CLAH Events and AHA Latin America 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 Peru 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 Argentina, 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 South America (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 Chile’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, Peronism, 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