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LINA DEL CASTILLOHistory Department, The University of Texas at Austin128 Inner Campus Dr. B7000, GAR 3.216, Austin, Texas 78712-1739EDUCATIONPh.D., History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL May 2007 M.A., History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL May 2004 B.A., History & Latin American Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 1997PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTSAssociate Professor, History Department and Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies - Benson Latin American Studies and Collections (LLILAS-Benson), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TXSeptember 2019- presentAssistant Professor, History Department and Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies - Benson Latin American Studies and Collections (LLILAS-Benson), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX August 2012 – August 2019 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK January - June 2016Fellow, University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies, South Bend, IN August 2014 - May 2015Visiting Scholar, LLILAS-Benson, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX January 2011 - May 2012 Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RI August - December 2010Assistant Professor, History Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA August 2007 – May 2010Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL August 2005 – May 2007Co-Principle Investigator, National Science Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia August 2004 – July 2005University of Miami Fellow, History Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL August 2001 – May 2004 High School English Teacher, Gimnasio Fontana, Guaymaral, Bogotá, Colombia January 2000 – June 2001Lecturer, Historia de Colombia, siglo xix [19th-Century Colombian History], Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia August 1999 - December 1999 Academic Coordinator, Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales [International Relations Department], Facultad de Ciencas Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales [School of Political Science and International Relations], Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia January 1998 – December 1999Lecturer, US-Latino Literature, Departamento de Lenguas y Cultura [Department of Languages and Culture], Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia January 1998 - May 1998Teaching Assistant, Colonial Latin America, Departamento de Historia [Department of History], Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia August 1997 – December 1997 PUBLICATIONS & SCHOLARLY WORKSBooks (includes accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina. (2018). Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 382 mss. pp. Translation into Spanish. (2018). La Invención republicana del legado colonial: Ciencia, historia y geografía de la vanguardia política colombiana en el siglo XIX. Bogotá, Colombia: Banco de la República and Universidad de los Andes. 310 mss. pp.Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (includes accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina. (Available online May 23, 2019. Forthcoming in print 2019.) “Surveying the Lands of Republican Indígenas: Contentious Nineteenth-Century Efforts to Abolish Indigenous Resguardos near Bogotá, Colombia.” Journal of Latin American Studies, pp. 1-29. doi:10.1017/S0022216X19000294.Del Castillo, Lina. (2018). “Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality and Spatiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819-1830.” Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 3: 407-438.Del Castillo, Lina. (2018). “Caldas as Galileo: Republican Print Culture Invents an Obscurantist Monarchy to Legitimate Rule.” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura [Annual Colombian Journal of Social and Cultural History] 45, no. 2: 89-117.Del Castillo, Lina. (2010). “La Gran Colombia de la Gran Breta?a: la importancia del lugar en la producción de imágenes nacionales, 1819-1830 [Great Britain’s Greater Colombia: the Importance of Place in the Production of National Images, 1819-1830].” Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades [Araucaria: Ibero-American Journal of Philosophy, Politics, and Humanities] 12, no. 24: 124-149.Aranda, Marcelo, Katherine Arner, Lina del Castillo, Helen Cowie, Matthew Crawford, Joseph Cullon, Marcelo Figueroa, Claire Gherini, Melissa Grafe, Sarah Irving, Ryan Kashanipour, Carla Lois, Adrián López-Denis, Bertie Mandelblatt, Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Kathleen Murphy, Eric Otremba, Christopher Parsons, Heather Peterson, Emily Senior, Teresa Vergara, Kelly Wisecup, and Anya Zilberstein. (2010). “The History of Atlantic Science: Collective Reflections from the 2009 Harvard Seminar on Atlantic History.” Atlantic Studies 7, no. 4: 493-509.Del Castillo, Lina. (2006). “‘Prefiriendo siempre á los agrimensores científicos.’ Discriminación en la medición y el reparto de resguardos indígenas en el altiplano cundiboyacense, 1821-1854 [‘Scientific Land Surveyors are Always to be Preferred’: Discrimination in the survey and distribution of indigenous common lands in the high plains near Bogotá, Colombia].” Historia Crítica [Critical History Journal] 32: 68-93.Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters (includes accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina. (Accepted; minor edits will be requested September 2018; the volume will be sent to press in 2021, projected publication date 2023). “The Gran Colombian Mapping Commission.” In Roger Kain (ed.), The History of Cartography. Volume 5: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 3 mss. pp.Del Castillo, Lina. (2019). “Inventing Columbia/Colombia.” In Mark Thurner (ed.), The First Wave of Decolonization. New York and London: Routledge, 48-76.Del Castillo, Lina. (2017). “Cartography in the Production (and Silencing) of Colombian Independence History, 1807-1827.” In James R. Akerman (ed.), Decolonizing the Map: Cartography from Colony to Nation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 110-159. Del Castillo, Lina. (2012). “La cartografía impresa en la creación de la opinión pública en la época de la independencia [The Role of Print Cartography in the Creation of Public Opinión During the Period of Independence].” In Francisco A. Ortega Marínez & Alexander Chaparro Silva (eds.), Disfraz y pluma de todos: Opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX [Everyman’s Costume and Pen: Public Opinion and Political Culture in the 18th-19th centuries]. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Helsinki: University of Helsinki the Research Project Europe, 377-420. Del Castillo, Lina. (2011). “Interior Designs.” In Jordana Dym & Karl Offen (eds.), Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 148-152. Del Castillo, Lina. (2011). “Educating the Nation.” In Jordana Dym & Karl Offen (eds.), Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 193-197. Book Chapters (includes accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina, Díaz Angel, Sebastián, & Duque Mu?oz, Lucía. (2014). “Los Mapas de la Gran Colombia [The Maps of Greater Colombia].” In Mariano Cuesta Domingo (ed.), Cartografía Hispánica: 1800-1975. Una cartografía inestable en un mundo convulso [Hispanic Cartography: 1800-1975. Unstable Cartography in a Turbulent World]. Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 97-118.Del Castillo, Lina. (2006). “Mapping Power: Agustín Codazzi’s Scientific Expeditions and the Formation of Nineteenth Century Venezuela and Nueva Granada.” In Lourdes de Ita Rubio and Gerardo Sánchez Díaz (eds.), Humboldt y otros viajeros en América Latina [Humboldt and other travelers in Latin America]. Morelia, México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 257-273. Book Reviews (includes accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina. (2016). Review of Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas, by Tamar Herzog. A contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 13, no. 2: 342-346.Del Castillo, Lina (2015). Review of Geografía y cultura visual: Los usos de las imagines en las reflexiones sobre el espacio [Geography and Visual Culture: The Use of Images in Reflections on Space], edited by Carla Lois and Veronica Hollman. Journal of Latin American Geography 14, no. 3: 281-283. Del Castillo, Lina. (2014). Review of Centering Animals in Latin American History, edited by Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45, no. 1: 103-105. Del Castillo, Lina. (2014). Review of City at the Center of the World: Space, history, and Modernity in Quito, by Ernesto Capello. Imago Mundi 66, no. 1: 123-124.Del Castillo, Lina. (2013). Review of Pensar el siglo xix desde el siglo xxi: Nuevas miradas y lecturas [The nineteenth century thought from the twenty-first century: New views and readings]. Edited by Ana Peluffo. Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 4: 719-721. Del Castillo, Lina. (2012). Review of William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns, by Peter J. Kastor. The Americas 68, no. 4: 625-626. Del Castillo, Lina. (2010). Review of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America by Neil Safier. Ethnohistory Quarterly 57: 354-355. Del Castillo, Lina. (2010). Review of The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, edited by James Akerman. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41, no. 2: 269-271.Reference Works (accepted and in press)Del Castillo, Lina. (2006). “Science and Scientists-Modern Latin America.” In Francis, Michael J. (ed.), Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Volume 3), Santa?Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1084-1089. Del Castillo, Lina. (2006). “Women-Modern Spanish America.” In Francis, Michael J. (ed.), Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Volume 3) Santa?Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 928-932.PUBLIC PRESENCE IN MEDIA “Latin America’s 19th Century: A Work in Progress.” August - December 2017. I lead an upper-division undergraduate history class that curated primary sources related to Latin America’s 19th century from the University of Texas at Austin’s Benson Latin American Collection. Del Castillo, Lina. “Intimidation Factor: New Gun Laws on US College Campuses are Great News for Potential Sexual Predators.” Op-ed in Quartz Media LLC, February 29, 2016. “Quotes from Gabo,” video-lecture showcasing Gabriel García Márquez Archives, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Published January 8, 2016. Available: “Latin America’s 19th Century: Reflections on Modernity, Memory, and Identity.” August - December 2016. I lead an upper-division undergraduate history class that curated primary sources related to Latin America’s 19th century from the University of Texas at Austin’s Benson Latin American Collection. Reproductions of the original materials were physically exhibited in the Benson Library from December 5, 2016 to March 15, 2017. For the online version: “The Political Worlds of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Q&A with Lina del Castillo.” The Ransom Center Magazine, October 27, 2015. Text available: “Viajes a la memoria, la huella de una nación. Quinto capítulo: Un Retrato del Alma [Journeys into Memory: The Traces Left by a Nation. Fifth Chapter: A Portrait of the Soul].” Aired on July 5, 2010 via Canal Caracol, a Colombian national television channel. In this 30-minute episode, I interviewed various experts in Colombia about the 19th-century Chorographic Commission. This episode was also aired on the in-cabin television sets of Avianca, the Colombian national airline. A brief description is available here: RESEARCH GRANTS Del Castillo, Lina. U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the National University in Bogotá, Colombia, January 2010-August 2010.Del Castillo, Lina. “Comisión Corográfica [Chorographic Commission]” National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2004-2005. Total funding awarded: $25,000.AWARDS AND HONORS2019-2020Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TXSpring 2016 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UKFall 2015 College Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX2014-2015Fellow, University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies, South Bend, INFall 2010Jeannette D. Black Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, RIFall 2009Big Twelve Faculty Fellowship, from Iowa State University to University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX2008Barrett Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation on a Latin American Topic, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL2007College of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL2007Robert Levine Memorial Scholarship for Latin American History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL2001-2004 University Fellow, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FLPRESENTATIONSInvited Talks“La invención republicana del legado colonial: Ciencia, historia y geografía de la vanguardia política colombiana en el siglo XIX [Republican inventions of colonial legacies: The science, history, and geography of (Colombia’s) nineteenth-century political vanguard].” Banco de la República, Auditorio del Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia, August 2019.“La invención republicana del legado colonial: Ciencia, historia y geografía de la vanguardia política colombiana en el siglo XIX [Republican inventions of colonial legacies: The science, history, and geography of (Colombia’s) nineteenth-century political vanguard].” Banco de la República, Universidad Nacional - Sede Medellín, Universidad de los Andes, EAFIT. Auditorio del Banco de la República, Medellín, Colombia, July 2019.“Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia.” Maurio Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latino Studies Program, History, Government, Global Learning, Latin American Studies Program, Global Cornell, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 2019.“Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia.” Department of Romance Languages, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, February 2019.“Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia.” Yale Macmillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS), Yale University, New Haven, CT, January 2019.“Latin American Contributions to Global Human Rights,” Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, November 2018.“Crafting a Republic for the World,” The History Faculty New Book Series and the LLILAS Faculty Book Series, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2018. “What is Modern about 19th-Century Latin America?” Lecture to Anderson High School students via LLILAS-Benson K-12 outreach program, LLILAS-Benson Library, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, February 2017.“New Granada Elites in the Making of Republican Vanguard Science, 1840s-1850s,” History and Philosophy of Science Lecture Series, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2016.“The Science of Nation Building: Geographic Practices Forge a Modern Colombian Republic, 1821-1921,” Latin American History Seminar for the Latin American Centre School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2016.“Great Britain’s Grand Colombia,” London Andean Studies Seminar, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK, May 2016.“The Making and Unmaking of a Colombian Hemisphere during the Early 19th Century,” Decolonizing Andean Studies, London Andean Studies Seminar, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK, March 2016.“Visualizing the Fragmenting Space of Colombia through Natural Sciences: Colombia’s French-Trained Naturalist Expedition, 1820-1849,” Latin American History Working Group, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, February 2015. “The Canton from Caracas to Gran Colombia, 1808-1826,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, December 2014. “Pensando el siglo XIX a través de la cartografía manuscrita: el caso de la Gran Colombia [Thinking the Nineteenth Century through Manuscript Cartography: The Case of Greater Colombia],” guest lecture for Vanesa Miseres’ class, Gender and Nation in Nineteenth Century Latin America, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, October 2014. “Representing the Gran Colombian Landscape through Maps, Landscapes and Interiors, 1819-1830,” Warwick Americas Seminar, School of Comparative American Studies, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, March 2013. “Cartographies of Colombian Independence,” Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies Faculty Series, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, September 2012.“Mapping Out the Curious Life of the Canton in Early Republican Colombia, 1824-1853,” Hispanic Heritage Month Academic Seminar: New Directions in the Social and Political History of Colombia and Latin America, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, October 2012. “Transatlantic Visions and Regional Designs in the Making of Colombian Territories,” History Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2011.“The Gran Colombia of Great Britain, 1807-1830,” Department of History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, October 2011.“Cartographies of Independence,” Seventeenth Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, Chicago, IL, November 2010. “Assembling the Nation: Maps in the Making of a Gran Colombian Polity,” The John Carter Brown Library Fellows Luncheon Chat. Providence, RI, October 2010.“Impresiones de la Gran Colombia [Impressions of Greater Colombia],” for Workshop titled: Seeing the Nation: Cartography and Politics in Spanish America. Co-sponsored by Leverhulme Trust, University of Warwick, and Universidad de los Andes. Held in Bogotá, Colombia, August 2010."The Gran Colombian Cartography Project, 1821-1830,” at the Empires of Science in the Long Nineteenth Century Conference, co-sponsored by the Huntington Library & the Greenwich Maritime Museum. Held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April 2010.“Las cartografías de la Gran Colombia: encuentros y desencuentros entre imaginarios nacionales y dise?os imperiales, 1819-1830 [The Cartographies of Greater Colombia: Agreements and Disagreements between National Imaginaries and Imperial Designs, 1819-1830],” at the Fulbright Forum held at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, August 2010.“Cartographies of Independence: Criollos Represent Gran Colombia in a Changing Atlantic World, 1808-1845,” in New Directions in the Study of Early American Cartographies, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Portland, ME, October 2009.“Criollo Representations of Gran Colombia and their Re-presentations in a Changing Atlantic World, 1819-1830,” International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 2009.“Women’s Territorial Moves: Normal School Teachers of Colombia and the Teaching of Geography, 1870-1890s,” Identity, Territory, and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA), co-sponsored by Syracuse University and Cornell University, held at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, February 2008. “The Imagination, Science and Power of Mapping New Granada, 1831-1858.” History Department Colloquium, Florida International University, Miami, FL April 2007. “‘The State of Geography’: Printing Geographic Memories and State Formation in Colombia, 1808-1830,” Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2005.Conference Presentations“Inventing Columbia/Colombia,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston, MA, May 2019.“Costumbrismo as Ethnographic Science: Novel Scientific Sketches of Everyday Life in Mid-19th Century New Granada,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima, Peru, April 2017.“Making and Unmaking of Revolutionary Spaces in Colombia: The Case of the Canton, 1808–53,” Conference on Latin American History - American Historical Association Meeting (CLAH-AHA), Denver, CO, January 2017.“Space-Making Memorialization in Revolutionary Times: Joaquin Acosta’s 1840s Compilation of Colombia’s 1820s Scientific Expedition,” LASA, New York, NY, May 2016.“Disappearing Naturalists: The Geopolitics of Scientific Patronage and Print Culture in the Invention and Dissolution of Colombian Space,” LAGLOBAL Seminar, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK, February 2016.“Mapping Out Gran Colombia’s Place in an American Hemisphere,” History of Science Society (HSS) Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2015.“Mapping Out the Birth of the Canton,” LASA, San Juan, PR, May 2015.“French Scientific Reconnaissance of Gran Colombia and its Discontents,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850, Oxford, MS, February 2014.“‘Impossible for Me to Satisfy Your Desire’: Provincial Cartographies and the Frustrated National Vision of Colombia, 1820–1830,” CLAH-AHA, San Diego, CA, January 2010.“Women Stake Territorial Claims: Institutoras [Normal School Teachers] and Geographic Education in Colombia, 1870-1890s,” Latin American Studies Association LASA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009. “Mapping out Ethnicity in New Granada, 1830-1870,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Santa Fe, NM, March 2009.“Salty Prostitutes or Angry Men? Accusations of Immoral Conduct within the Salt Mines of Zipaquirá, New Granada (Colombia).” CLAH-AHA, New York, NY, January 2009.“Mujeres moviéndose por el territorio [Women Make Territorial Moves],” II Simposio Iberoamericano de Historia de la Cartografía [II Ibero-american symposium on the History of Cartography], Mexico City, Mexico, April 2008.“Putting Gran Colombia on the Map,” Gran Colombia Panel, CLAH - AHA, Washington DC, January 2008.“The Comisión Corográfica [Chorographic Commission] in Action: Surveying the Moral Topography of New Granada, 1848-1855,” LASA, Montreal, Canada, September 2007. “Ingenieros, geógrafos y Reyes, 1896-1912 [Engineers, Geographers, and [President Rafael] Reyes, 1896-1912],” XV Congreso de Colombianistas: Independencia e Independencias [XV Congress of Colombianist Scholars: Independence and Independencies], Bogotá, Colombia, August 2007.“Making Maps Work: The Colegio Militar [Military School] and the Comisión Corográfica [Chorographic Commission] in the Development of Geographic Sciences in New Granada, 1848-1859,” Gran Colombia Panel, CLAH - AHA, Atlanta, GA January 2007.“Everyday Acts of Agrimensura: Surveying Conflicts Forge 19th Century Colombian Territories,” LASA, San Juan, PR, March 2006.“Exploring the Intersections of Science and Medicine in Latin America: New Directions in History and Methodology,” LASA, San Juan, PR, March 2006.“Official Acts of Agrimensura [Land Surveys]: The Politics of Resguardo [Indigenous Communal Land] Surveys in Bogotá, 1821-1857,” 4th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Graduate Student Conference, Florida International University (FIU) and University of Miami, held at FIU, Miami, FL, March 2006.“The Science of Nation Building: The Construction of Colombian Territories through the Production of Scientific Knowledge,” Society for the History of Technology/History of Science Society (SHOT/HSS), Minneapolis, MN, November 2005. “Agustin Codazzi’s Scientific Expeditions and the Making of Political Power in Venezuela and Colombia, 1830-1861,” LASA, Las Vegas, NV, October 2004.“New Dissertation Research on Latin American History,” CLAH-AHA, Washington, DC, January 2004.“Mapping Power: Agustín Codazzi’s Scientific Expeditions and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century Venezuela and Nueva Granada,” Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, México, August 2003.ADVISING Service on PhD Committees at the University of Texas at AustinGonzález-Quintero, Nicolás. History, 2017-present (Co-Chair with Jorge Ca?izares-Esguerra)Mercado-Montero, Ernesto. History, 2017-present (Co-Chair with Jorge Ca?izares-Esguerra)Carvajal Regidor, José I., Spanish and Portuguese, 2015-present. (Dissertation Committee Member)Chanis, Suet Yee Shery. History, 2014- present. (Dissertation Committee Member)Afanador, María José. Ph.D. in History, 2014-2016. (Dissertation Committee Member)Service on PhD Committees at other UniversitiesRuiz, Claudia Paola. History, El Colegio de México [College of Mexico], Centro de Estudios Históricos [Center for Historical Studies], 2017 (External reader and evaluator of dissertation)Masters Committees at the University of Texas at AustinMolina, Luciana Natalia, M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2013 (Master’s Thesis Committee Member)Graduate Student Mentorship at the University of Texas at AustinErwin, Brittany. History, 2018-present (Comprehensive Examiner, Modern Latin America)Heredia, Diana. History, 2017-present (Supervisor during coursework)Deidan de la Torre, Ahmed. History, 2016-present (Supervisor during coursework & Comprehensive Examiner, Modern Latin America)Olson, Madeline. History, Fall 2017 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Tiney Chirix, Juan. Latin American Studies, Fall 2017 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Castro Villarreal, Mario. Latin American Studies, Fall 2016 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Flannery, Kristie. History, Fall 2016 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Heaney, Christopher. History, Spring 2014 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Mercado-Montero, Ernesto. Latin American Studies, Fall 2013 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Bates, Juandrea. History, Fall 2012 (Supervisor for Teaching Assistantship)Undergraduate Honors Theses at the University of Texas at AustinLeBrun, Jared, History, 2018-present. (2nd reader)Lott, Jasmine, History, 2014. (2nd reader)SERVICE Service to the UniversityFaculty Respondent to Jimena Perry’s “Throwing in the Towel: Representing Political Violence in Colombia’s National Museum, 2001” for the Spring 20018 Graduate Student’s Affiliate Workshop, The Bernard and Audre Rapaport Center for Human Rights and Justice, April 2018.Faculty committee overseeing the Cultural Diversity in the U.S.?flag and Global?Cultures?flag 2017 – 2018.Contribution to promotional events surrounding the Harry Ransom Center symposium on Gabriel García Márquez: His Life and Legacy, October 2015. Discussant for Harry Ransom Center and LLILAS -Benson panel “The Political Worlds of Gabriel García Marquez,” October 2015.Liaison between LLILAS -Benson and the Harry Ransom Center and Colombia’s Minister of Culture for the transfer of García Marquez collection to Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin. October 2015.Service to History Department Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, 2019Faculty Ombuds, 2018-2019Executive Committee, 2017-2018, Fall 2015, 2012-2013Graduate Program Committee & Graduate Admissions Committee, 2016 - 2017Military History Search Committee, 2016- 2017Search Committee to evaluate recruitment of Joshua Frens-String, Fall 2015Perry Prize for Best MA Thesis/Report 2012- 2013Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation, 2013- 2014Service to Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies-BensonPromotion of LLILAS -Benson Rare books collections by featuring them in the upper-division undergraduate course, “The Emergence of Latin America in the 19th Century.” Fall 2017.Promotion of LLILAS -Benson Rare books collections by featuring them in the upper-division undergraduate course, “Mapping Latin America,” held in Benson Seminar Room, Spring 2017.Directed the student-curated exhibition, “Latin America’s 19th Century” through HIS 350L/LAS 360 course, the Emergence of Latin America in the 19th Century. Exhibit ran from December 2016 - March 2017.Guest Lecture and Docent for LLILAS -Benson Workshop with Anderson High School Students on student-curated exhibit, “Latin America’s 19th Century.” February 2017.Presentation on incorporating LLILAS -Benson Materials in the Classroom and in Research for the University of Texas Libraries Advisory Council, October 2013.Judge for Summer Internship placement applications for LLILAS Program, Spring 2012.Coordinator of LLILAS Graduate Student Summer Internship Program, Summer-Fall 2011. See: Professional ServiceCo-Chair, Colombia Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2010-2012.Chair, Gran Colombia Studies, Council of Latin American History (CLAH) affiliated with the American Historical Association (AHA), 2010.Secretary, Gran Colombia Studies, CLAH-AHA, 2009.Book Award Chair, Colombia Section of LASA, 2008-2010.Evaluator for scholarship prizes and fellowships Michael Jimenez Book Prize Chair, Colombia Section of LASA, 2017CLAH Vanderwood Prize for the best English-language article on Latin American history published in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review, 2015.John Carter Brown Library long-term fellowship program, January 2014.Peer-Reviewer Journal of Latin American Studies, ad hoc since 2015Ethnohistory, ad hoc since 2018Professional MembershipsAmerican Historical Society (AHA), 2004 –presentConference on Latin American History (CLAH), 2004-presentLatin American Historical Association (LASA), 2004 – presentLanguagesEnglish (native)Spanish (native)French (reading only) ................
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