2012) 125-126
7 For Tranquility and Order Family and Community on Mexicorsquos Northern Frontier 1800-1850 By
Laura M Shelton (Tucson AZ The University of Arizona Press 2010) Bulletin of Latin American
Research 31 3 (July 2012) 395-396
8 Nation and State in Latin America Political Language during Independence By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) and Fundamentos intelectuales y poliacuteticos de las
independencias Notas para una nueva historia intelectual de Iberoameacuterica By Joseacute Carlos
Chiaramonte (Buenos Aires Teseo 2010) Hispanic American Historical Review 92 2 (May 2012)
366-368
9 Justicia y tortura en los Andes Recurso de Judas Tadeo Andrade ante la Audiencia de Charcas
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
6
1791 coordinated by Marcela Inch Calvimonte and Marta Irurozqui Victoriano (Madrid Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientiacuteficas 2007) Hispanic American Historical Review 90 2 (2010)
327-328
10 Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico By Brian P Owensby (Stanford Stanford
University Press 2008) Journal of Latin American Studies 42 1 (2010) 159
11 Andean Cocaine the Making of a Global Drug By Paul Gootenberg (Chapel Hill NC University of
North Carolina Press 2008) The Americas 66 2 (October 2009) 299-301
12 Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism During the Age of Revolution Colombia 1795-1831 By
Marixa Lasso (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press 2008) The American Historical Review 113
4 (2008) 1207
13 Hers His and Theirs Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas By Jean A Stuntz
(Lubbock TX Texas Tech University Press 2005) New Mexico Historical Review 83 2 (2008) 245-
246
14 Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America Edited by S Caulfield S Chambers and L Putnam
(Durham Duke University Press 2005) The Americas 64 3 (January 2008) 457-458
15 El Motiacuten de Esquilache Ameacuterica y Europa By Joseacute A Gallego (Madrid Fundacioacuten Mapfre-Tavera
2003) American Historical Review 110 3 (June 2005) 875-876
16 Resistencia Hip Hop in Colombia New York The Cinema Guild Inc 2002 51 minutes Directed and
produced by Tom Feiling Journal of Latin American Anthropology 10 1 (April 2005) 269-270
17 Francisco Miranda A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution By Karen Racine (Wilmington DE
Scholarly Resources 2003) Bulletin of Latin American Research 24 3 (Spring 2005) 401-403
18 Revolution in Mexicorsquos Heartland Politics War and State Building in Puebla 1913-1920 By David G
LaFrance (Wilmington Scholarly Resources Inc 2003) Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 2
(Fall 2004) 477-478
19 The Political Power of the Word Press and Oratory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America By Ivan
Jaksic (London Institute of Latin American Studies 2002) The Americas 61 1 (July 2004) 115-116
20 Classmates Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil)
By Andrew K Kirkendall (Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2000) Law and Politics in Latin
America 46 3 (Summer 2004) 143-144
21 War Takes 2002 A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castantildeo Journal of Latin American
Anthropology 9 1 (Spring 2004) 233-234
22 Blood and Debt War and the Nation State in Latin America By Miguel Angel Centeno (University
Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2002) The Americas 60 3 (January 2004) 454-
455
23 Blood and Fire La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia 1946-1953 By Mary Roldaacuten (Durham Duke
University Press 2000) The Historian 65 6 (Spring 2004) 1430-1432
24 Law and Colonial Cultures Legal Regimes in World History 1400-1900 Studies in Comparative
World History By Lauren A Benton (New York Cambridge University Press 2002) Hispanic
American Historical Review 83 4 (November 2003) 775-776
25 In Defense of Honor Sexual Morality Modernity and Nation in Early-twentieth-Century Brazil By
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
7
Sueann Caulfield (Durham Duke Univ Press 2000) American Journal of Legal History XLIV 4 (Fall
2003) 451-452
26 Dinaacutemicas de Antiguo Reacutegimen y Orden Constitucional Representacioacuten Justicia y Administracioacuten en
Iberoameacuterica Siglos XVIII-XIX By Marco Bellingeri (Torino OTTO Editore 2000) The Americas
59 4 (April 2003) 571-572
27 Les hommes de ndashla Pampa Une histoire agraire de la campagne de Buenos Aires 1700-1830 By
Juan Carlos Garavaglia (Paris Eacuteditions de lrsquoEacutecole des Hautes Eacutetudes en Sciences 2000) The
Americas 59 3 (January 2003) 430-432
28 Liberalism in the Bedroom Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima By Christine Hunefeldt
(University Park Penn The Pennsylvania State University Press 2000) American Historical Review
107 4 (October 2002) 1266
29 Constitucionalismo y orden liberal Ameacuterica Latina 1850-1920 By Marcelo Carmagnani (Turin Otto
Editore 2000) The Americas 59 1 (July 2002) 127-128
30 State Formation and Democracy in Latin America 1810-1900 By Fernando Loacutepez-Alves (Durham
Duke University Press 2000) The Americas 58 4 (April 2002) 646-647
31 Republic of Capital Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World By Jeremy
Adelman (Stanford University Press 1999) The Americas 58 3 (January 2002) 501-502
32 Containing the Poor The Mexico City Poor House 1774-1871) By Silvia M Arrom (Durham Duke
Univ Press 2000) History Reviews of New Books 30 2 (Winter 2002) 58
33 Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1810-1825 By Rebecca A Earle (Exeter University of Exeter
Press 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April 2001) 605-606
34 Civiliteacute et Politique Aux Origines de Nation Argentine Les Sociabilitieacutes au Buenos Aires 1829-1862 By
Pilar Gonzaacutelez Bernaldo de Quiroacutes (Paris Publications de la Sorbonne 1999) The Americas 57 4 (April
2001) 614-616
35 Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico Michoacan from the Late Colony to the Revolution By Margaret
Chowning (Stanford Stanford Univ Press 1999) History Review of Books 28 2 (Winter 2000) 58-59
36 Republicanismo y reforma constitucional 1891-1910 By Fernando Correa Uribe (Medelliacuten Universidad
de Antioquia 1996) Hispanic American Historical Review 79 3 (August 1999) 571-572
37 Workers Control in Latin America 1930-1979 By Jonathan C Brown (Chapel Hill The Univ of North
Carolina Press 1997) Florida Historical Quarterly (Summer1999) 556-559
38 Based on a True Story Latin American History and the Movies Donald F Stevens (ed) (Wilmington
Scholarly Resources 1997) Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40 3 (1998) 139-142
39 Learning to Heal The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831 By Luz Mariacutea Hernaacutendez
Saacuteenz (New York Peter Lang 1997) History Review of Books 26 4 (Summer 1998) 181-182
40 The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850 By Lester D Langley (New Haven Yale University
Press 1996) The Americas (1998) 605-607
41 El 48 chileno igualitarios reformistas radicales masones y bomberos By Cristian Gazmuri (Santiago
de Chile Editorial Universitaria 1992) Hispanic American Historical Review 78 1 (February 1998)
161-162
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
8
42 Colombias Military and Brazils Monarchy Undermining the Republican Foundations of South American
Independence By Thomas Millington (Westport Greenwood Press 1996) Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs 40 1 (Spring 1998) 113-115
43 The Wages of Conquest The Mexican Aristocracy in the Context of Western Aristocracies By Hugo
Nutini (Ann Abor The University of Michigan Press 1995) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 3
(August 1997) 520-521
44 The Legal Culture of Northern New Spain 1700-1810 By Charles Cutter (Albuquerque University of
New Mexico Press 1996) H-LAW (electronic bulletin) Spring 1997
45 Los escribanos de Venezuela by Nieves Avellaacuten de Tamayo (Barquisimeto Armitano Editores CA
1994) Hispanic American Historical Review 77 2 (May 1997) 317-318
46 Agrarian Structure and Political Power Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America edited by
Evelyne Huber y Frank Safford (eds) (Pittsburgh Univ of Pittsburgh Press 1995) Historia y Sociedad 3
(Diciembre 1996) 183-189
47 The Heart that Bleeds Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto (New York Vintage Books 1994)
Innovar Revista de Ciencias Administrativas Universidad Nacional de Colombia No 8 (July-December
1996) 166-168
48 The Kingdom of Quito 1690-1830 The State and Regional Development By Kenneth J Andrien
(Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press 1995) The Americas 52 3 (October 1996) 310-311
49 Andres Molina Enriquez Mexican Land Reformer of the Revolutionary By Stanley F Shadle (Tucson
AR The University of Arizona Press 1994) History Review of Books 25 1 (Fall 1996) 17
50 Latin America in the 1940s War and Postwar Transitions edited by David Rock (Berkeley University of
California Press 1994) Latin American Perspectives 23 4 (Fall 1996) 108-114
51 Broken Promises Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino By William C Thiesenhusen
(Boulder Westview Press 1995) Journal of Latin American Affairs 4 1 (Spring-Summer 1996) 75-76
52 Transition to Democracy in Latin America The Role of the Judiciary edited by Irwin P Stotzky
(Boulder Westview Press 1993) Hispanic American Historical Review 74 4 (November 1996) 834-
835
53 Criminalidad ley penal y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia by Beatriacutez Patintildeo Pecado y
delito en la colonia la bestialidad como una forma de contravencioacuten sexual (1740-1808) By Leonardo A
Vega Labradores tejedores y ladrones Hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja 1745-1810 By
Guillermo Sosa Abella Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1996) 355-358
54 Historical Dictionary of Colombia By Robert H Davis (New York Rowman amp Littlefield Publishers
1993) Hispanic American Historical Review (February 1995) 87-88
55 Americas New Interpretive Essays edited by Alfred Stepan (Oxford Oxford University Press 1992)
Hispanic American Historical Review (May 1994) 324-325
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1 ldquoTime Line of Progress Against Gender Violence through International Agreements and Policy
Commitmentsrdquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 41-45
2 ldquoAn Academicrsquos Search for Answers to Violence Against Women An Interview with Professor
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
9
Rita Laura Segatordquo Hemisphere 22 (Summer 2013) 14-19
3 ldquoConstitucionalismo y Guerrardquo and ldquoUna Carta de larga Vidardquo in Carlos Alberto Patintildeo ed Hechos y
Relatos de Nacioacuten (Bogotaacute Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2011) p 63-74 Accompanied by two
one-hour-long DVD talks
4 ldquoLos virajes Europeosrdquo in Diaacutelogos de la Independencia Germaacuten Mejia Pavony ed (Bogotaacute
Ministerio de la Cultura 2010) DVD no 8 One-hour-long DVD talk on the European context of Latin
American Independence
5 ldquoConstitucioacutenrdquo in Diccionario Poliacutetico y Social del Mundo Iberoamericano La era de las
revoluciones 1750-1850 Iberconceptos-I Javier Fernaacutendez Sebastian ed (Madrid Fundacioacuten
Carolina-Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales-Centro de Estudios Poliacuteticos y
Constitucionales 2009) 364-373
6 ldquoColombian Legal Historyrdquo in Encyclopedia of Legal History Stanley N Katz editor in Chief
(Oxford University Press 2009) Vol 2 62-63
NON-REFEREED
PROCEEDINGS
1 ldquoQuieacutenes pensaron la repuacuteblicardquo in Juan Carlos Torres comp y ed El Gran Libro del Bicentenario
(Bogotaacute Editorial Planeta 2010) p 215-223
2 ldquoLas tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXIrdquo Memorias Congreso Internacional de
Derecho Puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio (Bogotaacute
Universidad Externado de Colombia 1996) p 830-844
GOVERNMENT REPORTS OR MONOGRAPHS
1 ldquoColombian Strategic Culturerdquo FIU Applied Research Center-LACC 2009 Findings Report FIU-
SOUTHCOM Academic Partnership on Strategic Cultures Assessment p 31
PRESENTED PAPERS AND LECTURES________________________________________
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
1 ldquoEl congreso neogranadino y la esfera publica de la sociedad civil en el siglo XIXrdquo Panel ldquoSites of
Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin America Irdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
2 Discussant Panel ldquoParliaments and the Public Sphere in Latin America 1830-1945 IIrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXIII International Congress Lima Peru April 29-May 1 2017
3 Discussant Panel ldquoLegislation and legal culture in Modern Latin Americardquo 64th Annual Conference
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill March 23-26 2017
4 ldquoHumanities Sustainability and Strategic Thinkingrdquo School of Historical Philosophical and
Religious Studies Arizona State University November 14 2016
5 ldquoLove Murder and Civilized Punishment in the Spanish Atlantic during the Age of Revolutionrdquo
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
10
School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies Arizona State University November 15
2016
6 ldquoSocial Upheaval Emergency Measures Constitutions and Criminal Law in Colombia and Mexico
1790s-1830srdquo International Workshop ldquoPolitical conflicts and legal responses in an Atlantic
perspective (eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries)rdquo Frankfurt Germany Max Planck Institute
for European Legal History Oct 21 and 23 2015
7 ldquoAccess to Justice and the Civilization of Punishment in the Spanish Atlanticrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 17 2015
8 ldquoHistorians and the non-academic world the World of Contracts and Public Historyrdquo University of
Pittsburgh September 18 2015
9 Discussant Panel ldquoSites of Power II Congressrsquos Rule and Democracy in Latin Americardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 29-June
1 2015
10 ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo International
Conference lsquoKnowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberia and America 1790-
1870rsquo Paris University of Paris I Pantheacuteon-Sorbonne January 29-31 2015
11 ldquoConcesiones de Guerra y respuestas a la Crisis Oriacutegenes de la Justicia Laboral en Colombia 1890-
1950rdquo International Workshop The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas UCLA
November 17-18 2014
12 ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Conferencia Internacional lsquoHistoria del
Congreso en Colombia 1810-1958rsquo Universidad Externado de Colombia- Escuela de Alto Gobierno
Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute October 1-3 2014
13 Discussant Panel ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation
and Frontiersrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May
29-June 1 2014
14 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May 29-June
1 2013
15 ldquoModern Constitutionalism the Constitution of Cadiz and Its Legaciesrdquo Reflections on the 200th
Anniversary of Floridarsquos First Constitution Spainrsquos Constitution of Cadiz Florida Coastal School
of Law Jacksonville FL October 19 2012
16 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica geacutenero etnia cultura y derecho ayer y hoy del Atlaacutentico colonial al siglo XXI
hispanoamericanordquo Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Simposio de grupos de
investigacioacuten Etnohistoria y estudios de las Ameacutericas Negras y Praacutecticas saberes y representaciones
en Iberoameacuterica May 12 2012
17 La Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada teoriacutea y realidad 1812-1821 Simposio Internacional
El Impacto de la Constitucioacuten de 1812 en la Ameacuterica Hispana Heraclio Bonilla coordinator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute May 9-11 2012
18 ldquoLa Constitucioacuten de Tunja (1811) y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico Durante la era de las revoluciones
democraacuteticasrdquo International Symposium ldquo200 antildeos de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja y la Invencioacuten de
las Repuacuteblicas Latinoamericanasrdquo Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja
Colombia December 2011
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
11
19 ldquoLa Eclosioacuten Constitucional en la Nueva Granada y el Constitucionalismo Atlaacutentico en la Deacutecada de
1810rdquo Coloquio Internacional Independencias y Constituciones Otra Mirada al Bicentenario
Corte Constitucional de Colombia- Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos Universidad Externado de
Colombia Cartagena Noviembre 8-10 2010
20 ldquoJusticia Constitucioacuten y Terrorismo en la Historia de Colombiardquo Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelllin March 17 2010
21 ldquoConstitucionalismo Provincial Colombiano de la Deacutecada de 1810 Concepciones de Ciudadaniacutea e
Igualdadrdquo Bogotaacute Archivo General de la Nacioacuten Octubre 28 2008
22 ldquoLa justicia y las fisuras de la democracia en Colombiardquo Caacutetedra Antonio J Restrepo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia sede Medelliacuten Marzo 28 2008
23 ldquoConstitucioacuten evolucioacuten del concepto en Nueva Granada 1750-1850rdquo Primeras Jornadas
Internacionales de Historia Conceptual Comparada del Mundo IberoamericanoBases metodoloacutegicas
y experiencias de investigacioacuten Iberconcepta Escuela Iberoamericana de Historia de los
Conceptos La Rioja (Espantildea) September 18-22
24 ldquoTendencias historiograacuteficas Otros diez antildeos de estudios sobre el proceso de la independencia
hispanoamericana 1997-2007rdquo XV Congreso de Colombianistas Bogotaacute August 2-5 2007
25 ldquoCooperacioacuten judicial lucha contra la corrupcioacuten y defensa de la democracia la OEA el sistema
juriacutedico interamericano y la integracioacuten Evolucioacuten histoacuterica y limitacionesrdquo II Congreso Internacional
ldquoConstituciones e Integracioacutenrdquo Association Andreacutes Bello de Juristes Franco-Latino-Ameacutericains
Paris Junio 2-4 2005
26 ldquoHistoria Comparada Meacutetodos y Agendas de Investigacioacuten Acerca de Ameacuterica Latinardquo Universidad
Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten Octubre 17 2005
27 ldquoLas constituciones provinciales de Antioquia lo puacuteblico y lo privadordquo Universidad de Medelliacuten
Noviembre 2005
28 ldquoHistoriography on Law and Society in Latin America Authors Themes and Perspectivesrdquo
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta Colombia October 25 2004
29 ldquoIndigenous Movements Legal Pluralism and Alternative Justice in Latin America 1940s-1990srdquo
Universidad del Norte Barranquilla Colombia October 26 2004
30 ldquoMovimientos Indiacutegenas Pluralismo y Justicia Indiacutegena en Colombia Guatemala Bolivia y Ecuadorrdquo
Seminario sobre Justicia y Sociedad en Ameacuterica Latina Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
Universidad Nacional de San Martin Buenos Aires Noviembre 22-26 2004
31 ldquoThe Legal Revolution in Early Republican Spanish Americardquo Una Perspectiva Comparada de las
Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlaacutentico International Conference Universidad Externado de
Colombia Bogotaacute Colombia October 27-29 2004
32 ldquoEmpire to Nation in Northern South America 1780s-1840s Where to Beginrdquo From Empire to
Nation Workshop University of California San Diego December 6-8 2002
PAPERS LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
33 ldquoParliaments and Congresses in the History of Latin America A New Research Agendardquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXV International Congress New York May 27-30 2016
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
12
34 ldquoLegal Cultures Administrative Reforms and State Formation in Latin Americarsquos Long Nineteenth-
Centuryrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress New York May 27-
30 2016 Discussant
35 ldquoLong Life of Corporal Punishment and the Death Penalty in the Spanish Atlantic 1500s-1970srdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia
36 ldquoPolitics Pedagogies and Mediation Evolving Ecologies of Latin American Print Culture during the
Long Nineteenth Centuryrdquo panel ldquoRace and Punishment in Latin American Legal Systemsrdquo 63rd
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies SECOLAS March 9-13
2016 Cartagena Colombia Chair and discussant
37 ldquoPerspectives on Land Conflict and Historyrdquo International Workshop ldquoLand Memory and
Justice Challenges to Peace in Colombiardquo University of Toronto Toronto Canada October 2-3
2015 Chair and discussant
38 ldquoSites of Power II Congresses Rule in Latin America after Independencerdquo Latin American Studies
Association XXXIII International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico May 27-30 2015 Discussant
39 ldquoPurifying the Body Politics Exile and Execution in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin
Americardquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress New York City January 2-5
2015 Chair and discussant
40 ldquoLegal Cultures and Judicial Practices in Latin America Actors State Formation and Frontiersrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXXI International Congress Chicago May 21-23 2014 Discussant
41 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in the Atlantic from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Centuryrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXX International Congress Washington DC May29-June
1 2013
42 ldquoViolence(s) Theorizing Gender and Violence through the Historical Prismrdquo Annual Comparative
Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo Florida International University November 30th 2012
Panel discussant
43 ldquoEl Impacto de la Cortes y la Constitucioacuten de Caacutediz en la Nueva Granada 1809-1815rdquo Universidad
Pedagogiacutea y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Tunja Simposio Ruta del Bicentenario May 8 2012
44 ldquoDomestic Violence and the Law in Latin Americarsquos Long Historyrdquo Florida International
University Department of Historyrsquos Graduate Students Colloquium November 2011
45 ldquoCarlos Horacio Uranrsquos Work on Legal Philosophy George Gurvitch the Normative Fact and the
Challenges of Justice Administrationrdquo Bogota Universidad Javeriana Instituto Pensar October
2011
46 ldquoEnforcing Human Rightsrdquo Hemispheric Human Rights Initiative Conference San Salvador El
Salvador May 17-19 2011
47 Participant in International Liberty Fund Colloquium ldquoLiberty Democracy and Independence in
Gran Colombiardquo Cartagena de Indias February 3-6 2011
48 Chair and discussant ldquoLaw and Rebellion in Gran Colombiardquo CLAH - American Historical
Association Annual Congress Boston January 6-9 2011
49 ldquoTeaching Abroad is not Easy The Challenges of Teaching Latin American History to Colombian
Students at a Large Public Universityrdquo CLAH - American Historical Association Annual Congress
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
13
Boston January 6-9 2011
50 Doing Justice Description of a USAID-funded Justice Reform and Modernization Program
Implemented in Colombia by FIU from 2006 to 2010rdquo Florida International University College of
Law Colloquium October 19 2010
51 Discussant panel ldquoFamilies Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas 1910-2010rdquo American
Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
52 Organizer panel ldquoLaw and History in Latin America and the Caribbean A Historiographical Balancerdquo
American Society for Legal History Philadelphia PA November 2010
53 ldquoFrom Private to Globalized Patriarchy Domestic Violence in Latin American History from Colonial
Times to the Presentrdquo Latin American Studies Association XXIX International Congress Toronto
October 6-9 2010
54 Discussant Jack Snyder ldquoThe Concept of Strategic Culture A Userrsquos Guiderdquo ARC-FIU April 6
2010
55 ldquoFatal Love Spousal Murder Ethnicity Gender and Honor in the Atlantic 1750-1820rdquo University of
Texas at Dallas November 2009
56 Chair panel ldquoPhilippines Transnational Historical Legal ExchangesrdquoAmerican Society for Legal
History Dallas Texas November 2009
57 ldquoQuienes debatieron la idea de la repuacuteblica abogados y clase poliacuteticardquo Encuentro con Nuestra
Historia Comisioacuten del Bicentenario de la Independencia Cartagena October 22 2009
58 ldquoConstitucioacuten y derechos de ciudadaniacutea en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo Universidad de Los
Andes Simposio sobre Constitucioacuten y Ciudadaniacutea en la Historia de Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October
19 2009
59 ldquoCaacutediz contra las provincias Constitucioacuten revolucioacuten y reaccioacuten en la Nueva Granada 1810-1820rdquo
Catedra Luis Antonio Restrepo Los Procesos de Independencia Ideas Actores y Conflictos
Medelliacuten Agosto-Noviembre 2009 October 16 2009
60 ldquoReflecting on the South-Comacutes Human Rights Initiative Twelve Years Laterrdquo Human Rights
Regional Conference Guatemala July 21-25 2009
61 ldquoFrom Exception to Normalcy Law the Judiciary Civil Rights and Terrorism in Colombia 1984-
2004rdquo Bogotaacute Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Derecho Febrero 20 2009
62 ldquo10 antildeos de Historiografiacutea sobre la Independencia Hispanoamericanardquo V Congreso Internacional
Los Procesos de Independencia en la Ameacuterica Espantildeola Crisis Guerra y Disolucioacuten de la
Monarquiacutea Espantildeola Veracruacutez Meacutexico November 26-29 2008
63 ldquoLa Historiografiacutea Comparada sobre Ameacuterica Latina Durante la Ultima Deacutecadardquo Universidad de
Michoacaacuten Morelia Meacutexico Noviembre 25 2008
64 ldquoImplications of judicial Decision Making in Latin America in the Twentieth Centuryrdquo American
Society for Legal History Annual meeting Ottawa Canada November 13-November 15 Panel
discussant
65 ldquoRepublicanismo y Ciudadaniacutea en la Independencia de Colombia Observaciones Comparativasrdquo XIV
Congreso de Historia de Colombia Tunja Agosto 11-Agosto 16 Panel Republicanismo y
ciudadaniacutea en los procesos de independencia hispanoamericanos
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
14
66 Comentarios a la ponencia ldquoConstruyendo la Nacioacuten en Colombia Herencias Coloniales Metas
Modernas y Formacioacuten republicanardquo Historia de la Formacioacuten de lo Puacuteblico-Poliacutetico en Colombia
Siglo XIX (1810-1885) Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 6-7 2008
67 Debates historiograacuteficos sobre la Participacioacuten de los Afrocolombianos en el proceso de construccioacuten
de la nacioacuten durante la post-independenciardquo Pensando la Nacioacuten en Colombia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Febrero 7 2008
68 ldquoComparative History in Latin America Recent Trendsrdquo Latin American Studies Association
XXVII International Congress Montreal Canada September 5-9
69 ldquoVeeduriacuteas ciudadanas de la Justicia en Colombia experiencias histoacutericas anaacutelogas y comparativasrdquo
Foro Nacional Sobre Control Social a la Gestioacuten Judicial Bogotaacute Mayo 2007
70 ldquoLa educacioacuten legal el liberalismo Europeo y el mundo antiguo en la Colombia de comienzos del
XIXrdquo Pariacutes Pariacutes Coloquio Internacional sobre La Ruta de Naacutepoles December 7-10 2006
71 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices I Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Lynching and Vigilantismrdquo
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March
2006 Organizer
72 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices II Case Studies and Theoretical Debates on Grassroots Justice and
Injusticerdquo Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico
March 2006 Organizer and discussant
73 ldquoLocal and Informal Justices III Justicia Local en Ameacuterica Latina - Siglos XIX y XXrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXVI International Congress San Juan Puerto Rico March 2006
Organizer
74 ldquolsquoIglesia Me Llamorsquo Church Asylum and the Law in Spanish America 1600s-1800srdquo American
Society for Legal History Austin Texas October 26-29 2004
75 ldquoLawyers and Lawyering in the Making of Colonial Spanish Americardquo Latin American Studies
Association Las Vegas October 7-10 2004 Discussant
76 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Costa Rica March 17-19 2004
Meeting of Group Leaders
77 ldquoColombian 21st Century Diaspora From Migrants to Global Vallenatordquo Florida International
University Miami March 12 2004 Organizer and facilitator
78 ldquoRace Ritual and Crimerdquo Allen Morris conference on Florida and the Atlantic World Florida State
University Tallahassee FL February 2004 Discussant
79 ldquoThe Great Transformation of ldquothe Publicrdquo and ldquothe Privaterdquo in the Transition from Empire to Nation
in Ibero-America Law and Legal Culture in Mexico Colombia and Brazil 1750-1850 University of
California San Diego December 5-7 2003
80 ldquoInnocent Infants or Abusive Patriarchs Spousal Homicides Indians and the Law in Colonial Mexico
1747-1821rdquo International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas
March 27-29 2003
81 Discussant panel ldquoLos operadores del derecho en la historia de Ameacuterica Latinardquo International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Dallas Texas March 27-29 2003
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
15
82 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Department of Defense Southern Command Santo Domingo Dominican Republic March 20-22
2003 Discussant and facilitator
83 ldquoViolencia domeacutestica en Nueva Granada y Nueva Espantildea Tensiones de geacutenero y etnia (1750-1810)rdquo
Escuela de Estudios Hispoanoamericanos Sevilla February 25 2003
84 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Miami May 2002 Group Leader
85 ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US
Southern Command and Organization of American States Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25
2001 Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader
86 ldquoThe Production of Victimization Narco-trafficking Human Rights and Plan Colombiardquo Invited Session
of the American Anthropological Association Annual Congress Washington DC November 29 2001
87 ldquoKilling Ones Spouse in Late Colonial Mexico Love Culture and the Lawrdquo Popular Culture
Association International Conference Puebla Mexico October 17-21 2001
88 ldquoHuman Rights and Humanitarian Law Implications of the Pinochet and the Argentine Casesrdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001 Chair
and organizer
89 ldquoJoseacute Raimundo Russi a Bogotaacute Bandit Anti-Heroes and Nation in Colombia 1830s-1850srdquo Latin
American Studies Association XXIII International Congress Washington September 6-8 2001
90 ldquoUn abanico de temaacuteticas y aproximacionesrdquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia 5-paper Panel Discussant
91 ldquoEl futuro de la historia ambiental en Ameacuterica Latinardquo Primer Seminario Internacional de Historia
Ambiental Agosto 15-17 2001 Bogotaacute Colombia Roundtable Moderator
92 ldquoIs Colombiarsquos Peace Possiblerdquo Journalists and Editors Workshop Florida Consortium on Latin
American Studies-The Miami Herald-Harvard University David Rockefeller Center Miami May 3-5
2001 Panel moderator
93 ldquoCritical Issues in Peruvian Historyrdquo Fulbright Hayes Group Study Abroad Program Auburn University
Auburn Alabama April 27-20 2001
94 ldquoNew Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombiardquo University of Wisconsin Madison
March 23 2001 Respondent
95 ldquoKilling Onersquos Spouse in Colonial Latin Americardquo Jack D Gordon Institute for Public Policy Florida
International University March 15 2001
96 Domestic Violence and the Law in Mexico 1750-1810 Southeastern Conference on Latin American
Studies Veracruacutez Mexico March 1-5 2001
97 Artisans Bandits and the Law in Colombia The Execution of Jose Raimundo Russi and his Gang in
1851 LASA International Congress Miami Spring 2000
98 Some Uses of the History of Latin Americas Legal Professions Latin American Legal Scholarship
Conference Harvard University Boston March 11 2000
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
16
99 The Social History of Family Law in Late Colonial New Granada American Society for Legal
History Annual Meeting Toronto Canada October 21-23 1999
100 Economy Society and Politics in Contemporary Latin America Institute for Educators Workshop Re-
Aligning Vision Miami Art Museum March 27 1999
101 The US State Department Perspectives on Colombias Peace Process discussant Conference on
Negotiation Politics and Prospects for Peace in Colombia United States Southern Command Miami
March 4-5 1999
102 Lawyers Society and Culture in Latin America 1780-1850 Latin American and Caribbean Center
Florida International University October 22 1997
103 La Ameacuterica Latina colonial y postcolonial Tierra de abogados y leguleyos X Congreso de Historia
de Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 1997
104 Abogados Estado y Poliacutetica en el Periacuteodo Colonial y Postcolonial en Colombia Unidad de
Investigaciones Juriacutedico-Sociales Gerardo Molina Facultad de Derecho Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 10 1997
105 La Historia Social de la Poliacutetica en Colombia 1750-1850 Doctorado en Historia Universidad Nacional
de Colombia Bogotaacute Junio 6 1997
106 Clase Poder Estatus Social y Honor Elites Legales Poliacutetica y Estado en Nueva Granada 1780-1850
Instituto de Estudios Sobre Historia Colonial Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hispaacutenica Bogotaacute
Junio 5 1997
107 Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America During the Transition from the Colonial to
the National Period Conference The Contested Terrains of Law Justice and Repression in Latin
American History Yale University New Haven April 24-26 1997
108 Las tendencias globales y los estudios legales en el Siglo XXI Congreso Internacional Derecho
puacuteblico Filosofiacutea y Sociologiacuteas Juriacutedicas Perspectivas para el proacuteximo milenio Universidad Externado
de Colombia Bogotaacute August 1996
109 Colonial Lawyers Republican Lawyers and the Administration of Justice in Latin America Institute of
Latin American Studies University of London London May 1996
110 Continuity and Change in Latin American Political History 1780-1850 annual meeting of the
American Historical Association Atlanta GA January 1996
111 To be continued The Status of Historical Research on Latin American Legal History annual meeting
of the American Society of Legal History (AHA) Houston TX October 1995
112 Latin American History Patterns and Lessons for the Near Future Prudential Intercultural Services
Miami October 1995
113 Status Class and Power The letrados of Late Colonial and Early Post-Colonial New Granada Latin
American Studies Association (LASA) XIX International Congress Washington DC September 1995
114 Judges Tutela Actions and Environmental Movements in Colombia Latin American Studies
Association (LASA) XIX International Congress September 1995 Washington DC
115 Educacioacuten legal y proyectos de formacioacuten del estado en la Nueva Granada Congreso Nacional de
Historia de Colombia Tunja Colombia May 1995
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
17
116 New Constitutional Order tutela Actions and Environmental Struggles in Colombia 1991-1993
Meeting of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political
Science Association Florence Italy Summer 1994
117 Training Mandarins Legal Education and State-Building in New San Francisco Granada 1780-1850
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting Sam Francisco CA
118 Legal history and legal studies in the twenty-first century International congress on La Universidad
Las Transformaciones del Derecho y los Nuevos Ordenes Constitucionales en Ameacuterica Latina Bogotaacute October 1993
119 State and society in Colombia lawyers artisans and industrial workers 1780-1920s Mid-Atlantic
Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) annual meeting Pennsylvania State University Panel
organizer
120 Lawyers and post-colonial politics in Colombia a critique of the normal periodization of Latin American
political history Florida International University (FIU) Miami
121 Kinship and politics in late colonial and early post-colonial New Granada University of Michigan-
Flint Flint
122 The Vergara Santamariacutea clan priests lawyers and status-conflict in New Granada 1780-1850
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
123 Reinterpreting the role of the elites in Latin American political history lawyers state-formation and
status-conflicts in nineteenth century New Granada Southwestern University Georgetown Texas
124 The decline of the colonial state and the emerging status-conflicts lawyers in New Granadan bureaucracy
and politics 1780-1850 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA
125 Contributions of the study of the legal elites to the historiography of Colombian and Latin American
politics University of South Florida Tampa 1993
126 Lawyers political parties and social classes in post-colonial New Granada Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH) Gran Colombian Committee Washington DC AHA annual meeting
127 Impact of the Conquest on the Old and New Worlds Allegheny College Meadville PA
128 Lawyers and state-building in early post-colonial New Granada Latin American Studies Association
(LASA) XVII International Congress Los Angeles CA
129 Lawyers and the Independence Movement in New Granada Duquesne History Forum Duquesne
University Pittsburgh
130 Lawyers and the State at the Time of New Granadas Independence Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies MACLAS Shippensburg PA
131 Nuevas dimensiones de la criacutetica juriacutedica y el uso alternativo del derecho Conferencia Internacional
de Grupos de Servicios Legales Innovativos Centro de Investigacioacuten y Educacioacuten Popular CINEP
Bogotaacute
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
18
WORKS IN PROGRESS _______________________________________________________
BOOKS
Insurgent Legal Discourses in the Spanish Atlantic Early Constitutionalism New Granada and
Cadiz 1811-1821 A legal and cultural history of constitutional discourses involving both New
Granadarsquos early constitutionalism and the Constitution of Caacutediz Have drafted two-thirds of the text
Shall be able to finish it within one academic year upon completing additional field work (for a
month) in Colombian archives
The Merchant his Wife and the Count Law Romance Betrayal Poisoning and Daily Life in
Eighteenth-Century Mexico A case study concerning the life of a family in Zacatecas Mexico during
the 1720s Except for some notarial and ecclesiastical information I will be gathering in Fall 2015
research for the entire book has been completed I will be writing the bookrsquos first draft during the
2017-2018 academic year
Gender Ethnicity and the Death penalty in early 19th Century Cuba A micro-history of law and
domestic violence in Camaguey Cuba with intriguing connections to the end of the death penalty by
hanging for women I have already gathered abundant evidence in Sevillersquos AGI Must still conduct
field work in Camaguey Cuba during Summer 2017
The Long Global History of Domestic Violence and the Law A synthesis of historiographical
knowledge on battering and spousal murder from Greco-Roman Antiquity until the present Book
design in progress Preliminary bibliographical research has been completed Intend to present a book
proposal to Cambridge University Press in Fall 2017 Completion of the manuscript expected by Fall
2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
ldquoOrigins of Labor Rights and Justice in Colombia 1890-1950rdquo co-authored with German Palacio
book chapter for volume The Formation of Labor Justice Accross the Americas Edited by
Professors Juan Manuel Palacios and Leon Fink (Illinois University Press forthcoming 2017)
ldquoEl Congreso de Colombia y la esfera puacuteblica 1840-1860rdquo Book chapter for volume on The
Historia de Congreso en Colombia desde Comienzos del Siglo XIX hsta la Deacutecada de 1970
Edited by Oxford University Professor Eduardo Posada-Carboacute (Universidad Externado de
Colombia Press) To be completed in 2016
ldquoAbogados y leguleyos en Ameacuterica colonial una forma de praxis judicialrdquo Book chapter for
volume Usos y agentes de la Justicia en las sociedades ibeacutericas del Antiguo Reacutegimen
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata y la Universidad de Cantabria) Edited by professors Tomaacutes A
Mantecoacuten and Dariacuteo G Barriera To be completed by Fall 2017
ldquoPenal Science and State-Building in New Granada and Mexico 1760s-1830srdquo Book chapter for
volume Knowledges Sciences Techniques and State building in Iberian America 1790-1870
Edited by University of Paris Professors Anick Lemperiere and Cleacutement Thibaud To be
completed by Spring 2018 Press TBD
ldquoJuan de Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Unknown Work on Domestic Murdersrdquo Introduction to first
Spanish translation of Solorzano y Pereirarsquos Doctoral thesis Diligens amp accurate de parricidii
crimini disputatio This work has been partially translated from the Latin with support from a
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
19
grant from the FIU College of Arts and Sciences A proposal for the textrsquos entire translation is
under evaluation by Colombiarsquos Externado de Colombia which is also expected to publish the
final annotated translation Expected date Spring 2018
FUNDED RESEARCH _________________________________________________________
Digitalization City of Miami Beach Historical Archives 2014-2016 Co-PI $ 210800
Miami Consortium Interdisciplinary Research Group Initiative Fall 2012 PI $ 5000
FIUrsquos Department of History Online Award for International Conference ldquoGender Violence and Memoryrdquo
Fall 2012 PI $ 10000
USAID Justice Reform and Modernization Colombia 2006-2010 Co-PI $ 205 million
Ministry of Foreign Relations-Colombia Colombian Migrants in the USA 2005 PI $ 100000
Research Award FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Summer 2003
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002 PI $ 44000
Florida International University Provost Grant Summer 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Spring 2001
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2001
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 2000
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1999
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean 1999
Andrew W Mellon Foundation Library Fellowship for Southern US Scholars Tulane University New
Orleans 1998
Florida International Universitys Foundation Summer Grant 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1998
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Fall 1997
Grant from ICFES Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educacioacuten Superior Programa de Co-
financiacioacuten de Proyectos de Fomento para la Educacioacuten Superior Spring 1997
Research Grant Centro de Investigaciones y Desarrollo Cientiacutefico (CINDEC) Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten 1996-97
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1995
Summer Research Grant Center for Latin American Studies University of Florida Gainesville 1995
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
20
Title VI Grant Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU Spring 1995
Faculty Development Grant FIU College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean Fall 1994
Research Grant Fundacioacuten para la Promocioacuten de la Investigacioacuten la Ciencia y la Tecnologiacutea Banco de la
Republica de Colombia Academic year 1990-1991
Summer Research Grant Tinker Foundation 1988
PROFESSIONAL HONORS PRIZES FELLOWSHIPS ___________________________
Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Latin American and Caribbean Section Southern Historical Association Fall
2016 Best book in the fields of Latin America Caribbean American Borderlands and Frontier or Atlantic
World history Fatal Love
Honorable Mention National Social Science and Humanities Prize Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation
Colombia Fall 2016 This Prize is the highest scientific recognition in Colombia Fatal Love
Honorable Mention Alfred B Thomas Book Award for the best book on a Latin American subject
SECOLAS 2016 Fatal Love
Faculty Award for Excellence in Service Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2015
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2013
Member (Miembro Correspondiente) Colombian Academy of History (Academia Colombiana de Historia)
2010-onward
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Research Award Fall 2002
Sabbatical leave (competitive) FIU 2002
Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Faculty Senate Florida International University Fall 2001
Matriculation Merit Award Florida International University Award to recognize more productive members of
Faculty from 1997 to 2000 Spring 2001
Winner of Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) Florida International University Miami Award to
recognize best professors in the 1993-1996 academic period 1997
Antonine Tibesar Prize Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) American Historical Association
Best article published during 1996 in The Americas 1997
Winner of Concurso Internacional de Meacuteritos Generacioacuten 125 Antildeos Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recruitment of distinguished international scholars 1996
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1992-93
Summer Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies at Cornell University 1992 Declined
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1991-92
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
21
Andrew Mellon Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1989-90
Passed PhD comprehensive examinations with distinction 1989
Teaching Fellowship University of Pittsburgh 1987-89
Fulbright Scholarship for graduate studies in the United States 1986-87
Thesis approved with distinction Universidad Externado de Colombia 1983
Exemption from comprehensive exams in law school awarded to student with highest GPA 1982
Four annual scholarships Universidad Externado de Colombia awarded to student with highest GPA 1978-81
Julio Cesar Garciacutea Fellowship to attend Universidad La Gran Colombia (Bogotaacute) awarded to student with
highest GPA 1976
OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES_________________________________
Editorial Boards and Committees
Member Editorial Board Ius Fugit Revista de Cultura Juridica Universidad de Girona Spain 2015-
2020
Member Editorial Board Revista de Estudios Sociales Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia
2013-onward
Contributing Editor Hemisphere A Magazine of the Americas LACC Fall 1994-present
Member Editorial Board Humanidades Journal of Colombias Universidad Industrial de Santander UIS 1997-
present
Member Editorial Board The Americas (Spring 2005- Fall 2010)
Member Editorial Board Law and History Review (Spring 1996-Fall 2000)
Member Editorial Board Historia y Sociedad Revista del Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de
Colombia Medelliacuten (1996-1999)
Book Review Editor Hispanic American Historical Review (Fall 1993-Spring 96)
Professional Boards and Committees
Chair and member Murdo J Macleod Book Prize Committee Latin American and Caribbean Studies
section Southern Historical Association 2017
Member Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Committee CLAH American Historical Association 2016
Co-Chair Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Toronto 2016
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
22
Member Local Arrangements Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Miami
November 7-9 2013
Member Program Committee American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting Philadelphia
November 18-21 2010
Adviser to Universidad de Medelliacutenrsquos Law School for the definition of research fields 2008
Miembro Comiteacute Cientiacutefico CEIS (Centro de Estudios Histoacutericos) Universidad Externado de Colombia
2004-2008
Chair ldquoLaw Jurisprudence and Societyrdquo Section International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association LASA 2004
Chair Robertson Prize committee Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association
2001-2002
Member of Local Arrangements Committee Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress
Miami FL March 16-18 2000
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
Co-coordinator Symposium on Historia Comparada de Ameacuterica Latina X Congreso de Historia de
Colombia Medelliacuten Agosto 26-29 de 1997
Evaluation Committee Facultad de Ciencias Humanas Proyecto de Especializacioacuten Sobre Administracioacuten
Documental Aplicada a los Archivo Histoacutericos Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1996
Advisory Committee Centro de Gestioacuten Tecnoloacutegica GESTEC Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten 1996-97
Advisory Committee Especializacioacuten en Ciencia Poliacutetica Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medelliacuten
1997
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES___________________
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation of manuscripts
Law and History Review 2016 Latin American Research Review 1998-2001 2016 University of Los Andes
Bogotaacute Colombia Department of History 2016 Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly
Excellence Colorado State University 2016 Mundo Agrario Universidad de la Plata Argentina 2014
Revista Criminalidad Colombia Spring 2014 Historia y Memoria Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica
de Colombia (UPTC) 2013-2014 University of Los Andes Bogotaacute Colombia School of Law 2013
Journal of Social History 2013 Comparative Studies in Society and History 2000 2008 2012 2013 Anuario
Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Bogotaacute 2010-2013 Historia y Sociedad Revista del
Departamento de Historia Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medelliacuten 1999-2014 Memoria y Sociedad
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
23
Universidad Javeriana 2012 Historia Criacutetica Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute 2009-2012 Hispanic
American Historical Review 2009-2013 University of Texas Press Spring 2001 The Americas 1995-2000
Evaluation of grants prizes and tenure files
Member of Selection Committee Tinker Field Research Grants Latin American and Caribbean Center
Spring 2016
Member of Award Committee for CLAHs Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award 2016
Member of the jury National History Prize Republic of Colombia 2013 declined
Evaluation of Ford Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
Program Spring 2004
Evaluation of research projects for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1998
2003
Evaluation of PhD research grants Social Science Research Council Fall 2001 Spring 2003
Evaluation of Grants National Endowment for the Humanities FIU campus 2000
Evaluation of tenure and promotion file Dr Michael Jimenez University of Pittsburgh 1999-2000
Coordinator of Book Review Workshops Asociacioacuten Colombiana de Historiadores Capiacutetulo de Antioquia
Septiembre 14-28 1996
External evaluator graduate programs research projects and theses
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoDelito Justicia y propiedad Abigeatos y hurtos en los
Andres centrales y orientales colombianos 1750-1840rdquo Carlos Alberto Toro Universidad de los
Andes Fall 2015
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia (UPTC) Doctoral Program Grupo asesores tutores
profesores invitados Cohorte 2014-2019
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) MA Program in History Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute Spring
2015 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
PAR Acadeacutemico (External Reviewer) PhD Program in History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede
Medelliacuten Fall 2014 Colombiarsquos Comiteacute Nacional de Acreditacioacuten
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoLas Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de
Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida Ciudadana de la Provinciardquo Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas
Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Summer 2013
Evaluator Research Project on the History of the Book College of Law Universidad de los Andes Bogotaacute
Fall 2011
International evaluator pre-dissertation committee ldquoHistoria de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de
Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginariosrdquo Carlos
Helver Barrera Martiacutenez Universidad Pedagoacutegica y Tecnoloacutegica de Colombia Fall 2011
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
24
International evaluator dissertation committee ldquoQue cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad
individualista Artesanos y comerciantes Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute
1777-1854rdquo Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2010
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Expert witness in immigration courts Spring 2001-present Pro-bono work
Regular guest CNN CBS NBC Telemundo Univision TV Marti Voice of America BBC radio National
Public Radio local TV and radio broadcasting stations Interviews about Latin American politics
society and history Emphasis on the case of Colombia
Facilitator and Measures of Internal Controlrsquos Group Leader ldquoMeasuring Progress in Respect for Human
Rightsrdquo International Human Rights Seminar US Southern Command and Organization of
American States Miami May 2001 Montevideo Uruguay October 22-25 2001 Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic March 20-22 2003 Costa Rica March 17-19 2004 Guatemala July 21-
25 2009 El Salvador May 19-21 2011
Faculty Advisor Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity FIU 2012-present
Moderator panel Perspectives from Civil Society conference Armed Conflict Peace Prospects and
Democracy in Colombia FIU March 14-15 2000
Host Radio Series lsquoPanorama Andinorsquo Voice of America Miami Fall 2001-Fall 2003 11 programs to date
Faculty Advisor Colombian Students Association COLSA 2000-2001 2003-2005
Facilitator International Conference United Counterdrug US Southern Command-Organization of
American States 1998
DEPARTMENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE___________________________
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Department Chair 2013-2017
Interim Graduate Program Director Spring 2013
Member Search Committee on History of Modern Latin America 2012-2013
Chair Search Committee on History of Afro-Brazil 2011-2012
Chair Search Committee on Modern Afro-Brazil 2010-2011
Member of the Graduate Committee 2010-2011
Department Chair 2004-2006
Member of Personnel Committee 2003-2004
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
25
History Fall 2004
Director of Graduate Studies Department of History 1999-2001
Chairperson Department of History Undergraduate Committee FIU 1997-99
Search and Screen Committee for Caribbean History tenure-track position FIU Department of History Fall
1998
Search and Screen Committee for African-American Diaspora tenure track position FIU Department of
History-AfricaNew World Studies Program Spring 1996
Latin American area representative within Graduate Studies Committee Department of History Fall 1995-96
Fall 2001
Department of Historys Library representative Fall 1995-1996
Search and Screen Committee for African History tenure track position FIU Department of History Fall 1994
Department of History steward United Faculty of Florida Fall 1994-1996
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee 2010-2012 2014-2016 declined 2012-
2014
CAS Faculty Assemblyrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2015
Member of CASrsquos Steering Committee 2014-2016
Vice-Chair College Assembly 2012-2013
President Council of Chairs and Directors 2005-2006
Member College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Committee on Restructuring of CAS 2005
Director Colombian Studies Institute Latin American and Caribbean Center FIU 2003-2005
Member Task Force on creation of a School of International Studies 2004-2005
Search and Screen Committee Director Modern Dance Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Department of Political Science Judicial Politics fall 2000-spring 2001
Member Admission Committee MALACS (Master in Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Latin
American Caribbean Center FIU 1998-2001
Member of Interdisciplinary Faculty Task Force for project Dance across Disciplines 1998-2000
Selection Committee FLAS fellowship Latin American and Caribbean Center 1999-2001
Latin American and Caribbean Centers Advisory Committee (Executive Council) 1998-2005
College of Arts and Sciences representative within Faculty Senates Library Committee 1995-96
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
26
Search and Screen Committee for Assistant Director of the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center LACC
Fall 1995
COLLEGE OF LAW
Member Academic Enrichment Committee 2009-2011
Member of Library Committee Fall 2003-2005
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Criminal Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Torts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Constitutional Law Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Contracts Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Professor of Law of Property Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee AcquisitionsSerials Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Technical ServicesCataloguing Librarian Law School Fall 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of Admissions Law School Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Director of the Law Library Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Academic AffairsProfessor of Law Spring 2001
Search and Screen Committee Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Services Spring 2001
S J GREEN SCHOOL OF INYTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (SIPA)
President of the Council of Chairs and Directors 2016-2017
UNIVERSITY
Andrew Mellon Foundation HIS-Pathways to the Professoriate Faculty Mentor 2016-2017
Member of the Honorary Degrees and Awards Committee 2016-2017
Member of DASEC 2015-2017
Member of Faculty Senate FIU 1997-1999 2000-2002 2003-2005 2010 2011-2013 2013-2015 2015-2017
Member of Search Committee Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Member and Chair DASEC 2012-2013
27
Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
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Member and Chair Elect of DASEC (Dissertation Advisor Status Evaluation Committee) 2011-2012
Member of FIUacutes Social and Behavioral - Internal Review Board 2010-2013
Member of Search Committee Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Spring 2011
Member of Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate College Fall 2010
Member of the FIU Senatersquos Program Review Committee 2010-2011
Chief of Party (COP) Justice Reform and Modernization Program FIU-USAID 2006-2009
Faculty Advisory Board new College of Law FIU 2000-2004
Selection Committee TIRES award Center for Transnational Studies and Comparative Research 2000
Search and Screen Committee for an Architectural Historian FIU School of Architecture Spring 2000
Member of FIUs Technology Committee 1999
Member FIU Foundations Screening Committee for Summer Grants Spring 1999
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION____________________________________________
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR
1 Doyle Perdue (chair ongoing 2015)
Title Copper Mining and the Formation of the Mexican State in the Twentieth Century
2 Grace Solis (co-chair ongoing 2015)
Title Female Journalists Popular Didacticism and Nation Building in the Andes 1870-1900
3 Micah Oelze (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title The Sounds that Silence Ethnomusicology and the Symphony of State in Sao Paulo Brazil 1922-
1938
4 Adam J Silvia (co-chair Graduated Summer 2016)
Title Making Haiti Modern Nation Building and the American Civilizing Mission in the Cold War Era
5 Roberto Pacheco (chair Graduated 2015)
Title lsquoPobres Negrosrsquo The Official Representation and Commemoration of Blacks in the River Plate
1830s-1950s
6 Magda Goacutemez (chair Graduated 2008)
Title Smallpox Vaccination The Establishment of Vaccination Boards and State Formation in Venezuela
and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
7 German Palacio (chair Graduated 2003)
Title Civilizing the Hot lands The Symbolic Transformation of the Colombian Landscape 1850-1930
8 Col John G Lent (chair passed away during last stages of completion 2002)
Title The Mosquitia in the Twentieth Century Nicaragua Stories of a Fragmented Nation
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER
1 Andreina Fernaacutendez (ongoing 2015)
Title Manual transmissions Individual and Collective in Nineteenth-Century Colombia and Venezuela
2 Rene Silva History (ongoing 2014)
Title The Enemy Within Loyalist Reintegration in Pennsylvania 1778-1800
3 Gee Yawson Global and Sociocultural Studies (ongoing 2014)
Title ldquoReggaeira Sou Eurdquo Race Space and the Politics of Identity in Roots Reggae Culture in Satildeo Luis
do Maranhatildeo in Brazil
4 Jorge Enrique Patintildeo Rojas History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2013)
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014
28
Title Las Instituciones Republicanas de la Constitucioacuten de Tunja de 1811 y su Impacto en la Vida
Ciudadana de la Provincia
5 Carlos Barrera Martinez History UPTC-Colombia international reader (ongoing 2012)
Title Historia de la Soberaniacutea del Pueblo en los Oriacutegenes de Colombia 1808-1821 El caso de la
Provincia de Tunja Lucha de Ideas e Imaginarios
6 John Babb History (Graduates Summer 2016)
Title The Viceroyalty of Miami Colonial Nostalgia in the Making of an Imperial City
7 Cesar Vasquez History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Caribbean Defense Command Analyzing the US attempts to build a regional network in the Isthmus
of Panama during World War II
8 Judith Mansilla History (Graduated Spring 2016)
Title Firm Foundations Fractured Faccedilades Colonial State-Formation in the wake of Limas 1687
Earthquake
9 Gregory Weimer History (Graduated 2015)
Title Slavery and Transition Salvador Bahia and New Orleans Louisiana (1800-1837)
10 Patricia Micolta Political Science (Graduated 2012)
Title Illicit Interest Groups The Political Impact of the Medellin Drug Trafficking Organizations in
Colombia
11 Kindon J Meek History (Graduated 2011)
Title Disease and Hygiene in the Construction of a Nation The Public Sphere Public Space and the
Private Domain in Buenos Aires 1871-1910
12 Luis Fernando Rodriacuteguez Acosta History international reader Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medelliacuten
(Graduated 2010)
Title Que cada quien se las arregle hacia una sociedad individualista Artesanos y comerciantes
Medelliacuten Rionegro la Ciudad de Antioquia y Bogotaacute 1777-1854
13 Renzo Honores History (Graduated 2007)
Title Lawyers Procurators and the Making of a Colonial Legal Culture in Lima and Potosi 1540-1660
14 Ruiz Adelia Modern Languages (Graduated 2007)
Title El discurso colombiano costumbrista del siglo XIX Instrumento iudeoloacutegico idealizado
15 Miguel Costa History (Graduated 2005)
Title Patronage and Corruption in Sixteenth-Century Peru The Government of Viceroy Conde del Villar
and the Vista of Licenciado Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla
16 Luis Javier Orjuela Political Science (Graduated 2003)
Title Colombian society in the 1990s Fragmentation legitimacy and efficiency
17 Jesse Hingson History (Graduated 2003)
Title Savages into Citizens Families Political Purge and Reconciliation in Cordoba Argentina 1829-
1862
MASTERS THESISREPORT SUPERVISOR
1 Angelo Santa Lucia History Report Supervisor Graduated 2013
2 Carolina Zumaglini LACC Thesis Director Graduate 2007
3 Angela Bonilla LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2006
4 Carlene Thiessen History Thesis Director Graduated 2005
5 Abigail Garceacutes LACC Thesis Director Graduated 2001
MASTERS THESE COMMITTEEREPORTINTERNSHIP MEMBER
1 Emilia Soliman LACC defended summer 2015
2 Mark Pacho LACC defended spring 2015
3 Adriana Montoya-Daza internship paper and report defended in Spring 2015
4 Alecia Chapin public history report defended in Spring 2015
5 Sigifredo Romero Religious Studies Thesis Graduated 2014