Jake Frederick
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Lawrence University1528 N. Division St.
P.O. Box 599Appleton, WI 54911
Appleton, WI 54912(cellular) 904 475-5333
920 832-6678
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Education
Pennsylvania State University
8/2005 Ph.D., History “The Landscape of Discontent: Community and Conflict in Colonial Papantla, Mexico, 1750-1800."
Research Advisor: Matthew Restall
Primary Field: Colonial Latin America (Mexico)
Secondary Fields: Early Modern Spain and Cultural Geography
5/1992University of Massachusetts
B.A. cum laude: English; Minor: Spanish
Employment Experience
2006-PresentLawrence University
Assistant Professor
Chair of Latin American Studies
2005-2006University of North Florida
Visiting Assistant Professor
Penn State University
Summer 2005Fixed-Term Instructor
2001-2005ABD Lecturer
1998-2001Teaching Assistant
Courses Taught
Lower Division:
Freshman Studies 100World History I Western Heritage 1 The Atlantic World 1400-1850 Early U.S. History to 1877 Colonial Latin America Modern Latin America Outbreak: The World History of Disease
Upper Division:
Early America to 1770Conflict and Power in Latin America
Spain In the New WorldThe Rise and Fall of American Empires Ethnicity in Latin America Revolt and Revolution in Latin America
Race and Culture in Latin America
Publications
Under Review“Without Impediment: Crossing Ethnic Boundaries in Colonial Mexico”
2006“Mesoamerican Natives” in Iberia and the Americas: History, Culture and Politics,a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. 3 Vols. Edited by J. Michael Francis. Santa Barbara and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006.
2006“Colonial Rebellions” in Iberia and the Americas: History, Culture and Politics,a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. 3 Vols. Edited by J. Michael Francis. Santa Barbara and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006.
2004“Pardos Enterados: Unearthing Black Papantla in the Eighteenth
Century.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 5, no. 2,
2004. muse.jhu.edu/journals/cch
Conferences
11/2007“Without Impediment: Crossing Ethnicities in Colonial Mexico.” American Society for Ethnohistory. Tulsa, OK
11/2007Chair, “Mesoamericans in the Casta Crucible, Part Two.” American Society for Ethnohistory. Tulsa, OK
2/2006 Commentator, “Reading Groups: Power and Identity in Eighteenth Century Print Culture.” Morris Conference on the History of the Atlantic World. Tallahassee, FL.
1/2005“Standing United and Divided in Papantla, Veracruz, 1750-1800,” American Historical Association. Seattle, WA.
10/2004“Pardos Enterados: Unearthing Black Papantla in the Eighteenth Century.” Afro-Mexico, Rock Ethics Institute. State College, PA.
3/2004 “Soiled Hands: Ethnic and Environmental Conflict in Eighteenth Century Papantla.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1/2004"The Landscape of Conflict: Community and Discontent in Colonial Papantla, 1750-1800." Committee on Latin American History. Washington, D.C.
10/2003“Public Exposure: Native Mexican Women in the Public Sphere,” Penn State Early Modern History Conference. State College, PA.
2/2003“The Landscape of Conflict: Community and Discontent in Colonial Papantla, 1750-1800.” Fulbright-García Robles Fellows Conference. Mexico City, Mexico.
2/2002“Landscape of Conflict: The Papantla Uprising of 1787” XXII ILASSA
Conference on Latin America. Austin, TX.
Awards
2008DRCLAS Harvard University Library Scholars Grant
2007 Faculty Research Grant: Lawrence University
2006Lilly Library Mendel Fellowship
2003-2004Hill Dissertation Writing Fellowship
01-05/2004College of Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office, writing grant
2003College of Liberal Arts Research and Graduate Studies Office, travel grant
2002-2003William J. Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship
2002Hill Dissertation Writing Fellowship (declined)
2002Conference Travel Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies
Students Association
2002Conference Travel Grant, Penn State University, Department of History
2001 Mark and Lucy Stitzer Graduate Research Endowment
2000 Etu Zen Sun Award for Outstanding Teaching
2000 Visiting Fellow, Oaxaca Summer Institute for Modern Mexican History
1/2000 Pre-doctoral Research Grant, Penn State University, Department of History
Related Activities
02/2006Invited Speaker, University of North Florida-Lifetime of Learning Seminar Series “Exploration and the Discovery of Race in the Atlantic World.”
01/03-05/03Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Seminar Historical Geography with Professor Gerardo Bustos.
01/02-03/02Research Assistant to Robert Proctor acting as expert witness in United Stated vs. Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation,
et al. Wrote briefing related to pre-Columbian and early modern tobacco use.
06-07/1998 US Advisor to Mexican Secretariat of Natural Resources, La Selva
Chimalapas and El Ocote Fires.
Languages
Fluency: Spanish, English (native)
Reading Proficiency: Nahuatl
Non-Academic Publications
1998“No Place for Us,” Wildfire Magazine Chicago: International Association of Wildland Fire. vol.7, n.3.
1998“Winding Down,” Wildfire Magazine Chicago: International Association of Wildland Fire. vol. 7, n.1.
1997"Family Pictures" in Conceptions Southwest v. 20, n.3. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Student Press.
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
American Society for Environmental History
Committee on Latin American History
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