CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark A. Burkholder
400 S. 14th St., #1016
St. Louis, Missouri 63103
Home phone: (314) 436-2271
Office phone: (314) 516-5690
e-mail: [email protected];
[email protected]
Current Position:
Professor of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Education:
Duke University
University of Oregon
Muskingum College
1967-1970 Ph.D., History
1965-1967 M.A., History
1961-1965 B.A., History (magna cum laude)
Academic Experience:
Faculty Appointments at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Professor of History, 1981Associate Professor of History, 1976-1981
Assistant Professor of History, 1970-1976
Visiting Faculty Appointment
Professor of History, University of Calgary, Summer 1988.
Administrative Appointments
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2001-2008
Chair, Department of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1995-2001
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Missouri System, 19891991
Academic Associate to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Missouri
System, 1983-1984
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 19801983
Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 19771980
Acting Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri-St. Louis,
1977
Coordinator, Graduate Program, Department of History, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, 1975-1977
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Publications:
Books:
Colonial Latin America (co-author, Lyman L. Johnson) Oxford University Press, seventh
edition, 2010, xii, 433; sixth edition, 2008; fifth edition, 2004; fourth edition, 2001; third
edition, 1998; second edition, 1994; first edition, 1990.
From Colonies to Independent Nations (1550s to 1820s), Vol. 2 of four-volume Encyclopedia of
Latin America. Facts on File, 2010, xliv, 388.
Administrators of Empire (ed.) Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998, xxvii, 378.
Biographical Dictionary of Councilors of the Indies, 1717-1808 Greenwood Press, 1986), xxxv,
194.
Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers in the Americas, 1687-1821 (co-author, D. S.
Chandler), Greenwood Press, 1982, xxiii, 491.
Politics of a Colonial Career: José Baquíjano and the Audiencia of Lima, University of New
Mexico Press, 1980; cloth and paperback editions by Scholarly Resources, 1989, xi, 184.
From Impotence to Authority: The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencias, 1687-1808
(co-author, D. S. Chandler), University of Missouri Press, 1977, xii, 253. Spanish
translation, De la impotencia a la autoridad, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico,
1984; republished on WWW by Questia, 2000; selection reprinted in John Lynch (ed.),
Latin American Revolutions 1808-1826: Old and New World Origins, University of
Oklahoma Press, 1994, pp. 50-57.
Articles and Chapters:
“Life without Empire: Audiencia Ministers after Independence,” Hispanic American Historical
Review 91:2 (May 2011), 299-331.
“Los ministros de las audiencias del mundo hispánico durante el siglo XVIII: un estudio
prosopográfico,” in Feliciano Barrios (coord.), El gobierno de un mundo: Virreinatos y
audiencias en la América hispánica. Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
2004, pp. 839-862.
An Empire Beyond Compare,” in William Beezley and Michael Meyer (eds.), Oxford History of
Mexico. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 115-49.
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“Honor and Honors in Colonial Spanish America,” in Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya
Lipsett-Rivera (eds.), The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin
America, University of New Mexico Press, 1998, pp. 18-44.
"Latin America to 1800" (ed., intro, annotator, principal compiler) in The American Historical
Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1995, vol.
II, 1162-1198.
"Honest Judges Leave Destitute Heirs: The Price of Integrity in Eighteenth-Century Spain" in
Richard K. Matthews (ed.), Virtue, Corruption, and Self-Interest: Political Values in the
Eighteenth Century, Lehigh University Press, 1994, pp. 247-269.
"Latin American Colonial Era" in Errol D. Jones and David G. LaFrance (eds.), Latin American
Military History: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Press, 1993, pp. 8-42.
"Local Government in the Spanish Colonies: Some Comments," Proceedings From the 36th
Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (1988), pp. 312.
"From the Provinces to Madrid: Councilors of the Indies in the Eighteenth Century", Histoire
Sociale--Social History XX: 4 (novembre-November 1987), 343-355.
"Colonial Spanish America, The Bourbon Period, The HistoryTeacher, 20:2 (February 1987),
221-250, (co-author, Jacques A. Barbier).
"Bureaucrats," in Louisa Hoberman and Susan M. Socolow (eds.), Urban Society in
Colonial Latin America, University of New Mexico Press, 1986, pp. 77-103.
"Critique of 'Bureaucracy and Business in the Spanish Empire, 1759-1804' by Stanley J. Stein,"
Hispanic American Historical Review, 62:3 (August, 1982), 460-468, (co-author, Jacques
A. Barbier).
“Titled Nobles, Elites and Independence: Some Comments,” Latin American Research Review,
13:2 (Summer, 1978), 290-95.
"Relaciones de Méritos y Servicios: A Source for Spanish American Group Biography in the
Eighteenth Century," Manuscripta, XXI (1977), 97-104.
"The Council of the Indies in the Late Eighteenth Century: A New Perspective," Hispanic
American Historical Review, 56:3 (August, 1976), 404-423. (Reprinted in A.J.R. RussellWood, ed., Government and Governance of European Empires, 1450-1800 (Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2000, pp. 193-212.)
"José Baquíjano y la Audiencia de Lima," Quinto Congreso International de Historia de
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América (5 vols., Lima, Peru, 1972), II, 177-81.
"Creole Appointments and the Sale of Audiencia Positions in the Spanish Empire under the
Early Bourbons, 1701-1750," Journal of Latin American Studies, IV:2 (November,
1972), 187- 206, (co-author, D. S. Chandler).
"From Creole to Peninsular: The Transformation of the Audiencia of Lima," Hispanic American
Historical Review, 52:3 (August, 1972), 395-415.
Encyclopedia Entries
867 completed biographical entries in Real Academia de Historia (Spain), Diccionario
Biográfico Español (25 volumes forthcoming).
36 entries in Barbara A. Tenenbaum (ed.), Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
(5 vols., New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996).
Work in Progress
Men of the Robe: Judicial Ministers and Judicial Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Spain.
Biographical Dictionary of Audiencia Ministers in Eighteenth-Century Spain.
Papers Presented
“Maids-in-waiting at the Court of Charles IV,” (American Historical Association/Conference on
Latin American History Annual Meeting, 2009)
“Los ministros de las Audiencias del mundo hispánico durante el siglo XVIII. Un estudio
prosopográfico,” (Congreso Internacional: El gobierno de un mundo. Virreinatos y
Audiencias en la América Hispánica, Madrid, 2002)
"Ministros de las audiencias de España e Indias en el siglo diesiocho," (University of Toulouse,
1995)
"Judicial Corruption in Spain and the Indies During the Eighteenth Century," (Southern
Historical Association meeting, 1990)
“Judicial Patronage in Spain at the End of the Old Regime," (Canadian Historical Association
meeting, 1990)
"Honest Judges Leave Destitute Heirs: The Price of Integrity in Eighteenth-Century Spain," (The
Sixteenth Lawrence Henry Gipson Symposium at Lehigh University, 1989)
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"Local Government in the Spanish Colonies: Some Comments," (Rocky Mountain Council
on Latin American Studies meeting, 1988)
"From the Provinces to Madrid: A Collective Biography of Councilors of the Indies," (Rocky
Mountain Council on Latin American Studies meeting, 1986)
"High Court Appointments: Patronage and Politics in Spain and the Indies under Charles IV,"
(Canadian Historical Association meeting, 1982)
"Climbing the Ladder: Career Patterns in the High Judiciary of Spain and the Indies" (Pacific
Coast Branch of the American Historical Association meeting, 1981)
"The Native Son in the Hispanic World, 1700-1800" (4th Annual Conference on Latin America,
Western Illinois University, 1980)
"Access to the Judicial Elite: An Examination of Audiencia Appointments, 1751-1808"
(Missouri Conference on History, 1980)
"Bureaucratic Patronage: The High Courts of Spain and the Indies" (American Historical
Association meeting, 1980)
"The Administrative History of Colonial Peru: Past Perspectives and Future Directions" (Latin
American Studies Association meeting, 1979
"Audiencia Appointments, 1751-1808: An Imperial Perspective" (Southern Historical
Association meeting, 1979)
"Colonial Officeholders and Spanish American Independence" (Latin American Studies
Bicentennial Symposium on Latin American Independence in World Perspective, Indiana
University, 1976)
"Transformations in the High Judicial Bureaucracy in Spanish America" (Missouri Conference
on History, 1975)
“Relaciones de Méritos y Servicios: A Source for Spanish American Group Biography in the
Eighteenth Century" (Second Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, 1975)
"Appointments to American Audiencias during the Ministry of José de Gálvez (1776-1787)"
(XLI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Mexico City, 1974)
"Anti-Americanism and the Audiencias: The Years of José de Gálvez (1776-1787)" (Southern
Historical Association Meeting, 1972)
"Limeños and the Audiencia of Lima under the Bourbons" (American Historical Association
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meeting, 1972)
"José Baquíjano y la Audiencia de Lima" (V Congreso Internacional de Historia de América,
Lima, Peru, 1971)
Research Fellowships, Grants, Awards
The Willoughly Nason Award for Distinguished Service, The Rocky Mountain Council on Latin
American Studies, 2006.
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service, UM-St. Louis, 1997
UM Research Board Award for research in Spain, 1994-95
Edwin Lieuwin Award for the Promotion of Excellence in Teaching of Latin American Studies.
Awarded in 1994 by the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies for the book
Colonial Latin America (Oxford U.P., 1990; co-author, Lyman L. Johnson)
UM-St. Louis Development Leave, Winter 1990
UM-St. Louis Research Leave, Winter 1987
UM-St. Louis Research Leave, Fall, 1985
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for research in Spain, Fall 1984 - Fall 1985
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, postdoctoral fellowship for research in Spain,
Fall 1984 (declined)
UM-St. Louis Sabbatical Leave for research in Spain, 1984-85
Hubert Herring Award for "Best Book." Awarded in 1982 for Politics of a Colonial Career by
the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies
University of Illinois-University of Chicago Joint Center for Latin American Studies Research
Fellowship, Summer, 1982
UM-St. Louis Travel Award for research in Spain, Summer, 1980
American Philosophical Society grant for research in Spain, Spring, 1978
UM-St. Louis Sabbatical Leave for research in Spain, Winter Semester, 1978
UM-St. Louis Summer Fellowship for research in Spain, Summer, 1975
American Philosophical Society grant for research in Spain, Summer, 1973
UM-St. Louis Summer Fellowship for research in Peru and Chile, Summer, 1971
Honor Societies, Student Scholarships and Fellowships
Sigma XI (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Golden Key International Honour Society (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Phi Kappa Phi (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
Phi Beta Kappa (Duke University)
Phi Alpha Theta (Muskingum College)
Omicron Delta Epsilon (Muskingum College)
Duke University Travel Award for Research in Spain, 1969
Danforth Apprentice Teaching Fellowship, Duke University, 1968-1970
Duke University Fellowship, 1967-1968
NDEA Title IV Fellowship, University of Oregon, 1965-1967
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Institute for Overseas Study and Administration (University of Oregon) Fellowship for
Travel and Research in Spain, Summer, 1966
Harvard-American University Summer Scholarship, Harvard University, 1965
Professional Service
Conference on Latin American History
Chairperson,
Nominating Committee, 1988
Program Committee, 1986
Bolton Prize Committee, 1981
Program Committee, 1978
Andean Studies Committee, 1978
Member
Bolton Prize Committee, 1997
Projects and Publications Committee, 1989-91
Distinguished Service Award Committee, 1985
General Committee, 1982, 1983
Teaching Materials Committee, 1978-83
Executive Secretary, Andean Studies Committee, 1976, 1977
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Co-Chair, Program Committee, 1998
Member, Executive Committee, 1988-1990
Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
Member, Board of Governors, 1984Treasurer, 2007Member, McGann Prize Committee, 2005
Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies
Member, Governing Board, 1982, 1983
Other Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
Midwest Association for Latin American Studies
Referee for presses and journals
Yale University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Duke University Press
Louisiana State University Press
University of Missouri Press
University of New Mexico Press
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Penn State University Press
American Historical Review
Hispanic American Historical Review
The Americas
Latin American Research Review
The Social Science Journal
Book Reviews (selected)
The American Historical Review
The Hispanic American Historical Review
The Journal of American History
The Americas
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Colonial Latin American Review
The International History Review
Western Historical Quarterly
Choice
The Sixteenth Century Journal
The History Teacher
Manuscripta
Participation in conference sessions as commentator or chair
Commentator
"Power and Society in Colonial Latin America, " (Rocky Mountain Council on Latin
American Studies meeting, 2008)
“Environments, Invasions, and Taxes in the Late Colonial Period,” (Rocky Mountain
Council on Latin American Studies meeting, 2001)
“Promises and Perils of Writing Biographies: Three Case Studies,” (Conference on
Latin American History meeting held in conjunction with the American
Historical Association’s annual meeting, 2001)
“Municipal Government and Royal Absolutism: Images, Practices, and Local Policy,”
(Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies meeting, 1998)
"Ethnicity and Identity: The Rural Population of Bolivia" (Rocky Mountain Council
on Latin American Studies, 1993
"Colonial Latin America" (Midwest Association for Latin American Studies meeting,
1990)
"State Policy and Colonial Economy: Eighteenth-Century Spanish America"
American Historical Association meeting, 1988)
"Eighteenth-Century Spain" (Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
meeting, 1988)
"Colonial Latin America" (Midwest Association for Latin American Studies meeting,
1986)
"Imperial Administrators of Late Colonial Latin America" (Southern Historical
Association meeting, 1983)
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"Native Sons, Radicados, and Outsiders in the Hispanic World" (Tulane
University Symposium on Comparative Colonial History, 1983)
"The Bourbon Reforms in New Spain" (Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies meeting, 1983)
Chair
“Twilight of Empire: Some Revisionist Thoughts,” (Rocky Mountain Council on
Latin American Studies meeting, 2009)
“Trends and Problems in Colonial Latin American History,” (Rocky Mountain
Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, 1995)
"Colonial Latin American Social History: Elites in New Spain" (Latin American
Studies Association Meeting, 1982)
"Antecedents of Latin American Independence" (Southern Historical Association
meeting, 1978)
”The Indian and the Colonial Andean Society" (Southern Historical Association
meeting, 1976)
Additional Professional Service
Member, Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award Committee, Phi Beta Kappa, 2003-2006
Consultant, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 1990
Member, Advisory Board, Latin American Biographical Databank (University of New
Mexico), 1987-1990
Contributor, Books for College Libraries (rev. ed.), 1986, 2006
Abstracted Journal of Latin American Studies, Fénix (Lima, Peru), and Revista del
Museo Nacional (Lima, Peru), for Historical Abstracts, 1972-88
Consultant on grant proposals
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-1988, 1992, 1993, 2004
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1977-1983
Woodrow Wilson Center, 1979
Visiting consultant to graduate students in Latin American
History, University of Calgary, 1980
Member, Doctoral Committee, Washington University, 1977, 1980, 1993, 1996-1999
Member, Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, Saint Louis University, 2003
College and University Activities
Chair, Campus task force to study a “Year-Around University,” 2006-2007
Member, Faculty Accomplishment System (UM System), 2004-2008
Member, Provost’s Council/Council of Deans, 2001-2008
Member, ad hoc Committee to Review the Evening College, 2004-2005
Member, University Assembly, 2001-2008
Co-chair, Task Force for Revision of General Education, 2001-2002
Member, Post-Tenure Review Committee (UM System), 2000-2001
Member, Thomas Jefferson Award Committee (UM System), 2000, 2001
Member, Faculty Senate, 2000-2001
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Member, Intercampus Faculty Council (UM System), 1999-2001
Chair, Joint Senate-Faculty Council Conference Committee to Revise the Campus Governance
Structure, 1999
Chair, Search Committee for Saint Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professorship, 1999-2000
Member, Search Committee for E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professorship in Africa/AfricanAmerican Studies, 1999-2000
Member, Search Committee for Friedrich A. Hayek Missouri Professorship in Economic
History, 1999-2000
Member, Screening Committee for Director of Research and Assistant/Associate Graduate Dean,
1999.
Member, Search Committee for E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professorship in Community History
and Museum Studies, 1997-98
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for the Humanities, 1997-2001
Member, Search Committee for Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, 1997-98
Member, Academic Advisory Committee [to Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs], 1997-98
Chair, Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, 1996-98
Member, Senate ad hoc Committee on Multiple Participation in Tenure and Promotion, 1993-94
Presiding Officer, Faculty Council, 1993-94
Member, College Planning Committee, 1993-94
Member, Budget and Planning Committee, 1993-94
Chair, Research Committee, 1992-93; member, 1992-94
Member, Senate Executive Committee, 1992-94
Member, ad hoc Summer Research Award Committee, 1992-94
Chair, Special Benefits Planning Committee (UM System),1988-89
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, 1988-89
Chair, University Senate, 1988-89
Chair, Faculty Selection Committee, Phi Kappa Phi, 1987-89
Secretary, University Senate, 1987-88
Faculty Council, 1987-1989, 1992-94
Dean's Advisory Committee for Tenure and Promotion, 1986-88
Secretary, Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1981- 82
Student Conduct Committee, 1980-82
United Way Campaign Steering Committee, 1978, 1979
University Residency Committee, 1978-79
University Senate, 1977-83, 1985-1990, 1992-94, 1995-2000
Chair, Honors Committee, College of Arts and Science, 1976-77
Secretary of the Faculty, 1976-77
History Department Activities
Chair, 1995-2001
Member, Executive Committee, 1981-82, 1988-89
Member, ad personam Promotion Committee, 1978-79,1980-81, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1993-94
Member, Curriculum Committee, 1970-71; 1972-74; 1979-81
Coordinator, Graduate Committee, 1975-77
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Member, Search Committees, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1997
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Courses taught:
History 71, Latin American Civilization;
History 72, Mexican Civilization;
History 331, Europe in the Eighteenth Century;
History 354, History of Spain;
History 371/3201/5201, Latin America to 1808;
History 372, Latin America since 1808;
History 415/6112, Graduate Readings in European History (Spain and the Empire);
History 425/6114, Graduate Readings in Latin American History
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