Andrae M. Marak
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
-Professor of History and Political Science, GovernorsStateUniversity, 2012 to Present
-Chair, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012 to Present
-Associate Professor of History and Political Science, IUPUC, 2011 to 2012
-Head,Division of Liberal Arts, 2011 to 2012
-Associate Professor of History and Political Science, California University of PA, 2004 to 2011
-Interim Director of Honors Program, 2010 to 2011
-Chair, Department of History and Political Science, 2007 to 2010
-Assistant Director of Honors Program, 2008 to 2010
-Interim Director of Women’s Studies, 2005 to 2007
-Adjunct Professor of Global Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2009 to 2011
-Visiting Assistant Professor of History, FranklinCollege, 2002 to 2003
-Instructor of History, Milwaukee Extension, LakelandCollege, 2001 to 2002
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Latin American Studies, History and Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2000
M.A., Political Science, SyracuseUniversity, Syracuse, NY 1995
B.A., Political Science, MarquetteUniversity, Milwaukee, WI 1993
COURSES TAUGHT
Global Political Economy; Latin American Politics; History and Literature in Mao’s China; Beliefs and Believers; History of Colonial Mexico; Gender in Latin America; Latin American Cultural History; Modern Latin American History; History of the Mexican Revolution; Conquest of the Americas; Anatomy of a Dictatorship; Historiography; Introduction to Global Studies; U.S. History to 1877; U.S. History since 1877; Ancient World History; Modern World History; Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History; Global Transitions to 1300; Western Civilization II; Introduction to Political Science; Introduction to Women’s Studies; Introduction to Comparative Politics; Introduction to Political Theory;World Environmental History; History Capstone Seminar; Modern Asian Cultural History;20th Century U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S. Diplomatic History; Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy; History of Sport in America; Honors Thesis; The 1930s; Deindustrialization and Poverty; Colonial British/U.S. Constitutional History; First Year Seminar: Representation, Self-Representation, and Performing Identity.
PUBLICATIONS
University Press Books
-Transnational Indians in the North American West, co-edited with Lissa Confer and Laura Tuennerman, Texas A&M University Press, Connecting the Greater West, series editor, Sterling Evans, Fall 2015.
-At the Border of Empires: The Tohono O'odham, Gender and Assimilation, 1880-1934, with Laura Tuennerman, University of Arizona Press,2013. [Named a Southwest Book of the Yearby the Arizona Historical Society and the Pima County Library]
-Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, edited with Elaine Carey, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
-From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in CallistaMexico (1924-1935), University of Calgary Press, 2009, Christon Archer, series editor.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
-“Just Say No to Drugs: Mexico’s War on Alcohol in Ciudad Juárez during Prohibition,” Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Annual: Global Perspectives, Volume 6, (2014), 277-298.
-“Two Tales of the Conquest of Seriland,” in Transnational Indians in the North American West, Texas A&M University Press, Connecting the Greater West, series editor, Sterling Evans, Fall 2015.
-“Introduction: Transnational Indians in the North American West,” with Gary Van Valen, in Transnational Indians in the North American West, Texas A&M University Press, Connecting the Greater West, series editor, Sterling Evans, Fall 2015.
-“Borders, Classrooms, and Global Connections,”co-edited with Benita Heiskanen, The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies, Number 8, Spring 2014.
-“Introduction: Transnational Flows of Contraband and Vice in North America,” with Elaine Carey, in Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
-“Official Government Discourses about Vice and Deviance: the Early 20th Century Tohono O’odham,” with Laura Tuennerman, in Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
-“Explaining Oil Nationalization in Latin America: Economics and Political Ideology,” with Scott Morgenstern and Ruben Berrios, Review of InternationalPolitical Economy, Volume 18, Issue 5, December 2011.
-“Los viciostrasnacionales de los Tohono o´odham a principios del siglo XX,” with Laura Tuennerman, in En la encrucijada.Historia, marginalidad y delito en América Latina y los EstadosUnidos de Norteamérica, siglos XIX y XX, University of Guadalajara, 2010, Jorge Alberto TruilloBretón, editor.
-“Frontier Masculinity, Femininity, and the Ideological Cleansing of Borderlands Teachers, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85:2 (Spring 2010), 155-178.
-“Forging Identity: Mexican Federal Frontier Schools, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review 80:2 (Spring 2005), 163-88.
-“Federalization of Education in Chihuahua,” PaedagogicaHistorica41:3 (June 2005), 357-75.
-“The Failed Assimilation of the Tarahumara in PostrevolutionaryMexico,” Journal of the Southwest 45:3 (Autumn 2003), 411-35.
Other Publications
-“Commentary: New Approaches to Transnational Crime and the Law,” Homeland Security Review: A Journal for the Institute of Law and Public Policy, 6:3 (Summer 2012): 171-174.
-World History Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2011), special issue on Transnational Crime in World History, edited with Elaine Carey.
-“The Urbanization of the Tohono O’odham: Using Vice, Crime, and Sexuality to Explore Cultural Interaction and Assimilation,” in World History Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2011), with Laura Tuennerman.
-Proceedings of the Annual Intersections: Undergraduate Research Conference, edited with Philip J. Harold and Monica M. VanDieren (Spring 2010 and 2011).
-“Historicapolítica de México en los añosveinte: petróleo, ejército y educación: Consulta de los archivos Calles-Torreblancaporacadémicos de la Universidad de Nuevo México,” with Linda B. Hall, Robert Carriedo, and Joseph Lenti, in PlutarcoElías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca: Un ejemplo de la importancia de los archivosprivados en la historiografía de México, FideicomisoArchivosPlutarcoElías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2009, Norma Mereles de Ogarrio, editor.
-Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), special issue on American Indians and the Borderlands of the West, edited with Laura Tuennerman.
-“Introduction: American Indians and the Borderlands of the West,” in Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), 9-11, with Laura Tuennerman.
-“’He Don’t Show Us Much About Farming’: Tohono O’odham Agency and Agricultural Priorities, 1910-1940,” in Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), 20-25, with Laura Tuennerman.
-“Engagement or Isolation: Latin America’s Populist Left and the United States,” Harvard International Review, commentary, with Scott Morgenstern, November 2, 2006,
-“Pancho Villa: The Twice-Made Bandit,” in Negotiation and Conflict: Essays in United States and Mexican History, Kathleen P. Chamberlain and Jonathan Ablard, eds., Occasional Papers, University of New Mexico, Center for the American West, No. 14, 1999.
Dissertation
-“The Making of Modern Man: The Callista Education Project, 1924-1935,” with distinction, Dr. Linda B. Hall, chair.
Encyclopedia Entries
-“Mexico” in Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics, with Scott Morgenstern, edited by Joel Krieger, Oxford University Press, 2012.
-“Baseball” in The Encyclopedia of the United States-Latin American Relations, edited by Timothy Arnquist, CQ Press, January 2012.
-“Manuel Gamio” and “Native Americans” in The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide, edited by Andrew G. Wood, Greenwood Press, 2008.
Reviews
Book Review, American Historical Review
Book Reviews, Hispanic American Historical Review
Book Review, TheAmericas
Book Review, Western Historical Quarterly
Book Reviews, New Mexico Historical Review
Book Reviews, Canadian Journal of History
Review Essays, H-LATAM
Book Reviews, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Book Reviews, Journal of the West
Review Essay H-DIPLO
Review Essay, H-Borderlands
Book Review, Latin Americanist
Book Reviews, The Middle Ground: An Online Journal for World Historians
Book Review, Bulletin of Latin American Research
Book Review, World History Connected
Book Review, Journal of American-East Asian Relations (forthcoming)
Anonymous Article Review, Hispanic American Historical Review
Anonymous Article Review, Western Historical Quarterly
Anonymous Article Reviews, The Middle Ground: An Online Journal for World Historians
Anonymous Article Review, Advances in Social Work: Special Issue on Latina/os
Anonymous Manuscript Reviews, University of Arizona Press
Textbook Review, Political Science, Wadsworth
Works in Progress
-The Harrison Act: The First 100 Years, with Elaine Carey
-The Comcáac, 1844-1940, with Laura Tuennerman
-“The Construction of Whiteness in Modern Latin America,” in Cultural History of Latin America, Carlos Salomon, ed.
PAPERS PRESENTED
-“Indigenous People, Transnationality, and the North American West,” World History Association, San Jose, Costa Rica, Summer 2014
-“Between Licit and Illicit: Alcohol and Prohibition in Ciudad Juarez-El Paso during Prohibition,” World History Association, San Jose, Costa Rica, Summer 2014
-“At the Border of Empires,” Gender Matters, University Park, IL, Spring 2014
-“Licit and Illicit Alcohol in Ciudad Juárez during Prohibition,” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2014
-“China’s Expansion into Latin America,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, Spring 2014
-“Two Tales of the Conquest of Seriland: PascualEncinas, Roberto Thomson, the White Chief, and the Seri Indians,” Newberry Library Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Chicago, IL, Spring 2014
-“American Indians of the North American West,” Midwest World History Association Conference, Fall 2014, Springfield, OH, Fall 2013
-“The Seri’s Road from Barbarism to Modernity (and Back): An Exploration of Metaphorical Borderlands,” World History Association Conference, Minnesota, MN, Summer 2013
-“Just Say No to Drugs: What Mexico’s War on Alcohol in Ciudad Juárez Can Teach Us about the War on Drugs,” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2013
-“Mexico as a Counter Example: Gendering the Periphery of Empire,” Midwest World History Association Conference, Grant Rapids, MI, Summer 2012
-“Incorporating ‘Borderlands’ and ‘Transnational’ Themes into World History Survey Courses,” Roundtable, Midwest World History Association, Grand Rapids, MI, Summer 2012
-“Indigenismo in the Hands of Native and Non-Native Transnational Moral Entrepreneurs: The Seri, Tohono O'odham, and Tarahumara,” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2012
-“Drugs, Gambling, and Sex: Interrogating the Connections Between the Licit and Illicit,” Roundtable, International Studies Association, Spring 2012
-“Harmony After Discord: Anglo Indigenistas among the Seris in Post- Revolutionary Mexico,” 2011 Midwest World History Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Fall 2011
-“Baseball, Masculinity, Cultural Imperialism, and the Carranza Propaganda Machine,” 6th Annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Conference, California, PA, Spring 2011
-“U.S. Assimilation or Mexican Indigenismo?: The Seri and Their Anglo Benefactors,” Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2011
-“Yankee Indigenismo: The Seri, SEP, and BIA,” XIII Encuentro de Historiadores de México, EstadosUnidos, y Canadá, Queretaro, Mexico, Fall 2010
-“Transnational Indigenismo and the Seri Indians in the 1920s,” Western Historical Association, Lake Tahoe, NV, Fall 2010
-“The Double Game: Anti-Vice Moralizing While Supporting Whiskey and Narcotics Contraband in Ciudad Juarez, 1929-1934,” Western History Association, Denver, CO, Fall 2009
-“Brothers in Crime: The Fernandez and Quevedo Brothers as Perpetrators of Violence Against Women and the Poor,” 53rdInternational Conference of Americanistas, Mexico City, Summer 2009
-“The Inadvertent Adoption of BIA Policies by the SEP,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, Spring 2009
-“The Mexican Education Ministry’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign in Transnational Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, 1929-1934,” American Historical Association Conference, New York, NY, Spring 2009
-“The Double Game: Anti-Vice Moralizing While Supporting Whiskey and Narcotics Contraband in Ciudad Juarez, 1929-1934,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Flagstaff, AZ, Spring 2008
-“Civil Marriage and Tohono O’odham Women Between Worlds,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Spring 2008 (co-author)
-“The Mormons and Mennonites as Cultural Role Models in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, Fall 2007
-“Traditional not Revolutionary: Field Matrons and the Tohono O’odham,” 16th Annual World Historical Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Summer 2007 (co-author)
-“The Other Cristero War: Calles and Anti-Catholic Education in Sonora, 1924-1935,” American Catholic Historical Association Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, Spring 2007
-“Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women Between Worlds,” Women and Work, 2nd Annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Conference on Women’s Studies, California, PA, Spring 2007 (co-author)
-“An Army of Davids: Blogs and the Casey Santorum Senate Race,” Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, MA, Fall 2006 (co-author)
-“Tohono O’odham: Using the U.S.-Mexican Border as Leverage,” XII Conference of Mexican, United States, and Canadian Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia, Fall 2006
-“Misery in the MagnoliaState: Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Mississippi,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Spring 2006 (co-author)
-“Education, Masculinity, and Femininity along the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1924-1935,” Women at Risk: Life in the Global Village Conference, California, PA, Spring 2006
-“God, Gore, and Science: The Coverage of Hurricane Katrina,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Spring 2006 (co-author)
-“The Seri Indians, SEP, Indigenismoand Exploitation,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Spring 2006
-“The Construction of Masculine and Feminine Teachers along the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1924-1935,” The Third International Colloquium on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Fall 2005
-“The Adaptive Resistance of Native Peoples in Northern Mexico in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Cultures in Conflict Conference, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, Spring 2005
-“The Acculturation of the Seri Indians, 1924-1935,” North Central Conference of Latin American Studies, Platteville, WI, Fall 2003
-“The Mexican Kickapoo Indians: Resistance to Educational Assimilation,” North Central Conference of Latin American Studies, Indianola, IA, Fall 2002
-“Baseball Stereotypes and the Carranza Propaganda Machine,” Conference of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, Spring 2000
-“Baseball, Carranza, and Imperialism,” Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Missoula, MO, Fall 1999
-“Pancho Villa: The Twice-Made Bandit,” Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, San Diego, CA, Fall 1998
INVITED TALKS
-“Black Momma in the Closet,” Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Black History Month, Governors State University, Spring 2014
-“InocenteFilm Screening and Panel Discussion,” Panelist, National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, Governors State University, Fall 2013
-“Latin America and China: Primary Goods, Populism, and Political Leverage,” East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, Fall 2012
-“Using Vice, Crime and Sexuality to Explore Cultural Interaction and Assimilation of the Tohono O’odham,” IUPUC, March 2012
-“Mexico,” Columbus Great Decisions Series, February 2012
-“What is Soul Food? An Educational Perspective,” IUPUC Soul Food Dinner, February 2012
-“Borders, Borderlanders, and Crime,” 5th Annual Conference on Homeland and International Security, Transnational Crimes and Security, CaliforniaUniversity of PA, October 2011
-“Transnational Crime, Contraband, and Vice along the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Borders,” IUPUC Faculty Colloquium Series, October 2011
-“Reminisces about Transnational American Indian History, Indian Agency, and the Tohono O’odham,” Lambda Alpha Honorary Society, CaliforniaUniversity of PA, April 2010
-“Democracy and Piracy Roundtable,” The Many Faces of Piracy, CaliforniaUniversity of PA, September 2008
-“Immigrations: Myths and Facts,” ACLU Meet-Up and DiscussionGroup, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2007
-“Promoting Provocative Discussions in Online Courses,” FPDC Workshop, February 2007
-“NAFTA, Immigration, and Civil Rights,” ACLU Meet-Up and Discussion Group, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006
-“Sports History Roundtable,” CaliforniaUniversity of PA, November 2006
-“NAFTA, Immigration, and the U.S. Election: How Transnational Elite Decisions led to a Nativist Backlash,” Penn State McKeesport Speaker Series, McKeesport, PA, Fall 2006
-“Isabelle Allende’s Zorro: A Novel,” Manderino Library Book Club, Spring 2006
-“U.S. and Brazilian Slavery: A Comparison,” Cal U in the High School, Summer 2006
-“What is History?” Cal U in the High School, Fall 2005
-“Education, Corporatism, and the Construction of the One-Party States,” RoanokeCollege, Fall 2005
-“Pancho Villa and the U.S. Media,” Student Organization of Latin American Studies, Albuquerque, NM, Fall 1997
CHAIRED PANELS
-“Transnational Emigration and Identity,” World History Association, San Jose, Costa Rica, Summer 2014
-“Illicit Transnational Networks,” Chair, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2014
-“Drugs, Violence, and Rule of Law,” Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2014
-“Managing War,” Midwest World History Association Conference, Springfield, OH, Fall 2013
-“Controlling the Border’s Natural and Human Environment: Earth, Water, Drugs, Power, and Lives,” Commentator, Western History Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, Fall 2013
-“Latin America and World History: Practice and Research,” World History Association Conference, Minnesota, MN, Summer 2013
-“Materializing Gender and Sexuality Around the Globe,” Chair, Gender Matters: Continuities and Instabilities, Chicago, IL, Spring 2013
-“Violence and Democracy in Latin America,” Chair and Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2013
-“Contesting Authoritarianism,” Chair and Commentator, Midwest Latin American History Conference, Chicago, IL, Spring 2013
-“The Narco-Empire: Violence and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region,” Commentator, American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fall 2012
-“Harmony and Discord in the Post-War World,” 2011 Midwest World History Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Fall 2011
-“Crime and Violence in the Americas, Then and Now,” Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies,”Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2011
-“The U.S.-Mexico Border: Local Conflicts and State Desires,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, Spring 2011
-“College Life: Socialization, Mentoring, Privilege, Exclusion,” 57th Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Sociological Association, California, PA, Fall 2007
-“People in Motion: Migration and Diasporas,” 16th Annual World History Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Summer 2007
-“Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective,” Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, MA, Fall 2006
INTERVIEWS
-The Tohono O’odham: A Divided Nation, Anna Witte for WFHB, forthcoming
-Great Decisions Foreign Policy Program, White River Broadcasting, January 2012
-Borders Viewed Differently Over Time, Herald Standard, , October 2011
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
-External Referee, Promotion to Full Professor Review, Elaine Carey, St. John’s University, 2014
-Peer Reviewer, Open and Standard Pathways, Higher Learning Commission (HLC), 2014
-Chair, Global Studies: Spanish Linguistics and Latina/o Studies Search Committee, 2012 to 2013
-Chief Human Resources Officer Search Committee, Fall 2013
-External Promotion and Tenure Review, Antonio Espinoza, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2013
-Hispanic Heritage Month Organizing Committee, 2013