"La United Fruit
Company en Colombia," Innovar. Revista de Ciencias
Administrativas y Sociales (Bogotá), No. 5 (enero-junio,
1995), 107-118. VITA
BRUNGARDT, MAURICE PHILIP (1941- )
I. ACADEMIC DATA
A. Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1974
BA cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1963
B. Employment Record
Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia), Fulbright Visiting Professor, 1994
La Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (Tunja, Boyacá), Fulbright Visiting Professor, 1994
Loyola University, Associate Professor, 1977-
Loyola University, Assistant Professor, 1974-1977
Loyola University, Instructor, 1971-1974
Pontíficia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia),
Part-time Professor of History, 1970-1971
C. Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Fulbright Grant for Research/Teaching in Colombia, 1994.
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Study in Latin America, 1969-1970 ( For dissertation research in Colombia).
NDEA Title VI Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1966-1969.
II. TEACHING
A. Upper division courses taught
Seminario de Historiografía Latinoamericana de la Colonia (In Spanish, course taught at La Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia and La Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia)
History of the Americas I and II (In Spanish)
History of Latin America I and II (Colonial and National Period)
*Economic History of Latin America
*Race Relations in Latin America
*Social Revolutions in Latin America
*History of Mexico
*History of Spain
*Northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, & Ecuador)
B. Team Taught Courses in the Common Curriculum
*Latin America in Film and Literature
*Third World and the Future
Man at War
Man at Work
America Overseas
C. Courses in the Common Curriculum
World Civilization I & II
World Civilization: Pivotal Eras
*Discovering the Third World
*Quest for El Dorado
*Slavery & Race Relations in the Americas: The Comparative Approach
*English and Latin America: Divergent Paths in the New World
*Crisis in Central America
*The courses designated with an asterisk (*) above were created and offered for the first time at Loyola by myself.
D. Creative Teaching Practices, Devices, or Courses
1. Common Curriculum
For better or for worse I have been one of the strongest supporters of the Common Curriculum and have or will have participated in eleven team-taught and dialogue courses of which I personally originated six (See II. B and C). All have been interdisciplinary in focus and methodology in an attempt to meet the goal of forming broadly educated students. To do this, works from literature, history, and the social sciences as well as films have been used, and a dialogue and frequent papers have played an integral part in each course.
The course I have developed on the Third World is one of the few courses created that attempts to meet the resolution passed by the College Assembly on February 24, 1975 (See A & S Deansletter of June 2, 1975, page 3) that asks for "courses in the Common Curriculum that would relate to the world problems of population, hunger, technology, and environment."
2. Lectures on Teaching and Studying
"Essay Exam Writing" to the Fighting Finals Furiously Workshop, September 22, 1981 in the Audubon Room of Loyola University. Organized and sponsored by the Admissions Office and the Special Educational Services Program. A video tape of this lecture was made and is on file in the Media Center.
"How to Study for History Courses and History Professors at Loyola University," video tape cut on September 4, 1981 for the Beating Academic Probation Program. Tape available in the Career Information Center.
E. Student Advising
Informal Faculty Advisor to Loyola's Latin American Students since 1971
Official Faculty Advisor to the History Department's Class of 1991 since 1987.
Official Faculty Advisor to the History Department's Class of 1987 from 1983 to 1985.
Official Faculty Advisor to the History Department's Class of 1982 from 1978 to 1982
Official Faculty Advisor to the History Department's Class of 1977 from 1973 to 1977
F. Normal Teaching Load
My teaching load in general has been nine hours a semester since I arrived in the Fall of 1971 except for the period 1980 to 1983 when my teaching load dropped to six hours as a result of being Chairman of the History Department.
G. Graduate Students
Spring 1992 course Northern South America was crossed listed by Tulane (with permission of Loyola A & S Dean & AVP) and 2 Tulane undergraduate and 12 graduate students took the course.
Asked by Dr. Colin MacLachlan and Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward, Chair, History Department, Tulane University, to serve on Comprehensive Examination Committee of Bruce Siggson for PhD in History, Spring and Fall 1988
Asked by Dr. Ralph Lee Woodward, Chair, History Department, Tulane University, to serve on Dissertation Committee of Pamela Murray for PhD in History, dissertation "Forging a Technocratic Elite in Colombia: A History of the Escuela Nacional de Minas of Medellín, 1887-1970." (Tulane University, 1990).
III. ADMINISTRATION
Director, Loyola University Study Abroad Program in Mexico City, 1983-1985, 1987-1995. Summer Program since 1983. Fall and Spring Semester since Fall of 1989.
IV. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
A. Publications prior to joining Loyola faculty
"Agricultura intensiva en la Baja Colonia: El caso de la hacienda 'Las Peñitas', " Universitas humanistica (Bogotá), Num, 1 (mayo, 1971), 209-217.
"Bibliografía," Boletín de historia y antigüedades (Bogotá), LVII, Nums. 663-665 (enero-marzo, 1970), 177-179.
B. Publications Since Joining Loyola Faculty: Articles in Journals or Chapters in Books
"Poder y riqueza en la Nueva Granada al principio del siglo xvii," in Amado A. Guerrero Rincón (ed.), Memorias. VIII Congreso nacional de historia de Colombia. Bucaramanga, noviembre 17-20, 1992; Vol. 3: Cultura política, movimientos sociales y violencia en la historia de Colombia (Bucaramanga: Universidad Industrial de Santander, 1993), 137-151.
"Global Education and the American Student Abroad," in Deborah J. Hill (ed.), Global Education and the Study Abroad Program (Worthington, Ohio: Renaissance Press, 1991), pp. 88-94.
"Using Nineteenth Century Census Results: The Colombian Censuses of 1835, 1843, and 1851," Latin American Population History Bulletin , No. 18 (Fall 1990), pp. 2-8.
"The Economy of Colombia in the Late Colonial and Early National Periods," chapter in John R. Fisher, Allen J. Kuethe, and Anthony McFarlane (eds.), Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru, (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1990), pp. 164-193.
"Commentary [on The Carlist War]" in Donald D. Horward and John C. Horgan (eds.), Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850: Proceedings, 1989 to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (Tallahassee, Florida: Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University, 1990), pp. 504-507.
"Mitos históricos y literarios: La casa grande," in Alvaro Pineda Botero and Raymond L. Williams (eds.), De ficciones y realidades. Perspectivas sobre literatura e historia colombianas. Memorias del quinto congreso de colombianistas (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1989), pp. 63-72.
"The United Fruit Company in Colombia," in Henry C.
Dethloff and C. Joseph Pusateri (eds.), American Business
History. Case Studies (Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan
Davidson, Inc., 1987), pp. 235-256; translation published as "La United Fruit
Company en Colombia," Innovar. Revista de Ciencias
Administrativas y Sociales (Bogotá), No. 5 (enero-junio,
1995), 107-118.
"Tithe Production and Patterns of Economic Change in Central Colombia, 1764-1833." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1974.
C. Review Articles in Journals
"Readings on Colombia?," in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, No. 12 (1993), 235-242.
"Tres perspectivas de la colonia colombiana: conquistadores, indios, y estancos," in Revista de estudios colombianos y latinoamericanos (Bogotá), Nos. 12-13 (1994), 50-54.
D. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Reference Works
"Belalcázar, Sebastián de," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Beltrán, Saint Luis," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Betrayed by Rita Hayworth," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (4 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990), 146-147.
"Claver, Saint Pedro," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Federmann, Nicolás," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Guiana Highlands," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Jiménez de Quesada, Gonzalo," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"Liberalism," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ), forthcoming.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (4 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990), 1150-1153.
"Things Fall Apart," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (4 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990), 1544-1546.
"The Time of the Hero," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II (4 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1990), 1569-1570.
"United States Marines Are Sent to Nicaragua to Quell Unrest," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Great Events from History II: Human Rights (5 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1992), 137-142.
"Presidential Candidates Are Killed in Colombian Violence," in Frank N. Magill (ed.), Great Events from History II: Human Rights (5 vols.; Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1992), 2465-2470.
E. Book Reviews
Francisco Zuluaga Ramírez, Guerrilla y sociedad en El Patía. Un relación entre clientelismo político y la insurgencia social (Cali: Universidad del Valle, 1993) in Revista de estudios colombianos y latinoamericanos (Santafé de Bogotá), forthcoming.
Patricia Vargas, Los Embero y los Cuna: Impacto y reacción ante la ocupación española, siglos xvi y xvii in Colonial Latin American Historical Review, (12-16-95) forthcoming.
José Ignacio Avellaneda [Navas], The Conquerors of the New Kingdom of Granda (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995) in The Americas, forthcoming.
Robert H. Davis, Historical Dictionary of Colombia (2nd ed.; Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993) in Revista de estudios colombianos y latinoamericanos (Santafé de Bogotá), forthcoming.
Anthony McFarlane, Colombia Before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics Under Bourbon Rule (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) in The American Historical Review, 100:2 (April, 1995), 620-621.
José Ignacio Avellaneda Navas, La expedición de Sebastián de Belalcázar al Mar del Norte y su llegada al Nuevo Reino de Granada (Santafé de Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1992) in The Americas, 51:2 (October 1994), 257-258.
Hernán Horna, Transport Modernization and Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century Colombia. Cisneros & Friends. (Studia Historica Upsaliensia, number 172.) (Uppsala, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1992) in The American Historical Review, 99:2 (April, 1994), 700-701.
Salomón Kalmanovitz, La encrucijada de la sinrazon y otros ensayos (Bogotá: Tercer Mundo, 1989), in Revista de estudios colombianos y latinoamericanos (Bogotá), Nos. 12-13 (1994), 58-59.
David Henige, In Search of Columbus. The Sources for the First Voyage (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991) in The History Teacher, 26:1 (November, 1992), 134-135.
Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford, England: University of California Press, 1990) in Journal of Developing Areas, 26:4 (July 1992), 540-541.
Michael L. Krenn, U.S. Policy toward Economic Nationalism in Latin America, 1917-1929 (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1990) in South Eastern Latin Americanist, 35:2 (September 1991), 34-35.
B.H. Slicher van Bath, Real hacienda y economía en Hispanoamérica, 1541-1820 (Amsterdam: CEDLA, 1989), in Hispanic American Historical Review, 71:2 (May 1991), 389.
Patricia Parkman, Nonviolent Insurrection in El Salvador: The Fall of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988), in The History Teacher, 24:3 (May 1991), 367-368.
[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán] La Masacre en las bananeras, 1928. Documentos. Testimonios ([Bogotá:] Ediciones Los Comuneros, s.f.), in Revista de Estudios Colombianos (Bogotá), No. 8 (1990), 53-54.
Richard L. Lael, Arrogant Diplomacy: US Policy toward Colombia, 1903-1922 (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1987), in The History Teacher, 23:3 (May 1990), 349-350.
Louis A. Perez, Jr., Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), in Journal of Developing Areas, 24:1 (October 1989), 80-81.
Paz Martín Ferrero, Actas del simposium ccl aniversario nacimiento de Joseph Celestino Mutis (Cádiz: Diputación Provincial, 1986), in Hispanic American Historical Review, 69:1 (February 1989), 163-164.
James William Park, Rafael Núñez and the Politics of Colombian Regionalism, 1863-1886 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985), in Revista de Estudios Colombianos (Bogotá), No. 6 (1989), 56-57.
Catherine LeGrand , Frontier Expansion and Peasant Protest in Colombia, 1850-1936, in Revista de Estudios Colombianos (Bogotá), No. 5 (1988), pp. 55-56.
Diego Garcés Giraldo, Sebastian de Belalcázar, fundador de ciudades, 1490-1551. Estudio biográfico in Hispanic American Historical Review, 67:4 (November 1987), 710-711.
Jane M. Rausch, The Tropical Plains Frontier: The Llanos of Colombia, 1531-1831, in The American Historical Review, 90:5 (December 1985), 1307-1308.
Lester D. Langley, The United States and the Caribbean, 1900-1970, in Louisiana History, 21:3 (1980), 321-322.
Charles W. Bergquist, Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910 in The American Historical Review, 84:5 (December 1979), 1511-1512.
William Frederick Sharp, Slavery on the Spanish Frontier: The Colombian Choco, 1680-1810 in The American Historical Review, 82:4 (October 1977), 1106-1107.
John Francis McDermott (ed.), The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1804 in the New Orleans Review, 4:4 (1975-1976), 380-381.
F. Reviewer
I reviewed Manuscript No. UF-305 "Diezmos y producción agraria: Buenos Aires, 1752-1804" for publication in the Hispanic American Historical Review in October of 1990.
I reviewed Proposal No. RC-21907, Lorene Pouncey, "The Library of the Convent of La Recoleta, Arequipa, Peru," for funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities in December of 1989.
I reviewed the manuscript "Slavery, Contraband, and the Tenientes de Justicia ; Authority and Control in the Colonial Caracas Hinterland" for publication in the Hispanic American Historical Review in January of 1988.
I reviewed the manuscript "Central America: Crisis and Economic Strategy, 1930-1985, Lessons from History" for publication in The Journal of Developing Areas, April 26, 1987.
I provided written reviews and evalutions of the following films and videos for the Directory of Latin American Film and Video, 124 Washington Place, New York, NY 10014 in May of 1993:
20 Mensajes Indígenas (Colombia, no date)
Técnicas de Duelo: Una Cuestión de Honor (Colombia/Cuba, 1988)
Behind the Cocaine War (Colombia/Spain, 1990)
Milagro en Roma (Colombia, l988)
Secuestro (Colombia, 1993)
Ananeko (Colombia, 1991)
G. Papers Read
"Mexico: Golden Business Opportunity or Quagmire?" presented at Implementing Profitable Strategies for NAFTA, Alianzas, International Business Conference, World Trade Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 26, 1995.
"Los límites del poder y la riqueza en la Nueva Granada
del siglo xvii," paper presented at La Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia, November 8, 1994.
"La contribución de Germán Colmenares a la historiografía colonial de Colombia," paper presented at La Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia, November 10, 1994.
"Economic History of Colombia," in session Colombian Historians and Colombian Historiography at 41st Annual Meeting of Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Lafayette, LA., April 7-9, 1994.
Paper "Political Violence in Colombia and U. S. Policy on Human Rights" for panel Political Violence in México, Colmbia and Perú: Consequences and U.S. Policies on Human Rights in Latin America, Latin and American Student Association, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 24, 1994.
"Dominio y riqueza en la Nueva Granada al principio del siglo xvii," VIII Congreso de Historia de Colombia, Bucaramanga, Colombia, Nov. 17-20, 1992.
"Seventeenth Century Spanish Colonial Administrators" in the session Administration, Law and Order in Spain and New Spain at Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 23-26, 1992.
"The Structure of White, Indian, and Black Relations: Wealth and Power in 17th Century Colombia," Tulane Mellon 1992 Spring Semester Colloquium, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 24, 1992.
"From the Lives of the Rich and Famous, the Wealthiest Man in 17th Century Colombia," Phi Alpha Theta Meeting, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, October 24, 1991.
"The Discovery of the New World, the Indian Demographic Disaster, and the Impact on Latin American Ethnicity," in the Ethnic Diversity in Spain and the Americas: On the Quincentenary of the Discovery Forum, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, April 11, 1991.
"The 16th & 17th Century Ospinas, " paper for session Colombia's Durable Oligarchs: The Ospinas from 1530 to 1990, at Gran Colombian Studies Committee Meeting for Conference on Latin American History Sessions of American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York City, N.Y., Dec. 27-30, 1990.
"Riqueza y poder en el Nuevo Reino de Granada del siglo xvii: El Caso de Diego Ospina, 1567-1630," at the VII National Congress of History of Colombia, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, Nov. 19-23, 1990.
The Cross-Cultural Experience of Mexico," at Conference on Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mérida, México, Feb. 22-24, 1990.
"Demographic Trends in the Censuses of 1835, 1843, and 1851," paper for session PRECIOUS METALS, POPULATION, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: THEMES IN COLOMBIAN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, at Conference on Latin American History meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 27-30, 1989.
"The Richest Man in Colombia in the Seventeenth Century," paper for session Power and Wealth in Colombia at the Sixth Annual Meeting, Association of Colombianists, Lawrence, Kansas, November 9-11, 1989.
"Historical Fact and Fiction in Alvaro Cepeda Samudio's La Casa Grande," Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, April 13-15, 1989.
"Mitos históricos y literarios en La casa grande," Fifth Annual Meeting, Association of Colombianists, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, August 1-5, 1988.
"La estructura de la economía de Colombia al final de la época colonial a través de los diezmos," Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Sevilla, España, Feb. 25, 1986.
"The Structure of the Agrarian Economy of New Granada in the Late Colonial Period," 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogotá, Colombia, July 1-7, 1985.
"Foreign Students on U.S. Campuses: The Wasted Resource in International and Foreign Language Studies," Fourth Annual Leadership Conference in Global Education, "Global Literacy: An Educational Imperative," July 25 - July 28, 1984, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
"The Part of History in the Drama of the Hispanic Family," The Hispanic Family in Louisiana Conference, Loyola University, April 16-17, 1982, New Orleans, LA.
"Divergent Paths in the Americas," Loyola University sponsored International Culture and Civilization Week, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 25, 1980.
"Humanistic Values and Spanish History," Loyola-Tulane University sponsored Spanish Culture Week, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 9, 1979.
"Tithe Production and the Quantification of the Pre-Industrial Economy of Colombia," XLIII International Congress of Americanists, Vancouver, Canada, August 11-17, 1979.
"Values and Culture in Bilingual and Bicultural Education: A Humanistic Approach," Sixth Annual International Bilingual/Bicultural Education Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 6, 1977.
"Latin American in the Politics of New Orleans," Louisiana Political Science Association Meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 11, 1977.
"Hacendados and Government in New Granada, 1750-1835," Southern Historical Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 13, 1975.
"Poverty and its Implications for the Future," Tulane University sponsored aid to the Third World Seminar, New Orleans, LA., Nov. 8, 1975.
"Quantifying Pre-Industrial Economies," guest lecture sponsored by Tulane University's Center for Latin American Studies, New Orleans, LA., February 27, 1975.
"The Economy of the Guanentá Region of New Granada," 41st International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, Sept. 2-7, 1974.
"Tithe Production and Economic Change in Colombia, 1760-1833," Second Symposium of Economic and Social History of Latin America at the 40th International Congress of Americanists, Rome, September 8, 1972.
"A New Trend in Colombian Historiography," Gran Colombianist Committee Session of the American Historical Association Meeting, New York, December 29, 1971.
H. Commentator and/or Chair at Scholarly Conferences
Commentator & Chair for session Exploring the Wealth of the New World: The Case of Colonial Chiapas at the Southwestern Historical Association Meeting in Affiliation with the Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 30-April 2, 1994.
Chair for Session Conservatism in 19th Century Central America at Southern Historical Association Meeting, Orlando, FL, Nov. 10-13, 1993.
Commentator on papers in Session Administration, Law and Order in Spain and New Spain (Late 18th & Early 19th Centuries) at Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 23-26, 1992.
Commentator on papers in Session The Problems of Colombian Biography--19th & 20th Centuries at 39th Annual Conference of Southerastern Council on Latin American Studies, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, April 2-5, 1992
Commentator on "Los Wayuu: ÀHacia otros 500 años?" paper given by Hernán Darío Correa, Jefe de Producción del Fondo Editorial de CEREC (Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Colombiana, Bogotá, Colombia), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 25, 1992.
Chair [in place of Paul Vanderwood] of the Session The Difficult Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America at American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Dec. 27-30, 1991.
Commentator on the papers in the session "En torno a dos importantes colombianos del siglo xix (Santander y Mosquera)" at 7o Congreso, Asociación de Colombianistas Norteamericanos, Ibagué, Colombia, August 11-15, 1991.
Commentator on the papers in the session "Conflictos Regionales en la Epoca Colonial y en el Siglo XIX" at 7o Congreso, Asociación de Colombianistas Norteamericanos, Ibagué, Colombia, August 11-15, 1991.
Chair for the session Religions and Spirituality in Spain and New Spain (16th - 18th Century) at the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Millersville, PA, April 19-21, 1991.
Commentator on "Colombia: A Country in Turmoil" address of Arturo Sarabia Better, Governor of the Colombian Department of Atlántico, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 21, 1991.
Chair & Commentator on the papers in the session Latin American Politics at the Louisiana Political Science Association Meeting, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, March 8-9, 1991.
Commentator on the papers in the session Two Faces of Latin American World Relationships: Language and Thought at 38th Annual Conference of Southerastern Council on Latin American Studies, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, Feb 28-March 2, 1991.
Commentator on Dr. José Ignacio García Hamilton's paper, "The Origins of Authoritarian Culture in Latin America," at Conference on Dr. García's published work, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, November 15, 1990.
Chair and Commentator on three papers in session The Carlist War at the 20th Meeting of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, September 28-30, 1989.
Chair and Principal Commentator on "Cartagena y Belalcázar," Fifth Annual Meeting, Association of Colombianists, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, August 1-5, 1988.
Commentator on "The United Nations: History and Contemporary Issues," by John Paul Kavanagh, Second Officer in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General, New York, at Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, April 13, 1988.
Chair for the session "Understanding United States' Border Relations Through Popular Culture," Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-26, 1988.
Commentator on the papers in the session "Colombia's Liberal Republic, 1863-1886: New Perspectives," Southern Historical Association Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, Nov. 13-15, 1986.
Chair on the papers in the session "The Church in the Spanish Floridas during the Colonial Era" at the Church and Society in Latin America Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA., April 29-30, 1975.
Commentator on the papers in the session "The Uses of Data Banks in Latin American Research" at the XXII Annual Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, Atlanta, April 17-19, 1975.
Commentator on the papers in the session "Mexican Sociology Part II," Southwestern Social Science Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 26-28, 1975.
Commentator on the papers in the session "Understanding Latin America: Radical and Traditional Paradigms," Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, March 26-28, 1975.
I. Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
Grant from Loyola University and National Endowment for the Humanities for release time to develop a new course on the Divergent Paths of English and Latin America, Spring, 1977.
NSF Chautaqua-Type Short Course for College Teachers, "Cliometrics New Directions in Econimic History," LSU, Baton Rouge, October 28-29, 1976 and March 10-11, 1977.
Grant from Loyola University and National Endowment for the Humanities for release time to develop a new course on Slavery in the Americas, Fall, 1976.
Loyola University's Nominee for a Teaching Fellowship at the National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago, Spring, 1976.
Grant from Loyola University and National Endowment for the Humanities for release time to develop a new course on the Third World, Summer, 1976.
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Study in Latin America, 1969-1970. (For dissertation research in Colombia).
NDEA Title VI Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1966-1969.
The above does not include the membership which I hold in many historical and Latin American scholarly organizations.
J. Research in Progress
I have a book-length manuscript on the career patterns and income and wealth of high Spanish officials in Colombia in the seventeenth century tentatively entitled "All the King's Men: The Spanish Empire and the Limits of Power and Wealth in 17th Century Colombia"
I am working on an economic history of Colombia from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. This economic history will rest on efforts made to quantify the agrarian sector of the Colombian economy from the 1570s to the 1840s using the tithe accounts from about forty-five tithe districts.
K. Other
Member, South Eastern Conference of Latin American Studies Program Committee for the Southern Historical Association 1994 Meeting. Program Chair for Latin American and Spanish History Sessions for the Southern Historical Association's 1994 Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 9-12-1994.
Member, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995 Sturgis Leavitt Prize Committee for Best Article or Chapter on Latin America, South Eastern Conference of Latin American Studies, Meeting in Tampa, Florida, April 5-7, 1990, awarded prize to Robert M. Levine for his article "'Mud-Hut Jerusalem': Canudos Revisted," Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (August 1988): 525-572; Meeting in Antigua, Guatemala, Feb. 18-21, 1993, awarded prize to Joseph L. Arbena, "Sport Development, and Mexican Nationalism, l920-1970," Journal of Sports History, 18:3 (Winter, 1991), 350-364.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New Orleans, LA, April 6-7, 1990.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Latin American Studies Association 14th International Congress, New Orleans, LA, March 17-19, 1988
V. COMMUNITY SERVICE
A. Service to the Loyola Community
Produced Memorandum of Understanding Between La Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City & Loyola University, New Orleans, which was signed by the Rector and President of the respective universities in the Fall of 1984.
Loyola designated representative at the Delta Assembly, Nov. 7-9, 1984 at Natchez, Mississippi on United States Mexican Relations.
Chair, Special Activities Standard Committee, Principal Committee Report, Loyola's Institutional Self-Study for SACS, 1983-1985.
Member, Continuing Education, Outreach, and Service Programs Committee, Loyola's Institutional Self-Study for SACS, 1993-1995.
Associate Member, Tulane University's Center for Latin American Studies, 1972-1995.
Chairman, History Department, 1980-1983
Member, College Rank and Tenure Committee, 1979, 1985-1990
Member, University Rank and Tenure Committee, 1993-1994.
Chairman, A & S Chairpersons' Sub-Committee on Release Time & Sabbatical Policies, 1980-1981
Member, A & S Chairpersons' Sub-Committee to Study BA in Political Economy degree, 1979
Loyola University's Liaison for the Faculty Exchange Program, 1981-1985
Member, A & S's Council of Chairpersons, 1980-1983
Chairman, Handbook Negotiating Committee, 1974-1978
A & S's Member Representative on Salary Review Committee for clerical staff, 1981-1984
Vice-President University Senate, 1974-1975
Member, University Senate, 1974-1976, 1992-1994
Member, University Common Curriculum Committee, 1976
Member, SCAP Subcommittee of Summer School Review, 1976
President, Executive Committee, Senior Common Room Association, 1981-1985, 1986-1994
Member, Jesuit Identity Task Force, 1987-1994
B. Services to the New Orleans Community
Lecture "Two-way Communication: U.S. and Latin America," Fifth Jesuit Communications Conference, New Orleans, LA., January 10, 1985
Lecture "U.S. Involvement in Central America," Cross-Cultural Center for Living and Learning, Loyola University, New Orleans, La., October 22, 1984
Principal Panel Participant in "New Orleans: The Caribbean and Latin America," Program for the Louisiana Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Xavier University, New Orleans , LA., October 8, 1983
Televised interview for forthcoming Hispanic Family in Louisiana Conference at Loyola University April 16-17, 1982, for Channel 8's Spanish language program Telescopio Informativo. Program aired April 3, 1982 at 1:00 p.m.
Lecture "The Latin American Culture in New Orleans" given Wednesday, September 16, 1981 at the National Finance Center of the United States Department of Agriculture as a part of the National Hispanic Heritage Week.
I have directed and/or participated in a number of programs sponsored by the Louisiana Committee for the Humanities for a general New Orleans audience. These include:
"Private Enterprise and Public Responsibility" series, Spring, 1973
"League of United Latin American Citizens" series, Spring, 1974
"American Issues Forum" series, Fall, 1975
"The American Dream for Latin Americans in Louisiana" series, Fall, 1975 - Summer, 1976
Hispanic & Anglo-American Cultural Committee Series' Program "Values and Culture in a Pluralistic Society", Spring and Fall 1977 and Spring 1978.
I served as an academic humanist in the above programs. In the last two listed I was responsible for their planning and direction. We did twenty-three separate programs and reached more than a thousand people in the "American Dream for Latin Americans" series, and we did thirty-one separate programs and reached more than 1,600 people in the "Values & Culture in a Pluralistic Society" series.
The above does not include talks, discussions, and debates I have done in English and Spanish for the Loyola and New Orleans communities.