THE CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY in affiliation with The American Historical Association
Program of CLAH Activities and Latin American Sessions 2019 Annual Meeting Chicago, IL. January 3-6 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
General Committee Meeting: Thursday, January 3, 2019: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Palmer House Hilton, Burnham 1
CLAH Luncheon: Friday, January 4, 2019: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Palmer House Hilton, Monroe Room
CLAH Cocktail Reception: Saturday, January 5, 2019: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
CLAH OFFICERS Executive Committee: President: Lara Putnam Vice President: Bianca Premo Past President: Jerry Dávila Executive Secretaries: Jurgen Buchenau and Erika Edwards
General Committee: Elected Members: Lillian Guerra (2017-2018) Matthew O’Hara (2017-2018) Sarah Cline (2018-2019) Tatiana Seijas (2018-2019)
Ex-Officio Members: HAHR Editors: Martha Few Matthew Restall Amara Solari Zachary Morgan
The Americas Editor: Ben Vinson III
H-LatAm Editor: John F. Schwaller
2019 Program Committee: Monica Rankin, Chair Rachel O’Toole, 2020 chair Michael Huner
CLAH Information Table Thursday, January 3, 2019: 12:30 PM-5:00 PM Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30-11:30 AM Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:00-11:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor, near Salon 1
Thursday, January 3 CLAH Information Table Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
1. Rethinking Freedom and Manumission in Latin America and the Atlantic World (joint session with AHA # 20)
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
Chair: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
Papers:
Affective Debts: Manumission by Grace and the Making of Gradual Emancipation Laws in Cuba, 1820s–60s Adriana Chira, Emory University
Slavery, Freedom, and Intimate Obedience in Colonial Peru Rachel O'Toole, University of California, Irvine
Maritime Marronage, Portuguese Imperial Law, and the Atlantic Praxis of Freedom Mary Hicks, Amherst College
Manumission and Exile in the Luso-Brazilian Atlantic World John Marquez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Sherwin K. Bryant, Northwestern University
2. Rebellion as Revolution: Slave Uprisings in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Erica Johnson, Francis Marion University
Papers:
French Revolutionary Colonial Mobilization and the Making of the Haitian Revolution Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri
Slaves and Caudillos in Venezuela’s Independence War, 1810–30 Frédéric Spillermaeker, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Slave Rebellion and Sacred Property: Baptist Mission Building and the Formation of a Modern Slave Political Personality Chris Todd, University of Chicago
Cuba's La Escalera Conspiracy and British Ideological Expansionism Lewis Eliot, University of South Carolina
Comment: The Audience
3. Making the Invisible Visible in Latin American History
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Arlene J. Diaz, Indiana University
Papers:
The Invisible War: Spies and War Correspondents in the Making of the Spanish-Cuban-American War and the American Empire, 1895–98 Arlene J. Diaz, Indiana University
Afro-Peruvian Invisibility in the Historical Record: 20th-Century Censuses, Mestizaje, and Demographic Decline Dan Cozart, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Ideal Peasant: Photography of the Agrarian Reform in 1960s Colombia Juanita Rodriguez, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Laundry and Theory: Interdisciplinary Implications for the History of Laundry in Mexico City Marie E. Francois, California State University, Channel Islands
Comment: The Audience
4. Commodities, Environment and Space in Latin America
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: James Mestaz, Claremont McKenna College
Papers:
From Our River to Theirs: The Effects of Hydrological Development on Mayo Villages, 1955–70 James Mestaz, Claremont McKenna College
Centro Comercial San Diego: Urban Space and the Cultural Politics of Medellín, Colombia's First Mall, 1970–74 William Demarest, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Green Stain: The Rise of Anti-cocaism in Bolivia in the Wake of the Chaco War, 1936–52 Andrew Ehrinpreis, State University of New York at Stony Brook
“More Brazilian Than Cachaça”: Brazilian Sugar-Based Ethanol Development Jennifer Eaglin, Ohio State University
Comment: The Audience
5. Black Auto/Biography and History's Biographical Turn (joint session with AHA #35)
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room
Chair: William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Papers:
Afrocuban Autobiography and the Cuban National Narrative Mark A. Sanders, University of Notre Dame
Inscribing Equality: Caribbean Voices in the Age of Revolution Michele Reid-Vazquez, University of Pittsburgh
Promised Freedom: A Global Biography in a 17th-Century Lawsuit Norah L. A. Gharala, Georgian Court University
Comment: Mariana L. Dantas, Ohio University
6. Mining (in) the Archive: New Approaches to the History of Mining in Colonial Latin America (joint session with AHA #36)
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Spire Parlor
Chair: Mark Dries, University of California, Davis
Papers:
Invisible Miners in a Mountain of Mercury: Power and Local Archives in Colonial Huancavelica, Peru Mark Dries, University of California, Davis
The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining Allison Margaret Bigelow, University of Virginia
Looking for a New Potosí: Silver beyond the Cerro Rico in the 17th Century Kris E. Lane, Tulane University
The Mapping of Potosi's Cerro Rico in the 17th and 18th Centuries Heidi Scott, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Comment: Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
7. Beyond Loyalty: Neutrals, Neutrality, and Zones of Occupation in the 18th-Century Atlantic
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Jesse Cromwell, University of Mississippi
Papers:
Neutral Trade in the Early 18th-Century Spanish Atlantic: The "Friendship and Union" of Spain and France? Frances L. Ramos, University of South Florida
Zones of Occupation: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Caribbean during the Seven Years' War Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
Neutral Trade and Neutrality in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Portuguese and United States Merchants in the South Atlantic Fabricio Prado, College of William and Mary
The Trade That Sustained Empire: Neutral Commerce and Loyalties during the Age of Revolutions, Venezuela, 1797-1823 Edward Pompeian, University of Tampa
Comment: Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University
8. Histories of Education beyond the State in Latin America
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Solsiree del Moral, Amherst College
Papers:
The Transnational Politics of Mexican Student Migration, 1910–40 Rachel Grace Newman, Columbia University
“Subordinated to the Immediate Demands of Capitalism”: Private Universities, Educational Expansion, and Social Mobilization in Brazil, 1968–99 Colin Snider, University of Texas at Tyler
La instrucción y las entrañas del Monstruo: Black Cubans’ experiences with African American educational strategies Raquel Otheguy, Bronx Community College (CUNY)
Comment: Solsiree del Moral, Amherst College
9. Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of Winnipeg
Papers:
Becoming "Jewish": The Development of an Anti-Portuguese Stereotype in Colonial Spanish America Brian Hamm, University of Central Florida
Antonio Vieira, the Jews, and the Portuguese Empire: Cultural Common Grounds and Royal Practicality in Post-1640 Portugal Oren Okhovat, University of Florida
"This Damned Place!" The Portuguese Atlantic World and the English Experience in Lisbon, 1668–1750 Cacey Farnsworth, University of Florida
Comment: Bill M. Donovan, Bellarmine University
10. CLAH General Committee Meeting
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Burnham 1
Friday, January 4
CLAH Information Table Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor, near Salon 1
11. Loyalties and Disloyalties: Communist Parties and Members from the Americas to the World (joint session with AHA #54)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Marc Becker, Truman State College
Papers:
Afro-Caribbean Migrants, the Labor Movement, and Communists in the Greater Caribbean, 1900–30 Jacob Zumoff, New Jersey City University
Semi-Colonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1928–35 Tony Wood, New York University
Loyalty Among Comrades: Relations between the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Puerto Rico Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Relations between Latin American Communists and Their European and Chinese Comrades Marc Becker, Truman State University
Comment: The Audience
12. Health, Social Welfare, and Citizenship in the Americas, Part 1 (joint session with the AHA #57)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 12
Chair: Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan
Papers:
A Threat to the Nation: Migrant Farmworkers, Public Health, and US Medical Racialization during the New Deal Veronica Martinez-Matsuda, Cornell University
Healing the City: Popular Notions of Health and Citizenship Rights in São Paulo, 1976–90 Daniel Lee McDonald, Brown University
Genetics, Human Rights, and Transitional Justice: The Origins of DNA Identification Technologies in Post-dictatorial Argentina in the 1980s Alexandra Stern, University of Michigan
Comment: The Audience
13. How to Publish an Article on Latin American History: Talk to the Editors
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Matthew Restall, Penn State University
Papers:
Publishing in The Americas Ben Vinson III, Case Western Reserve University
Publishing in the Hispanic American Historical Review Martha Few, Penn State University
Publishing in the Colonial Latin American Review Kris E. Lane, Tulane University
Publishing in Ethnohistory John Schwaller, State University of New York, University at Albany
Comment: The Audience
14. Legal History, Capitalism, and Economic Life: New Research from Mexico
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Louise E. Walker, Northeastern University
Papers:
Was Spanish Law the Problem? Mining Legislation and Economic Development in Colonial Mexico Christopher Albi, State University of New York at New Paltz
Lay Magistrates and the Administration of Justice in Mexico City, 1840s–50s Timothy MacDowell James, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Economic Trouble: Mexico City's Small Claims Court, 1813–63 Louise E. Walker, Northeastern University
Comment: Silvia M. Arrom, Brandeis University
15. Loyalty and Disloyalty to the Nation: Identity, Migration, and Race in Latin America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Papers:
Challenging the Nation: African Political Identity in 20th-Century Cuba Dalia A. Muller, State University of New York at Buffalo
The Colonial Politic in State Building: The Racial Imaginations of Chile’s Agency of Colonization, Paris, 1882–95 Romina Akemi Green Rioja, University of California, Irvine
Revolutionary Encounters: Race, Class, and Allegiance in Post-revolutionary Mexico and Republican Spain, 1931–39 Kevan Antonio Aguilar, University of California, San Diego
Comment: Karin A. Rosemblatt, University of Maryland, College Park
16. Beyond Presencia: Afromexican History and the Biographical Turn (joint session with AHA #81)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 6
Chair: Ben Vinson III, Case Western Reserve University
Panel:
Joseph Michael Hopper Clark, University of Kentucky
Norah L. A. Gharala, Georgian Court University
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Oberlin College
Comment: The Audience
17. Indigenous Perspectives on the Natural World: Intersections between Ethnohistory and Environmental History in Early Colonial Mesoamerica (joint session #85)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 7
Chair: Molly A. Warsh, University of Pittsburgh
Papers:
Crossing the Lake, Crossing the Sea: Water in K'iche'an Maya Ethnohistorical Sources Mallory Matsumoto, Brown University
A Mountain of Fire, or a Mountain of Water? Late 16th-Century Land Conflicts Relating to the Popocatepetl Volcano Megan McDonie, Penn State University
Managing the Herd: Human-Animal Relationships and Nahuas in 16th-Century New Spain Christopher Valesey, Penn State University
El Libro de Los Difuntos: Recording Death during the Epidemic of 1634 in Huexotzinco Tara Malanga, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Comment: Molly A. Warsh, University of Pittsburgh
18. New Perspectives on Latin American Labor History
Friday 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Marc Becker, Truman State University
Papers:
Domesticating Labor: Discourses of Home, Family, and Work in Ecuadorian Labor Journals Erin E. O'Connor, Bridgewater State University
Unapologetically Black: Challenging Racial Silencing in Puerto Rican Labor History Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, University of Connecticut at Storrs
Violence, Labor Discipline, and Racialization: An Exploration of the Brutalization of British Caribbean Migrant Workers in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands Nicola Claire Foote, Florida Gulf Coast University
Debates about Class and Race: Tracing Chilean-Peruvian Conversations about the “Indigenous Worker” through International Conferences and Magazines, 1900–50 Joanna Crow, University of Bristol
Comment: The Audience
19. Scandalous Soundbites: Journalism and Media Archives in 20th-Century Latin America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Robert Buffington, University of Colorado Boulder
Papers:
Mountains of Immorality and Molehills of Corruption: Managing Scandal and the Rise of Evangelical Christianity in 20th-Century Brazil Benjamin A. Cowan, University of California, San Diego
The Archive of Scandal: "El Negro" Durazo and the Corruption in Mexico City's Police Department Vanessa Freije, University of Washington
We Must End Tolerance Here: Miguel Aroche Parra, Scandalous Media Homophobia, and Archiving Intolerance in the 1980s Mexican Left Robert Franco, Duke University
Public Violence in Three Latin American Silent Films: Spectacle, Scandal, and the Limits of Representation Rielle Navitski, University of Georgia
Comment: The Audience
20. Scandalous Soundbites: Journalism and Media Archives in 20th-Century Latin America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Daniel Rodriguez, Brown University
Papers:
The Right to Live in Health: Medical Nationalism, Race, and Poverty in Post-independence Havana, Cuba Daniel Rodriguez, Brown University
Need and Relational Power in Post-abolition Recife Brodwyn M. Fischer, University of Chicago
The Mutualist Moment: Heath and Ethnicity in Buenos Aires, 1910–55 Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia
Comment: The Audience
CLAH Luncheon
Friday, January 4, 2019: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Monroe Room
21. Beyond the Veil of Planter Power: Conjuring Loyalties in the Colonial Caribbean (joint session with AHA #109)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Spire Parlor
Chair: Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
Assault Sorcery and Slavery: Indigenous and African Clandestine Knowledge and Practice in the Essequibo during the 18th Century Vikram Tamboli, University of London
The Power of Knowledge: Kongo Kindoki, Haitian Vodou, and the Haitian Revolution Christina Mobley, University of Virginia
From Cemis and Zonbi to Mama Juana: Indigenous Traces in Popular Sorcery in Hispaniola Lauren (Robin) Derby, University of California, Los Angeles
Comment: James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin–Madison
22. Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance across the Americas, Part 1: Part 1 (joint session with the AHA #119)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
Chair: Mariana L. Dantas, Ohio University
Panel:
Ana Diaz Burgos, Oberlin College
Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton
Sasha Turner, Quinnipiac University
Sharon E. Wood, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Comment: Jessica Marie Johnson, University of Maryland, College Park
23. Women Claiming Freedom: Slavery, Race, and Resistance across the Americas, Part 2: Part 2 (Joint session with AHA #142)
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
Chair: Alice Baumgartner, Yale University
Panel:
Cathleen D. Cahill, Penn State University
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Norfolk State University
Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University
Wendy Warren, Princeton University
Comment: Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
24. Future Destinations: New Perspectives on the History of Tourism to and from Latin America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Lisa Covert, College of Charleston
Speaker(s):
Julio Capó Jr., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Mark Rice, Baruch College, City University of New York
Blake Scott, College of Charleston
Comment: Lisa Covert, College of Charleston
25. Building Loyalties and Creating National Identity in Argentina and Uruguay
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Brian Bockelman, Ripon College
Papers:
The Competing Loyalties of Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson de Mendeville Jeffrey M. Shumway, Brigham Young University
Going Creole in the Río de la Plata, 1880–1900 William Acree, Washington University in St. Louis
Tales of Criollo Conscripts: Nationalism and Popular Culture in the Argentine Army, 1921–43 Nicolas Sillitti, Indiana University
Yerba Mate: A Nativist Beverage and Immigrant Drink Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University
Comment: Paulina Laura Alberto, University of Michigan
26. Ambiguous Loyalties and the Politics of Ethnicity in Early 18th-Century Spanish America
Friday, January 4, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Peter Villella, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Papers:
The European Clothes of an Elite Zapotec Woman in 18th-Century Coyotepec Oaxaca Xochitl Marina Flores, California State University, Northridge
Absolute Creoles: American-Born Spaniards and Imperial Centralization under Philip V, 1700–46 Aaron Alejandro Olivas, Texas A&M International University
Fugitive Alliances: The Palenque Treaty and Its Afterlives Bethan Fisk, University of Leeds
Comment: Rachel O'Toole, University of California, Irvine
27. Andean Studies Committee Meeting: Loyalties and Political Culture in the Andes
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Gabriela P. Ramos, University of Cambridge
Panel:
Mónica Ricketts, Temple University
G. Antonio Espinoza, Virginia Commonwealth University
Comment: The Audience
28. Atlantic Studies Committee Meeting
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Fabricio Prado, College of William and Mary
Panel:
Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, University of Rochester
Farren E. Yero, Duke University
Cristina Soriano, Villanova University
Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Comment: The Audience
29. Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: The Labors of Latinas across Borders, Region, and Time
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Sonia Hernandez, Texas A&M University
Panel:
Sarah McNamara, Texas A&M University
Lori Flores, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Michelle Tellez, University of Arizona
Margie Brown-Coronel, California State University, Fullerton
Comment: Sonia Hernandez, Texas A&M University
30. Mexican Studies Committee Meeting: Gender: How Are We Doing?
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Panel:
Silvia Arrom, Brandeis University
Monica Diaz, University of Kentucky
Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University
Margarita R. Ochoa, Loyola Marymount University
Patricia Seed, University of California, Irvine
Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
Comment: The Audience
Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting
Friday, January 4, 2019: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Burnham 1
31. Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: Digital Pedagogies for the Undergraduate Latin American Class
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:15 PM-8:45 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Amanda M. López, Saint Xavier University
Panel:
Corinna Zeltsman, Georgia Southern University
Brandon Morgan, Central New Mexico Community College and Western New Mexico University
Comment: The Audience
32. Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: Forward Ever, Backward Never: Caribbean Migration and Its Impact on Global African Diasporic Movements
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:15 PM-8:45 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Panel:
Glenn Anthony Chambers, Michigan State University
Quito Swan, Howard University
Janelle Edwards, Penn State University
Delia Fernandez, Michigan State University
Comment: The Audience
Hispanic American Historical Review Editorial Board Meeting
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:15 PM-8:45 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
33. Central American Studies Committee Meeting: Archives: Lies, Obstructions, and Possibility
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:15 PM-8:45 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Heather Vrana, University of Florida
Panel:
Dain Borges, Universidad of Chicago
David Diaz Arias, Universidad de Costa Rica
Suyapa Portillo, Pitzer College
Lara E. Putnam, University of Pittsburgh
Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
Comment: The Audience
34. Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Tuning the Colonial Survey
Friday, January 4, 2019: 7:15 PM-8:45 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Alex Hidalgo, Texas Christian University
Panel:
Ignacio Martinez, University of Texas at El Paso
Ana Schaposchnik, DePaul University
Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University at Newark
Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington
Comment: The Audience
Saturday, January 5
CLAH Information Table Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor, near Salon 1
35. Competing Loyalties, Competing Empires: The Belize-Yucatan-Guatemala Frontier from the 17th to the 19th Centuries (joint session with AHA #149)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 12
Chair: Elizabeth Graham, University College London
Papers:
You Better Belize It: Toponymic and Colonialist Origin Mythology in Southern Yucatan Matthew Restall, Penn State University
From Involuntary to Voluntary Colonists: The Belizean Settlers of San José de Los Negros, Guatemala Mark Lentz, Utah Valley University
Loyal Subjects at Empire’s Edge: Hispanics and Maya in the Belizean Vision of a Colonial Nation at the End of the Caste War, 1880–98 Rajeshwari Dutt, Indian Institute of Technology
Comment: Anne Macpherson, State University of New York, College at Brockport
36. 18th- and 19th-Century Visions of Abundance and Scarcity in the Americas: Florida, the Caribbean, and Río de la Plata
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
Papers:
Feeding St. Augustine: Hunger, Profit, and Pushing the Limits of Trade Juneisy Hawkins, New York University
Redefining Prosperity and Wealth in the River-Plate Andean Region: Analyzing Economic Information before the Public versus Private Divide, 1790–1804 Felice Physioc, Princeton University
Designing Prosperity: Institutions, Ideas, and Projects in Latin America in the Early 19th Century Paula Vedoveli, Princeton University
Envisioning Plantations in New Granada’s Caribbean Coast: The Shattered Dreams of Antonio Narváez y La Torre Ernesto Bassi, Cornell University
Comment: Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine
37. On the Road: Films, Cars, and Suburbs in 20th-Century Argentina
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Papers:
Transnational Black Chicago: Richard Wright and the Shooting of Native Son in Peronist Argentina Ernesto Seman, University of Bergen
Fast Hybridity: When Ford, Chevy, and Dodge Were Argentine, 1940–80 David M. K. Sheinin, Trent University
Gates of Exclusion: The Rise of Barrios Privados in Metropolitan Buenos Aires in the Recent Fin de Siècle Daniel Richter, lecturer
Comment: Lina Britto, Northwestern University
38. The Anti-Reelection Movement as Democratic Dialect in Mexico, 1900-30
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Jaclyn Ann Sumner, Presbyterian College
Papers:
Almost Porfirio: Alvaro Obregón’s Second Presidential Election Campaign in Revolutionary Mexico, 1926–28 Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Anti-Reelectionist Engineers before and after the Mexican Revolution J. Justin Castro, Arkansas State University
Out of the Shadows: Mexico’s Reckoning with State-Led Violence in the Recent Past, 1927–40 Sarah Osten, University of Vermont
Anti-Reelectionism and a Porfirian Disciple’s Demise Jaclyn Ann Sumner, Presbyterian College
Comment: Amanda M. López, Saint Xaiver University
39. Exploring the Loyalties of Perpetrators of Violence in 20th-Century Mexico (joint session with AHA #180)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 12
Chair: David Carey Jr., Loyola University Maryland
Papers: The Brotherhood of Interrogators Inside the Mexican Government’s Counterinsurgency Torture Program in the 1970s Gladys I. McCormick, Syracuse University
Tracing the Loyalty of Vigilantes: In the Name of Nation, Religion, and Community Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda, Loyola University Chicago
Anticommunism, Right Wing Dissidence, and the Lexicon of Repression in 1960s Mexico Luis Herran Avila, Carleton College
Amidst the State and the Illegal Drug Trade: The Divided Loyalty of Counterinsurgency Agents in Cold War Mexico Adela Cedillo, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Comment: David Carey Jr., Loyola University Maryland
40. Archival Disloyalties: Archives, Documentary Afterlives, and Critical Histories of Colonial Latin America
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Pamela Voekel, Dartmouth College
Papers:
Paper Jams in Cuba; or, The Politics and Materiality of Documentation David A. Sartorius, University of Maryland, College Park
Making the "Archival Turn" in Colonial Latin America Matter Bianca Premo, Florida International University Anna More, Universidade de Brasília
Reading Legal Petitions as Early Afro-Latin American Intellectual History Karen Graubart, University of Notre Dame
Teaching Critical Histories of Latin American Archives as Feminist Pedagogy Jessica L. Delgado, Princeton University
Comment: Pamela Voekel, Dartmouth College
41. New Approaches to Exile in Latin America
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Eric Zolov, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Papers:
Clara Porset and the Politics of Exile and Modern Design in 20th-Century Mexico Randal Sheppard, Leiden University
Asylum as Foreign Policy in Midcentury Mexico Ashley Black, State University of New York at Stony Brook
The Algerian War Comes to Argentina: The FLN, the French, and the United Nations, 1956–62 Steven L. Hyland Jr., Wingate University
Comment: The Audience
42. Frontiers of Language and History in the Early Modern Americas
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: John Sullivan, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Papers:
Reading Landscapes through Texts and Oral Traditions in the Frontiers of Spanish America Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nahuatl across Frontiers: Dynamics of Culture Change and Language Shift in the Northern Periphery of New Spain Justyna Olko, University of Warsaw
Guaraní Native Language Suppression in Mid-18th-Century Paraguay Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic University
Language, Literacy, and Power on a Nahuatl-Spanish Frontier Travis Jeffres, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Comment: Danna Alexandra Levin-Rojo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco
43. Black Subject(ivities) and Interiorities: Gender and the Global Intellectual and Political Histories of Black Fugitives and Rebels
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Jessica Krug, George Washington University
Papers:
Fugitive Modernities and Geographies of Reputation: Black Histories and Gender outside the State Jessica Krug, George Washington University
An Excess of Babble: Slavery and the “Neurohistory” of 19th-Century Brazil Gregory Childs, Brandeis University
Against Dissemblance: When Black Women Speak Paula C. Austin, California State University, Sacramento
Comment: The Audience
44. Inter-American Lives and Loyalties: Ties That Bound (joint session with AHA #204)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Wabash Room
Chair: Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Papers:
Political Loyalties and 19th-Century Brazilian Narratives on the Causes of the Paraguayan War, 1864–70 Keila Grinberg, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Strong and Many Faiths: Edison Carneiro before and during Military Rule in Brazil, 1930s–70s Marc Hertzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Political Strains and Enduring Loyalties: The Friendship of Frank Tannenbaum and Lázaro Cárdenas Barbara Weinstein, New York University
On Two Waterfronts: The Inconstant Trajectories of Gilberto Freyre and Sergio Milliet James Woodard, Montclair State University
Comment: The Audience
45. Indigenous Catholicisms and the Second Vatican Council (joint session with AHA #213)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Water Tower Parlor
Chair: Albert Monshan Wu, American University of Paris
Papers:
Making the Church Universal: Alioune Diop, Africa, and Vatican II Elizabeth A. Foster, Tufts University
Between Liberation Theology and Indigenous Catholicism: Theological and Pastoral Innovation and Conflict in Southern Mexico, 1969–90 Eben Levey, University of Maryland, College Park
Did the Virgin Mary Chew Coca? Progressive Catholics and Andean Religion in Peru Matthew Peter Casey, University of California, Davis
Comment: Albert Monshan Wu, American University of Paris
46. What Everyone Needs to Know about Central America in an Age of Deportation, Part 1: Views from the Northern Triangle (joint session with the AHA #215)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room
Chairs: Martha Few, Penn State University Dario Aquiles Euraque, Trinity College
Panel:
David Carey Jr., Loyola University Maryland
Joaquin M. Chavez, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rosemary Joyce, University of California, Berkeley
Laura Matthew, Marquette University
Ellen Moodie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Comment: The Audience
47. Transnational Human Rights Histories from the Americas: Discourse and Contested Negotiation in the 1980s
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago
Papers:
Divergent Discourses: Justice and Human Rights in Transition Debbie Sharnak, Harvard University
Revolutionary Rights and Reconciliation: Human Rights and the Left at the End of El Salvador’s Civil War 1984–92 Evan McCormick, University of Texas at Austin
West German and Chilean Activists between Human Rights and Revolution Felix A. Jiménez, Boston College
Comment: Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago
48. The European Experience of Latin American History, Perspectives from the Association of Latin American Historians in Europe (AHILA)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Antonio Ibarra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Panel:
Mirian Galante, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent
Comment: The Audience
49. Science and the Construction of Indigeneity in 20th-Century Mexico and Peru
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University
Papers:
Archaeology as Spectacle: Excavations in the Heart of Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University
Cataloging Antiquity and the Expeditionary Eye: The Yale Peruvian Expedition Photographic Albums, 1911–15 Amy Cox Hall, Amherst College
Picturing Indigenismo: Isabel T. Kelly's Photograph Collection of Totonac Indians, c. 1947–48 Monica Salas Landa, Lafayette College
Animals and the Construction of Indigeneity in Peruvian Racial Science, 1930–55 Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington
Comment: Alexander Dawson, State University of New York, University at Albany
50. Urban Restructuring and Spatial Regimes from Dictatorship to Democracy in Latin America (joint session with AHA #229)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 12
Chair: Adrián Lerner, Yale University
Papers:
Staying Afloat: Urban Poverty and the Politics of History in Cold War Amazonia Adrián Lerner, Yale University
Urban Expertise and Challenges to Military Authoritarianism: Buenos Aires, 1976–83 Jennifer Hoyt, Berry College
Remaking Urban Space, Refashioning Social Subjects: Neoliberal Urban Policies from Dictatorship to Democracy in Chile Denisa Jashari, Indiana University
From Segregated to Parallel Cities: Political Polarization and Public Space in Caracas, Venezuela, 1989–2014 Alejandro Velasco, New York University
Comment: Brodwyn M. Fischer, University of Chicago
51. What Everyone Needs to Know about Central America in an Age of Deportation, Part 2: Views from the United States (joint session with AHA #239)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room
Chair: Laura Matthew, Marquette University
Panel:
Nathan Kahn Ellstrand, Loyola University Chicago
Sergio González, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Julian Lim, Arizona State University
Andrae Marak, Governors State University
Comment: The Audience
52. Missions and Presidios: Jesuits, Amerindians, Filipinos, and Muslims in the Spanish Pacific, 1556-1700 (joint session with American Society of Church History)
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Jason Dyck, Western University
Papers:
"That All Might Burn and No Memory Remain": Jesuit Relics and Native "Idols" in Northern New Spain Brandon Bayne, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Revisiting the Moro Wars through Jesuit Sources about the Philippine Islands Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Polemics and Presidios: Juan De Albizuri and the History of the Sinaloa Missions Jason Dyck, Western University
Comment: Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
53. Cuba and the Eastern Bloc: Everyday Life under Socialism
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Julie M. Hessler, University of Oregon
Papers:
"We Had the Bitter Experience of Lamenting the Loss of a Child": Housing and Everyday Life in Camagüey, Cuba, 1976–80 William Thomas Kelly, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"The Only Invasion That We Would Welcome with Open Arms": Vegetable Invasions in Revolutionary Cuba, from Farmers' Markets to Food Science, 1980–86 Alexis Baldacci, University of Florida
The 1956 Revolution as a Watershed Moment? Elite Athletes, Smuggling, and Consumption in Socialist Hungary Johanna Mellis, University of Florida
The Fat Socialist Body: Anti-obesity Discourse and Gendered Embodiment in Socialist Czechoslovakia Michaela Appeltova, University of Chicago
Comment: Julie M. Hessler, University of Oregon
54. Beyond Body and Color: Female Agency and Contesting Notions of Power and Legality in Colonial Latin America
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Jessica Criales, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Papers:
Categories of Distinction: Constructing Social Identities in Colonial Oaxaca, 1670–1730 Sabrina Smith, University of California, Merced
“We of the Indian Nation”: Indigenous Identity at the Guadalupe School in Mexico City, 1753– 1811 Jessica Criales, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Por Su Amor y Lealtad: Afro-Mexican and Indigenous Female Agency in 17th-Century Central Mexico Scarlet Leticia Munoz Ramirez, Central Michigan University
Comment: Margarita R. Ochoa, Loyola Marymount University
55. Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: New Perspectives on Indigenous Peoples and Modernity in Brazil
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Kittiya Lee, California State University, Los Angeles
Panel:
Carmen Alveal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte-Natal
Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University
Seth Garfield, University of Texas at Austin Comment: Mary Karasch, Oakland University
56. Chile- Río de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: New Environmental Histories of Chile-Río de la Plata
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Jennifer Adair, Fairfield University
Panel:
Alison J. Bruey, University of North Florida
Rob Christensen, Georgetown University
Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State University
Thomas Miller Klubock, University of Virginia
John Soluri, Carnegie Mellon University
Comment: Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University
57. Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Historians Facing a Contentious Present in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Panama
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Catalina Muñoz, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
Panel:
Marixa Lasso, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá
Marc Becker, Truman State University
Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College
Luis Van Isschot, University of Toronto
The Americas Board Meeting
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Burnham 1
CLAH Cocktail Reception
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Adams Room
Sunday, January 6
58. Cultivating Environmental Reform: Competing Agrarian Politics in 20th-Century Latin America (Joint session with AHA #258)
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 7
Chair: Carmen Soliz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Papers:
Land to Those Who Work It and the Forest to Those Who Protect It: Agrarian Reform and Local Customs in Western Amazonia Kathryn Lehman, Indiana University
El Niño, Floods, Droughts, and the Unmaking of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform, Peru 1972–73 Javier Puente Valdivia, Pontificia Universidad de Chile
Agro-ecology in Chile: Science, Democracy, and Sustainability William San Martín, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modernization's Architects: Cold War Agricultural Development and Bodily Resistance in Colombia's Cauca Valley Amanda Waterhouse, Indiana University
Comment: Tore Olsson, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
59. Performing Loyalties in Latin American History, Part 1: Forging Loyalties at Century's Turn: Live Performance in Urbanizing Latin America (joint session with AHA #262)
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 6
Chair: Elizabeth Schwall, Northwestern University
Papers:
Playing Gaucho: Sociedades Criollas and Making Tradition William Acree, Washington University in St. Louis
Casting Controversies: How the Spanish Zarzuela Defined Argentine Nationalism in the 1890s Kristen L. McCleary, James Madison University
Theater and the Making of Urban Public Life in 19th-Century Mexico Lance Ingwersen, Miami University Ohio
Performing the “Class of Color” in c. 1920 São Paulo, Brazil Aiala Levy, University of Scranton
Comment: Katherine Zien, McGill University
60. From Puerto Rico to Japan, through the Panama Canal: The Western Hemisphere Idea in Transnational History during the 20th Century
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Yanek Mieczkowski, University of Central Florida
Panel:
Micah Wright, Texas A&M University
Marco Mariano, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Maxime Minne, University of Quebec in Montreal
Greg Robinson, University of Quebec in Montreal
Comment: Geneviève Dorais, University of Quebec in Montreal
61. Reassessing the Paradoxes of Revolution: Mexico after 1940
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Jessica Mack, Princeton University
Papers:
For the Welfare of Workers: The Social Security Law of 1943 Sara Hidalgo, Columbia University
The Rising City: Building Ciudad Universitaria, 1945–54 Jessica Mack, Princeton University
Satellite Cities in the Mexican Metropolis: Public Housing and the Rise of Mexico’s Urban Middle Class David James Yee, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Youth Drug Use in Mexico City, 1960–75 Sarah Beckhart, Columbia University
Comment: Eric Zolov, State University of New York at Stony Brook
62. Reform and Protest in Latin America
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Jennifer L. Schaefer, Washington State University
Papers:
Commemorations for Santiago Pampillón: Uniting Students and Workers against Argentina’s Military Government, 1966–69 Jennifer L. Schaefer, Washington State University
A Cosmic Protest: Citizenship, Environment, and Resistance under Dictatorship Patrick Chassé, University of Saskatchewan
Reassessing Colombia’s Liberal Revolution through the Lenses of Women and Gender: The Case of Tomas C. de Mosquera’s Federalist Uprising, c. 1859–63 Pamela S. Murray, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Viva os Ingleses! Slave Renderings of British Abolitionism in 19th-Century Brazil Isadora Moura Mota, University of Miami
Comment: The Audience
63. Teaching the Environmental History of the Colonial Americas: Challenges, Prospects, and Future Directions (joint session with AHA #273)
Sunday, January 6, 2019 11:00-12:30PM Palmer House Hilton, Wabash Room
Chair: Heidi Scott, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Panel:
Gregory T. Cushman, University of Kansas
Eleonora Rohland, Bielefield University
Cameron Strang, University of Nevada at Reno
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University
Comment: The Audience
64. Cumplo Pero No Obedezco (I Comply, but I Do Not Obey): Negotiating State Power in 20th- Century Latin America (joint session with AHA #275)
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 12
Chair: Gladys I. McCormick, Syracuse University
Papers:
Autonomy and Spectacle: Violence, Agrarian Reform, and the Negotiation of Rule in Revolutionary Bolivia, 1958 Bridgette Werner, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Feminist Grassroots Print Media and Resistance in Brazil’s "Second Republic" Cari W. Maes, Oregon State University
In Use of Their Rights: Popular Anxieties, Power, and Community in 1920s Jalisco, Mexico Ulices Piña, Colorado College
Proclives a Violencia: Regulating Accidents and Criminalizing Disorder in the Bolivian Mines, 1964–69 Elena McGrath, University of Virginia
Comment: Gladys I. McCormick, Syracuse University
65. Spies, Homophiles, and Race in the Americas, 1940–70 (joint session with the AHA #278 and the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Crystal Room
Chair: Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
Papers:
Martin and Mitchell, Turncoat Technicians: The Lavender Scare and Cold War Homophilia Christina Gusella, Emory University
The Suave Latin Queer: Gonzálo “Tony” Segura (1919–91), Homophile Activism, and Latin America, 1955–61 Víctor M. Macías-González, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
"The Second Largest Minority": Analogies Between Race and Sexuality in the America Homophile Movement, 1944–68 Nikita Shepard, Middle Tennessee State University
Comment: Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
66. Performing Loyalties in Latin American History, Part 2: Forging Loyalties in the Latin American Cold War: The Politics of Media, Cultural Productions, and Performances (joint session with AHA #286)
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 7
Chair: Aiala Levy, University of Scranton
Papers:
Cultural Festivals, Racial Healing, and Divided Loyalties in Cold War British Guiana, c. 1957–64 Ramaesh J. Bhagirat-Rivera, Boston College
The Medium Is the Message: The Screen Life of the Cuban Revolution, 1959–61 Jennifer Lambe, Brown University
Slavery, Abolition, and Quilombos: Racialized Narratives in Cold War Brazil’s Cultural Production Sarah Sarzynski, Claremont McKenna College
"The Art of Dance We Both Adore": Chicago-Havana Dance Friendships and Loyalties during the Cold War Elizabeth Schwall, Northwestern University
Comment: Matthew B. Karush, George Mason University
67. Unemployment, Insecurity, and Work Restructuring in the Americas, 1930s-90s
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 2
Chair: Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
Papers:
From Cane Farm to Sugar Factory: Brazilian Cane Suppliers’ Fight for Standardization Gillian McGillivray, York University
Unemployed, Unprotected, Uninsured: Chilean Workers and the Limits of Unemployment Policy, 1930s–40s Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles
The “Shock Absorbers” of Neoliberalism: Women and Public-Sector Retrenchment in the Americas Jane Berger, Moravian College
Comment: Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia
68. Good and Bad Government in Latin American History
Sunday, January 6, 2019: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3
Chair: Andrew Paxman, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Región Centro
Papers:
Mexico’s Governors: Caciquismo and Corruption over the Longue Durée Andrew Paxman, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Región Centro
The Disgraceful Career of Don Sebastian de Navarrete: The Legal and Social Limits of Corruption, Crime, and Dishonest Behavior Judith Maria Mansilla, Florida International University
Loyalty to Nuestra [Our] América: Anticolonialism and Good Governance for Cuba and Latin America in José Martí’s Ulysses S. Grant Armando Garcia de la Torre, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
A Dangerous Profession: The Spanish Monarchy and the Bar Associations of Colonial Cuba Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada, Florida International University
Comment: The Audience