Robert A. Karl
[email protected] Dickinson Hall 609-258-7249 Princeton University http://rakarl.com Princeton, NJ 08544 Teaching Princeton University, Department of History Assistant Professor 2010-present Instructor Fall 2009 Dartmouth College, Department of History Visiting Instructor Spring 2007 Publications Book Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia. Violence in Latin American History series, University of California Press (2017). • Spanish translation, Librería Lerner (forthcoming, 2018). • Reviewed by Choice (Highly Recommended), El Tiempo, NACLA Report on the Americas, ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. • Selected as preread for The Nation Travels’ 2017 Colombia tour. Articles “Century of the Exile: Colombia’s Displacement and Land Restitution in Historical Perspective, 1940s–1960s.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes 42, no. 3: Land, Justice, and Memory: Challenges for Peace in Colombia (November 2017): 298–319. “Reading the Cuban Revolution from Bogotá, 1957–62,” Cold War History 16, no. 4 (November 2016): 337–358. • Reviewed by H-Diplo. Forthcoming “From ‘Showcase’ to ‘Failure’: Democracy and the Colombian Developmental State in the 1960s,” in State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Rise & Fall of the Developmental State, ed. Miguel A. Centeno and Agustin E. Ferraro. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2018). In Progress “The Politics of Colombian Development in Latin America’s Long 1950s.” State of Impunity: Injustice and Legal Exception in Modern Colombia. Education Harvard University Ph.D., History 2009 Robert A. Karl 2 Dissertation: “State Formation, Violence, and Cold War in Colombia, 1957-1966” Committee: John Womack, Jr.