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EDWARD WRIGHT-RIOS

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Associate Professor of History

Vanderbilt University

Department of History

VU Station B 351802

Nashville, TN 37235

Office Phone: 615-322-3325

Home Phone: 615-269-0815

Fax Number: 615-322-6002

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EDUCATION

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University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California

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Ph.D., Latin American History, 2004

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Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

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M.A. in Latin American Studies, 1998

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University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

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B.S. in Forestry, 1987

EXPERIENCE

Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, 2017 – present

Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, 2010 – 2017.

Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, 2004 – 2010.

Instructional Assistant, Seattle Public Schools, Drop-out Prevention and Bilingual

Education Programs, September 1990 – June 1996.

Peace Corps Volunteer, United States Peace Corps, Honduras, June 1987 – August 1989.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2011.
  • Winner of the 2010 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize of the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.
  • Winner of the 2010 Best Prize of the Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section.
  • Warren Center for the Humanities Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2010-2011 academic year.

PUBLICATIONS

In-Progress Book

  • Devotion in Motion: Women, Men, and Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico

Books

  • Searching for Madre Matiana: Prophecy, Politics, and Female Piety in Modern Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2014).
  • Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934(Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).

Essays and Articles

  • “Marshaling the Faithful: Popular Religiosity and Institutional Life in Modern Mexico,” in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, accepted and in press, forthcoming.
  • “Our Lady of Juquila: Nation, Region, and Marian Devotions in Contemporary Mexico,” in Mary into Combat: Marian Devotions, Political Mobilization, and Nationalism in Europe and America, edited by Roberto Di Stefano and Francisco Javier Ramón Solans, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017.
  • “La Madre Matiana: Nation and the Female Prophetic Persona in Mexican Satire,” The Americas, 68, no. 2 (October 2011).
  • “Fitting Fanáticas:Nation, Narration, and Assimilation of Pious Femininity in Revolutionary Mexico,” in Mexico’s Unfinished Revolutions: 1810, 1910, and 2010,” ed. Charles Faulhaber, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
  • “Inspirando mexicanos: religiosidad, autoridad, y comunidad desde la Madre Matiana al Segundo Juan Diego,” in Prácticas populares, cultura política y poder en México, siglo XIX, ed. Brian Connaughton, (in press, (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, 2008).
  • “Envisioning Mexico’s Catholic Resurgence: The Virgin of Solitude and the Talking Christ of Tlacoxcalco, 1908-1924,” Past and Present 195 (May 2007): 197-239.
  • “A Revolution in Local Catholicism? Oaxaca, 1928-1934,” in Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910-1940, ed. Matthew Butler (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).
  • “Visions of Women: Revelation, Gender, and Catholic Resurgence,” in Religious Culture in Modern Mexico, ed. Martin Austin Nesvig (Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).
  • “Indian Saints and Nation-States: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano’s Landscapes and Legends.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 20, no.1 (Winter 2004): 47-68.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Devotion in Motion/Pasos de Peregrinos: Pilgrimage and Religious Culture in Oaxaca (Photographs by Mike Dubose)

  • August – September 2017, Conexión Américas Nashville, TN.
  • October 2017, Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University

FEATURED SCHOLAR OF RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

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“Religión y Representación en el México Moderno,” Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, October 14, 15, and 16, 2015.

INVITED TALKS

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“Peregrinación y sociedad en la historia contemporánea de Oaxaca,”at Seminario: Oaxaca entre el presente y el pasado: visiones en torno y sobre la historiografía, Oaxaca, México, November 6-8, 2017.

“Gender, Religiosity, and Representation in Mexico,” Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina Charlotte, September 26, 2016.

“Entre almanaques, linternas mágicas e identidades: mercadotecnia y representación en los calendarios decimonónicos,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Monterrey, Mexico, March 6, 2015.

“Picturing the Prophetess: Religion, Gender, and Ethnicity in Lola Álvarez Bravo’s Photography,” University of Louisville, March 7 2012.

“Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, and Saint,” Bandits Millenarians, Folk Saints, and Sharpers: Conference in Honor of Paul Vanderwood, University of California, San Diego, April 13, 2012.

“Fitting Fanáticas: Nation, Narration, and the Assimilation of Pious Femininity in Revolutionary Mexico,” The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Symposium, 1810-1910-2010: Mexico’s Unfinished Revolutions, October 22-23, 2010.

“Lo que tiene y no tiene madre: Nation and Female Prophetic Persona in Mexican Satire," Emory University Department of History Seminar Series, October 28, 2009.

“A Revolution in Local Catholicism: Faith or Fraud in Oaxaca, 1928-1934,” colloquium at Queens University Belfast, Ireland, October 15, 2005.

“Inspirando mexicanos: religiosidad, autoridad, y comunidad en México.” Práticas populares, cultura política y poder en México, Continuidades y contrastes entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, Colloquium at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, May 27, 2005.

AFFILIATIONS

  • American Historical Association
  • Conference on Latin American History
  • Southern Historical Association
  • Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin American Studies
  • Latin American Studies Association
LANGUAGES
  • Spanish: Native Fluency
  • Portuguese: Conversational and Reading Knowledge