CLAH Events and AHA Sessions

CLAH Information Table Hours: Thursday, Jan 7, 12:30-6:00pm Friday, Jan 8, 8:00-11:00am Saturday, Jan 9, 9:00-11:00am Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Registration 2

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7

CLAH Information Table Thursday, 12:30-6:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Registration 2

1. Caribbean Borderlands during the Long 19th Century: Geographic Mobility, Social Experiments, and Radicalism on the Fringes of Empire and Nation-States (joint with AHA 8) Thursday, 1:00-3:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A601

Chair: Rashauna Johnson, Dartmouth College

Citizenship as "Social Figuration”: Cuba and Colombia at the Dawn of a New Caribbean Edgardo Perez Morales, New York University

Beyond the Port: Slavery and the Atlantic Diasporas of Louisiana’s Florida Parishes Rashauna Johnson, Dartmouth College

Caribbean Borderlands in the United States and Mexico: The Second Seminole War and the Caste War of Yucatán Sophie Hunt, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

The Politics of Owning: Family, Property, and Slave Ownership among Women of Color in Santiago de Cuba, 1828–68 Adriana Chira, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Comment: Lara E. Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

2. Caught in the Middle: The Politics of Migrant Labor in Mexico and the United States (joint Labor and Working Class History Association) Thursday, 1:00-3:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M301

Chairs: Maria E. Balandran, University of Chicago Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University

Between Two Nations: Organizing among Mexican Migrants in Los Angeles, California, 1920–35 Daniel Morales, Columbia University

The Making of the Unassimilable Mexican and Race as a Common US-Mexico History, c. 1920s Jose Luis Ramos, Valparaiso University

A State’s Sovereign Right: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 Maria E. Balandran, University of Chicago

Health Care and Deportation during the Bracero Program Laura D. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

Comment: Ruben Flores, University of Kansas

3. Imagining Failure and Its Consequences in the Colonial Spanish Pacific World Thursday, 1:00-3:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Ashleigh Dean, Emory University

With Justice for All and Grievance for None: Conservative Power and Imperial Weakness after the Encomendero’s Revolt, 1544–81 Danielle Anthony, Ohio State University

Like Trying to Grasp the Moon: Reassessing Sino-Spanish Diplomatic Relations, 1575–95 Ashleigh Dean, Emory University

Reading Failure in the Colonial Archive/Reinscribing Defeat in Imperial History: The British Occupation of Manila (1762–64) and the Decline of Spain’s Pacific Empire Kristie Patricia Flannery, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley

4. Crafting Order and Progress: Revisionist Perspectives of the Porfirian Era in Mexican History (joint with AHA 45) Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A703

Chair: Jaclyn Ann Sumner, Presbyterian College

Excavating a Past: What Archaeology Can Teach Us about Porfirian Nation Building Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University

“Se Prohibe Anunciar”: The Uneasy Relationship between Advertising Entrepreneurs and the Mexico City Ayuntamiento during the Porfiriato Steven B. Bunker, University of Alabama

The Political Currency of Water during the Porfiriato Jaclyn Ann Sumner, Presbyterian College

A Tale of Two Cities in Porfirian Juchitán: Social Segregation, Ethnic Distinction, and the Construction of a Center on the Periphery Colby Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Comment: James Alex Garza, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

5. Development from Within and Without: Debates, Partnerships, and Aid in Postwar Brazil (joint with AHA 39) Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A707

Chair: Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois University

Foreign Expertise and Development in Postwar Brazil: The FAO’s Fishery and Forestry Missions to the Amazon Oliver J. Dinius, University of Mississippi

The Agronomists’ Revolution: Agricultural Modernization in the Midst of the Brazilian Miracle Thomas D. Rogers, Emory University

Developing Consumerism in the American Century: Brazil’s Revolution That Was James P. Woodard, Montclair State University

Friend or Foe? US Foreign Aid and United States-Brazilian Relations in the Implementation of the Alliance for Progress Rafael Ioris, Denver University

Comment: Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois University

6. Inka Dynastic Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches (joint with AHA 50) Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Imperial Ballroom A

Chair: Monica Barnes, Cornell University and American Museum of Natural History

The Problem of Inka Sibling Marriage Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Brown University

Competing Wives and Favored Sons: Topa Inca and Complications of Imperial Inca Succession Stella Nair, University of California, Los Angeles

Water and Revolution: The Bolivian Revolution and the Nationalization and Redistribution of Water Resources in the Cochabamba Valley Sarah Thompson Hines, University of California, Berkeley

Fray Diego Ortiz and the Failed Resurrection of Titu Cusi Yupanque Brian Bauer, University of Illinois at Chicago

A New Past for the Old Peruvian Nation: Franklin Pease GY and Inka Ethnohistory Nicanor Jose Domínguez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del

Comment: Monica Barnes, Cornell University and American Museum of Natural History 7. Sport, the City, and the Nation in Latin America, 1930–75 (joint with AHA 49) Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M104

Chair: Rwany Sibaja, Appalachian State University

Gambling Identities at the Race Tracks: Horse Racing in 1930s Buenos Aires, Jewish Argentines, and a Newspaper’s Bet on National Identity Ariel Svarch, Emory University

Una Antorcha De Esperanza: The 1955 Pan-Am Games and a City in Movement David Wysocki, San Diego State University

Colossus in the Brazilian Amazon: The Soccer Stadium, the City, and the Nation in Manaus, 1958–70 Christopher David Brown, Emory University

The King Sport in the Second City: Baseball Industrialization in the Dominican Republic, 1975 April Yoder, University of New Haven

Comment: Joshua Nadel, North Carolina Central University

8. Why Caribbean Women’s History Matters (joint with AHA 32) Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A601

Chair: Eileen J. Findlay, American University

Panel: Michelle Chi Chase, Bloomfield College Joan Victoria Flores-Villalobos, New York University Anne Macpherson, College at Brockport (State University of New York) Tyesha Maddox, New York University

Comment: Michele Johnson, York University

9. Constructing the National: Mexican Society, Politics, and State Projects, 1905–82 Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: José Angel Hernández, University of Houston

Power Lines: Nation, Revolution, and the State in Early Mexican Electrification Jonathan Hill Jr., City University of New York, Graduate Center

They Threaten Us with Death: National Reform, Popular Rebellion, and Regional Politics in Post-Revolutionary Jalisco Ulices Piña, University of California, San Diego

The World’s Biggest Junkyard: Urban Planning and State Building in Post-1968 Tijuana Christian Rocha, University of Chicago

Comment: Matthew Vitz, University of California, San Diego

CLAH General Committee Meeting Thursday, 6:30-8:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom C

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8

CLAH Information Table Friday, 8:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Registration 2

10. “Exceptional” Figures in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin America: Suggestive Protagonists and New Directions for Future Scholarship (joint with AHA 70) Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A602

Chair: E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina Columbia

Apiaguaiqui Tumpa, a Chiriguano Indian Leader from Eastern Bolivia during the Late 19th Century E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, University of South Carolina, Columbia

“Uncivilizable Savages” and “Acculturated” Africans in the National Imagination Yuko Miki, Fordham University

David Pena and the Politics of Universalism in 19th-Century Colombia James Sanders, Utah State University

Cosmopolitan Native? Guillermo Gabb and the Talmancan Indians in Costa Rica, 1890s–1910s Alejandra Boza, University of Costa Rica

Comment: Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11. The Economics of Urban Life in 19th-Century Mexico and Brazil (joint with AHA 73) Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A707

Chair: Edward (Ted) Beatty, University of Notre Dame

The Economics of Everyday Life in 19th-Century Brazil Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois University

The Theater Business and the Local Economy in Mexico City, 1820s–30s Lance R. Ingwersen, Vanderbilt University

Economic Life and Vulgar Justice in Mexico City’s Small Claims Court, 1810s–60s Louise E. Walker, Northeastern University

Comment: Edward (Ted) Beatty, University of Notre Dame

12. Contesting US-Centric Approaches to Inter-American Affairs: Latin American Responses to US Hegemony, 1880–1955 (joint with Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era) Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Regency Ballroom V

Chair: Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Latin America’s Wilsonian Moment and the Birth of the Good Neighbor Policy, 1916–33 Micah Wright, Texas A&M University

“Open Our Eyes ... Defend Ourselves” against “Caribbean Revolutionaries That Are Perfectly Allied”: The Caribbean Basin Anti-Communist Network, 1947–55 Aaron Coy Moulton, University of Arkansas

Anti-interventionism in the Name of the Law: Latin American Anti-imperialisms in the Face of the Modern US and Hemispheric Redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine, 1880– 1930 Juan Pablo Scarfi, University College London, Institute of the Americas

Comment: Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

13. The Contested Politics of Resource Nationalism in Inter-American Relations (joint with Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M106

Chair: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

Cuban Oil Nationalism and the Politics of Revolution in the Greater Caribbean Eric Gettig, Georgetown University

Temptations and Demonstrations: Resource Nationalism and US Responses in 20th- Century Bolivia Kevin Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The 1938 Mexican Oil Expropriation in Latin American Politics and Culture Amelia M. Kiddle, University of Calgary

Comment: Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

14. The Nation/State: Order and Authority in the 19th and 20th Centuries Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Robert H Holden, Old Dominion University

By What Authority? The Quest for Order in Latin America Robert H Holden, Old Dominion University

The Training Program of Brazilian Public Servants in the United States and the Dissemination of Public Management Theories in Brazil, 1938–53 Fernanda Lima Rabelo, Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia Fluminense

“Inexact and Irresponsible Reports”: Newspapers and FDR’s Hemispheric Defense Efforts in Uruguay, 1939–43 Pedro Cameselle, Fordham University

Comment: The Audience

15. Buenos Aires: Consumption, Politics, and Foreigners Friday, 8:30-10:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

A Spanish Merchant’s Challenge: Trade, Credit, and Consumption through Sebastian De Torres’ Books, 1790–1830s Viviana L. Grieco, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Mariquita Sanchez and Juan Manuel de Rosas in the Afterlife Jeffrey M. Shumway, Brigham Young University

The Economics of Shopping: Harrods and Gath y Chaves in Buenos Aires, 1883–1955 Donna Guy, Ohio State University

Buenos Aires: An Interwar City of Anticolonial Activism, 1918–39 Steven Hyland, Wingate University

Comment: Susan M. Socolow, Emory University

16. Epidemics, Medicine, and Society in Modern Latin America (joint with AHA 98) Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A704

Chair: Nicole Pacino, University of Alabama in Huntsville

The Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Origins of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Peru, 1868– 80 Patricia Palma, University of California, Davis

A Grand Crusade! Smallpox Eradication and the Exercise of Political Power in Post- Revolutionary Bolivia Nicole Pacino, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Infecting a Revolutionary Nation: The 1918 “Spanish Flu” Pandemic in Mexico Ryan M. Alexander, Plattsburgh (State University of New York)

When One Eye Costs More Than Two: Ophthalmologists and Ocular Work Accidents in , 1920–30 Rebecca Ann Ellis, University of New Mexico

Comment: Kristen Block, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

17. Migration, Space, and World War II in Latin America (joint with AHA 99) Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Regency Ballroom V

Chair: Barbara Weinstein, New York University

Where Is Afro-Mexico? World War II, Ethnography, and the Legacy of Mexico’s African Slave Population Theodore Cohen, Lindenwood University

Lessons from a Lost Homeland: Chinese Schools in Mexico during the 20th Century Fredy Gonzalez, University of Colorado Boulder

Between Exile and Labor Migration at the Opera House: Uruguay’s Comedia Nacional in the Postwar Era, 1947–58 Daniel Richter, University of Maryland at College Park

Comment: Paulina Laura Alberto, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

18. Markets and Consumerism in the 19th and 20th Centuries Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Andrew Konove, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tráigame El Machete: Popular Consumption, Citizenship, and Culture in Nineteenth- Century Colombia, 1850–1910 Ana María Otero-Cleves, Universidad de los Andes

Two Cities into One: The Baratillo, Tepito, and Urban Renewal in Mexico City, 1900–02 Andrew Konove, University of Texas at San Antonio

Lost in the Supermarket: Architecture, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Cold War Caracas William Demarest, Stony Brook University

Comment: The Audience

19. Transnational Activism in the Western Hemisphere in the 20th Century Friday, 10:30am-12:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas

Pan-American Feminism and the Origins of International Women’s Rights, 1915–46 Katherine Marino, Ohio State University

Anticolonial and Anticommunist Resolutions at the Ninth Pan American Conference Marc Becker, Truman State University

Latin American Solidarity with Puerto Rican Nationalism: A Transnational Expression of Anti-Imperialism, 1920s–1950s Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Comment: Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas

CLAH Luncheon Friday, 12:15-1:45pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 6/7

Presentation of CLAH Prizes and Awards

Remarks by Distinguished Service Award recipient Herbert Klein

20. Everyday Economics: Food, Consumption, and Natural Resource Struggles in 20th-Century Latin America (joint with AHA 118) Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A706

Chair: Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine

Hydraulic Dreams and Delusions: The Social, Political, and Environmental History of the Misicuni Dam Project, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1944–2015 Sarah Thompson Hines, Smith College

Consumption and Modernity in the Cuban Revolution, 1959–62 Michelle Chi Chase, Bloomfield College

A Consumers’ Revolution? Basic Needs and Citizenship on the Chilean Road to Socialism, 1970–73 Joshua Frens-String, New York University

“Rotting Chickens, Spoiled Democracy”: Food, Consumption, and the State during the Argentine Transition to Democracy, 1985–91 Jennifer Adair, Fairfield University

Comment: Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine

21. Medical Ethics in 20th-Century Latin America: Human Subject Experimentation, Forced Sterilization, and Cold War Torture (joint with AHA 125) Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M301

Chair: Raquel Padilla Ramos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sonora

Diagnosis “Suspicious of Yellow Fever”: Yaquis among Medical Doctors and Health Authorities in Yucatan, 1900–11 Raquel Padilla Ramos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sonora

Dr. “X” Speaks: Contentious Surgeries and Patient Rights in Mexico City, 1928–36 Elizabeth O'Brien, University of Texas at Austin

Locating the “Pure Indian”: Blood, Eugenics, and Medical Ethics in the USPHS Syphilis Experiments in Guatemala Lydia Crafts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professionals of Health, Experts of Pain: Doctors and Repression under Military Brazil Eyal Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Ann Zulawski, Smith College

22. “Bárbaros” in the Archive: Sources and Methods for the Study of Autonomous Indigenous Peoples in (joint with AHA 120) Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M302

Chair: Amy Turner Bushnell, John Carter Brown Library

Beyond the Archival Gaze: Geographical Imaginations and Ethnohistory in the Río de la Plata Jeffrey Erbig Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Secretaría of Mariluán: Mapuche Writing and Power in ’s War to the Death Jesse Zarley, University of Maryland at College Park

Representing Indigenous Power: Colonial Brazilian Sources on the Mbayá-Guaikurú Heather Flynn Roller, Colgate University

Comment: Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University

23. Commemoration and Memorialization: Informal, Popular, and Vernacular Memory in 20th-Century Latin America Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Jennifer L. Schaefer, Emory University

Musicians and Collective Memory in Northeast Brazil, 1938 Micah Oelze, Florida International University

Soldiers against the Army: Collective Memory and Critical Narratives of World War II in Brazil Uri Rosenheck, Coastal Carolina University

Sacrifice and Martyrdom: Commemoration and Protest in Córdoba, Argentina, 1966 Jennifer L. Schaefer, Emory University

Graphic Battles: Contests over History and Politics in Non-state Comic Books, 1970– 2000 Melanie Huska, Tulane University

Comment: Lisa Munro, Independent Scholar

24. Culture, Politics, and the State during Colombia’s República Liberal, 1930–46 Friday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Abel Ricardo Lopez, Western Washington University

The Spanish Civil War and the Performance of Politics in Colombia, 1936–49 Thomas J. Williford, Southwest Minnesota State University

Hygiene Campaigns as Cultural Politics in Colombia, 1930–46 Catalina Muñoz, Universidad de los Andes

Planning Garden Villages in the Colombian Highlands: Credit Democratization and Rural Housing during the Liberal Republic, 1930–46 Susana Romero, Cornell University

Jorge Zalamea, the “Department of Nariño,” and Adventures in the Colombian Countryside Rebecca Anne Tally, Cornell University

Comment: Abel Ricardo Lopez, Western Washington University

Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: New Perspectives on the Study of Indigenous Intellectuals in Mexico: Colonial Period to the Present Friday, 5:00-6:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 1

Chair: John F. Chuchiak, Missouri State University

“Indian Ambassadors” in the Mexican Enlightenment Peter B. Villella, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Bridging Jurisdictions: Translators and Legal Agents in Colonial Oaxaca Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University

Between Permanence and Change: Nahua Intellectuals in Early 19th-Century Mexico City, 1821–40 Argelia Segovia Liga, Ozarks Technical Community College

Colonial Maya Intellectuals and Their Religious Texts Mark Zinn Christensen, Assumption College

Comment: Mark Lentz, Utah Valley University

Borderlands and Frontiers Studies Committee Meeting: Frontiers of Borderlands History: Gender, Nation, and Empire Friday, 5:00-6:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 7

Chair: Elliott Young, Lewis and Clark College

Speaker(s): Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez, University of Texas at San Antonio Sonia Hernandez, Texas A&M University Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho, Sarah Lawrence College Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago

Andean Studies Committee Meeting: The Expanded Andes Friday, 5:00-6:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Brown University

Speaker(s): Nancy P. Appelbaum, Binghamton University (State University of New York) Santiago Muñoz Arbelaez, Yale University Cristina Soriano, Villanova University

Comment: Peter Winn, Tufts University

The Americas Editorial Board Meeting Friday, 5:00-6:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom C

Inaugural Atlantic World Studies Committee Meeting: Making Connections: Latin America and the Atlantic World Friday, 5:00-6:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Ballroom B

Chair: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

Mapping the Atlantic World in the 16th Century Alida Metcalf, Rice University

Atlantic Africans in Buenos Aires, 1580–1640 Kara Schultz, Vanderbilt University

Latin America and the Foundations of African History Herman Bennett, City University of New York, Graduate Center

The Emergence of Montevideo as a Hot Spot of Atlantic Commerce: Transimperial Networks and Regional Politics in Rio De La Plata, 1776–1808 Fabricio Prado, College of William and Mary

Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: New Research on the Early Spanish Caribbean Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 1

Chair: Heather Kopelson, University of Alabama

Speaker(s): Ida Altman, University of Florida Molly A. Warsh, Omohundro Institute David Wheat, Michigan State University Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Global Ports: Mobilities, Information, and Local Exchanges in the Spanish Caribbean, 1700–1898 Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 7

Chair: Cristina Soriano, Villanova University

War, Trade, and Slavery in 18th-Century Havana Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley

Between Illicit and Imperfect Solutions: The Battle for Commercial Control of Caracas/La Guaira, 1728–84 Jesse Cromwell, University of Mississippi

Sabanilla: A Hidden Port in a Trans-imperial Greater Caribbean Ernesto Bassi, Cornell University

“Bride of the Atlantic”: Puerto Plata and Pan-Caribbean Revolt Anne Eller, Yale University

Comment: Ada Ferrer, New York University

Central American Studies Committee Meeting: Colonialism and Its Legacies in Central America Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Owen H. Jones, Valdosta State University

Anglo Imperialism and Central American Identities Doug Tompson, Columbus State University

Still Forgotten? Reflections on Central America in the 17th Century Stephen Webre, Louisiana Tech University

“Black Dogs and Serpents”: The Genesis and Persistence of Racialized Autocratic Power in Guatemala Robinson Herrera, Florida State University Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Teaching and the Idea of Latin America Friday, 7:00-8:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Anna Alexander, Georgia Southern University

Speaker(s): Michel Gobat, University of Iowa José C. Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University Laura M. Shelton, Franklin and Marshall College J.T. Way, Georgia State University

Comment: The Audience

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9

CLAH Information Table Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis. Marquis Registration 2

25. Imperial Reform in an Age of Globalization: Iberian Empires, Enlightenment, and Commercial Society, Part 1: Commercial Society and Iberian Empires (joint with AHA 163) Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M106

Chair: Jesus Bohorquez, European University Institute

Creole Politics and Bourbon Global Monarchy during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–14 Aaron Alejandro Olivas, Texas A&M International University

The Debate over the Establishment of a Trading Company for Buenos Aires: Protectionism, Contraband, and Free Trade through the Case of Domingo Marcoleta, c. 1745–50 Álvaro Caso-Bello, Johns Hopkins University

The Spanish Theory of Commercial Empire, c. 1740–65 Fidel J. Tavarez, Princeton University

Pombal and “Enlightened” Commerce: The Portuguese Estado Da Índia in the 18th Century Noelle Richardson, European University Institute

Comment: The Audience

26. Forging a Latin American Identity in 1960s Argentine Popular Culture (joint with AHA 146) Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A707

Chair: Oscar Chamosa, University of Georgia

Todas Las Voces: Latin America in the Political Imaginary of the Nuevo Cancionero Movement, Argentina 1962–70 Oscar Chamosa, University of Georgia

Fraternally Americans: The New Solidarity Movement and the Rise of a Counterculture in the Early 1960s Valeria Manzano, Universidad de San Martín

The Sound of Latin America: Sandro and the Invention of Latin Pop Matthew B. Karush, George Mason University

Reimagining Argentine Fútbol in the Age of Pelé Rwany Sibaja, Appalachian State University

Comment: Jessica Stites Mor, University of British Columbia at Okanagan

27. New Approaches to Inter-American Defense, 1940–70 (joint with AHA 156) Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Hilton Atlanta, Room 311/312

Chair: Kyle Longley, Arizona State University

“Preventative Medicine”: US Counterinsurgency Policy in Bolivia Prior to the Arrival of Ernesto “Che” Guevara Thomas C. Field, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Modernizing Defenses: The Inter-American Aviation Training Program and World War II Juile Irene Prieto, Stanford University

From Worries to Wants: Inter-American Defense’s Impact on Travel Between Mexico and the United States Jon Middaugh, US Army Center of Military History

Comment: Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University

28. State Medical Projects and Popular Reactions in Modern Latin America (joint with AHA 152) Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A706

Chair: Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington Seattle

Bargaining with the State: Liberal Redemption and the Politics of Social Inclusion in Cali, Colombia, 1930–40 Hanni Jalil Paier, Universidad Icesi Appropriating Foreign Assistance for Political Gains: Public Health in the Dominican Republic, 1945–55 Neici M. Zeller, William Paterson University

Science, Professional Training, and Public Health: The Sanitation of the Medical Profession in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920–34 Jethro Hernandez Berrones, Southwestern University

What Is Social Medicine? A Chilean Experience of Medicine and Politics Beatriz Carrillo, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington Seattle

29. The 20th-Century State: Projects, Personalism, and Identity Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: John R. Bawden, University of Montevallo

Memory Frameworks in Chile’s Armed Forces, 1930–90 John R. Bawden, University of Montevallo

Grassroots Resistance against Anti-Haitianism during the Trujillo Regime Amelia Hintzen, University of Miami

The Threat of Male Vagrancy: Reforming Cuban Men through Manual Labor, 1959–65 Rachel Hynson, Dartmouth College

Comment: The Audience

30. Indigenous Communities Confront Modernity and Identity Saturday, 9:00-11:00am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Bonar Hernández, Iowa State University

The Nobility of the Soul: Multiethnic Sanctity in the Early Modern Spanish World Jason Dyck, University of Toronto

Sweetness and Water Power: El SICAE Sugar Cooperative and the Fracturing of Mayo Communities, 1938–55 James Mestaz, University of Illinois at Chicago

Unanticipated Paths: Lived Religion and Rural Development in Guatemala during the Cold War Bonar Hernández, Iowa State University

Comment: The Audience

31. Caribbean Nationalisms and Community Formation: Violence, Memory, and the Politics of Boundary-Making in Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad (joint with AHA 183) Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A706

Chair: Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles

Panel: Ramaesh J. Bhagirat, University of Chicago Winter Schneider, University of California, Los Angeles Vikram Tamboli, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Comment: Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles

32. Postcolonial Shadings: A Roundtable Discussion of Barbara Weinstein’s The Color of Modernity: Making Race and Nation in Modern Brazil (joint with AHA 176) Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A602

Chair: James P. Woodard, Montclair State University

Panel: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Binghamton University (State University of New York) Florencia E. Mallon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Maria Lígia Coelho Prado, University of Sao Paulo Mary Kay Vaughan, University of Maryland at College Park Barbara Weinstein, New York University

33. Reimagining Latino Geographies: Historicizing Midwest and Southern (Im)Migration (joint with AHA 182) Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Hilton Atlanta, Room 311/312

Chair: Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University

Becoming Pedro: Racial Play at South of the Border, 1950–61 Cecilia Marquez, University of Virginia

Negotiating Latinidad: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1950–72 Delia Fernandez, Ohio State University

Food, Culture, and Belonging in Mexican Chicago Michael Innis-Jimenez, University of Alabama

Comment: Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University

34. Imperial Reform in an Age of Globalization: Iberian Empires, Enlightenment, and Commercial Society, Part 2: The Enlightenment Contexts of Iberian Empires (joint with AHA 191) Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M106

Chair: Aaron Alejandro Olivas, Texas A&M International University

Enlightened Reform at the Hualgayoc Silver Mine in Trujillo, Peru Emily K. Berquist Soule, California State University, Long Beach

South-South Connections: “Chindia,” Enlightenment, and Agricultural Improvement in the Portuguese Empire, 1780–1820 Jesus Bohorquez, European University Institute

Inventing the Coffeehouse as the Emblem of Enlightenment in Spain and Peru at the End of the 18th Century Susy M. Sanchez Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame

Comment: The Audience

35. Grassroots Organization and Social Mobilization in Latin America: New Perspectives on Civil Society, Identity, and Power Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Heather A. Vrana, Southern Connecticut State University

The State and the Shantytown: Comparing Informal Urban Settlement Policies in 20th-Century Mexico and Colombia Joseph Umberto Lenti, Eastern Washington University

“La Invasión de Las Sectas”: Progressive Catholicism and Protestant Competition in Southern Mexico Kathleen M. McIntyre, Clarion University

Complicating the 1960s: Sandinistas, Christian Democrats, and the Decline of Student Political Activism in 1960s Nicaragua Claudia Rueda, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi

“Here, We Pay Everything”: Student Activism and Catholic Universities in Brazil, 1968–81 Colin Snider, University of Texas at Tyler

Anti-dictator Activism: Uruguayan University Students and Transnational Student Networks in the Early Cold War Megan Strom, University of California, San Diego

36. Race in the Colonial and National Periods Saturday, 11:30am-1:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

Chair: Mariana L. Dantas, Ohio University

Patriarchy, Honor, and Race in Colonial Brazilian Guardianship Cases Mariana L. Dantas, Ohio University

Callejones of Lima: Race, Class, and Gender in Postabolition Peru Dan Cozart, University of New Mexico

Modeling Racial Democracy: Beauty Pageants and Racial Discourse in Brazil, 1963–70 Shawn Moura, University of Maryland at College Park

Comment: The Audience

37. Grounding Transnational History: Place-Based Approaches to Connections and Borders (joint with AHA 201) Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A601

Chair: Michele Mitchell, New York University

Immobilizing Migrants: McNeil Island Prison and Transnational Policing Elliott Young, Lewis and Clark College

The World in One Hot Sweaty Place: Migration, Family, and Global Transformation as Seen from Carúpano, Venezuela, 1860–1940 Lara E. Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

Peripheral Landscapes on the Borders of Empire, Nation-State, and Extractivism: Colombia’s Wild Northeast Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University

“Bringing the World to Los Angeles”: The Transnational Track and Field Scene at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1932–84 Frank Guridy, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Michele Mitchell, New York University

38. Power and Authority: The Subaltern Sectors and the Elites in Colonial Andes (joint with AHA 205) Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room M106

Chair: Victor Maqque, University of Notre Dame

The Other Side of Corruption: Prisoners’ Agency in the Cells of the Lima Inquisition, 1600s Ana E. Schaposchnik, DePaul University

Justice from Below: Popular Ideas of Justice and Good Government in 16th-Century Andes Renzo Honores, High Point University

Authorship out of Turmoil: The Case of a Cacica from Pomata Angelica Serna, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

En Mi Voz y de Todo el Comun: The Politics of Community Representation in Late Colonial Altiplano Victor Maqque, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University at Newark

39. Reframing Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring” (joint with AHA 209) Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A703

Chair: Jim R. Handy, University of Saskatchewan

Fighting the “Insatiable Octopus”: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Enclave, 1944–54 Ingrid Castaneda, Yale University

Rethinking Periodization and Representation in Guatemala’s Democratic Experiment David Carey Jr., Loyola University Maryland

Between World War II and the Cold War: The Affective Politics of Guatemala’s Agrarian Reform in Alta Verapaz Julie Gibbings, University of Manitoba

Comment: Michel Gobat, University of Iowa

40. The Year of Interventions: The United States in the Caribbean Basin in 1916 (joint with AHA 216) Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A602

Chair: Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

US Intervention in Mexico and the Nationalist Turn of the Revolution, 1914–17 Jürgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Reassessing the “Banditry Problem" Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles

Resistance to Occupations in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma

Interventions and the Mexican Revolution Monica Rankin, University of Texas at Dallas

The Wreck of the USS Memphis Eric Paul Roorda, Bellarmine University

41. Child Labor in the History of Latin America (joint Labor and Working Class History Association) Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A707

Chair: Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, University of Kansas

Neither Enslaved nor Adopted: Criados and Child Labor in Colonial Yucatan Mark W. Lentz, Utah Valley University

Working Childhoods Remembered Ann S. Blum, University of Massachusetts Boston

Children’s Labor and Social Mobility among Family Farmers in Brazil, 1872–1920 Mary Ann Mahony, Central Connecticut State University

Children in Crisis: Labor, Transition, and the Reinvention of Inequality Nicolette Kostiw, Vanderbilt University

Comment: Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego

42. Engineering Society and the Environment: Perspectives from Above and Below Saturday, 2:30-4:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Lisa Munro, Independent Scholar

Gendering the Guatemalan Revolution: Ladinas and the Second Revolution, 1944–54 Patricia F. Harms, Brandon University

The Long Agrarian Reform: The Social and Environmental Consequences of Agrarian Development Policy in Guatemala, 1944–60 Patrick Chassé, University of Saskatchewan

A Social Education: Contesting Campesino Citizenship in the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–54 J.T. Way, Georgia State University

The Indian Question at Liberty’s Limits Heather A. Vrana, Southern Connecticut State University

Comment: Raymond Craib, Cornell University

Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Gran Colombia before the Gran Colombia Saturday, 5:30-7:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom 1

Chair: Ernesto Bassi, Cornell University

Conquistadors, Miners, and Slaves: Populating and Settling Welser Venezuela in the 16th Century Spencer Tyce, Ohio State University

The Inquisition, Secular Courts, and Black Ritual Practitioners in 18th-Century New Granada Bethan Fisk, University of Toronto Scarborough

The Political Culture of Free People of African Descent in 18th-Century Colombia Katherine Bonil Gómez, Johns Hopkins University

Imagining Unity: The Political Economy of Space Production and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada María José Afanador-Llach, University of Texas at Austin

Comment: Marcela Echeverri, Yale University

Chile-Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: Long Term Dynamics in the Making of the State in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1500s–1900s Saturday, 5:30-7:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Michael Huner, Grand Valley State University

Speaker(s): Edward L. Murphy, Michigan State University Jody Pavilack, University of Montana Jeffrey M. Shumway, Brigham Young University Shawn Michael Austin, University of Arkansas

Comment: Michael Huner, Grand Valley State University

Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Race and Radical Politics: New Directions from Brazil Saturday, 5:30-7:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom C

Chair: Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker(s): Courtney J. Campbell, Tougaloo College Gregory Childs, Brandeis University Jessica Graham, University of California, San Diego Aruã Lima, Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting Saturday, 5:30-7:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom B

CLAH Cocktail Reception Saturday, 7:00-9:00pm, Atlanta Marquis, Room A601

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10

43. Civil Wars, National Imaginings, and the State in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective (joint with AHA 229) Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A602

Chair: Nils P. Jacobsen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Possibilities of War: Montoneras and Guerrillas as Expressions of Political Mobilization during the War of Independence of Perú, 1820–22 Silvia Veronica Escanilla Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Longue Durée and Revolutionary Act: Forms and Etiologies of Violence in the Peruvian Civil War of 1894–95 Nils P. Jacobsen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A Return without Memory: The Political History of Peru through Its Civil Wars, from the Shining Path to Tupac Amaru Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi, University of California, Santa Barbara

Civil Wars in 1948: State Formation and National Imaginings in Costa Rica and Colombia Brett Troyan, State University of New York at Cortland

Comment: Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick

44. Families and Communities in the Early Modern Atlantic Empires (joint with AHA 242) Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A704

Chair: Kristen Block, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Orphans and Foundlings in the Data Regime of Late Colonial New Spain Norah Andrews, Northern Arizona University

“Common in All Goods”: White Women and Property in Saint-Domingue Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia

Family, Politics, and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution Robert Taber, University of Florida

Aging and Antislavery: Old Slaves and Questions of Family in the Anglo-Atlantic Abolition Movement Daniel Livesay, Claremont McKenna College

Comment: Bianca Premo, Florida International University

45. Tourism and Sport in the 20th Century Sunday, 8:30-10:30am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Thomas Brinkerhoff, University of Pennsylvania

Pioneering Paradise: Race, Gender, and American Culture in Cancún and the Rise of Mexico’s Tourism Industry, 1970–2000 Tracy Butler, University of Houston

Moving Landscapes: Travel and Railroad Press in Chile, 1934–46 Maria de los Angeles Picone, Emory University

Contested Playing Fields: The Campeonatos Evita, , and the Construction of Citizenship through Children’s Sports in Mid-20th-Century Argentina Thomas Brinkerhoff, University of Pennsylvania

Comment: The Audience

46. Engendering Landscapes, Creating Citizens: Colonization and Resettlement in the Mid-20th-Century Tropical World: Examples from Latin America and Africa (joint with AHA 259) Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A602

Chair: William French, University of British Columbia

A Land without Men for Men without Land: How the Nuclear Family Reshaped 20th-Century Amazonia Tucker Sharon, University of British Columbia

Engendering Villagization: Women, Kinship Networks, and Citizenship in Socialist Lindi, Tanzania Husseina Dinani, University of Georgia

Abandonment Issues: Honor, Hope, and Failure in the Colonization of the Bolivian Lowlands, 1952–68 Benjamin Nobbs-Thiessen, Emory University

Displacement or Colonization? Hydraulic Development and Resettlement in the Mexican Tropics Diana Schwartz, University of Chicago

Comment: William French, University of British Columbia 47. New Findings in North American Drug History: Mexico, the United States, and the Wider World, 1890–1980 (joint with AHA 273) Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A707

Chair: Alex Aviña, Florida State University

Rediscovering Peyote at the Turn of the 20th Century Alexander S. Dawson, Simon Fraser University

US Imperialism and Mexican Drug Policy, 1912–25: A Reassessment Isaac Campos, University of Cincinnati

Negotiating Nature and Environmentalism: Drug Control, Herbicides, and Extraterritoriality in US-Mexican Relations Daniel Weimer, Wheeling Jesuit University

Comment: Alex Aviña, Florida State University

48. Paradise Is a Faraway Land: Racial Representation, Hierarchy, and Conflicts in 20th-Century Brazil (joint with AHA 269) Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A703

Chair: Elaine P. Rocha, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill

Panel: Nielson Bezerra, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro Luciana Brito, Universidade de São Paulo Ygor Rocha Cavalcante, Instituto Federal de Educacao, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Amazonas

Comment: Amilcar Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

49. Remapping Cuban Political Histories: Personal Connections and Global Implications (joint with AHA 261) Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Room A704

Chair: Kirsten Weld, Harvard University

Remapping Cuban Political Imaginaries in the Age of Caribbean Insurgency Frances Peace Sullivan, Harvard University

There Is No Barrier That Can Contain It: Cuban Revolutionary Hope and Transnational Activism from the Anti-Machado Struggle to the Spanish Civil War Ariel Mae Lambe, University of Connecticut

Coordinating Movements: The Politics of Dance Exchanges between Mexico and Cuba, 1959–75 Elizabeth Schwall, Columbia University

Comment: Kirsten Weld, Harvard University

50. Cleaning up the Neighborhood: State Formation and the Ambiguous Politics of Anticommunism in Cold War Mexico Sunday, 11:00am-1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, International Ballroom A

Chair: Jaime Pensado, University of Notre Dame

“A Terrorist Plot”: Anticommunism, the Transnational Right, and the Production of State Legitimacy in 1960s Mexico Luis Alberto Herran Avila, New School for Social Research

Assassins or Asilados? Anticommunism and the Politics of Asylum in Cold War Mexico: The Case of Jaime Rosenberg and Rogelio Cruz Wer Ashley Black, Stony Brook University

Anticommunism and Its Violence(s) during Puebla's “Long Cold War” Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Comment: Barry Carr, La Trobe University