Curriculum Vitae of Joseph U. Lenti, 1

CURRICULUM VITA

Joseph U. Lenti, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor

Department of History, Patterson 111G

Eastern Washington University

Cheney, WA 99004

jlenti@ewu.edu; (509) 359-7951

Dr. Joseph U. Lenti has taught at Eastern Washington University since 2010. In that time he has maintained a busy research and publication schedule while expanding the profile of Latin American history on campus through new undergraduate and graduate courses in the discipline. Moreover, as the coordinator of the Latin American certificate program Lenti has encouraged students to make a multidisciplinary assessment of the region a central component of their education, and to further this goal he has organized faculty, student, and visiting scholars’ research forums, and created programs that have enabled students to conduct research in Mexico and Cuba and present papers at academic conferences in Costa Rica and Colombia. In the same vein Lenti organized the EWU Colloquium on Mexico: Societal Challenges & Popular Responses, a major event that put thirty-five scholars, filmmakers, journalists, and social activists in discussion with over a thousand community members on subjects of historical, contemporary, and transnational issues of state and political stability, migration, drug trafficking, cultural diffusion, and resistance in the Mexican-U.S. borderlands, broadly defined. Lastly, Lenti’s experience teaching students in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) and work with the Ronald E. McNair Program has made him culturally fluent in the unique educational needs of minority and first-generation university students. Education

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Ph.D. in History, Latin America, December 2011. Dissertation (approved, November 7, 2011, with distinction) Major Field I: Latin American History, Modern Period Major Field II: Latin American History, Early Period Outside Field: European History, Modern Period

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM M.A. in History, Latin America, May 2005.

Graduated Summa Cum Laude; GPA: 3.96

Northeastern University, Boston, MA B.S., June 2001.

Major Field: History Minor Field: Political Science Graduated Summa Cum Laude; GPA: 3.84

Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Publications

Works in Progress

Lenti, Joseph U., ed. Invaders in the Lost City: Urbanization and the Struggle for Land and Housing in Modern Mexico. (book manuscript in preparation) Lenti, Joseph U. “The AP DBQ: Industrializing and Standardizing Analysis for Today’s History Professional”. (article manuscript under consideration)

Monograph

Lenti, Joseph U. Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Chapters, Articles, Reviews, Dissertation, and Thesis

Lenti, Joseph U., Review of Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith’s (eds.) Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968. In The Latin Americanist 58:4 (2014): 90-92. Lenti, Joseph U., Review of William Suarez-Potts’s The Making of Law: The Supreme Court and Labor Legislation in Mexico, 1875-1931. In The Journal of Latin American Studies 46:2 (2014): 417-419. Lenti, Joseph U. “Collaboration and Conflict: Organized Labor, Business, and the State in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2011. Kiddle, Amelia M. and Lenti, Joseph U. “Co-opting Cardenismo: Luis Echeverría and the Funeral of Lázaro Cárdenas.” In Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, Eds. Amelia M. Kiddle and María L.O. Muñoz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. Lenti, Joseph U. “‘A Revolutionary Regime Must Put the Interests of the Majority First’: Class, Collectivism, and Paternalism in Post-Tlatelolco Mexican Tripartite Relations.” The Latin Americanist 54:4 (2010): 163-182.

Lenti, Joseph U. “Cultivating the Conscious Being: The Mexican Education Project, 1921 1934.” M.A. thesis, University of New Mexico, 2005.

Academic Presentations Presenter, “Invasores: Land Invasions and Government Responses at the end of the

Mexican Miracle,” 63rd Annual Conference of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia, March 12, 2016.

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Organizer and Chair, Panel: “Perception, Movement, and the Creation of the ‘Other’ in

Latin American History,” 63rd Annual Conference of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia, March 11, 2016.

Guest Lecturer, “The State and the Shantytown: Hyper-Urbanization, Land Invasions,

and Government-Squatter Relations in Past and Present Mexico,” Presented to the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, March 7, 2016.

Organizer and Chair, Panel: “Failed State Mexico?: The Historical Roots of Regional

Instability”; Presenter, “Invasores: Land Invasions and the Threat to Institutional Authority in Cold War-era Mexico”; Presenter, “Serfs in the Shanties: Acarreados in Modern Mexico City”; and, Roundtable Discussant: “Ayotzinapa in Context: Popular Resistance, the Media, Police Impunity, & the Modern Narco-State in Mexico,” EWU Colloquium on Mexico: Societal Challenges & Popular Responses, Cheney, WA, February 10-11, 2016.

Follow these links to view the complete proceedings of the above panels:  Failed State Mexico?: The Historical Roots … <https://hml.ewu.edu/Play/5891> Urban Subaltern Activism and Reform … <https://hml.ewu.edu/Play/5888> Ayotzinapa in Context: Social Violence … <https://hml.ewu.edu/Play/5893>

Presenter, “Invasores: Land Invasions and Government Responses at the end of the

Mexican Miracle,” 130th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, January 9, 2016.

Organizer and Chair, Panel: “‘On the Plaza’ and its Environs: The Urban Setting in

Recent Latin American History,” 49th Annual Conference of the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica, March 14, 2015.

Presenter, “Serfs in the Shanties: Acarreados in Modern Mexico,” 49th Annual

Conference of the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica, March 14, 2015.

Presenter, “God Between the Waters: Centuries of Evangelization on the Shores of Lake

Atitlán, Guatemala,” Women’s Studies Lecture Series, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, November 4, 2014.

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Presenter, “La lluvia, el sol, y la revolución: el nacionalización y comoditización del legado azteco en el siglo veinte mexicano,” 47th Annual Conference of the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, Antigua, Guatemala, March 23, 2013.

Facilitator, “Blackness beyond Borders: Race in Mexico,” Guest Lecture of Dr. Ben

Vinson III, Africana Studies Program, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, February 7, 2013.

Presenter, “The Rain, the Sun and the Nation: Nationalizing and Commodifying the

Aztec Past in Modern Mexico,” College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Social Work, Global Studies Lecture Series, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, November 15, 2012.

Presenter, “Fósiles, Plañideros, and Acarreados: The Lexicon of Labor and Mass

Politics in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico,” Chicano Education/Cinco de Mayo Roundtable, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, May 3, 2012.

Presenter, “‘A Revolutionary Regime Must Put the Interests of the Majority First’:

Collectivism and Paternalism in Post-Tlatelolco Mexican Tripartite Relations,” XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Querétaro, Mexico, October 29, 2010.

Guest Lecturer, “Post-Colonialism in the Americas: Yesterday and Today.” Presented to

World Civilizations class, Diné College, Tsaile, Navajo Nation, April 21, 2009.

Co-Organizer, Panel: “Running from the Plaza: Political Activism and Opportunity in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico,” and Presenter, “Combating the Crisis of Legitimacy: Labor Policy and Process in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico.” 56th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 5, 2009.

Presenter, “Forcing La Apertura: José López Portillo, Bank Nationalization, and the

Launch of Economic Reform in Mexico, 1982-1991.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 26, 2007.

Presenter, “Ante la Invasión de la Cultura Americana: Institutionalizing Mexicanidad on

the Northern Frontier, 1930-1934.” National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February 16, 2006.

Presenter, “Cultivating the Conscious Being: The Mexican Education Project, 1921

1934,” 52nd Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Tucson, Arizona, April 2, 2005.

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University Teaching Experience Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Eastern Washington University,

Cheney, Washington, September 2013 – present. Classes taught: (Latin America) Latin American History; History of Mexico; Cultural History of Latin America; History of Cuba; and, Colonial History of Latin America. (Western) Western Heritage, 1700 to the present; and, History of Spain. (World) World History to 1500. (Methods Courses) Senior History Capstone – Topic: Environmental History of Latin America; and, History Today – Issues and Practices. (Graduate) 3 graduate history seminars, topics including Commodity Networks, Tourism, and the City in Latin America.

M.A theses advised: Ronald Scheck (2017); Nicolle Southwick (2017); David Collins (2016); Ian Pettus (2016); Michael Edwards (2015); Mayra Villalobos (2014); Tyler Sparing (2014) McNair scholars advised: Virginia Morales (2015-2016) Outside (third) reader for: Ashli Mildenberger, MSW (2015); Karrie Stewart, MSW (2015)

Instructor, College Assistant Migrant Program (CAMP), Western Heritage, 1700 to

the present, Winter 2016/Winter 2015. Lecturer in Latin American History, Eastern Washington University, Cheney,

Washington. September 2010 – July 2013. Instructor, Alliant International University, Mexico City, Spring 2010. Classes taught:

World Civilizations Instructor, University of New Mexico, Fall 2008. Classes taught: Postrevolutionary

Mexico Graduate Teaching Assistant for History Department, University of New Mexico,

Fall 2005 – Spring 2007. Western Civilization II, Spring 2007; Western Civilization I, Fall 2006/Spring 2006/Fall 2005.

Graduate Assistant for History Department, University of New Mexico, Spring 2004

– Spring 2009. U.S. Military History, Spring 2009; Western Civilization I, Fall 2008/Spring 2005; History of New Mexico, Fall 2004; Modern Mexico, Spring 2004.

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Reader/Grader for History Department, University of New Mexico, Fall 2002 – Spring 2005; Inter-American Relations, Spring 2005; Latin American Film, Fall 2004; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Spring 2003; Western Civilization I, Fall 2002/Fall 2003.

Public History and Research Experience

Co-Organizer, Symposium on “In-/Exclusion and the Vote in America: History,

Activism, and Awareness,” Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, October 10 – 13, 2016.

Organizer, “Out of Sight: The Corporate Outsourcing of Catastrophe,” lecture and book

signing of Dr. Erik Loomis, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, October 13, 2016.

Organizer, EWU Colloquium on Mexico: Societal Challenges & Popular Responses,

Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, February 9 – 11, 2016. Speaker, “Who Belongs? Politics and Immigration Since 1882,” Public Forum

Sponsored by the Latah County Historical Society and the University of Idaho Confucius Society, Moscow, Idaho, January 11, 2016.

Faculty Research and Creative Works Grant Recipient, Bogotá, Colombia and

Mexico City, August 2015/March 2016. Organizer, EWU Department of History Works-in-Progress Quarterly Symposium,

Winter – Spring 2014; Fall 2015 – present. Commenter, multiple panel sessions of the National Conference of Undergraduate

Research, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, March 2015. Creator, Blog – http://ewugoestocuba.blogspot.com, March 2012 – June 2014. Co-Organizer, “Dolores del Río: Beauty in Shadow and Light,” lecture and book signing

of Dr. Linda B. Hall, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, April 17, 2014.

Guest, “Latitude/Latitud,” Spanish-Language Radio Program, September 2, 2013 &

October 29, 2012. Follow this link to hear a podcast of the September 2, 2013 interview: http://www.kyrs.org/playlist.cfm?id=1378151717556

Independent Researcher, Boston, MA and Mexico City, August 2013.

Organizer, ¡EWU Goes to Cuba!, 2012.

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NEH Fellow, “Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land,”

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, June – July, 2012. Organizer, “Red Power Rising in the Pacific Northwest,” lecture and book signing of Dr.

Bradley G. Shreve, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington, June 6-7, 2012.

Commenter, “Changing Context for Gender Issues,” Panel session of the Annual

Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, Spokane, Washington, April 14, 2012. Judge, Regional History Day, Eastern Washington University, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,

2015 Latin American and Iberian Institute Ph.D. Fellow, Mexico City, August 2009 –

September 2010.

Co-Organizer, Conference: ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’…and Gender: The Colloquium, and Presenter, “Collaboration through Subordination: Gender Complementarity and the Mitigation of Women’s Work in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico.” Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 9-10, 2009.

Photoarchives Assistant, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico,

December 2002–December 2004.

Interpretation Ranger, Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox, AZ, January 2001 – April 2001, and Minuteman National Historical Park, Concord, MA, June 1999 – September 1999.

Awards and Fellowships

Faculty Research and Creative Works Grant, EWU. 2015-2016. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship, 2012. Latin American and Iberian Institute Ph.D. Fellowship, UNM. 2009-2010. Student Resource Allocation Committee Grant, UNM. 2009; 2004. Office of Graduate Studies Research and Professional Travel Grant, UNM. 2007. History Graduate Students Association, Research Fellowship, UNM. 2007. Tinker Foundation & LAII Field Research Grant, UNM. 2006. Graduate Research Development Fund Grant, UNM. 2004. Three Percent Scholarship for Academic Achievement Award, UNM. 2003. University Excellence in Writing Prize, Northeastern University. Summer 2000.

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Other Professional Experience

M.A. Program Director, History Department, EWU, term to begin in Fall, 2016. Manuscript Reviewer, The Latinamericanist; SECOLAS Annals (Special annual

publication of The Latinamericanist), 2015. Coordinator, Latin American Certificate program, EWU, Fall 2014 – present. Mentor (to High School History teachers), EWU/State of Washington Concurrent

Enrollment Program, 2014 – present. Steward for History Department, United Faculty of Eastern, Fall 2014 – present.

Member, History-Chicano Education Search Committee, EWU, Winter – Spring 2015. Member, Africana Studies Lecturer Search Committee, EWU, Summer 2014. Member, History Graduate Committee, EWU, Fall 2013 – present. Senator (Auxiliary), Faculty Senate, EWU, Spring 2015. Member, Course Program and Assessment Committee, EWU, Winter – Spring 2014. Rater, Advanced Placement Exam, World History, June 2014; June 2015; June 2016. President, UNM History Graduate Student Association, August 2005 – May 2006. Assistant Editor and Contributor, LIMON (Latin American & Iberian

Multidisciplinary Opinion Newsletter), University of New Mexico, August 2003 – December 2004.

Professional Affiliations

Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies Conference on Latin American History American Historical Association American Federation of Teachers, Local: United Faculty of Eastern