J. Justin Castro
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870-351-6545 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in History, May 2013
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Department of History, Latin American History
Fields of Study: Latin America, Modern Mexico, American West
Dissertation: “Wireless: Radio, Revolution, and the Mexican State, 1897-1938”
Advisors: Terry Rugeley, Sterling Evans, Alan McPherson
Master of Arts in History and Museum Studies, with honors, May 2008
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma
Concentrations: American History, Music History, Oklahoma History, Public
History
Bachelor of Arts in History, December 2005
Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Major: History; Minor: Anthropology
Teaching Fields
• Latin American History, Mexican History, World History, Globalization,
Technology and Culture, Engineering, Twentieth-Century Revolutions, Latinos
in the United States, Borderlands, American West.
Teaching Experience
Arkansas State University
Aug. 2013-Present
Assistant Professor of History
• Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century Revolutions (graduate)
• Popular Culture in Latin America
• Introduction to Graduate Study of History
• History of Mexico (undergraduate and graduate, online)
• Latinos in the US South (graduate)
• Latin America, The National Period
• Latin America, The Colonial Period
• World Civilizations since 1660 (in class and online)
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J. Justin Castro
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
870-351-6545 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
University of Oklahoma
Instructor of History
• Hispanic American Nations, 1810-Present
• History of Mexico, 1810-Present
Jun. 2012-May 2013
Academic Service
Arkansas State University
• BSE Advisor, Scholarship Committee, Library Committee, BSE Undergraduate
Committee, BSE Director Hiring Committee, Scholarship Committee (Chair)
Publications
Works in Progress
• Radio and Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico,
1897-1938, University of Nebraska Press, under contract.
• “Mexicans, Arkansas Cotton, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Arkansas
Historical Quarterly, under review.
• Engineering Revolution: Modesto C. Rolland’s Attempt to Change Mexico,
current book project.
• “Radio, Insecurity, and the Rise of the Single-Party State in Revolutionary
Mexico,” current project. This is chapter for an edited volume on Latin
American radio during the mediums “Golden Age” (1930s-1950s), edited by
Mary Roldán and Gisela Cramer.
• “Modesto C. Rolland y la Peninsula de Baja California Peninsula,” Current
project. I plan to submit this article to the Mexican journal Meyibó.
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J. Justin Castro
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
870-351-6545 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
Journal Articles
• “Sounding the Mexican Nation: Intellectuals, State Building, and the Culture of
Early Radio Broadcasting,” The Latin Americanist 58, no. 3 (September 2014):
forthcoming.
• “Radiotelegraphy to Broadcasting: Wireless Communications in Porfirian and
Revolutionary Mexico, 1899-1924,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 29,
no. 2 (Summer 2013): 335-365.
• Co-authored with Lindsay Compton . “The Life and Times of the First
Applicants to Platt National Park,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 91, no. 2 (Summer
2013): 150-171.
• “From the Tennessee River to Tahlequah: A Brief History of Cherokee
Fiddling,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 87, no. 4 (Winter 2009-2010): 388-407.
• “Amazing Grace: The Influence of Nineteenth Century Christianity on
Oklahoma Ozark Music,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 86, no. 4 (Winter 20082009): 446-468.
Book Chapters
• “On the Illinois: The Making of Modern Music and Culture in the Oklahoma
Ozark Foothills,” In Main Street Oklahoma: Stories of Twentieth Century
America, eds. Linda Reese and Patricia Loughlin (Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 2013).
Encyclopedia Entries
Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America
Ed. by Alan McPherson (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2013)
• “Airplanes, Use of,” “Filibusters in Mexico,” “Gompers, Samuel,” “Music and
Intervention,” “Nicaragua, Intervention and Occupation of (1912-1925),”
“Pershing, John,” “Vanderbilt, Cornelius,” “Zelaya, José Santos, Overthrow of
(1909).”
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J. Justin Castro
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
870-351-6545 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
Review Essays
• Review of Heather Fowler-Salamini’s Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and
the Mexican Revolution: Coffee Culture of Cordoba, Veracruz (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2013), The Latin Americanist, forthcoming.
• “Media in Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Latin America” Latin
American Research Review 49, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 273-81.
• Review of Erica Cui Wortham’s Indigenous Media in Mexico: Culture,
Community, and the State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), The
Canadian Journal of Native Studies 34, no. 1 (Summer 2014), forthcoming.
• Review of Greg Olson’s Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies:
The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen (Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2012), Chronicles of Oklahoma 91, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 239-240.
• Review of Benjamin Radford’s Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast
in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2011), The Latin Americanist 56, no. 2 (June 2012): 194-196.
• Review of Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the NineteenthCentury Plains, ed. by Richard E. Jenson, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2009), Chronicles of Oklahoma 88, no. 4 (Winter 2010-2011): 496-497.
Invited Guest Lectures
• “Current and Future Issues for Latinos in the US South,” American Voices
Series, Ozarka College, Melbourne, Arkansas, March 12, 2014.
• “Wireless Communications and the Mexican Revolution,” T. L. Ballenger
Seminar Series, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, April 26,
2013.
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J. Justin Castro
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
870-972-2696 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
Select Conference Presentations
• “Braceros in the Arkansas Delta: Mexicans, Cotton, and the Civil Rights Act of
1964,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, Little Rock,
Arkansas, October 2, 2024.
• “‘If I could only get rid of that annoying sound’: Radio in 1920s Mexican
Cartoons and Advertisements,” Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin
American Studies, Durango, Colorado, April 3, 2014.
• “Broadcasting Revolution: Radio, Populist Politics, and the One-Party State in
Mexico, 1924-1940,” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC,
June 1, 2013.
• “Modesto C. Rolland, the Mexican Revolution, and Development of the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American
Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 6, 2013.
• “Empire Within: Radio in Porfirian Mexico, 1897-1911,” Rocky Mountain
Council for Latin American Studies, Park City, Utah. March 29, 2012.
• “Radio, State Formation, and National Identity in Mexico, 1920-1924,”
Conference on Latin American History, Boston, Massachusetts. January 7,
2011.
• “John Brinkley, the Goat Gland Doctor: Mexican Radio Policy and U.S.
Communications Legislation in the 1920s and 30s,” Mid America Conference
on History, Norman, Oklahoma. October 1, 2009.
Grants, Honors, & Awards
• Arkansas State University Faculty Research Fund, $6,200, 2014-15.
• Hoving Doctoral Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, 2008-2012.
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J. Justin Castro
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
870-972-2696 ‖ [email protected]
State University, AR 72467
‖ Arkansas State University, Department of History, P.O. Box 1690,
• University of Oklahoma Donnell M. Owings Scholarship, for outstanding
graduate student in American history, 2009.
• Mountain Plains Museum Association Emerging Leaders Scholarship
Recipient, 2007.
• Outstanding Masters Degree Thesis on Oklahoma History for 2008, Oklahoma
Historical Society, 2009.
• University of Oklahoma Presidential International Travel Fellowship, Mexico,
2009.
Professional Associations
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American Historical Association
Conference on Latin American History
Latin American Studies Association
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
The Society for the History of Technology
Arkansas Association of College History Teachers
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