1 Susan Deans-Smith •The University of Texas at Austin History Department B7000 1 University Station Austin, Texas 78712-0220 • • Telephone: (512) 475-7205 • FAX 512-475-7222 • E-mail: [email protected] • Professional Experience: •1991-present Associate Professor, Colonial Latin American History, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin •1998-2000 Associate Chair, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin •1993-1995 Associate Director, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin •1989 Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, Fall Semester •1984-1991 Assistant Professor, Colonial Latin American History, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin •1985 Visiting Scholar, National Autonomous University of Mexico in conjunction with Centre of Mexican Studies, University of Texas •1983-84 Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin •1982-83 Research Fellow, St Edmund's College, Cambridge University •1982-83 Lecturer, Faculty of Modern and Mediaeval Languages Cambridge University Education: •1984 – Ph.D., Cambridge University; Dissertation: "The Gentle and Easy Tax" - the Bourbons and the Royal Tobacco Monopoly of New Spain, 1765-1821”. Supervised by Dr. D. A. Brading •1979 – M.Phil., Cambridge University, Latin American Studies (Newnham College) •1978 – B.A., University of Warwick, First Class Honors in Comparative American Studies Fellowships/Grants/Prizes/Awards: External Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities • Faculty Fellowship: 2000-01 • Faculty Fellowship: 1988-89 • Travel to Collections Grant, 1992 2 Program for Cultural Co-operation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities • Post-Doctoral Research Grant, 1998 Social Science Research Council/ACLS • Advanced Research Fellowship, 1995-96 Cambridge University •Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Residential Research Fellowship, 1982-83 •Ellen McArthur Fund for Economic History, 1981, 1982 •J. B. Trend Travel Fund, 1980 Department of Education and Science (UK) • Major State Studentship Grant, 1979-81 University of Warwick • Undergraduate Scholarship to Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976-77 Internal Grants (UT): Faculty Development Program, University of Texas • Faculty Research Award, 1995-96; 2000-01; 2009-10 • Faculty Research Grant, 1994 • Summer Research Award, 1985 • Special Research Grant: 1985; 1986; 1987; 1989; 1992; 2008 College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin •University Co-operative Society Subvention Grant for Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford University Press, 2009) • Dean’s Proposal Award, 2006 • Dean’s Fellowship, Spring, 2005 Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies - University of Texas at Austin • Faculty Research Leave, Fall, 2004 • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Faculty Research Grant: 1986; 1988; 1991; 1998; 2000; 2003, 2007 • Travel Awards: 1993; 1994; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2001; 2002; 2004; 2006; 2007, 2009 • Undergraduate Course Development Grant, 1997 Prizes/Awards: Publications: •1993 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Honorable Mention, (Best Book in Latin American History published in English) for Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers - the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon 3 Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992), American Historical Association-Conference on Latin American History Teaching: Awards: •2009 Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship •2007 Teaching Excellence Award, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin Nominations: •2009 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award •2009 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award •2007 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award •2006 Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence •2002 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Publications: Books: •Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers - the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992). Co-Edited Volumes/Guest Editor: Books: •Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009) •Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young eds., Mexican Soundings: Essays In Honour of David A. Brading (London: Brookings Institute Press, 2007) Journals: •Guest editor for special section of the Colonial Latin American Review, “Nature and Scientific Knowledge in the Spanish Empire,” vol. 15 1 (June), 2006 •Susan Deans-Smith and Gil Joseph eds., Mexico’s New Cultural History ¿Una Lucha Libre? (Duke University Press, 1999) (Special Issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review, 79, No. 2) Articles/Chapters/Essays: •“‘A Natural and Voluntary Dependence’: The Royal Academy of San Carlos and the Cultural Politics of Art Education in Mexico City, 1786-1797.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Special Issue on Mexican Visual Culture, in press, vol. 29, no. 3 (2010) •Susan Deans-Smith and Ilona Katzew, “Introduction. The Alchemy of Race in Mexican America,” in Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009): 1-24 4 “Dishonor in the Hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks”: Painters and the (Racial) Politics of Painting in Early Modern Mexico” in Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith eds., Race and Classification. The Case of Mexican America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009): 43-72 •“This Noble and Illustrious Art”: Painters and the Politics of Guild Reform in Early Modern Mexico City.” In Mexican Soundings: Essays In Honor of David A. Brading, eds., Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young (London: Brookings Institute Press, 2007): 67-98 •“Preface” and “Introduction.” In Mexican Soundings: Essays In Honor of David A. Brading, eds., Susan Deans-Smith and Eric Van Young (London: Brookings Institute Press, 2007): vi-viii; 1-10 •“Introduction” to special section of the Colonial Latin American Review, “Nature and Scientific Knowledge in the Spanish Empire,” vol. 15 1 (June), 2006: 29-38 •“Creating the Colonial Subject: Casta Paintings, Curiosities and Collectors in Eighteenth Century Mexico and Spain.” Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 14 2 (December) 2005: 169-204 •"Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast from the Colonial Period to the Present,” in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (MesoAmerica) Vol. II, Part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000): 274-302 •“The Arena of Dispute,” in Mexico’s New Cultural History ¿Una Lucha Libre? eds. Susan Deans-Smith and Gil Joseph (Duke University Press, 1999): 203-208 (Special Issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review, 79, No. 2) •“Tabaco, Nueva España, y los recursos fiscales del imperio español,” in Tabaco y economia en el siglo XVIII, eds. Agustin González Enciso and Rafael Torres (Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, SA: Pamplona, 1999): 79-106 •"State Enterprise, Work, and Workers in Mexico: the Case of the Tobacco Monopoly, 1765-1850," in The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850, eds. Ken Andrien & Lyman Johnson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994): 63-94 •"Gender, Morality and Work Discipline - the Working Poor, Public Order, and the Colonial State in Eighteenth Century Mexico," in Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico, eds. William H. Beezely, Cheryl E. Martin, and William E. French (Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1994): 47-77 •"Compromise and Conflict: The Tobacco Manufactory Workers of Mexico City and the Colonial Spanish State, 1770-1821," Anuario de Estudios Americanos , vol. 49 (1992): 271-309 5 •"State Enterprise in Bourbon Mexico - Politics, Profits, and Policies of the Tobacco Monopoly, 1765-1821," Journal of Policy History, 2, No.1 (1990): 1-22 •"Spanish-Indian Relations in Colonial Spanish America: Some Considerations." In Latin American Culture Studies - Information and Material for Teaching About Latin America. ed. Edward Glab Jr. (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1988) •"The Money Plant - the Royal Tobacco Monopoly of New Spain, 1765-1810," in The Economies of Mexico and Peru During the Late Colonial Period, 1760-1810, eds. Nils Jacobsen and Hans-Jurgen Puhle, Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana, No. 33 (Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1985): 361-387 •with Edward Countryman, "Independence and Revolution in the Americas: a Project for Comparative Study," Radical History Review 27 (1983): 144-171 Commissioned Review Essays/Forum Discussions: •“From Treasures to Revelations – Mobility and the Multiple Lives of the Exhibition The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820. A Curators’ Forum,” forthcoming, Colonial Latin American Review (March, 2010) •“Remapping Spanish imperialism, colonialism and post-colonialism: the case of Cuzco, Peru,” The Historical Journal, 44, 1 (2001): 297-306 •"Culture, Power, and Society in Colonial Mexico," Latin American Research Review 33, No. 1 (1998): 257-277 Encyclopaedia Entries: •“Tobacco in Mexico.” In Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Scribner Turning Points, vol. 1, ed., Jordan Goodman (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005): 350-355 •“The Bourbon Reforms in Colonial Mexico”; •“Manuel Tolsa.” In Encyclopaedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998) •“The Tobacco Monopoly.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996) Research in Progress: • Book manuscript: