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Associate Professor
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Social and Cultural Analysis
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Director, Latino Studies
Ph.D. (Modern Thought and Literature), Stanford University; B.A. (English Literature), Yale University.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Latina/o cultural studies; development and globalization studies; comparative race in the Americas; 20th century revolutionary thought and literature of the Americas.
External Affiliations: Latin American Studies Association, American Studies Association, Modern Language Association
Fellowships/Honors: Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship's Outstanding Research Award for Mentoring, Brown University, 2002; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant and Ford Foundation, Crossing Borders Initiative, Grant as a group participant in the "Cultures of the Americas, Narratives of Globalization" Research Group at University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, January-June, 1998; University of California
President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1993-1995.
Select Publications:
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003).
"In the Shadow of NAFTA: Y tu mamá también Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty," American Quarterly 57.3: 751-778.
"'Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being:? The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes?s George Washington Gómez," Radical History Review 89 (Winter): 135-161.
"On the Road With Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac: Melancholia and Colonial Geographies of Race in the Americas," New Formations 47 (Summer): 87-108.
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