Gilbert M. Joseph
   Farnam Professor of History
     Yale University
 

            "Transnational Encounters: The State and the Politics of Culture in Mexico Since the Revolution""
                 Tuesday, 8 April at 11:00 a.m.
                    Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus Center

            "Bringing Latin America Into a New Global History of the Cold War"
                    Thursday, 10 April at 11:00 a.m.
                    Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus Center
 

Professor Joseph will have several more engagements with the Pomona College student, faculty and alumni communities.
 
 

The Thompson Lecturer for 2000/2001:

GILBERT M. JOSEPH received his doctorate from Yale University in Latin American history in 1978. In 1993, after teaching for 15 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he returned to Yale, where he is presently Farnam Professor of History, Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Yale's representative on the New England Consortium of Latin American Studies. he has also been a visiting professor at Duke University, Florida International University, and the University of Connecticut.

Professor Josheph is the author of Revolution from Without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924, Rediscovering the Past at Mexico's Periphery; and with Allen Wells, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatan, 1876-1915. He is currently completing When Still Waters Crest with Blood: Strategies of Protest and Survival in the Latin American Countryside, in collaboration with cultural anthropologist Patricia Pessar, which draws upon fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. The author of numerous articles on modern Mexico, the Mexican revolution, social movements, and the history of rural crime and protest, he is also the editor of 10 books, including, with Daniel Nugent, Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico; with Catherine LeGrand and Ricardo Salvatore, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing teh Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations; with Ane Rubenstein and Eric Zolov, Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940; with Ricardo Salvaqtore and Carlos Aguirre, Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Snce Late Colonial Times; and Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History.

Professor Joseph is the outgoing editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review and sits on the editorial boards of historical journals in Mexico, Venezuela, and the U.K. He recently concluded service on the Latin American Reginal Advisory Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the "Twenty-first Century Committee" of the Latin American Studies Association, and is the former North American Chair of the Joint Organizing Committee of the Conference of Mexican, U.S., and Canadian Historians. Professor Joseph has sat on national screening and selection committees for fellowship administered by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright program.