CURRICULUM VITAE
CARR, Barry (Dr.)
Residence/Citizenship: British and Australian Citizen, permanent
resident of Australia.
Address: 45 Molesworth Street, Kew, Victoria, Australia,
3101 Phone: +613 9853 1127
email: [email protected]
Academic Qualifications
Oxford University
1964-1967 B.A. (Honours) in History
1967-1973 D. Phil. The period from October 1968 to November 1969
was spent attached as Visiting Researcher (Investigador Visitante) at the Centro de
Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México in Mexico City.
The doctoral thesis was presented in 1973.
Teaching Experience
United Kingdom:
University of Glasgow
1970-1972, Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies
Australia:
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
2008 + Senior Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies and Honorary
Research Associate in History
1989-2007 Reader in History
1979-1988 Senior Lecturer in History
1972-1979 Lecturer in History
I retired from La Trobe in February 2008
Australian National University (ANU)
2009- (Adjunct) Professor, Australian National Center for Latin American Studies
ANCLAS
Swinburne University of Technology
June 2008 - (Adjunct) Professor, Swinburne Institute of Social Research
Mexico:
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
July 2007-January 2008 Visiting Research Professor
United States:
University of California: Berkeley
Fall semester 2008 Visiting Professor, History Department; Visiting Professor,
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
Fall semester 2009 Visiting Professor (full professor), History Department
Fall semester 2010 Visiting Professor (full professor), History Department
Fall semester 2011 Visiting Professor (full professor), History Department
Fordham University, New York City
Fall semester 2012 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Latino and Latin American
Studies
Columbia University, New York City
Fall semester 2012. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies
Administrative Positions
I was founding Chair of La Trobe's Institute of Latin American Studies
(ILAS) in the period 1975-1977. In 1985 I became ILAS Chairman again
for a two-year term which was renewed in 1987. Between June and
December 1992 and January and July 1998 I was Acting Chairperson of
ILAS. I began a two-year period as Director of ILAS in late September 1999
and continued to hold that position until February 2008.
Board Membership
* ANCLAS Advisory Board, Australian National University (ANU), 2006-2014
* International Research Advisory Board, New Zealand Center for Latin American
Studies, University of Auckland, 2010 –
* Consejo Académico Asesor, CEMOS (Centro de Estudios del Movimiento Obrero y
Socialista), Mexico City
* Senior Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University 2008 –
Fellowships and Awards
* 2009 - Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
* January-February 2008 Visiting Latin American Fellowship, Greater Philadelphia Latin
American Studies Consortium (GPLASC)
* August 2007-January 2008 Visiting Research Professor, Center For Historical Studies,
El Colegio de México
* 2005-2007 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (with Steve
Niblo) $117,000
* 2003 LTU Central Research Fund Grant $20,000
* November 2000 Friedrich Katz Visiting Professor of Latin American History,
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), Mexico.
* 1995-1996 Recipient of Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Research
Grant
* 1999-2000 Canadian Government Traveling Fellowship
* December 1992-June 1993. Visiting Research Fellow, Center for USMexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
* January 1984 - July 1984. Andrew Mellon Visiting Research Fellow,
Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
Courses Taught on Latin American and European history:
Latin American History Through Film and Popular Culture (2nd and 3rd
years)
The Mexican and Cuban Revolutions (1st year level)
The Atlantic Rim 1400-2000 (1st year level)
Genocides and Holocaust in Europe, Africa, Central America (2/3 year)
Conquest of the Americas: Spain and the Conquest of the Aztec, Maya and
Inca (1st year)
The Cuban and Bolivian Revolutions (3rd year level)
Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Empires (1st year level)
Peasants and Politics in Latin America (2nd/3rd year)
Consciousness, Economy, Formal Ideology and Mobilization: The
Testimonies of Men & Women Activists in Latin America and Britain
(Third Year and Honours level). Taught at La Trobe and at UC Berkeley & Fordham
The European Left and the Russian Revolution (3rd year level)
Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective (3rd year
level)
Slavery, Race and Revolution: Cuba 1880-1998 (2nd/3rd year)
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (4th year/Honours level)
Marxism and Communism in Britain 1880-1968 (3rd year level)
Postgraduate Supervision
I have experience of supervision of research up to and including the doctoral
level. Current (and recent) students have prepared dissertations on: 1. The
Political Economy of Mexico's Foreign Debt; Drugs and National Security
in US-Mexican Relations; 2. El Mozote: The United States and State Terror
in El Salvador; 3. Leaseholds and Life: A Study of Land and Lives in
North East Brazil; 4. Agrarian Radicalism in Mid-nineteenth Century
Ireland; 5. The Politics of Teacher Unionism in Mexico; The Making of B.
Traven's Vision of Mexico; 6. 'Administración Obrera' in Mexico 19381941; 7. A History of Feminism in Mexico; 8. The Intellectual Origins of
the Popular Front in Britain; 9. Low Intensity Conflict in Central America
and the Philippines; 10. Post-Modernism and History; 11. The Guatemalan
Peace Process in the 1990s; 12. Indigenous Activism and Memory in
Australia and Mexico; 13. Operation Peter Pan in Cuban-US Relations
1959-1962; 14. Rise and Fall of Pulque in Mexico 1870-1950; 15.
Contemporary Mexican Art Cultures 1980-2004; 16. The Carvajal Case,
The Inquisition and Cryptojudaism in Early Colonial Mexico. 17. Rural
Emigrants in Lima, Peru 1960-2000; 18. The Nueva Canción Movement in
Chile 1960-1991; 19. The Spirit of Development: Community Welfare,
Grassroots Religion, and Transculturation in Contemporary Cuba; 20. AfroCubans in Cuban Contemporary Literature 1990-2005; 21.The Politics of
Memory: Violence, & Reconciliation in Argentina and Uruguay 1982-2005;
22. Mexican Politics and Nationalism In The Construction of History 1988-2011; 23.
Disputes over Kosher Slaughter in Melbourne, 1947-1957; 24. Repression and
Martyrdom. The Radicalisation of the Missionaries of the Congregation of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Guatemala (1954-1996); 25. Heart of Dance, Memory and
Forgetting in Southern Peru 1990-2014.
Research Activities
My research to date has concentrated on seven main areas:
(1) Transnational Labor and Working Class History: The Development
of Labor Internationalism and Transborder Worker and Union
Networking in the United States, Canada and Mexico In the Era of
NAFTA - ‘Globalization From Below’ and Transnational
Citizenship.
(2) The social, political and economic history of work and workers in
the Cuban sugar industry 1900-1940.
(3) History of Mexican workers and the labour movement in the period
1910-1930.
(4) The history of Mexican Marxism and Communism in the twentieth
century and, more generally the history of the Left in Latin America.
(5) The Historiography of Regional Studies of the Mexican Revolution.
(6) History of Tourism and Leisure in Mexico 1940-2008
(7) The development of Transnational Networks of Radicals and
Revolutionaries in the Greater Circum-Caribbean 1910-1940
The results of my work in each of these fields has been published or is in the
process of being published.
I also have an ongoing interest in the following topics: state-labor relations
in post-revolutionary societies (particularly, Nicaragua and Cuba); Latin
American peasant movements in the twentieth century; the evolution of
Latin American Communism; the politics of memory and the challenges of
democratization in post-genocide and civil war environments.
Assessments of ms. for scholarly journals
Hispanic American Historical Review (US)
Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK)
Latin American Research Review (US)
Latin American Perspectives (US)
Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies (Canada)
The Americas (US)
Journal of Latin American Studies (UK)
American Historical Review (US)
International Review of Social History (Amsterdam)
Australian Journal of International Affairs
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (Australia)
Radical History Review (US)
Social Science History (US)
Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos (US)
New West Indian Guide (NWIG) (Netherlands)
Arena (Australia)
Political Studies (Australia)
Political Power and Social Theory (US)
Law and History Review (US)
Australian Journal of Politics and History (Australia)
Australian Outlook (Australia)
Pacarina del Sur (Mexico)
Tzintzún (Mexico)
Australasian Journal of American Studies
Middle Ground
Journal of Tourism History (UK)
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (US)
Espiral (Mexico)
Communications, Culture and Politics Journal (Australia)
Reviews of Book Manuscripts for University Presses
Cambridge University Press
University of Illinois Press
Duke University Press
University of Texas Press
Stanford University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Alabama Press
University of California Press
Florida University Press
Routledge
Palgrave-Macmillan
Instituto Mora (MEXICO)
CIESAS (Mexico)
Editorial Responsibilities
I am a member of the editorial board of eleven international and
Australian journals:
* Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies Australia (Managing Editor 1995-1999
and 2006-2008).
* The Americas (Senior Editor), US
* Latin American Perspectives, US Participating Editor
* Bulletin of Latin American Research), UK
* Espiral (Universidad de Guadalajara), Mexico
* Memoria (Centro de Estudios del Movimiento Obrero) Mexico
* Perspectivas Historicas/Historical Perspectives Mexico
* Journal of Tourism History UK
* SUR/Versión, investigación y creación de América Latina y el Caribe Venezuela
* Perspectivas de Políticas Públicas Argentina
* Pacarina del Sur (Mexico)
Member of the board of H-LATAM, an international electronic history discussion list
(part of H-Net) for Latin American historians in its first two years.
Member of the General Committee of the Conference of Latin American History (CLAH)
of the American Historical Association for 1997-1999.
Member of the International Scholarly Relations Committee of the Conference on Latin
American History (CLAH), an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
Head of the Labor Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association [of the
US] (LASA), November-1998-March 2000.
Research Grant Assessments
I have assessed applications for research grants and Fellowships for the
CONACYT (Mexico), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada and Australian Research Grants Committee (later ARC).
Professional Assessments for promotion
I have been invited to provide evaluations of the work of overseas scholars
as part of promotion (to full professorship and exceptional merit
professorships), assessment and academic review. I have provided
assessments for the University of California, San Diego, University of
California, Santa Barbara, Scripps College, York University (Toronto); the
University of New Mexico; the University of Texas-Austin, the University
of Illinois; the University of Washington, Bradley University (Illinois), University of
Pittsburgh, Northwestern University (Boston), University of Houston. In Australia I have
provided assessments for scholars at a number of universities including the University of
New South Wales, Flinders University, Macquarie, Murdoch University, Australian
National University (ANU) and La Trobe University.
National and International Honors etc
* Founding President, CELAO (Consejo de Estudios Latinoamericanos de
Asia y Oceania /Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania)
2005-2007.
* Founding President (with Dr Lilit Thwaites), AILASA (Association of Iberian and
Latin American Studies of Australasia) 1991.
Publications
Books
* (co-editor with John Minns), Australia and Latin America: Challenges and
Opportunities in the New Millenium (Canberra: ANU Press, 2014)
* (edited together with Jeffrey Webber), The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the
Empire (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
*(with Avi Chomsky and Pamela Smorkaloff), The Cuba Reader (Durham: Duke
University Press: 2003).
* La Izquierda Mexicana a Través del Siglo XX (México: Ediciones Era, 1996).
* (edited with Steve Ellner), The Latin American Left Since Allende. (Boulder &
London: Westview Press and the Latin America Bureau, 1993)
* Marxism and Communism in Twentieth Century Mexico, (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1992)
* [with Elaine McKay] Low Intensity Conflict: Theory and Practice in Central
America and South-East Asia, Bundoora, Institute of Latin American Studies, La
Trobe University, 1988
*[editor and contributor] The Mexican Left, the Popular Movements and the Politics
of Austerity, 1982-1985. Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, Monograph No.
18, 1986
* El movimiento obrero y la política en México 1910-1929, (Ediciones Era: Mexico
City, 1981). This is a revised and expanded edition of the work below.
* El movimiento obrero y la política en México 1910-1929, (SepSetentas: Mexico
City, 1976), 2 volumes
Books under consideration and evaluation and in preparation
a. The History of Tourism and Leisure in Latin America (co-edited with Alex Saragoza)
b. Mexican Communism at the End of the Cárdenas Presidency (Under review by
several Mexican publishers.)
c. The Cuban Sugar Industry: Workers, Immigrants and Soviets 1915-1935 (in
preparation 90% complete).
d. The Long 1968 in Mexico: Politics, Society and Culture in the 1960s and 1970s
(edited collection of essays in preparation)
Chapters in Books
* 'The Casa del Obrero Mundial, Constitutionalism and the Pact of February 1915.'
in Michael Meyer and J. Vázquez, Work and Workers in the History of Mexico/El
trabajo y los trabajadores en la historia de México (Tucson and Mexico City,
1979), pp. 603-631. Subsequently published in Nora Hamilton & Timothy F.
Harding (eds), Modern Mexico: State, Economy, and Social Conflict (Beverly
Hills: Sage Publications, 1986), pp. 205-231.
*'The Mexican Left, The Popular Movements and the Politics of Austerity 19821985'. The introduction to a volume of essays carrying the same title. Center for
U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, Monograph Series, 18, pp. 1-18,
San Diego, 1986.
* PSUM: The Unification Process on the Mexican Left 1981-1985' in Judith
Gentleman (ed.), Mexican Politics in Transition (Boulder:Westview Press, 1987).
* 'Low Intensity Conflict: The El Salvador Laboratory" in Barry Carr and Elaine
McKay (eds.), Low Intensity Conflict: Theory and Practice in Central America and
South-East Asia (Bundoora: Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe
University/Clayton: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1988),
pp. 29-38.
* The Left and Its Potential Role in Political Change' in W. Cornelius, P. Smith and
J. Gentleman (eds.), Mexico's Alternative Political Futures, Center for USMexican Studies, University of California, Monograph Series, San Diego, 1989,
pp. 367-387.
* 'Cuba: Socialism and Democracy' in S. Niblo and R. Ireland, Cuba: Thirty Years
of Revolution (Bundoora: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1990).
* 'The Development of Communism and Marxism in Mexico. A Historiographical
Essay'. in Roderic A. Camp, Charles Hale, Josefina Zoraida Vázquez (eds.), Los
intelectuales en el poder en México. Intellectuals and Power in Mexico (Mexico
City & Los Angeles: El Colegio de México & UCLA Latin American Center,
1991), pp. 377-394.
* 'Labor and the Political Left in Mexico' in Kevin Middlebrook (ed.), Unions,
Workers and the State in Mexico, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego, Monograph Series, La Jolla, 1991.
* 'The Fate of the Vanguard Under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to
the Construction of the Great Arch' in Gilbert Joseph & Daniel Nugent (eds.),
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in
Modern Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 326-352.
* 'Crossing Borders: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA' in Gerardo
Otero (ed), Neoliberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Future
(Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 209-231.
* '"Omnipotent and Onmipresent"? Labor Shortages, Worker Mobility and Employer
Control in the Cuban Sugar Industry 1910-1934' in Avi Chomsky and Aldo Lauria
(eds), At the Margins of the Nation-State: Identity and Struggle in the Making of
the Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1860-1950
(Durham: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 260-291.
* “Latin American Studies in Australia” in Knowing Ourselves and Others; The
Humanities in Australia in the 21 Century. Vol. 2, Chapter 16 (Canberra: Australian
Academy of the Humanities, 1998).
* 'From Caribbean Backwater to Revolutionary Opportunity: Cuba's Evolving
Relationship with the Comintern 1925-1934' in Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds),
International Communism and the Communist International (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1998), pp. 234-253.
* 'Workers of the Americas Unite!: Labor Internationalism and The Challenge of
NAFTA' James Goodman (ed.), Globalization and Resistance (Sydney & London: Pluto
Press, 2002).
* “Identity, Class and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism and
Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934' in Shalini Puri (ed.), Marginal Migrations:The
Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, 2003 (London: Macmillan Caribbean,
2003)
* “El Nuevo Internacionalismo Obrero y Sindical en América Latina; un Caso de la
Globalización desde Abajo” in Yamada, Mutsuo (ed), Experiences And Prospects of
Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean (Osaka, Japan: JCAS Symposium
Series, No. 23, 2005), pp. 169-186.
* "Hacia una historia de los comunismos mexicanos: desafios y sugerencias" Elvira
Concheiro, Massimo Modonesi and Horacio Crespi (eds), El comunismo: otras
miradas desde América Latina (Mexico City: UNAM & CIICH, 2007 and a revised and
expanded edition in 2013).
* "La crisis del Partido Comunista Mexicano y el caso Trotsky 1939-1940", Elvira
Concheiro, Massimo Modonesi and Horacio Crespi (eds), El comunismo: otras
miradas desde América Latina (Mexico City: UNAM & CIICH, 2007).
* “Mexico City: Emporium of Latin American Exiles and Revolutionaries in the 1920s”
In 1810 – 1910 - 2010: Mexico’s Unfinished Revolutions (Berkeley: Bancroft Library &
University of California Press, 2011), pp. 25-39.
* “Across Seas and Borders’: Charting the Webs of Radical Internationalism in the
Circum Caribbean, 1910-1940” in Luis Roniger, Pablo Yankelevich and James Green
(eds.), Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in the Americas (Brighton: University of
Sussex Press, 2012), pp. 217-240.
* (with John Minns), “Introduction” chapter in (co-edited with John Minns), Australia
and Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium (Canberra:
ANU Press, 2014), pp. xvii-xxix.
* ‘Latin America: Changing Political Realities and Trends 2000-2014’ in (co-edited with
John Minns), Australia and Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities in the New
Millennium (Canberra: ANU Press, 2014), pp. 1-24. * (with John Sinclair), “ ‘The Tequila Effect’ or “How the Taco Won Australia’. The appropriation of Mexican and Latin American Culture in Australia” in Elizabeth Kath (ed.), Australian-­‐Latin American Relations. New Links in a Changing Global Landscape (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Articles
"The Peculiarities of the Mexican North 1880-1928: An Essay in Interpretation",
Institute of Latin American Studies, Glasgow University Occasional Paper No. 4,
1971.
"Las peculiaridades del norte Mexicano 1880-1928: Ensayo de interpretación",
Historia Mexicana, vol. XXII, no. 3 (1973), pp. 320-346. Spanish version of the
Glasgow paper.
"The Mexican Revolution Revisited," Latin America Review of Books, No. 1,
1973, pp. 135-140.
"Recent Regional Studies of the Mexican Revolution", Latin American Research
Review, vol. XV, No. 1, 1980, pp. 3-14.
"Los orígenes del PCM.", Nexos, Abril de 1981, pp. 37-47.
"Impresiones del 19 Congreso del Partido Comunista Mexicano", Cuadernos
Políticos, No. 29 (Aug.-Oct. 1981), pp. 83-92.
"Temas del comunismo Mexicano", Nexos, Junio de 1982.
"Marxism and Anarchism in the Formation of the Mexican Communist Party 19101919", Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 63 (2), 1983, pp. 277-305.
"The United States and Central America", Arena, 64 (Winter 1983), pp. 9-16.
"Mexican Communism 1968-1981: Eurocommunism in the Americas?" Journal of
Latin American Studies, May 1985, vol. 17, pp. 201-228.
"The US Contra Nicaragua", Arena, 71, 1985, pp. 90-98.
"The Elections of July 1985 and the Mexican Left", The Journal of Communist
Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (1986), pp. 76-79.
"Crisis in Mexican Communism: The Extraordinary Congress of the Mexican
Communist Party", (Part 1) Science and Society, vol. L, no. 4 Winter 1986/7, pp.
391-414.
'Crisis in Mexican Communism: The Extraordinary Congress of the Mexican
Communist Party' (Part 2) Science and Society, vol. 51:1, Spring 1987, pp. 43-67.
'The Mexican Communist Party and Agrarian Mobilizations in the Laguna 19201940: A Worker-Peasant Alliance?', Hispanic American Historical Review, vol.
67, no. 3, August 1987, pp. 371-404.
'Washington's Foundering Fathers: The Contras and Contragate', Australian Left
Review, no. 100, August 1987, pp. 31-34.
'Trotsky in Mexico', Journal of Communist Studies, vol. 4:1 (March 1988), pp. 98101.
'The Creation of the Mexican Socialist Party', Journal of Communist Studies, vol.
4:3 (September 1988), pp. 339-341.
'The U.S. Invasion of Panama', Arena, No. 90, March 1990.
'Introduction' to Heidi Zogbaum, B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Wilmington:
Scholarly Resources, 1992).
'The Shining Path', Arena Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (October-November 1992), p. 4.
'Hacia un nuevo internacionalismo obrero"' Memoria, No. 60 (November 1993),
pp. 18-23.
'Border Crossings: The Zapatista Uprising and the Future of Mexico', Arena
Magazine, No. 10 (April-May 1994), pp. 38-41.
'El Internacionalismo obrero en la epoca del TL', Memoria, Jan-February 1995, No.
74, pp. 48-56.
'Mill Occupations and Soviets: The Mobilization of Sugar Workers in Cuba 19171933', Journal of Latin American Studies, 28 (Spring 1996), pp. 129-158.
[with Jim Levy, Martin Scurrah] "The Tyranny of Distance”, LASA Forum , Vol.
XXVII: 1, Spring 1996, pp. 13-16.
'Marxismo y modernidad en México', Memoria, No. 100 (June 1997), pp. 57-62.
Essays on " Communism and Communist Parties", "Industrial Labor 1910-1940",
"Partido de la Revolución Democrática""Vicente Lombardo Toledano", "Lucio
Cabañas", "Leon Trotsky" for the Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society &
Culture ed. Michael Werner (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997)
'From the Mountains of the Southwest: Recent Writing on the Zapatistas of
Chiapas', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 3: 2 (December
1997), pp. 109-123.
'Identity, Class and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism and
Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934', Hispanic American Historical Review, 8: 1
(February 1998), pp. 83-116.
‘Desde las montañas del Sureste mexicano: una revisión de los escritos recientes
acerca de los zapatistas’, Memoria, 114 (August 1998), pp. 4-13.
'Globalisation from Below? Labour Internationalism under NAFTA, International Social
Science Journal (Paris/UNESCO), March 1999, pp. 49-59.
'El Comintern y el movimiento revolucionario de Cuba en 1933', Memoria, March 1999,
pp. 27-32.
(with Jeff Browitt and Steven Niblo), 'Colombia in the Crucible: Civil War, Citizenship
and the Disintegration of the State’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol.
7: 2 (December 2001), pp. 1-18. Special Issue on Colombia.
' "A Pact of Alliance With The Revolution': Art and Politics in Modern Mexico' in
Anthony White (ed.), Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism, Canberra,
National Gallery of Australia, 2001, pp. 17-19.
Edited a special edition on Australian history of the Mexican historical journal Istor
(and wrote the introductory essay), Istor, November-December 2005, pp. .
Entries and essays on Carlos Baliño, 'Blas Roca', 'St. Louis Affair', 'Frank País',
'Rubén Martínez Villena', 'Raúl Roa', 'Struggle Against Batista', '1961 Literacy
Campaign' for Luis Martínez Fernández (ed.) Cuba Encyclopedia, Oryx Press,
2002.
Entries and essays on 8 topics (including Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Francois (Papa
Doc) Duvalier; the US Intervention in the Dominican Republic 1965, the 1945
Chapultepec Conference, El Salvador, Bolivia, Venezuela for the Spencer Tucker
(ed), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (ABC-Clio, 2006).
'Border Crossings: Radical, Worker and Union Transnationalisms in Mexico and
Latin America 1910-2006", Dialogue: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia,
Vol. 25 (2/2006), pp. 33-43.
‘Radicals, Revolutionaries and Exiles: Mexico City in the 1920s’, Berkeley Review of
Latin American Studies, Fall 2010, pp. 26-30.
“Acapulco and Cancún: Two Models of Tourism Development 1920-2010”. XIII
Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (Mexico City,: El
Colegio de México. October 2010).
“La Ciudad de México: Emporio de exiliados y revolucionarios latinoamericanos en la
decada de 1920”, Pacarina del Sur, Octuubre-diciembre de 2011.
“Pioneering Transnational Solidarity in the Americas. The Movement in Support of
Augusto C. Sandino”, JILAR. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, Vol. 20,
No. 2, 2014, pp. 141-152.
Other Publications
(Coauthored) Human Rights in the Philippines: Report of an Australian FactFinding Mission to the Philippines, November 28-December 5, 1987.
"A Pact of Alliance With The Revolution': Art and Politics in Modern Mexico' in
Anthony White (ed.), Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism,
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2002, pp. 17-19.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
“Los estudios sobre América Latina en Australia” in Yamada Mutsuo (ed),
Estudios Latinoamericanos en Asia y Oceania (Osaka: Japan Center for Area
Studies Occasional Paper No. 23, 2004), pp. 29-36.
La globalización desde abajo: el internacionalismo sindical en el marco del
TLCAN, Japan Centre for Area Studies, Osaka, JCAS Symposium Series 23,
2005
“Bringing Australasia and Latin America Together; Recent Developments in Latin
American Studies in Australia”, presented to conference on Latin Humanism in the Far
East, Macao, January 6-8, 2005. Published in late 2005 in the Conference proceedings of
the Conference on Latin Humanism.
Broadcasts and print media
Since 1972 I have been frequently involved in the preparation, production and
delivery of several hundred radio broadcasts on topics concerned with Latin
America. These have included radio documentaries (on Guatemala and on Mexican
Petroleum); news commentaries (scripts on a variety of contemporary topics); radio
talks (on development dilemmas facing Mexico in the nineteen eighties); radio book
reviews etc. The radio activity has involved work for the ABC (Australian
Broadcasting Commission - a national radio network), Radio Australia, 3RRR-FM
(an educational station), 3CR (a community radio station in Melbourne) and a
number of commercial radio stations in Melbourne and around Australia. I also
coordinated, presented and produced a fortnightly educational radio magazine "The
History Show" for 3RRR-FM in 1983. I have also been frequently interviewed on
Latin American topics by TV and radio stations and networks (SBS TV, ABC TV in
Australia, Canada (CBC), USA (NBC and Voice of America), Mexico, New Zealand.
I have written op/ed articles on Latin American topics for several newspapers,
notably the Melbourne Daily Herald and Sunday Herald in the 1980s.
Papers and Lectures Delivered at Conferences/ and Seminars Participation as
Discussant and Commentator talks at Universities:
(with John Sinclair), “The ‘Tequila Effect’ or ‘How the Taco won Australia’: the Appropriation of Mexican and Latin American Culture in Australia”, keynote lecture, ‘Mapping Connections: Australia and Latin America’, workshop at University of Sydney, July 16-­‐17, 2015. ‘The War On Drugs in Mexico and Latin America’. Guest lecture to students of MA in
International Relations, Melbourne University, May 4, 2015
‘Mexico City and New York: Hub Cities and Their Role in the Campaign in Support of
the Sandino Transnational Solidarity Movement 1927-1934’, Paper presented to the panel
on Solidarity and Revolution: Transnational Perspectives on Latin American and
Caribbean Radical History, Conference of the American Historical Association and
CLAH, New York City, January 3-6, 2015.
‘Radical Students, Teacher-Training and the Background to the Ayotzinapa Missing
Students’. Talk presented at the ‘Mexico In Crisis Forum’, ILAS, La Trobe University
City Campus, December 13, 2014.
‘Why are they Killing Students in Mexico? Corruption, Impunity and Disappearances in
Contemporary Mexico”, lecture presented at RMIT University, November 28, 2014.
‘The Legacy of the Aztecs in Colonial, Modern and Contemporary Mexico’. Australian
Museum, Sydney, November 20, 2014.
‘Organizing Transnational Solidarity in the Americas. The Sandino Movement 19271934’. CELAO conference, University of Kyoto, Japan, September 16-18, 2014.
‘Australian-Latin American Relations: Background to a Book Publishing project’” talk
at the book launch of Barry Carr and John Minns (eds) Australia and Latin America:
Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium, held at La Trobe University’s
Collins St campus, August 22, 2014.
‘Across Seas and Borders: Charting the Webs of Radical Internationalism and Dissent in
the Greater Circum-Caribbean 1910-1940’. Keynote Address delivered to the conference
of AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia),
University of Sydney, July 2-5, 2014.
‘What Happened to the Aztecs? The Legacy of the Aztecs’, Melbourne Museum, July
17, 2014.
‘Mexico’s Day of the Dead’, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Sunday May 4, 2014.
‘Introductory Lecture on Australian-Latin American Relations’ to MA in International
Relations students, Melbourne University, March, 2014.
Discussant at the ‘A New Look at the Old PRI: The Agendas of Mexico’s One Party
State’ panel at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association/CLAH,
Washington D.C, USA January 2-5, 2014.
‘Hub Cities in the Transnational Networks of Radicals, Revolutionaries and Exiles in the
Greater Circum-Caribbean, 1918-1939: The Case of Red New York’, History Seminar,
La Trobe University, September 6, 2013.
‘The Latinization of the United States: Challenges and Opportunities”, Wally Thompson
Hispanic and Latin American seminar, RMIT University, July 26, 2013
“Escribiendo la historia social del turismo en México, 1910-2012. Acapulco:
protagonismo económico y conflictos sociales”. Presented to the Seminario Permanente
de Historia Social del Centro de Estudios Historicos de El Colegio de México, March 4,
2013.
“Rebels, Revolutionaries and Exiles in New York, Mexico and Havana: Tracing the
Transnational Networks and Diasporas of Activists in the Greater Circum-Caribbean
1918-1940”, 10th Biennial conference of the Australian Association For Caribbean
Studies, Melbourne, Australia, February14-16, 2013.
“Rebels, Revolutionaries and Exiles in New York, Mexico and Havana: Tracing the
Transnational Networks and Diasporas of Activists in the Greater Circum-Caribbean
1918-1940”, Paper, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 28, 2012.
“Where is Cuba Going?: Reflections on the Cuban Revolution in 2012, Five Years After
My Earlier Talk’, Swarthmore College, November 5, 2012.
“Across Seas and Borders: Charting the Webs of Radical Internationalism and Exile in
the Greater Circum-Caribbean, 1918-1940”, New York Latin American History
Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 19, 2012.
"Transnationalizing Solidarity: Mexico City and the Americas-Wide Movement of
Solidarity with Sandino and Nicaragua 1927-1934", Paper prepared for International
Congress of the Americanists, Vienna, July 16-20, 2012.
“New York, Havana and Mexico City: Hub Cities in the Transnational Networks of Radicals,
Revolutionaries and Exiles in the Greater Circum-Caribbean 1918-1940”, AILASA2012
Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, July 4-7, 2012
“Why Study the History of Tourism and leisure in Latin America? Comparing the
Development of Acapulco and Cancún in Mexico, 1927-2012”, Australian National
Center for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS), Australian National University, May 3,
2012.
“The Latinization of the United States: Challenges and Opportunities”, Institute of Social
Research: Swinburne University of Technology, March 15, 2012.
"The First Latin America-Wide Solidarity Movement of the Twentieth Century:
Solidarity with Augusto C. Sandino of Nicaragua 1927-1933", Seminar of Institute of
Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, April 15, 2011.
“Trotsky in Mexico”, Coloquium on “Trotsky and Mexico”, Bildner Center: CUNY
Graduate Center, New York City, February 10, 2011.
“Researching Transnational Radicalism in the Greater Caribbean Region 1918-1949”,
Center for Latin American Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, February 7, 2011
"Transnational Networks of Radicals, Revolutionaries, Exiles and Vanguard Intellectuals
in the Greater Circum-Caribbean, 1920-1940", New York University Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, February 8, 2011.
“Transnationalizing the Mexican Revolution: Mexico as Hub in Radical,
Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Networks 1910-1945”, Conference on “1810 ~ 1910
2010: Mexico’s Unfinished Revolutions”, Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley, October 22-23, 2010.
“A Pioneer Exercise in Transnational Networking: The First Sandino
Solidarity Movement 1927-1930”, Latin American Historians of Northern California
LAHNOCCA, San Francisco, September 19, 2010.
“The First Transnational Solidarity Movement with Sandino 1927-1933”, Conference of
AILASA: Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia), Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia July 7-9, 2010.
“Archaeology and Tourism in the Service of the State: Mexico 1910-2010”,
Symposium on Mexico: Revolution, Independence and Beyond, ANU, Canberra,
Australia, July 5-7, 2010.
“The Three Caballeros": Walt Disney, Nelson Rockefeller and U.S.-Mexico
Relations During World War II”, Institute of Social Research, Swinburne
University, June 30, 2010.
“The Three Caballeros": Walt Disney, Nelson Rockefeller and U.S.-Mexico Relations
During World War II’, Australian National Center for Latin American Studies, ANU,
May 20, 2010.
“ Disney, Rockefeller and the Three Caballeros in Mexico 1942-1945’, Institute of Latin
American Studies Seminar, La Trobe University, March 26, 2010
Paper, “Where is Latin America Heading Politically? The Pink Tide”, College of
International Studies, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2009.
Paper, ‘,Escribir la historia de los balnearios mexicanos, los casos de Acapulco y Cancún
(1929-2008): algunos interrogantes y sugerencias’. Congreso Hispano-Mexicano: La
Ciudad Contemporánea: Proceso de Transición, Cambio e Inovación, Bilbao, Spain,
September 10- 11, 2009.
Lecture, “Fridamania: The Cult of Frida Kahlo as a Political, Social and Cultural
Phenomenon.” St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, January 24, 2008.
Lecture, “Latin America Turns to the Left”, Rutgers University, Camden Campus, New
Jersey, January 28, 2008.
Paper, "The Rise of 'Pink Tide' in Latin America”, Villanova University, January 30,
2008.
Lecture, West Chester University, Pennsylvania: Lecture “Revolution in Mexico: 1810,
1910, 2010?, February 4, 2008.
Lecture, "The Rise of 'Pink Tide' in Latin America II", Haverford College, Philadelphia,
February 5, 2008.
Lecture; “Whither Cuba?” Swarthmore College, February 6, 2008.
Lecture: “Is Latin America Moving Left?”, Temple University, Philadelphia, February 7,
2008
Keynote Lecture at conference Primera Reunión Internacional sobre la historia de
las Izquierdas en América Latina’, Universidad Nicolaita de Michoacán & El
Colegio de Michoacán, Morelia, November 28-29, 2007.
Paper/presentation (‘Crossing Borders: Radical, Worker and Union
Transnationalism in Mexico and Latin America, 1910-2007’), Latin American
History Workshop, University of Chicago, November 15, 2007.
Lecture (‘El impacto de las jornadas de 1968. Prácticas e imaginarios de las
izquierdas mexicanas’), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California-Mexicali,
November 8, 2007.
Presentation (‘Enrique Semo: Historiador e intelectual marxista’) , Mesa de
Homenaje a Enrique Semo, Congreso Mexicano de Historia Económica,
Cuernavaca, October 31, 2007.
Seminar Paper (‘Acapulco and Cancun: Two Patterns of Tourism History (19402007) & An Agenda for Writing Tourism History of Mexico’), Tourism Studies
Working Group, University of California, Berkeley, October 26, 2007
Lecture (‘El largo 1968 en México’), Universidad de Guadalajara, October 24, 2007
Paper (‘ The Long 1968: Its Impact on the Politics and Imaginarios of the Mexican
Left’), Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference, Montreal, Canada,
September 8, 2007
Seminar Paper “Impacto de 1968 sobre la izquierda y el movimiento urbanopopular en México 1968-1990”. History Programme, Universidad Nicolaita de
Michoacán, Morelia, Mexico, October 11, 2005.
Lecture " Un caso de globalización desde abajo? La evolución de las
relaciones transnacionales entre trabajadores, sindicatos y grupos de
izquierda de los Estados Unidos y México 1910-1990", Department of
History, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, October 13, 2005
Seminar Paper ""Escribir la historia de México contemporáneo 1946-2006:
desafíos y oportunidades", Department of History, Universidad de Sonora,
Hermosillo, Mexico, October 14, 2005.
Conference Paper “Escribiendo la historia del comunismo mexicano”. Reunión
sobre La historia del comunismo latinoamericano, UNAM, Mexico City, November
6-9, 2005.
Paper “The Wobblies ( IWW) and Transnational Labor History and Activism:
Precedents and Opportunities”. Presented to centenary conference “The IWW at One
Hundred Years’, Brown University, Providdence RI, USA, March 4-6, 2005.
Paper “Bringing Australasia and Latin America Together; Latin American Studies in
Australia”, presented to conference on Latin Humanism in the Far East, Macao, January
6-8, 2005.
Lecture “Is Latin America Moving to the Left?” Presented to the Australian Institute of
International Affairs, Melbourne, November 2004.
Paper on “Unions and Workers under Lula; Challenges and Opportunities”. Presented to
the ILAS conference ‘Brazil Under Lula’, Institute of Advanced Studies, La Trobe,
October 31- Nov 1, 2004.
Paper “Narco-Corridos and the Corrido Tradition in Mexico’. Presented to the AILASA
Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, July 2004.
Paper "Worker and Social Movement Responses to Crisis in Argentina in the Era of
Mercosur, National and Transnational Dimensions 1990-2003", Presented at
conference on The Argentina Crisis: The End or the Beginning of a New Era?,
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Auckland, July 24-25, 2003.
Paper "Los Estudios Sobre América Latina en Australia". Presented to the Conference on
Latin American Studies in Asia and Oceania, Japan Center for Area Studies, National
Museum of Ethnology,Osaka, Japan, February 2003.
Paper "United States and Mexican Unions During the Cold War 1946-c1955"
presented to conference on The Cold War in Mexico, Central America and the
Caribbean November 9-11, 2002, Mexico City.
Paper ‘Mobility and Resistance: Cuban Sugar Workers 1910-1934'’ at the biannual
conference of the Australian Association of Caribbean Studies, (AACS) ANU,
Canberra, February 8-10, 2001
'Border Crossings: Radical, Worker and Union Transnationalisms In Mexico and Latin
America 1910- 2000', Paper at Commonwealth Fund Conference, University of London,
late June 2001.
Paper ‘Globalization from Below? Transnational Labor and Social Movement
Cooperation in Mercosur During the 1990s’ at the conference of AILASA
(Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia), July 4-7, 2001
Paper ‘Las nuevas formas del internacionalismo obrero e sindical en la epoca del TLC:
La 'globalización desde abajo?’ at a special seminar of the Escuela Nacional de
Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, August 27, 2001
Commentator at two panels of the Washington conference of LASA "Historical
Perspectives on Armed Struggles in Twentieth Century Mexico and Guatemala"
and "Between Boom and Bust: Landed Elites, Commercial Economies and Politics
in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1910-1930", Washington DC,
September 4-7, 2001.
Paper: "How Cuban Was Cuban Communism: The First Decade of the PCC in the
Light of Comintern Records" presented to the conference of the Latin American
Studies Association LASA), Miami, March 2000
Paper : "Azúcar, comunismo y la revolucion de 1933" presented to the conference
of the Latin American Studies Association, (LASA) , Miami, March 2000
Paper "Remembering the Student-Popular Movement of 1968 in Mexico", Paper
presented to the ILAS conference" Violence, Memory and National
Reconciliation", La Trobe University, October 13-14, 2000.
'Trabajadores del Mundo Uníos o Desuníos: respuestas sindicales y obreras al
Tratado de Libre Comercio (NAFTA)', IDES, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30
November 1999.
'Cross-Border Worker and Union Cooperation: Mexico-US-Canada,
1910-1999'. Paper at X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians,
Fort Worth, Texas, USA, November 19-22. 1999
"Forms of Worker Resistance and the Labor Process in Cuban Sugar 1915-1935".
Paper presented at the Association of Caribbean History conference in Havana, 1216 April 1999.
"The Long-Term Impact of the 1968 Student-Popular Movement on the Mexican
Left". Paper presented to the conference "Thirty Years After: The Political, Social
and Cultural Legacies of Mexico's 1968 Student-Popular Movement", University of
California-San Diego, October 23-24, 1998.
"Globalization From Below? Worker and Union Responses to NAFTA 19941998- A Balance Sheet". Paper presented to the XXI International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, September 24-26, 1998.
Commentator on panel "Crisis, Change and the Labor Movement in Mexico"
(LASA), Chicago, Sep 24-26, 1998.
Paper "1898-1902: Independence or New Masters? - The End of Spanish
Colonialism in Cuba" at conference "From Far And Near: The Genesis of the
Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region", UNSW, Sydney, May 15-16, 1998.
Paper "Regional Economic Integration and Labor Internationalism: A
Historian's Reflections on Mexico-US-Canada Worker and Union Cooperation in
the Period 1990-1009" at Fourth International Conference on the Americas,
University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, January 28-31, 1998.
Commentator on panel "The Legacy of Che Guevara" American Historical
Association (AHA), Seattle, January 6-8, 1998.
Commentator on panel "The Specter of Communism in Latin America", American
Historical Association, Seattle, January 6-8, 1998.
"What About the Workers? Labor Internationalism and the North
American Free Trade Agreement 1994-1997: A Preliminary
Assessment", III Conference of Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies
of Australasia (AILASA), University of Auckland, July 17-19, 1997.
"From Caribbean Backwater to Revolutionary Opportunity: Cuba's
Evolving Relationship with the Comintern 1925-1935", Latin
American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
[Discussant] on panel on "Mexico in the 1940s" at the American Historical
Association, New York, January 2-6,1997.
"Popular Culture and Popular Struggle: The Tributaries of the NeoZapatistas in Mexico 1940-1996". Conference on Popular Culture in
Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe
University, August 30-31, 1996.
"A New Era for Labor Internationalism? The Experience of NAFTA 1994-1996",
American Sociological Association (ASA) conference, [Panel on 'Globalization of
Social Movements'], New York, August 1996
"Labor Rights Conditionality: Social Clauses and the Experience of the North
American Free Trade Agreement", CAA Conference, Feb 1996, Melbourne.
"Organization and Social Mobility among Cuban Sugar Workers 1910-1935",
Conference on "May Day and International Labor Movement", Instituto de Historia,
Havana, Cuba, April 1995
"The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas: A Post-Modern Peasant Movement?", Paper
for Conference of AILASA, University of Queensland, Brisbane, July 1995.
"Haitian and British West Indian Migrant Workers in the Cuban
Sugar Industry 1910-1935", First Conference of Caribbean Studies
Association of Australia, University of Queensland, July 1995.
"Mexican Responses to Globalization: the Chiapas Rebellion and
Transborder Labor Networking." Round Table Discussion at the Law
and Society conference, La Trobe University, December 15, 1994.
"Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA: Past and Present."
Paper written for the conference on Labor, Free Trade, and Economic
Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a
Transnational World, Duke University, August 25-27, 1994 [could
not attend the conference due to ill health].
"Accommodation and Resistance: British West Indian & Haitian Sugar Workers
and Labor Insurgency in Cuba 1925-1934." Paper presented to the CLAH panel on
West Indian Workers in Cuba and Costa Rica, American Historical Association,
San Francisco, January 6-9, 1994.
"The Cuban Sugar Mill Occupations of 1933: A Re-examination."
Paper to the Latin American History Seminar, Latin American Centre,
Oxford University, November 16, 1993.
"Labour and the Impact of NAFTA: An Examination of Transnational
Labour Contacts." Mexico-Central America Seminar, Institute of Latin
American Studies, University of London, November 15, 1993.
"Transnational Labor Responses to Globalization and Regional
Economic Integration: Mexican, US and Canadian Worker Links
in the Era of NAFTA." Paper presented to the First National
Conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies
of Australasia, Sydney, September 30-October 2, 1993.
"El internacionalismo obrero en la epca del TLC: una respuesta obrera
a la globalización del capital" Paper presented to the conference on "La
clase obrera, los nuevos sujetos sociales y las alternativas socialistas
del presente", Centro de Estudios Sobre los Movimientos Sociales:
University of Guadalajara, Mexico, September 8-10, 1993.
"Is There a Future for the Left in Latin America?". Paper presented to
the conference: A Pacific Encounter, Victoria University of
Technology, Melbourne, September 3-4, 1993.
"The Theory and Practice of Labor Internationalism in the Era
of the Globalization of Capital". Paper presented to the
conference: The Work of Alain Touraine on Social Movements in
Latin America, La Trobe University, July 12, 1993.
"Sugar and Soviets: The Mobilization of Sugar Workers in Cuba 1933"
Paper presented to the Tenth Latin American Labor History Conference, Duke
University, April 23-24, 1993.
"Rhetoric or Reality?: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA". Paper
presented to the Graduate Seminar, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, April,
1993.
"Sugar and Soviets: The Mobilization of Cuban Sugar Workers 1920-1933". Paper
presented to the Conference of SECOLAS, Antigua, Guatemala, February 18-20,
1993.
"Marxism and Modernity: Communism's Contribution to State Formation in
Mexico". Paper presented to the Workshop on "Divergent Modernities: Reflections
on Culture, Globalization and Power", Department of Sociology, La Trobe
University, November 5, 1992.
"The Development of Black Consciousness in the Twentieth Century in Jamaica,
the British Caribbean and Cuba". Paper given to the seminar on Black Slaves of
Latin America and the Caribbean, CAE, Melbourne, May 31, 1992.
"Sugar, Soviets and Caribbean Immigrants". Paper presented to the History
Department, Florida International University, February 1992.
'The Fate of the Vanguard Under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to
the Construction of the Great Arch'. Paper presented to the Workshop on Popular
Culture, State Formation and the Mexican Revolution, Center for US-Mexican
Studies, UCSD, February 1991.
'US-Latin American Communist Relations: The Browderist Heresy in Cuba and
Mexico 1943-1946'. Paper prepared for presentation to the Conference of the Latin
American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 21-23, 1989.
'Cuba: Socialism and Democracy'. Paper presented to the Conference on Cuba:
Thirty Years of Revolution, La Trobe University, August, 1989.
'Browderism in Mexico'. Paper presented to the Conference on Mexico in the
1930s and 1940s, La Trobe University, July 14-15, 1990.
'Socialism and Democracy in Cuba'. Paper presented to the Conference on 'Cuba:
Thirty Years of Revolution', La Trobe University, August 1989.
'The Mexican Left and Popular Classes from the Late 30s to the Present Day'.
Paper presented to the Conference on Political Culture, Popular Culture and Social
Change in Contemporary Mexico, University of Texas, Austin, April 7-8, 1989.
'The July 1988 Elections and the Future of the Left in Mexico'. Paper presented to
the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
January 31, 1989.
'The Mexican Communist Party, the Comintern and the Trotsky Affair'. Paper
presented to the conference on 'Trotsky: revelador politico de México cardenista',
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, UNAM, Mexico City, May 18-22, 1987.
'The Political Left and the Labor Movement in Mexico'. Paper presented to a
conference on 'Mexican Labor' at the Center for Us-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, May 14-16, 1987.
'The Mexican Communist Party and Agrarian Mobilization in the Laguna 19201940: A Worker Peasant Alliance?'. Paper presented to the meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association, Boston, 22-25 October 1986.
'The Past, Present and Future of Latin American Studies in Australia'. Paper
presented to the conference on 'Australia and Latin America' at the University of
New South Wales, Sydney, Aug 22-23, 1986.
'The Unification of the Mexican Left - The PSUM: An Evaluation of its First Three
Years'. Paper presented to the XXX Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast Conference on
Latin American Studies (PCCLAS), California State University, Los Angeles,
October 18-21, 1984.
'Recent Research on the Mexican Working Class during the Revolution'. Paper
presented to a conference on 'New Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution',
CILAS, UCSD, May 1984.
'The Mexican Economic Debacle and the Labour Movement: A New Era or More
of the Same?'. Paper presented to the Executive Workshop on 'Mexico's Economic
Stabilization: Challenges and Opportunities', organized by the Center for USMexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 2-4, 1983.
'Mexico and the Pacific Basin'. Paper presented to the National Conference of the
Australian Institute of International Affairs held at the Law School of Sydney
University, May 1982.
'Eduardo del Río (Rius), Los Agachados and the Development of Didactic Comicstrips in Mexico'. Paper presented to the Conference of AULLA (Australasian
Universities Language and Literature Association), Massey University, Palmerston
North, New Zealand, January 1982.
'The Development of Communism and Marxism in Mexico: A Historiographical
Essay'. Paper presented to the VI Conference of Mexican and United States
Historians at the University of Chicago, September 1981.
'Marxism, Communism and Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1925'.
Paper presented to the Conference on Latin American History, section of the
American Historical Association meeting in New York, December 1979.
'Developments in the Study of the Regional History of the Mexican Revolution'.
Paper presented to the Mexican-Australian Seminar on Mexican Prehistory, History
and Culture held at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National
University, Canberra, 23 September 1979.
'The Casa del Obrero Mundial, Constitutionalism and the Pact of February 1915'.
Paper presented to the V Conference of Mexican and United States Historians held
at Patzcuaro, Mexico, October 1977.
'Revisionist Studies of the Church-State Conflict, 1910-1929'. Paper presented to
the Conference on Church and Society in Latin America at La Trobe University in
1974.
Discussant for conference on 'Popular Alternatives to the Crisis in Mexico'.
Mexican Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, October 1984.
Commentator at Conference on "The New Right in Latin America", held at La
Trobe University, July 1982.
Discussant for Panel on 'Revisionist Histories of the Mexican Revolution' at the
Conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Houston, Texas,
November 1977.
Discussant for Panel on 'Periodisation of the Mexican Revolution', at the IV
Conference of Mexican and United States Historians held at Santa Monica,
California in October 1973.
15. Lectures and Seminars at Institutions Outside La Trobe University
"What About the Workers: Labor Internationalism and NAFTA: A Preliminary
Assessment",
ILAS and History Dept, University of Texas, Austin, January 26, 1998.
"Haitian and British West Indian Migrant Workers in the Cuban
Sugar Economy, 1910-1935", University of Texas-Austin, History Department, January
26,1998.
"Vudu, Cricket, Garveyism and Worker Resistance: Caribbean Migration to Cuba, 19101935". History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, January 14, 1998.
"The Neo-Zapatistas of Chiapas: Postmodern Rebellion or Peasant Revolt? An Historical
Perspective", University of Chicago, History Department, January 13, 1998.
"Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA", University of Pittsburgh, History
Department
Faculty Seminar, January 13, 1997.
"Labor Social Movements in Modern Mexico", Toronto Universities Mexico Working
Group, February 9, 1997.
"Cross-Border Labour Organizing in the Era of NAFTA", Department of History,
University
of Toronto, February 10, 1997.
"From Emiliano Zapata to the Zapatistas of Chiapas: Popular Struggles Through the
Twentieth Century", CERLAC (Center for Research on Latin America and the
Caribbean),
York University, February 11,1997.
'From Emiliano Zapata to the Zapatistas of Chiapas: What's Old and New In Latin
American
Popular Struggles', Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, Center
for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, February 28, 1997.
"Labor Internationalism and NAFTA", Department of History, University of British
Columbia, March 1997.
"What About the Workers? Cross-Border Worker and Union Responses to NAFTA",
Department of History and Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University,
March 4, 1997.
"Cross-Border Union and Worker Cooperation: NAFTA and the Lessons of Labour
Internationalism", Department of History, Latin American Studies Group, International
Center, University of Calgary, March 6, 1997.
"The Zapatista Rebellion in Mexico 1994-1997: A Postmodern Peasant Movement?",
Department of History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, April 1997.
"De México a Cuba, y de vuelta a México: movilidad social y formas de resistencia entre
los
obreros azucareros cubanos, 1910-1935', History Faculty and Postgraduate Seminar,
Universidad Autónoma de Iztapalapa, Mexico City, April 15, 1997.
"Rhetoric or Reality?: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA". Talk to the
Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Working Group on Labor, Free
Trade and Economic Integration in the Americas, Duke University, April 22,
1993.
"Recent Developments in Mexican and Cuban Labor History: Impressions". Talk
given to Latin American history graduate students, UCSD, March 4, 1993.
An Introduction to the VCE unit on 'The United States and Imperialism and
Colonialism in the Caribbean and Central America'. Talk to the USIS/History
Teachers' Association of Victoria conference on "Introducing American History
into the VCE", Melbourne, November 14, 1990.
'The Political Context of Mexican Popular Culture'. Lecture to Department of
European Studies, Monash University, June 20, 1988.
'An Introduction to Central America'. Talk for Council of Adult Education (CAE)
course on 'Nicaragua and Central America', April 13, 1988.
Lecture to students at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University 'Latin
America since Independence: Challenges and opportunities', April 13, 1988.
'The Development of Communism in Mexico', Lecture to Institute of Latin
American Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April 4, 1984.
'The Politics of Austerity and the Mexican Left'. Paper to the Mexican Studies
Program, University of California, Berkeley, May 1984'.
'The Mexican Revolution'. Lecture to the Magellan Society at the A.N.U., Canberra
in May 1982.
'Communism and Marxism in Mexico'. Lecture to History majors at Trinity
University, San Antonio, Texas, April 16, 1981.
'The Birth of Communism in Mexico'. Lecture to History students at Ohio
Wesleyan University, April 23, 1981.
'The Historiography of studies on working class movements in Mexico: Some
questions and suggestions'. Paper presented to research seminar at the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, April 1981.
'The Mexican Communist Party in the Late Seventies and Early Eighties:
Eurocommunism in the Americas?'. Paper presented to the Politics Department of
University of California, Riverside and to the Centre for Latin American Studies at
California State (Los Angeles), November 1980.
'Organized Labour and the Mexican Revolution'. Paper presented to the Centre
for Social History, Warwick University, UK, December 1976.
'Workers and the State: The Mexican Case 1910-1940'. Paper presented to the
seminar series on "The State in Latin America"' at the Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of Glasgow, UK, December 1976.
'Historiographical and Methodological Aspects of the History of the Mexican Left
1938-1981: Notes on Research in Progress'. Lecture to CIESAS, Mexico City,
November 1984.
'The Crisis in Central America' - Lecture to Joint Services Staff College, Canberra,
September 1983.
'The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Latin America', Lectures, Politics
Department, University of Melbourne, 3, 10 May, 1983.