Vita
Anne Rubenstein
Department of History
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
2140 Vari Hall
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
CERLAC
818 Kaneff Tower
416 - 753 - 0809 (c)
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Prepared April 2014
Education
B.A., Fine arts major, Oberlin College, 1985.
Ph.D., History, Rutgers University, October 1994. Major field: Latin America. Minor Field: United States
Thesis: "México sin vicios: Censorship, Conservatives, Comic Books and the State 1936-1974"
Thesis supervisor: Marc Wasserman
Current Position
York University, Toronto. Associate Professor of History, tenured and promoted July 2003
Previous Positions
York University, Toronto. Assistant Professor of History, July 2001 –July 2003
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. Assistant Professor of History, 1997 - 2001
Chapman University, Orange, CA. Assistant Professor of History 1994 - 1997
Honors and awards
Dean's Award for Outstanding Research, Faculty of Arts, York University, 2002
Summer Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago/University of Illinois Joint Center for Latin American
Studies, 2000.
Office of Diversity Affairs Leadership Award, Allegheny College, 2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute participant, Brazil, 1998.
President's Award for the Best Paper Presented by a Graduate Student, Conference of the Rocky Mountain
Council for Latin American Studies, 1994.
Publications
Books and monographs
(co-edited with Victor Macías-Gonzalez) Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico. University of New
Mexico Press, 2012.
(guest editor with Nancy Reagin) Transformative Works and Cultures 6 (2011) Special issue, “Fan Works
and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Fan Histories in the Twentieth Century.”
De los pepines a los agachados. Una historia política de las historietas. Fondo de Cultura Económica
(Mexico), 2004. (Translation of Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation.)
(co-edited with Gilbert Joseph and Eric Zolov) Fragments of a Golden Age: Mexican Cultural Politics Since
1940. Duke University Press, 2001
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in
Mexico. Duke University Press, 1998
Book chapters
"Theaters of Masculinity: Movie-Going and Male Roles in Mexico Before 1960" in Victor Macías-Gonzalez
and Anne Rubenstein, eds., Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico. University of New Mexico
Press, 2012. Pp. 132-154.
"Introduction: Masculinity and History in Modern Mexico" (co-authored with Victor Macías-Gonzalez) in
Victor Macías-Gonzalez and Anne Rubenstein, eds., Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico.
University of New Mexico Press, 2012. pp. 1-21.
“Hermione Raised Her Hand Again: Wizards Writing History,” in Nancy R. Reagin, ed., Harry Potter and
History, John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Pp. 309-321.
"Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century," in William Beezley, ed., The Oxford History
of Mexico, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 598-633.
"La Guerra contra 'las pelonas': las mujeres modernas y sus enemigos, Ciudad de México, 1924," in G.
Gano, J. Olcott, and M.K. Vaughan, eds., Género, poder y política en el México posrevolucionario. Fondo
de cultura económica, 2009. Pp. 91-126.
"Home Loving and Without Vices," in Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester, eds., A Comics Studies Reader.
University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Pp. 205-225.
"The War on las pelonas: Modern women and their enemies, Mexico City, 1924," in G. Cano, J. Olcutt, and
M.K. Vaughn, eds.,Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics and Power in Modern Mexico. Duke University
Press, 2006. Pp. 57-80.
"The General's Daughter Disrobes: Nahui Olin's Life and Art," in Jeffrey Pilcher, ed., The Human Tradition
in Mexico. Scholarly Resources, 2003. Pp. 128-151.
Publications, con't.
Book chapters, con't.
"El Santo: Many Versions of the Perfect Man," in G. Joseph and T. Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader,
Duke University Press, 2003. P. 432-48.
"Assembling the Fragments: Writing Cultural Histories of Post-Revolutionary Mexico," (co-authored with
G. Joseph and E. Zolov) in G. Joseph, A. Rubenstein and E. Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age:
Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940. Duke University Press, 2001. P. 3-22.
"Bodies, Cities, Cinema: The Death and Funeral of Pedro Infante as a Political Spectacle," in G. Joseph, A.
Rubenstein and E. Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940. Duke
University Press, 2001. P. 198-223.
"Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century," in Michael Meyer and William Beezley, eds.,
The Oxford History of Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2000. P. 580-615.
"Revolted Negroes and the Devilish Principle: William Blake and Conflicting Visions of Boni's War in
Surinam" (co-authored with Camilla Townsend) in J. DiSalvo, ed., Blake, History, Politics, Garland
Publishing, 1998. P.
Articles (refereed)
“Masculinities in Latin America and Beyond” Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies 2014 (with
Karen Dubinsky, Michael Kaufman, and Julio Cesar González Páges) 37:1, p. 139-156.
“’I’m Buffy and You’re History’: Putting History Back into Fan Studies,” Transformative Works and
Cultures 6, July 2011, (with Nancy Reagin):
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/272/200
“Locating Male Sexualities in Latin American History: Two Latin American Models,” History Compass 57,
Fall 2003: 11-19.
"Mexican Magazine Censors vs. the U.S. Marines: A Case Study of Transnational Reception," International
Journal of Comic Art, 1/2, Fall 1999: 41-54.
"Raised Voices at the Cine Montecarlo: Sex Education, Mass Media, and Oppositional Politics in Mexico,"
Journal of Family History, 23/3, July 1998: 312-323.
"Leaving the Old Nest: Morality, Modernity, and the Mexican Comic Book at Mid-century." Studies in
Latin American Popular Culture XVI, 1997, pp. 115-125.
Publications, con’t.
Articles (non-refereed)
"Elinor G. K. Melville, 1940-2006" Hispanic American Historical Review 88(3): 496-498 (2008)
“How Historians Read Newspapers” in Primary Sources for World History, a website produced by George
Mason University and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 2003.
"Zulma" in Marc Stein, ed., Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
and Culture. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.
"Historietas,"pp. , and "Rius (Eduardo del Río)" pp. in Michael Warner, ed., The Encyclopedia of Mexico,
Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
"A Note on the Difficulties Inherent in Writing Seriously about Graphic Narrative," The Comics Journal
200, December 1997: pp. 98-101.
"Comment: I will restrain ..." in "Discussion on Postmodernism in Latin American History," Itinerario (The
Netherlands) XIX/2, 1995: 140-141.
"Mary Ann Dyke Duff, Actress" pp. , "Clara Fisher, Actress" pp. "Catherine Norton Forrest Sinclair,
Actress" pp. "Anne Hartley Gilbert, Actress" pp. and "Nico, Rock Star"pp. in Judith Litoff and Judith
McDonnell, eds., European Immigrant Women in America: A Biographical Dictionary, Garland Press, 1994.
"Seducing the Mexican Innocent: The History of Comic Book Censorship in Mexico," The Comics Journal
157, March 1992: 91-103.
Papers in published conference proceedings
"The Last Real Mexican Man: Public Reactions to the Death of Pedro Infante," in Debra Castillo and Mary
Jo Dudley,eds., Transforming Cultures in the Americas, Occasional Papers of the Cornell University Latin
American Studies Program, vol. 4, August 2000: 151-164.
Conference presentations and invited lectures
Primer Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Latinoamericano e Ibérico de Historia Social, Mexico City,
March 2015: “Cine, espacios sociales y sexualidad en México, 1960-1990”
Berkshire Congress on the History of Women, Toronto, May 2014: “Now Playing at the Cine Teresa: Gay
Male Sexuality and Community in Mexico City Movie Theatres after 1970.”
Oberlin College History Department and Visual Cultures Program, Oberlin, Ohio, April 2014: “Flappers,
Queers, Family Men, and Citizens: Movie Audiences and the Long Tail of the Mexican Revolution.”
Phi Alpha Theta conference, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, New York, March 2014: “Mexicans Go to
the Movies: Family, Sex, Identity and Power After the Revolution” (keynote.)
Publications (cont.)
Conference presentations and invited lectures (cont.)
Roundtable on Masculinity in Latin America and Beyond, Accents Bookstore, Toronto, September 2013:
“Machismo as a less-than-useful category of analysis”
VI Coloquio Internacional "Historia de Género y de las Mujeres en México," Colegio de México, Mexico
City, March 2013: "Hoy! Estreno en el Cine Teresa: Masculinidad, homosocialidad y homosexualidad en los
cines de la ciudad de México, 1968-2011."
Symposium on Mexican Film History, University of Alabama, February 2013: "Movie Theaters and Male
Identity in Mexican History"
Lunchtime Seminar Series, Latin American Studies Program, University of Toronto, November 2012: "Now
Playing at the Cine Teresa: Community and Sexuality in Mexico City Movie Theaters since 1960."
Oaxaca Summer Seminar in Mexican History, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2012: "Theory, Sources and Method in
Mexican Cultural History."
Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California, May 2012: "Classrooms for a Sentimental
Education: Mexican Movie Theaters as Sexual Spaces" (refereed.)
SUNY Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference on Latin American Studies, New York, April 2012:
"Global Pictures, Local Screens: Movie-Going in Twentieth Century Mexico" (keynote.)
Vanderbilt University Seminar on Mexican Studies, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2012: "Taking the State
Back Out: Theory and Method in Mexican Media History"
Mexican Studies Section, Congress on Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, January 2012: "Visual
Culture as Historical Evidence" (invited.)
American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2012: " Revolutionary Women, Football-playing
Women, and Lola la trailera: Some Political Uses of Mexican Imagery, 1920-1970" (refereed.)
Amistad Annual Fundraiser, Toronto, December 2011: "The Historical Contexts of Border Art"
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2011: “Whatever
became of the chica moderna? The historical roots of Lola la Trailera.” (refereed.)
Actrices y actores sociales. Estereotipos y representaciones en el México contemporáneo. Conferencia del
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, March 2011: Keynote address, “De las pelonas a las chicas
modernas y mas allá.”
Actrices y actores sociales. Estereotipos y representaciones en el México contemporáneo. Conferencia del
Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM, March 2011: Roundtable participant, “Balances y
perspectivos en la historia de cultura de México.”
Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 2010: "Nation, Revolution, and the Sporting Life:
Angel Zárraga's Paintings of Athletes." (refereed.)
Publications (cont.)
Conference presentations and invited lectures (cont.)
Duke University Latin American Labor History Conference, Durham, North Carolina, October 2009: "The
Lives of the Artists."
American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2009: Roundtable participant, "At the
Show: Changes in 20th Century Fan Communities, Audiences, Gendered Spectatorship and Media in a
Global Context." (refereed)
Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, September 2008: "Transgender, Transnational,
Transgressive: Zulma as Immigrant, Sex Worker, and Autobiographer." (refereed.)
Berkshire Congress on Women's History, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008: Roundtable participant, " Fan
Communities, Porn Wars, and Gendered Spectatorship: Historians (and others) Rethinking the Relationship
Between Women and Mass Media" (refereed.)
Toronto International Comics Festival, Toronto, Ontario, August 2007: Roundtable participant, "Comics in
the Academy."
Third Conference on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2005:
"The Naked Starlet in the Wax Museum's Bathtub: Scandal, Memory, and Mexican Moviegoers." (refereed.)
Berkshire Congress on Women's History, Claremont, California, June 2005: "Good Mexicans, Good
Catholics, Good Women: Fans and Censors at the Movies, 1940-1960." (refereed.)
Conference on Latin American Comic Books, Georgia State University (Atlanta), April 2005: "Comic Book
Studies in Translation" (keynote address.)
Popular Culture Association, Tucson, Arizona, April 2005: "Transnational, Transgender: Reading Zulma in
Historical Perspective." (refereed.)
American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 2005: "Going to the Movies in Mexico: Men,
women and children in public spaces, 1920-1970." (refereed.)
American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 2005: Special Session of the Mexican
Studies Committee, "Transnationalism and Gender in New Histories of Mexico."
Tepoztlán Institute for the Study of Transnational History, Morelos, Mexico, July 2004: "Moviemaking and
moviegoing as transnational processes: Two case studies."
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American History, Santa Fe, March 2004: "Theaters of Masculinity:
Mexicans at the movies, 1917-1950." (refereed.)
XI Meeting of Historians of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2003:
“The War on las Pelonas: Gender and the Revolutionary State in Mexico City, 1924” (refereed.)
Conference on The Body and the Body Politic, History Center, University of Maryland, College Park, May
2003: “Spectacular Behavior and the Body Politic: Going to the Movies in Mexico, 1920 – 1940” (refereed.)
Publications (cont.)
Conference presentations and invited lectures (cont.)
Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas, April 2003: “Not Playing in Chichicastenango: Tarzan
versus the Maya, 1934” (refereed.)
Graduate Student Latin American Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, February
2003: Keynote address: “Sports, Movies, and the New Woman: On the Politics of Feminine Representation
in Revolutionary Mexico.”
Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Storrs, Connecticut, June 2002: "Las pelonas, las futbolistas,
and the Spectacle of Female Masculinity in 1920s Mexico" (refereed.)
Susman Memorial Conference for Graduate Students of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,
April, 2002: Keynote address, "What counts? On becoming an authority."
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Portland, Oregon, April 2002: "The Vogue for
Athletic Women and the Spectacle of Feminine Modernity in 1920s Mexico" (refereed.)
Critical Studies of Culture Program, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2002: "Las pelonas, Las
futbolistas, and their Sisters: Mexican Women and Transnational Modernity, 1920-1940."
New Frontiers Graduate Student History Conference, York University, Toronto, March 2002: Keynote
address: "Spherical Cows, or, Why not be a physicist? and other epistemological quandaries."
Foro Hispanico, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 2001: "Comic Book Censors, CountryClub Ladies, and Some Other Surprising Mexicans of the Twentieth Century."
Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, September 2001: "Revolutionary Bodies, Nationalist
Gymnastics, and the Mexican State: Mass Patriotic Performance and its Audiences, 1920-1940" (refereed.)
Conference on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2001:
"How Las futbolistas became Mexican: Historical Memory and the Revolutionary Female Body" (refereed.)
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American History, Tucson, Arizona, March 2001: "On the Historical
Uses of Queer Theory, or, Why Were Those Men Parking in the Plaza Garibaldi?" (refereed.)
Seminar on Surrealism, Institute for the Fine Arts, New York University, November, 2000:"Surrealism in
Mexican Film: Questions of Production and Reception."
History Department Lecture Series, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, November 2000: "Revolutionizing
Women's Bodies in 1920s Mexico."
Symposium of Washington Area Historians of Latin America, Howard University, Washington DC,
November 2000: "Las futbolistas and Their Sisters: State Mobilizations of Women's Bodies in PostRevolutionary Mexico" (refereed.)
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, Latin American Studies Center, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
April 2000: "Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and the New Cultural History of Mexico."
Publications (cont.)
Conference presentations and invited lectures (cont.)
Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, March 2000: "Bodies, Cities, Cinema: Pedro Infante's
Funeral as a Political Protest" (refereed.)
Seminario sobre las nuevas perspectivas norteamericanas en la historiografia de America Latina, San Marcos
University, Lima, Peru, December 1999: "Apuntes para un diálogo entre la nueva historia y la nueva
antropología de México" (refereed.)
X Meeting of Historians of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, Fort Worth, Texas, November 1999:
"Pedro Infante's Funeral and the Death of Public Space in Mexico" (refereed.)
Popular Culture Association Conference, Puebla, Mexico, October 1999: "Infante, Negrete, and the Ideal
(Dead) Man on Film" (refereed.)
International Comic Arts Festival, Washington, DC, September 1999: "What Mexican Censors Can Teach
Us." (Plenary Address.)
Society for Cinema Studies, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 1999: "Migration, Modernity, and Two
Mexican Funerals: Public Responses to the Deaths of Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante" (refereed.)
Humanities Center, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, November 1998: "How the Lombardini
Brothers Stayed Out of Jail: Pornography, Censorship, and Political Corporatism in Post-Revolutionary
Mexico."
Canadian Association for Latin American Studies Conference, Vancouver. March 1998: "Machismo as a
Counter-Revolutionary Gesture: The Life and Death of Pedro Infante" (refereed.)
Symposium on the Politics of Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico, Washington, D.C. November 1997
(Conference organizer and paper presentation): "Mediated Styles of Masculinity in the Post-Revolutionary
Imagination, or, El Santo's Strange Career" (refereed)
Society for Cinema Studies, Ottawa, Canada. May, 1997: "The Strange Career of El Santo: A Real
Wrestler's Life in the Mexican Imaginary" (refereed.)
Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association, New York. January, 1997: "Who
Picks the Battles in a Culture War?: Conservative Responses to Sex Education in Mexico, 1934-1950"
(refereed.)
American Historical Association Conference, Chicago. January, 1995: "How to Not Read Donald Duck:
Cultural Imperialism as a Bad Idea" (refereed.)
IX Meeting of Historians of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, Mexico City, October 1994:
"Conservative Protest, Pornography, and the Boundaries of Expression in Mexico, 1952 - 1976" (refereed.)
Publications, continued
Book reviews
Dolores del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade by Linda Hall. The American Historical Review 2014 119 (4):
1319-1320
Revolutionary Women in Post-Revolutionary Mexico by Jocelyn Olcott. American Historical Review
February 2008: 235-236.
The Invention of Dolores del Río by Joanne Hershfield and Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Film Criticism, Spring 2003: 82-85.
Twentieth Century Art of Latin America by Jaqueline Barnitz. The Americas, 59:2, October 2002
Latin American Popular Culture ed. by William Beezley and Linda A. Curci-Nagy. Journal of the West,
41:2, Spring 2002: 105.
Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora by Karen Mary Davalos. The
Americas, 58:2, October 2001: 310-312.
Mexico in the 1940s: Modernity, Politics and Corruption by Stephen R. Niblo. Hispanic American
Historical Review, 81:1, February 2001: 179-181.
Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture by Eric Zolov. Journal of Social History, Winter
2000: 498-501.
Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture ed. by Eva P. Bueno and Terry Caesar. The
Americas, 57:2, October 2000: 306-308
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico ed. by Edward R. Burian. H-LATAM/Humanities Net, February
1998.
Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970 by Bonnie J.
Dow. Bulletin of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, May 1997: 14.
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America ed. by Asuncion Lavrin, Village Voice Aug. 14, 1990:
74.
Real Love: the Best of the Romance Comics, 1940-1960 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Village Voice
Literary Supplement July 1989: 5.
Tearing Down the Color Bar: a Documentary History of the Sleeping Car Porters Union by Joseph Wilson,
Village Voice Literary Supplement June 1989: 4.
The Looking-Glass World of Non-Fiction TV by Elayne Rapping, Monthly Review January 1988: 60-64.
Research support
Course release, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Fall term 2013, in support
of “Going to the Movies in Mexico”
SSHRC Minor Research Grant, 2011-2012. $4,000 in support of "Going to the Movies in Mexico."
Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University, 2002-2004. $2,800 in support of "On Not Playing
(Chichicastenango, 1934)."
SSHRC Small Grant, 2002-2003. $3,500 in support of "Going to the Movies in Mexico since the
Revolution."
Summer Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago/University of Illinois Joint Center for Latin American
Studies, 2000. $3,000 (US) in support of "Going to the Movies in Mexico."
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute participant, Brazil, 1998. $3,000 (US) in support
of improving pedagogy on Brazilian topics.
Academic Support Committee Research Grants, Allegheny College, 1998, 1999, 2000. $2,000 (US) each in
support of work related to Fragments of a Golden Age.
Faculty Research Grants, Chapman University, 1995, 1997. $1,200 (U.S.) each in support of Bad Language,
Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation.
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1992-1993. $12,000 (U.S.)
pre-doctoral fellowship.
Graduate School Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1988-1994. $12,000 (U.S.) fellowship every
year (plus tuition remission) for graduate work.
Work in progress
Going to the Movies in Mexico: Cultural Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Era. Duke University Press,
under contract (publication expected 2014).
(co-edited with Victor Macías Gonzalez) Another Mexico City : Communities and Daily Lives of Lesbians,
Bisexuals, Gay Men, Transgender People and Other Sexual Minorities (co-edited volumes in English and
Spanish, with participation by anthropologists, political scientists, literary critics, historians, journalists, and
activists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Currently writing grants and organizing conferences.)
Contributions to the Profession
Conference organization
2011-2014
Member of Program Committee, Berkshire Congress on Women's History
Member of the Steering Committee, Berkshire Conference on Women's History
Co-Chair, Latin American and Caribbean Program subcommittee, Berkshire Congress
2010-to date
Member of organizing committee, Congress of Historians of Canada, Mexico, and the
United States
2009-2010
Member, Program Committee, Latin American Historical Association. Co-Chair, Mass
Media and Popular Culture Track
2005-to date
Organizer, Toronto Area Workshop for Historians of Latin America
2005-2006
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Canadian Historical Association
2003-2008
Member of organizing committee, Tepoztlán Summer Seminar on Transnational History
2000-2006
Member of organizing committee, Conferences on Gender and Women's History in
Mexico
1994
Organizer, Conference on the Politics of Culture in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Wilson
Center, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.
Prize juries, manuscript and grant application reviews
2011-to date
2011-to date
2010- to date
2010-2011
2006-2007
2004-to date
2004
2003- 2004
2001- to date
2001 - to date
2001- to date
2000- to date
1998-2001
1998-to date
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Women's History
Manuscript reviewer, Hispanic American Historical Review
Manuscript reviewer, Histoire Sociale
Jury member, Book Prize in Mexican History, Council for Latin American History,
American Historical Association.
Chair, Elinor Melville Prize Committee, Council for Latin American History, American
Historical Association
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Urban History
Jury member, Lewis Hanke Prize, Council for Latin American History, American
Historical Association
Jury member, Audre Lorde Prize, Committee for Gay and Lesbian History, American
Historical Association
Manuscript reviewer, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Manuscript reviewer, Signos Históricos.(Mexico)
Manuscript reviewer, The Americas.
Manuscript reviewer, Pittsburgh University Press
Member of Evaluating Committee for Dissertation Fellowships, Social Science Research
Council (U.S.).
Manuscript reviewer, Duke University Press.
Other Service to the Profession:
2011-to date: Faculty Member, Board of Editors, Left History
2010-to date: Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Women's History
2010-to date: Member, Advisory Board, Handbook of International Communications and Media History
(Routledge Press.)
2010: Evaluator, Undergraduate program in History, Carleton University.
2003-to date: Tenure file evaluations (in History and Latin American Studies departments), Butler
University, Duke University, Whitman College, Amherst College, University of Georgia, University of
Nebraska, Dartmouth College, Lynchburg College (all U.S.)
Membership in Professional Organizations:
Latin American Studies Association, American Historical Association, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin
American Studies, Committee for Gay and Lesbian History/AHA, Council on Latin American History/AHA.
Teaching
Courses taught at York University
2001-2002: History 1050: Ordinary People in a Changing World; History 2720: Modern Latin America;
History 4000: Honours Essay
2002-2003: History 1050: Life, Love, and Labour; History 2720: Modern Latin America; History 3731:
Twentieth Century Mexico; History 5000, Directed readings (4 students, full year)
2003-2004: Sabbatical leave
2004-05: History 2720, Modern Latin America; History 3731, Twentieth Century Mexico; History 5000,
Directed readings (3 students, full year)
2005-06: History 2720, Modern Latin America; History 3732, Contemporary Mexico; History 4752,
Gender, Sex and Family in Latin America; History 5000, directed readings (2 students, half year); History
5950, Themes in Latin American History
2006-07 History 2720, Modern Latin America; History History 4752, Gender, Sex and Family in Latin
America; History 5950, Themes in Latin American History
2007-2008 (reduced load due to directing Graduate Program in History) History 2720, Modern Latin
America.
2008-2009 (reduced load due to caregiver leave and directing Graduate Program in History): History 5950,
Themes in Latin American History.
2009-2010: History 2720, Modern Latin America (team-taught with Alan Durston); History 4752, Gender,
Sex and Family in Latin America; History 5701, Modern Cultural History (team-taught with Marlene
Shore); History 5000, directed readings (1 student, full year.)
2010 (summer) Medical leave
2010-11 Sabbatical leave
2011 (fall) Medical leave (winter) History 5950, Topics in Latin American History; History 5562, Issues in
Comparative Gender and Women's History: the Twentieth Century; History 5000, directed readings (1
student, half year.)
2012-2013 History 1083, Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Americas; History 2720, Modern Latin
America; History 5562, Issues in Comparative Gender and Women's History.
2013-2014 (reduced load due to research leave) History 1083, Mass Media and Popular Culture in the
Americas; History 5950, Themes in Latin American History
2014-2015 History 1083, Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Americas; History 4752, Gender, Sex and
Family in Latin America; History 5000, directed readings (2 students); History 5562, Issues n Comparative
Gender and Women’s History: the Twentieth Century
Courses developed at York University
History 1083: Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Americas
History 3731: Twentieth Century Mexico.
History 3732: Contemporary Mexico
History 4752: Gender, Sex and Family in Modern Latin America
History 5950: Topics in Latin American History
Dissertation committees
Anthropology Department, York University: Julia Murphy (completed June 2003), Marylee Mulholland
(completed September 2008.)
History Department, York University: Mark Abraham (completed May 2014), Brigitte Cairus, José Cairus
(supervisor, completed July 2012), Denise Challenger, Kevin Chrisman (supervisor), James Cullingham (cosupervisor), Francesca D'Amico, Maurice Demers (co-supervisor, completed December 2009), Angela
Durante (completed January 2015), Pamela Fuentes (supervisor, completed February 2015), Megan Kelly
(completed April 2006), Sophia Koutsoyannis (supervisor, completed December 2010), Matheiu Lapointe
(completed June 2011), Ian McPhedran, Elizabeth O'Gorek, Frank Peddie (co-supervisor, completed August
2012), Elizabeth Polak (supervisor, completed August 2012), Bradley Skopyk (completed December 2010),
Maria Wong (supervisor, withdrew April 2012)
History Department, University of Arizona: Ageeth Sluis (completed 2006)
History Department, University of British Columbia: Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda (completed 2014)
History Department, University of Minnesota: Melanie Huska (completed 2013)
Comprehensive exam committees
History Department, York University:
Fall 2003: Maurice Demers, Elizabeth Polak, Bradley Skopyk
Fall 2005: José Cairus, Sophia Koutsoyannis
Fall 2007: Frank Peddie, Brigitte Cairus
Fall 2008: James Cullingham, Ben Bryce
Fall 2009: Mark Brownlie, Pamela Fuentes
Fall 2010: Mathieu Brule, Francesca D'Amico, Adrian Gamble, Amanda Robinson
Fall 2011: Maria Wong
Fall 2014: Kevin Chrisman
Spring 2015: Maryann Buri
Service
2014-2015
Member, Executive committee, History Department
Member, Executive board, CERLAC
Member, Executive committee, Graduate Program in History
Member, Ad hoc committee on curricular reform, History Department
2013-2014
Member, Executive committee, History Department
Member, Awards committee, History Department
Member, Search Committee, Middle Eastern History, History Department
Member, Executive board, CERLAC
Member, Admissions committee, Graduate Program in History
Member, Student Liason Committee, CERLAC
2012-2013
Member, TA Liason committee, History Department
Member, Executive Board, CERLAC
Member, Events committee, CERLAC
2011-2012
Fall term: On leave
Winter term: Member, Admissions Committee, Graduate Program in History
Member, Nominations Committee, History Department
Member, Awards Committee, History Department
Member, Search Committee, U.S. History, History Department
2010-11
On sabbatical leave
2009-10
Member, RAship Committee, Graduate Program in History
Member, TA Liason Committee, History Department
Member, Nominating Committee, Graduate Program in History
Member, Executive Committee, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Program
Chair, File Preparation Committee, tenure and promotion file for Alan Durston
2008-09
Director, Graduate Program in History (ex oficio member of all GPH committees)
Member, History Department Executive Committee
Member, History Department Tenure and Promotion Adjudicating Committee
2007-08
Director, Graduate Program in History (ex oficio member of all GPH committees)
Member, History Department Executive Committee
2006-07
Member, Graduate Program in History Admissions Committee
Chair, Search Committee for Colonial Latin America position
2005-2006
Member, Graduate Program in History Admissions Committee
Member, Faculty of Arts Committee on Grants and Awards
Member, Search Committee for Brazilian History position, Glendon History Department
2004-05
Member, Graduate Program in History Admissions Committee
Chair, History Department Faculty Council
Member, Ethics Review Board for Undergraduate Research, History Department
Member, Faculty of Arts Committee on Grants and Awards
Service (cont.)
2003-04
On sabbatical leave
2002-03
Member, History Department Curriculum Committee
Member, Graduate Program in History Admissions Committee
Member, History Department Graduate Program Executive Committee
Speaker, "Settling In at York University" panel, New Faculty Day for Faculty of Arts
Member, University-wide ad hoc organizing committee for Sexuality Studies program
proposal
2001-02
Member, Search Committee for South Atlantic History position
Member, History Department Nominating Committee for Canada Chair
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, History Department
Member, University-wide ad hoc organizing committee for Sexuality Studies program
Participant in two TDGA roundtables, graduate program, History Department