Curriculum Vitae
January 2012
Arthur Schmidt, Professor of History, TempleUniversity, Philadelphia, PA19122. Telephone (215) 204-7531/5891 fax. E-mail eb
EDUCATION, UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE:
IndianaUniversity. Bloomington, Indiana. History. 1966-1973. M.A. June 1967. Ph.D. September 1973.
University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Political Science. 1965-1966.
HarvardCollege. Cambridge, Massachusetts. History. 1961-1965. B.A. June 1965.
PUBLICATIONS: Books, Articles, Book Review Essays, and Translations.
“A Case of Revolutionary Overreach,” A Contracorriente (forthcoming)
“A Long Pattern of Not So Divine Intervention: A Commentary on Brian Loveman’s No Higher Law,” A Contracorriente 8.3 (Spring 2011): 287-299.
“Foreword.” Mexican Voices of the Border Region. By Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras. Trans. Sandra del Castillo. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011, vii-xvi.(Voices of Latin American Life series).
“Defrosting Contemporary Latin American History,” A Contracorriente6.1 (Fall 2008): 347-361.
“The Political and Economic Reverberations of the Cuban Revolution in Mexico, 1959-1970,” History Compass 6.4 (July 2008): 1140-1163.
Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. “Introduction: Translating Fear.” In Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann.Ed. and trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt.Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press, 2007, 1-17. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
"Foreword." Lucia, Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer's Woman. By Robert Gay. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xix. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
"Introduction." My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary: Reflections of a Former Guerrillera. By María Eugenia Vázquez Perdomo. Trans. Lorena Terando. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xxx. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
"Missing Persons. Post-1940 Mexican International Migration as Domestic History." In CEISAL, Cruzando Fronteras en América Latina. Tercer Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas. Amsterdam: CEDLA and Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, 2002. CD-ROM.
John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor, eds., Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800, electronic review essay for H-LatAm, H-Net, September 2001,
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Co-translator with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. "Foreword: Taking Mexican Culture by Storm." By Elena Poniatowska. In Fragments of a Golden Age. Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940. Ed. Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, xi-xiv.
"Making It Real Compared to What? Reconceptualizing Mexican History Since 1940." In Fragments of a Golden Age. Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940. Ed. Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, 23-68.
Co-translator with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. "Can a Book Explode Like a Bomb?" By Elena Poniatowska. In Questions and Swords. Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution. By Subcomandante Marcos. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2001.
Thomas Klak, ed. Globalization and Neoliberalism. The Caribbean Context, electronic review essay for H-LatAm, H-Net, June 2000 .
"Mexicans, Migrants, and Indigenous Peoples: The Work of Manuel Gamio in the United States, 1925-1927." In Strange Pilgrimages: Travel, Exile, and Foreign Residency in the Creation of Latin American Identity, 1800-1990s. Ed. Ingrid E. Fey and Karine Racine. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000, 163-178.
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall. Cocaine Politics. Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, updated edition, electronic review essay for H-LatAm, H-Net, April 1999
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"José Yves Limantour," "Weetman Pearson," "Justo Sierra," and "Transport and Communications: National Period and Porfiriato." In Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society, and Culture. Ed. Michael Werner. 2 v. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, I, 746-749; II, 1067-1069, 1343-1344, and
1447-1453.
John Ward, Latin America. Development and Conflict since 1945, electronic review essay for H-LatAm, H-Net, July 1998 .
"Introduction. The Continuing Significance of El Salvador." El Salvador in the Eighties: Counterinsurgency and Revolution. By Mario Lungo. Ed. Arthur Schmidt. Trans. Amelia F. Shogan. Philadelphia: TempleUniversity Press, 1996, 1-39.
"The Internationalization of the Economic Crisis in Mexico and Central America." In Globalization, Urbanization, and the State: Selected Studies on Contemporary Latin America. Ed. Satya Pattnayak. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996, 43-64.
William O. Walker III, ed., Drugs in the Western Hemisphere. An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict, electronic review essay for H-LatAm, H-Net, July 1996
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"Globalization, Neoliberal Ideology, and National Identity: The Historical Uncertainties of NAFTA." Caribbean Studies 29.1 (Jan-June 1996): 67-105.
Co-author. "Report of the ICVA Mission to Chiapas." Geneva: International Council of Voluntary Agencies, 1995.
Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. "Foreword: The Shaking of a Nation." Nothing, Nobody. Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. By Elena Poniatowska. Trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995, ix-xxix. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
"Central America Confronts Economic Globalization: Challenges and Options." Bridges. Quaker International Affairs Report. A Publication of the International Division of the American Friends Service Committee. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1993.
"Dimensiones de la globalización." Tendencias (San Salvador) Marzo de 1993: 10-12.
"Nicaragua Sí." TempleReview (Spring 1991): 16-19.
"Report of a Visit to the Salvadoran Refugee Camps of Colomoncagua and San Antonio." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1989.
Co-author. "Report of International Council of Voluntary Agencies Delegation to Salvadoran Refugee Camps in Honduras, June 1988." Geneva: ICVA, 1988.
"Introduction." National Central America Week 1988: Sources for Study and Reflection. New York: Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America, 1988.
The Economic and Social Effect of Railroads in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 1867-1911. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. (Latin American Economic History Series, edited by Stuart Bruchey, ColumbiaUniversity).
"In Search of Safety: Salvadoran Refugees in Honduras." Migration Today 12.1 (Spring 1984): 21-26.
"Report of a Visit to the Refugee Camps." Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1982.
"Mexican Railroads, Some Questions for Investigation." Two Essays on Neglected Aspects of the Economic History of the Mexican Revolution. Ed. Marvin Bernstein. Buffalo: StateUniversity of New York, Council on International Studies, 1977. 1-20.
"El ferrocarril y las ciudades porfirianas." Actas del XLI Congreso de Americanistas. México, 1976.
Book Reviews
Marcello Carmagnani, The Other West. Latin America from Invasion to Globalization, The Americas (forthcoming).
Rina Villars, Lealtad y rebeldía. La vida de Juan Pablo Wainwright, The Americas (forthcoming).
Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, eds., Indelible Inequalities in Latin America. Insights from History, Politics, and Culture, H-LatAm (forthcoming ).
Armando Razo, Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship. Networks and Private Protection During Mexico’s Early Industrialization, H-LatAm (forthcoming).
Jon Shefner, The Illusion of Civil Society. Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico, The Americas 66.2 (October 2009): 292-294.
Nick Henck, Subcommander Marcos. The Man and the Mask, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 20.2 (julio-diciembre 2009): 154-156.
Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua, International Labor and Working Class History71.1 (March 2007): 217-220.
Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter S. Cleaves, Gary Gereffi,and Jonathan Hartlyn, Latin America in the 21st Century. Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix, The Americas61:2 (October 2004): 335-336.
Richard V. Francaviglia and Douglas W. Richmond, eds., Dueling Eagles. Reinterpreting the US-Mexican War, 1846-1848, Hispanic American Historical Review84:3 (August 2004): 564-566.
Chappell H. Lawson, Building the Fourth Estate. Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico, The Americas60:1 (July 2003): 134-136.
Lynn Stephen, ¡Zapata Vive! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico, The Americas59:3 (January 2003): 441-443.
Margaret Popkin, Peace Without Justice: Obstacles to Building the Rule of Law in El Salvador, The Americas59:1 (July 2002): 137-138.
Thomas Leonard, ed., United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903, The Americas57:2 (October 2000): 298-299.
Jesús Sanz Fernández, coord. Historia de los ferrocarriles de iberoamérica (1837-1995), Hispanic American Historical Review80:1 (February 2000): 197-198.
Neil Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion. The Struggle for Land and Democracy, The Americas56.4 (April 2000): 615-616.
Sandra Kunz Ficker and Paolo Riguzzi, coords. Ferrocarriles y vida económica en México (1850-1950). Del surgimiento tardío al decaimiento precoz, Hispanic American Historical Review 80.1 (February 2000): 197-198.
Mark Moberg, Myths of Ethnicity and Nation. Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, The Americas 55.3 (January 1999): 526-7.
Richard Tardanico and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds. Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America, The Americas 55.3 (January 1999): 527-9.
Hugh Thomas, Conquest. Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico, Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 April 1994.
Donald C. Hodges, Argentina's "Dirty War": An Intellectual Biography, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (listed below as The Annals) (March 1993).
Clarence B. Davis and Kenneth E. Wilburn, Jr., eds., Railway Imperialism, Journal of Economic History, (September 1992).
Jeffery T. Brannon and Gilbert M. Joseph, eds., Land, Labor, and Capital in Modern Yucatán. Essays in Regional History and Political Economy, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía/Inter-American Review of Bibliography61.3 (1991).
KjellI. Enge and Scott Whiteford, The Keepers of Water and Earth. Mexican Rural Social Organization and Irrigation and Frans J. Schryer, Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico, The Annals (July 1991).
Del Franz, Exploring the Third World, International Education Review (Fall 1988).
Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean and Richard W. Slatta, ed., Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry, The Annals (January 1988).
Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire, I. Genesis, Socialist Review16:5 (September-October 1986).
George D. Moffett, III, The Limits of Victory: The Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties (The Annals, January 1986).
John Humphrey, Capitalist Control and Workers' Struggle in the Brazilian Auto Industry, The Annals (March 1984).
Miles Wortman, Government and Society in Central America, 1680-1840, The Annals (September 1983).
Stephen M. Gorman, ed., Post-Revolutionary Peru: The Politics of Transformation, The Annals (May 1983).
John H. Coatsworth, Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico, Hispanic American Historical Review 62.3 (August 1982): 497-498.
Milton I. Vanger, The Model Country: José Batlle y Ordóñez of Uruguay, 1907-1915, The Annals (July 1982).
Irwin F. Gellman, Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945, The Annals (May 1980).
Oscar J. Martínez, BorderBoomTown: Ciudad Juárez Since 1848, The Annals (January 1979).
John Samuel Fitch, The Military Coup d'Etat as a Political Process: Ecuador, 1948-1966, The Annals (September 1978).
Peter Rees, Transportes y comercio entre México y Veracruz, 1519-1910, Hispanic American Historical Review 58.2 (May 1978): 299.
Winthrop R. Wright, British-Owned Railways in Argentina: Their Effect on the Growth of Nationalism, 1854-1948, Economic Development and Cultural Change (January 1977).
Peter F. Klarén, Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo. Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932, The Annals (July 1974).
Robert Jones Shafer, Mexican Business Organizations, History and Analysis, The Annals (November 1973).
Newspaper Articles
"USA Should Ease Up on Nicaragua,"USA Today, February 23, 1990.
"For Now, Bush Has an Opportunity," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 21, 1988.
"Ceasefire Could End a `Legacy of Failure'," El Hispano (Sacramento, Calif.), June 8, 1988.
"Reagan Gets a New Chance," The Hispanic Link (Washington, DC), April 20, 1988.
"Contra aid: bad money after bad," Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 1986.
"Lo que se juega en el Congreso", Uno más Uno (México, D.F.), April 16, 1985.
"The US shouldn't aid the contras", Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1985.
"Contra's victims should be heard", Philadelphia Inquirer, January 12, 1984.
"US should normalize relations with Cuba", Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 1983.
"Reagan gambles on El Salvador vote", Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 1983.
"US should end military aid to El Salvador", Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1983.
"A lesson of the Cuban missile crisis", Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 1982.
"Mexico's belt is already tight", Philadelphia Inquirer, September 11, 1982.
"US policy after the Falklands", Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1982.
"Salvador's refugees tell the true story", Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23, 1982.
"US should agree to talks on El Salvador", Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1982.
PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
Commentator on Lindsey Feitz, “Democratizing Beauty: Avon Cosmetics and the Transnational Marketing of Femininity, 1954-2008,” Hagley Museum Research Seminar, March 24, 2011 (regional meeting).
Paper, “The Perplexing Period. Mexican History since 1940,” Latin American Studies Association XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11, 2009 (international meeting).
Co-presenter with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt, paper “Translating Fear,”Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Juan, PuertoRico, March 15, 2006 (international meeting).
Roundtable paraticipant and paper presenter, “Cuban Revolution and Latin America,” American Historical Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, January 6, 2006 (national meeting).
Discussant, roundtable on globalization in Latin America, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 1, 2003 (national meeting).
Moderator, Panel "Etnicidad, Identidad y Migraciones," Tercero Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas en Europa, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 3-6, 2002 (international meeting).
Paper, "Migrantes desaparecidos: la migración internacional mexicana después de 1940 como factor de la historia doméstica," Tercer Congreso Internacional de Latinoamericanistas en Europa, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 3-6, 2002 (international meeting).
Program presenter, "Paradigms and Issues in Latin American History," Community College of Philadelphia, Title VI Project: Strengthening International Education and Foreign Languages, June 5-6, 2000 (local meeting).
Paper, "Global Integration, Migration, and Social Change since 1940," X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Ft. Worth, Texas, November 19-22, 1999 (international meeting).
Moderator, Panel "Primary Materials Online in Undergraduate Classes," Annual Meeting of the American Association for History and Computing, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, April 25, 1999 (national meeting).
Commentator, Panel "Computers in the Teaching, Researching, and Writing of History: A Roundtable Discussion," Annual Meeting of the American Association for History and Computing, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, April 24, 1999 (national meeting).
Address, "Modern Mexican History: Making It Real Compared to What?", Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 5, 1999 (local meeting).
Address (with María Aurora Camacho de Schmidt), "When Ordinary People Make History: Translating the Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake," HaverfordCollege, Haverford, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1999 (local meeting).
Paper, "Mexicans, Migrants, and Indigenous Peoples: The Work of Manuel Gamio in the United States,"
Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 8, 1998 (national meeting).
Paper, "Beyond `Revolution to Demolition': Rewriting Mexico's Post-1940 History,' First Annual Washington Area Seminar on Latin America, Washington, D.C., October 31-November 1, 1997 (regional meeting).
Commentator, Panel "Peasantries by Any Other Name: Rethinking Social Transformations and Struggles in Rural Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries": Session II, 22nd Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1997 (international meeting).
Paper, "Mexico's Crisis as History, 1940-2000," 89th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Francisco, California, August 10, 1996 (international meeting).
Address, "The Mexican Economy," Temple University Latin American Studies Forum on Mexico 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1995 (local meeting).
Paper, "The Eye of the Beholder: US Social Science Views of Mexico's Political Economy, 1940-1982," 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association/Southwestern Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas, March 23, 1995 (international meeting).
Address, "Mexico After the Elections," Temple University Latin American Studies Forum on Elections in Latin America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1994 (local meeting).
Address, "Seeking Salvation: Optimism and Pessimism in Latin American History," Community College of Philadelphia, NEH-sponsored program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1994 (local meeting).
Participant, Mexico-US Diálogos Trinational Meeting, Austin, Texas, June 10-12, 1994 (international meeting).
Address, "Observations on the Salvadoran Elections," XV Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) meetings, KeanCollege, Union, New Jersey, April 9, 1994 (regional meeting).
Paper, "Globalization, Neoliberal Ideology, and National Identity: The Historical Uncertainties of NAFTA," XVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Atlanta, Georgia, March 12, 1994 (international meeting).
Panel organizer and panelist, "New Approaches to the Analysis of Social and Political Change in Latin America," XIV Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) meetings, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1993 (regional meeting).
Paper, "The Enduring Crisis of Mexico and Central America," Villanova University Sesquicentennial Conference, "Church, State, and Society in Latin America: Sociopolitical and Economic Restructuring Since 1960," Villanova, Pennyslvania, March 19, 1993 (international meeting).
Panel organizer and discussant, "Universidad, Democracia y Mayorías Populares: El Papel de la Universidad en la Reconstrucción de El Salvador," XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Los Angeles, California, September 25, 1992 (international meeting).
Inaugural address, "1492: Conquest, Morality, and Historical Reality," 1992 Convocation Series, "The Columbus Event: 500 Years of What?" Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (local meeting).
Participant, Mexico-US Diálogos Trinational Meeting, University of California, San Diego, California, June, 1992 (international meeting).
Panel participant, "Third World Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences," American Forum for Global Education Conference, "Education in a Multicultural World," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May, 1992 (national meeting).
Address, "Multiculturalism in the US," Social Studies Consortium, UpperMerionSchool District, Souderton, Pennsylvania, February, 1992 (local meeting).
Respondent to John Kenneth Galbraith, "Economics and Human Values: Issues for the 1990s," Annual Public Gathering, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November, 1991 (national meeting).
Address, "Latin America in the New World Order," Association of Third World Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, October, 1991 (national meeting).
Address, "Internationalizing the Nation-State: A Framework for Mexican and Central American History, 1960-2000," Delaware Valley Latin American Research Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September, 1991 (local meeting).
Participant, Mexico-US Diálogos Trinational Meeting, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1991 (international meeting).
Moderator, Conference on "The Moral and Social Responsibility of the University: The Thought of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits," SwarthmoreCollege, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1990 (international meeting).
Moderator, Mexico-US Diálogos Binational Exchange, Austin, Texas, June 8-10, 1990 (international meeting).
Panel Chair, Conference on Central America, HaverfordCollege, Haverford, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1990 (national meeting).
Discussant, "Broadening Curricula: Faculty Dialogue Across Two- and Four-Year Colleges and Universities," Ford Foundation-sponsored conference, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20-21, 1990 (regional meeting).