Contact Information: Dept. of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, John A. Merritt Blvd., Nashville, TN 37209-1561
Education:
PhD, Latin
American History, Vanderbilt University, 1995
M.A., Latin
American History, Vanderbilt University, 1992.
Academic Year in
Spain, 1988-1989. (A U.S.‑based program
associated with the Universidad de Sevilla. Studied Spanish, History, and
Political Science.)
B.A. University of
Georgia (Athens), 1988
Georgia Institute
of Technology, 1984-1986. (Studied for a B.A. in Applied Mathematics)
2009-present:
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies, Tennessee State University
2009-present:
Adjoint Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University
2007-present:
Associate Professor, Latin American History, Tennessee State University
2002-2007:
Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Tennessee State University
Summer 2005-2009:
Acting Department Head, History, Geography and Political Science, Tennessee
State University.
Summer 2005;
Summer 2006: Adjunct Instructor, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University.
1995‑2002:
Assistant Professor (tenured), Latin American History, Fayetteville State
University.
1990‑1993:
Graduate Resident, Vanderbilt McTyeire International House.
Protestants, Revolution, and the
Cuba-U.S. Bond (University
of Press of Florida, 2007)
Study Guide to Accompany World
Civilization: The Global Experience
5e (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006)
Study Guide to Accompany World
Civilization: The Global Experience
4e (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004)
Book Review –
Jason Yaremko.
Book Review –
Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Healing Cultures:
Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the
“American Baptists
and the Protestant Experience in Cuba, 1959-1969,” American Baptist Quarterly,
20:1 (March, 2001), 27-59.
“Presbyterians in
the Revolution: An American Missionary Church and the Challenge of Castro’s
Cuba, 1959-1970,” Cuban Studies 31 (2000), 1-33.
“Building
Hegemony: Perón, Gramsci and Political Strategy in the Age of the Masses,”
MACLAS Latin American Essays 12 (1998), 107-118.
The Technique
(Georgia Tech), 1984‑1986; The Red and Black (UGA), 1986‑1988; The
Vanderbilt Hustler, 1989‑1995. Reporter, Columnist, News Editor,
Graphics/Layout Editor.
Caribbean History
Central American History
Historical Novel in
Historiography and
Historical Methodology
Latin American Survey
Mexican History Survey
Military Regimes of the ABC
Countries
Race and Identity in
Reform and Revolution in
Religion and Revolution in
Renaissance and Reformation
Science and Technology
Southern Cone (
The Mexican Revolution:
History, Art, Music and Film
Women in
World and Western
Civilization
Archival Employment:
Assistant
Archivist, Historical Collection, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt
“Changing Protestant Identity and the Cuban Revolution.”
Montreal, American Academy of Religion, 2009.
Chair, “Reconsidering New Approaches to Aviation History in
Latin America,” SHA 2009
Chair, “Latin America.”Nashville, International Studies
Association South, 2009
“A Modest Exception, Cuban Religious Identity and the Nature
of U.S. Power,” New Orleans, Southern Historical Association, 2006.
Chair. “Stepping Into Many Pasts: UT Martin Students Follow
the Count of Monte Cristo.”
“Pilgrims in a Strange Land: The Religious Trip Report
as Travel Literature in Communist
Co-Chair, Local
Arrangements Committee. Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies, 2005,
Chair. “Politics, Culture,
and Identity in the Mid-Twentieth Century
“Projecting the Peróns,” Dallas, Latin Americans Studies
Association, 2003.
“Religion and Civil Society
in Communist Cuba,” Fayetteville, NC, North Carolina Association of Historians,
2002.
“Unintended
Consequences: Cuban Protestants and the Politics of the Embargo,” New Orleans,
Southern Historical Association, November, 2001.
“Bad
Timing: The Fate of Three 1950s-era Missionary Programs in Castro’s Cuba,”
Chapel Hill, North Carolina Religious Studies Association, October, 2000.
“A Strange Conspiracy: Dean
Rusk and the Protestants Evade the Cuban Embargo,” Myrtle Beach, SECOLAS, March
2000.
“American Baptists and the Protestant Experience in
“Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary
Church in Cuba, 1959-1970.” MACLAS,
“Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary
Church Confronts Castro’s Cuba.” SECOLAS,
Discussant. “External Shocks, Local Reactions: Argentine
Responses to War and Depression, 1914-1952.” ATWS,
“Presbyterians in the Revolution: The Experience of a
Mission Church in Cuba, 1959-1970.” NCRSA,
“Revolutionary Spirits: Afro‑Cuban Religion in Castro's
Cuba.” SECOLAS,
“Building Hegemony: Perón, Gramsci and Political Strategy
in the Age of the Masses.” MACLAS, Trenton, 1998.
“Repression and Opportunity: Afro‑Cuban Religion and the
Cuban Communist State.” North Carolina Religious Studies Association, 1997,
Western NC Univ.
“Afro‑Cuban Religion and the
“El pueblo and the plebiscite: Peronist Authority and the
Idea of Citizenship, 1945‑1955.” LASA 1997, Guadaljara.
“Pueblo, trabajador, descamisado: The Place of the People
in Peronist Iconography.” LASA, Washington D.C., 1995.
Chair. “Politics and Political Culture in the Southern
Cone.” LASA,
Honors and Awards:
NEH Extending the Reach
Faculty Research Award - $24,000 (2001-2002)
Leeland Sage Fellowship
(1993‑1994)
Vanderbilt Dissertation
Enhancement Award (1993)
Dean’s List eight quarters
(1984‑1988)
Georgia Tech Merit Scholar
(1984)
Secretary, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern
Historical Association, 1998-present.
Co-Chair, Local
Arrangements Committee. Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies, 2005,
Nashville.
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association,
2000-2003.