the conference on latin american...

THE CONFERENCE ON

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

in affiliation with

The American

Historical

Association

Program of CLAH Activities and Latin

American Sessions

2020 Annual Meeting New York

City

January 3-6, 2020

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS General Committee Meeting: Friday, January 3, 2020: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Sheraton New York, Executive Boardroom CLAH Luncheon: Saturday, January 4, 2020: 12:00 PM-1:30

PM Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom West CLAH Cocktail Reception: Sunday, January 5, 2020: 7:30 PM-9:30

PM Sheraton New York, Lenox Ballroom

CLAH OFFICERS

Executive Committee: Bianca Premo

President:

Vice President: Ben Vinson III

Past President: Lara Putnam

Executive Secretaries: Jürgen Buchenau &

Erika Edwards

General Committee Elected Members: Sarah Cline (2018-2019)

Tatiana Seijas (2018-2019)

Gabriela Ramos (2019-

2020) Celso Castilho (2019-

2020) Ex-Officio Members: HAHR Editor: Martha Few, Matthew Restall,

Amara Solari, Zachary Morgan The Americas Editor: Ben Vinson III H-LatAm Editor: John F. Schwaller

2019 Program Committee: Rachel O’Toole (2019 chair) Carmen Soliz (2020 chair) Louis Pérez

CLAH Information Table

Friday, January 3, 2020:12:30PM-5:00PM Sheraton

New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM

Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

1. CLAH Information Table

Friday, January 3, 2020:12:30PM-5:00PM Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

2. Imperial Interventions in 19th- and 20th Century Latin America

Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00

PM Sheraton New York, Murray Hill

Chair: Carlos Hernandez III, Yale University

Victory in Debt: The Paraguayan War and

Public Finances in Brazil and Argentina

Paula Vedoveli, Fundação Getulio Vargas

The Politics of Development in Cancún: Building

a City from Scratch

Carlos Hernandez III, Yale University

Bringing Together Nicaraguan Sandinistas,

East European Socialistas, and Cuban Marixtas; or, How

Revolutionary Managua Became a Cold War Melting Pot

Radoslav Yordanov, Harvard University

Comment: The Audience

3. The Gods of Revolution and Counterrevolution in

Central America Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00

PM Sheraton New York, Sutton Place

Co-Sponsor(s): Conference on Faith and History

Chair: Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University

The Deaths of Oscar Romero Kevin P. Coleman, University of Toronto

Rethinking the Sixth Commandment? Revolutionary Priests in Central America

Virginia Garrard, University of Texas at Austin

From Social Catholicism and the Church of the

Poor to Conservative Protestantism and the Theology of

Prosperity: Religion and Politics in Costa Rica, 1940–2018 David Diaz Arias, Universidad de Costa Rica

Comment: Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University

4. Activism, Academics, and the Academy

Friday, January 3, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Sheraton New York, Union Square

Chair: Jadwiga E. Mooney, University of Arizona

Speaker(s): Danielle Barefoot, University of Arizona Abner Sotenos, University of California, San

Diego Peter Winn, Tufts University

Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Arizona

5.Inca Girls and Women: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Joint

with AHA #23 )


PM Sheraton New York, Riverside Ballroom

Chair: Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Brown University

Becoming Inca: The Acllauasi and the

Imperial Politics of Educating Andean Girls

Stella Nair, University of California, Los Angeles

Female Voices from Vilcabamba: Indigenous Women

and the Cultural Transformations of a Neo-Inca State Sara Guengerich, Texas Tech University

Kidnapping an Heiress: The Incas, the Encomienda, and Child Marriage

Jeremy Ravi Mumford, Brown University

Comment: José Carlos de la Puente, Texas State

University

6. Between the Political and the Sacred in Rural Latin America



Chair: Suyapa Portillo, Pitzer College

Songs in Nahuatl for Christian Rituals

in 17th-Century New Spain

Ireri E. Chávez-Bárcenas, Bowdoin College

Visual Narratives and Memories of the

Agrarian Reform in 1960s and 1970s Colombia

Juanita Rodríguez, Binghamton University,

State University of New York

The Subcentral Tipnis and the Defense of

Indigenous Territorial Rights: Confronting the Government

as the “Ecologically Noble Savage” during Bolivia’s Conflict

in the Tipnis

Leah Walton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The 10-Year Coup: Resistance, Historical

Memory, and Intersectionality in Honduras

Suyapa Portillo, Pitzer College


7. Celebrating the Nation at the Turn of the 20th Century: Local

Centennial Celebrations in Mexico, Colombia, and Bolivia


PM Sheraton New York, Union Square

Chair: Ernesto Capello, Macalester College

Andean Cosmopolitanism, Popular Culture,

and Bolivian Centenary Celebrations, 1909–30

Elena McGrath, Carleton College

Celebrating July 4 and September 16 in the

New Mexico-Chihuahua Borderlands: Nation Formation

and Regional Identities

Brandon Morgan, Central New Mexico

Community College and Western New Mexico University

Colombia’s Centenary: Peace, Progress,

and Regional Identity in Antioquia

David Barrios Giraldo, University of Calgary

Comment: Nancy P. Appelbaum, Binghamton University, State University of New York

8. Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Caribbean Basin

(Joint with AHA #36)


PM Sheraton New York, Gramercy

Chair: Lara E. Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

The Transnational Nature of Puerto

Rican Nationalism

Margaret M. Power, Illinois Institute of Technology

Local Internationalists: Activist Women in 1940s Panama

Kaysha Corinealdi, Emerson College

Imagining the Nation from Abroad:

Transnationalism and Historical Memory after

the Guatemalan Spring

Ashley Black, California State

University, Stanislaus

Comment: Lara E. Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

9.CLAH General Committee Meeting

Friday, January 3, 2020: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Sheraton New York, Executive Boardroom

10. CLAH Information Table Saturday, January 4, 2020: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

11. Geopolitics and Print in the Revolutionary Atlantic


Sheraton New York, Murray Hill

Chair: Joseph M. Adelman, Framingham State

University

News and Atlantic Revolutions: Reading

the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean

Cristina Soriano, Villanova University

Intrigues of a Foreign Minister: The Free Press

and Foreign Meddling in Early US Politics

Tyson Reeder, University of Virginia

A Colombian Republic of Science: Gran

Colombia’s Expedition of French-Trained Naturalists and the

Geopolitics of Scientific Print Culture, 1819–30

Lina M. Del Castillo, University of Texas, Austin

Comment:James Alexander Dun, Princeton

University

12. Transnational Latin American History: Bringing Uruguay into

Focus


Sheraton New York, Sugar Hill

Chair: Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas at El Paso

“Slogans with Action”: The Language of

Democracy in Uruguay during World War II

Pedro Cameselle, Fordham University

Southern Cone Student Solidarities:

Regional Alliances in the Early Cold War

Megan Strom, University of California, San Diego

Uruguayan Impact on the Origins of Transitional Justice

Debbie Sharnak, Harvard University

Comment: Anton Rosenthal, University of Kansas

13. Populism for Export: Uses, Theories, and Histories from

Latin America to the World



Chair: Mark Healey, University of Connecticut

Eating from the Low, Eating from the High:

Populism, Bodily Synecdoche, and the Symbolism of Food

in Argentina

María Esperanza Casullo, Universidad Nacional

de Río Negro

Evismo: The Historical Roots of

Indigenous Populism in Evo Morales’s Bolivia

Sarah Hines, University of Oklahoma

Desde Abajo: Lessons from Left Populism in

Bolivia and Ecuador

Thea Riofrancos, Providence College

Antipopulism and Democracy, the History of

a Tense Relationship

Ernesto Semán, University of Bergen

Memory and Amnesia in Venezuela’s

Petro Populist Past, Present, and Future

Alejandro Velasco, New York University

Comment: Mark Healey, University of Connecticut

14.Migrants' Nature: Mobility, Labor, and the Environment in

Latin America and the Caribbean (Joint with AHA #59)


Sheraton New York, Central Park West

Chair: Thomas D. Rogers, Emory University

Drought and Diaspora: Mexican Mennonite

“Braceros” and Northern Mexico’s Mid-20th-Century Drought Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Washington State University

Migrant Workers and the Turtle Trade in

the Brazilian Amazon at the Turn of the 20th Century

Thaís Sant'ana, University of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign

“Great Calamities”: Spaniards, Africans, and the

Laboring Environments of Late Colonial Cuba, 1851–92 Oscar de la Torre, University of North Carolina at

Charlotte

Servants of the Seasons: Glimpses of

Labor Mobility across the Early Americas

Molly A. Warsh, University of Pittsburgh

Comment: Thomas D. Rogers, Emory University

15. The Postcolonized Historian and the Global South: Reflections

on South Asia and Latin America (Joint with AHA #57)


Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom East

Chair: Camilla D. Townsend, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

The End of Hindustan Manan Ahmed, Columbia University

Chasing India in Mexico City Taymiya R. Zaman, University of San Francisco

What Mexico Can Teach Us about Hinduism Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University

16. Rethinking Democratic Transitions in Latin America

Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00


Chair: Daniel McDonald, Brown University

Mothers of the Periphery: Food Politics

from Dictatorship to Democracy in São Paulo

Daniel McDonald, Brown University

The “Caso Mazzorín”: The Political Economy of Food in Postdictatorship Argentina, 1985–89

Jennifer Adair, Fairfield University

Transformations in Abortion Referral

Networks across Bolivia’s Democratic Transition

Natalie Kimball, College of Staten Island,

City University of New York

Mythmaking and Marginalization in Postdictatorship

Chile Alison J. Bruey, University of North Florida

Comment: Bryan McCann, Georgetown University

17. Democratic Socialism Reconsidered: Chile’s Popular

Unity (UP) Experiment at 50


PM Sheraton New York, Sugar Hill

Chair: Steven S. Volk, Oberlin College

Grassroots Movements and Democratic

Socialism in Allende’s Chile

Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Yale University

Rethinking the Political History of the

Unidad Popular: A View from the Street

Camilo Trumper, State University of New

York, University at Buffalo

A “Popular Option for Development”?

Reconstructing the Political Economy of

Democratic Socialism in Allende’s Chile

Joshua Frens-String, University of Texas at Austin

Toward a Global History of the Unidad Popular

Tanya Harmer, London School of Economics

Comment: Steven S. Volk, Oberlin College

18. Caribbean Peripheries, Smugglers, and the World They Made

in the 17th to 19th Century

Saturday, January 4, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM Sheraton New York, Sutton Place Chair: Juan José Ponce-Vázquez, University of

Alabama

Before Sacking Veracruz: Pirates, Smugglers,

Diplomacy, and the Centrality of Spanish Peripheries in

the Late 17th-Century Caribbean

Juan José Ponce-Vázquez, University of Alabama

Wreckers, Pirates, and Smugglers: From

Salvage to Consumption

Jamie Goodall, Stevenson University

Smuggling, Immigration, and Imperial Reform: Canary Islanders in the 18th-Century Spanish Caribbean

Jesse Cromwell, University of Mississippi

Smuggling Human Beings: Texas, Mexico, and the

Suppression of the Illegal Slave Trade across the Gulf, 1821

and 1865

María Hammack, University of Texas at Austin


19. Knowledge, Reform, and the Body Politic in Portuguese Empire



Chair: Alejandra B. Osorio, Wellesley College

Science and Social Order in the Portuguese

Atlantic: The Curious Case of the Manatee Hugh Cagle, University of Utah

Colonial Consumption and Colonial Bodies in

the 18th-Century Portuguese Empire

Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University

Conquering Nature and Classifying the Naturals: Racializing the Body in 18th-Century Brazil

Patricia Martins Marcos, University of

California, San Diego

War, Colonial Populations, and Reform in

the Portuguese Atlantic World

Miguel Dantas da Cruz, University of Lisbon


20. Environmental Humanities and the Andean Mountain

Range: Science, Geography, and Climate (Joint with AHA #82)


PM Sheraton New York, Central Park West

Chair: Ryan Edwards, Princeton University

A Nation of Climates: Meteorology, Climate,

and Exploring the Argentine Patagonia

Carlos Dimas, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

The Climate of Idolatry: Drought and

Environmental Knowledge in the 17th-Century Andes

Javier Puente, Smith College

“Amplifying Our Land’s Fertility”: Food, Hunger,

and Agrarian Reform in Postrevolutionary Bolivia

Nicole Pacino, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Analogous Geographies in Tierra del Fuego: Connecting the End of the World to Global Development

Ryan Edwards, Princeton University

Comment: Maria de los Angeles Picone, Boston

College

21. Social Welfare within and beyond the State in Latin

America (Joint with AHA #87)


PM Sheraton New York, Riverside Suite Chair: Benjamin Bryce, University of

Northern British Columbia

Social Welfare beyond the State in

Argentina, 1880–1955

Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia

Assisting the Disabled: Charity, Welfare,

and Informality in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Sara Hidalgo, Columbia University

Social Welfare and Unemployment Benefits: An

Incomplete Conversation, Latin America from the 1920s to

1940s

Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles

Comment: Daniel A. Rodríguez, Brown University

22. CLAH Luncheon

Saturday, January 4, 2020: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom West

23. The Ibero-Americas and Scholarly Debates about Abolition:

Methods, Questions, and Historiography (Joint with AHA #113)


Sheraton New York, Flatiron

Chair: Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine

Antislavery Sentiment in Colonial Spanish America Emily K. Berquist Soule, California State University,

Long Beach

19th-Century Judicial Abolitionism, Afro-Uruguayan

Soldiers, and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine

American Slavery, Mexican Freedom: Reconceptualizing Freedom and Abolition South of US Slavery, 1810–65

María Hammack, University of Texas at Austin

Serializing Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1850s Lima:

The Cultural Arena and the Intellectual History of Slavery

Celso Castilho, Vanderbilt University


24. Indigenous Impasses in the Brazilian Empire



Chair: José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis

Conservative Structures and Indigenous Actions: Borders and the Rio de la Plata at War, 1801–18

Karina Melo, Universidade Federal Rural

de Pernambuco

Being Indigenous in Imperial Brazil: Lands,

Tutelage, and Political Participation in Pernambuco, 1840 Mariana Albuquerque Dantas,

Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

Indigenous Territorial Rights: Construction

and Subversion

Soraia Sales Dornelles, Universidade Federal do Maranhão

Comment: Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico

25. Vistas Prohibidas: Visual Cultures of Pornography,

Violence, and Death in Modern Mexico



Chair: Anne Rubenstein, York University

La Campesina: Settler Colonialism, Sexual

Violence, and Pornographic Pop Culture in

Postrevolutionary Mexico

Natasha Varner, University of Arizona

Female Killers in Yucatán: The Curious Cases

of Martina Puch and Juliana May

Michele M. Stephens, West Virginia University

Diagnosing the Dead: Funerary Portraits

as Sources for Environmental History

Rocio Gomez, Virginia Commonwealth University


26. New Perspectives on Brazilian Democratization in the 1970s

and 1980s



Chair: Elizabeth Q. Hutchison, University of New

Mexico

Lesbian Voices and Radical Feminism within the

Brazilian “Homosexual Movement” of the 1970s and Early

1980s

James Green, Brown University

The Two Faces of Eve: TV Mulher, Feminism,

and Politics in Early 1980s Brazil

Paula Halperin, Purchase College, State

University of New York

Democratic Struggles in Brazil’s “Long 1970s”:

Student Resistance and the Dialectics of Higher Education

in Brazil, 1969–85

Colin M. Snider, University of Texas at Tyler

Comment: Barbara Weinstein, New York

University

27. Cold War Solidarities between Latin America and the

World (Joint with AHA #136)


Sheraton New York, Columbus Circle

Chair: Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis

Liberation by the Letter: Brazilian

Correspondence on Portuguese African Independence

Wendi Michelle Muse, New York University

Subtle and Spectacular Solidarity: Modern

Dance between Cuba and the US after 1959

Elizabeth Schwall, University of California, Berkeley

Catholic Connections, South-North Solidarities:

The Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and

Property from Latin America to Europe and North America

Craig Johnson, University of California, Berkeley

Interrogating “Solidarity” in the Chile

Solidarity Movement of Spain, 1973–90

Alyssa Bowen, University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill

Comment:Luis Herrán Ávila, University of New

Mexico

28. New Approaches to the Early Spanish Caribbean, Part

I: Interconnected Maritime Worlds (Joint with AHA #148)


Sheraton New York, Bowery

Chair: Ida Altman, University of Florida

Fugitive-Made Ecologies: Between the Matos of

São Tomé and the Montes of the Caribbean in the Early

16th Century

Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, Drexel University

Enslaving Connections: The Spanish

Caribbean and the Río de la Plata, c. 1580–1640

Kara Schultz, Vanderbilt University

"And That Is All He Knows": Witness Testimony

and Local Knowledge of Transatlantic Slave Trading

Connections in the Spanish Caribbean, 1620s–30s Marc V. Eagle, Western Kentucky University

From the Bottom of the Pit to the Bottom of the

Ocean: Maritime Labor, Fraud, and the Logistics of Silver

Transportation in the Mid-17th-Century Spanish Caribbean Leonardo Moreno-Álvarez, University of Pittsburgh


29. The New Place of Latin America in World History (Joint

with AHA #138)


Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom East

Chair: James Sanders, Utah State University

Panel: Cristián Castro, Universidad Diego Portales

Marixa Lasso, Ministerio de Cultura-Panamá

Bianca Premo, Florida International University

Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University

30. The Americas Board Meeting



31. Brazilian Studies Committee Meeting: Understudied

Geographies in Brazilian History: A Methodological Conversation



Chair: Okezi T. Otovo, Florida International University

Speaker(s): Martha S. Santos, University of Akron Oscar De la Torre, University of North Carolina at

Charlotte Thaís Sant'ana, University of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign

Yuko Miki, Fordham University

32. Gran Colombia Studies Committee Meeting: Beyond the

Global: Colombia, Ecuador, and the New Histories of

Science, Medicine, and the Environment


Sheraton New York, Sutton Place

Chair: Stefan Pohl Valero, Universidad de Rosario

Speaker(s): Lina Del Castillo, University of Texas at Austin

Timothy Lorek, Brandeis University Elisa Sevilla, Universidad de San Francisco de

Quito Mauricio Nieto, Universidad de los Andes Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin–Madison

33. Chile-Rio de la Plata Studies Committee Meeting: Making

Connections in the Chile-Rio de la Plata Region: History from

the Colonial Era to the 21st Century



Chair: Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University

Speaker(s): Nara Milanich, Barnard College, Columbia

University Alex Borucki, University of California, Irvine Oscar

Chamosa, University of Georgia Michael Huner,

Grand Valley State University Amie Campos,

University of California, San Diego Felice

Physioc, Princeton University

Comment:Marian E. Schlotterbeck, Yale

University

34. Mexican Studies Committee: Bridging Mexican and

US Scholarship on Mexican History



Chair: Peter B. Villella, US Air Force Academy

Speaker(s): Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los

Angeles Juan Pablo Morales Garza, University of California,

Los Angeles Danna Alexandra Levin-Rojo, Universidad

Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill Jaime Marroquin, George Washington University

Comment: Pablo Sierra, University of Rochester

35.Borderlands and Frontier Studies Committee Meeting: At the

Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the

Edges of Colonial Spanish America



Chair: Cameron D. Jones, California Polytechnic State University

Landscapes of the Self-Emancipated:

Mapping Asylum in New Spain’s Northern Gulf Coast

Christina Villarreal, University of Texas at Austin

Africans on the Atlantic Borderlands of

Early Colonial Quito

Charles E. Beatty Medina, University of Toledo

“They Call Themselves People of Reason”: Afro-Descendant Soldiers in Early California, 1768–1848

Cameron D. Jones, California Polytechnic State University

Comment: Raul A. Ramos, University of Houston

36. Atlantic Studies Committee Meeting: New Histories of

the Iberian Atlantic Government


Sheraton New York, Sutton Place

Chair: Jesse Cromwell, University of Mississippi

The Ex-emperor in Exile: Agustin de Iturbide

in London, 1824

Karen Racine, University of Guelph

Enslaved Fugitives and Asylum Regulations

in Spain’s Caribbean

Fernanda Bretones Lane, University of Florida

Reassessing Loyalty (and Disloyalty) in the

Early Modern Iberian Atlantic

Aaron Alejandro Olivas, Texas A&M International University

From Cabildo Door and Church Steps: Assimilating

Outsiders into the Republic of the Spaniards, c. 1600 Max Deardorff, University of Florida


37. Andean Studies Committee Meeting: Cross-border Histories

of Water in the Andes



Chair: Elena McGrath, Carleton College

Speaker(s): Sarah Hines, University of Oklahoma

Javier Puente, Smith College Anita

Carrasco, Luther College

38. CLAH Information Table

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:00 AM-11:00 AM Sheraton New York, Lower Level, Pre-function Area 2

39.New Mapuche Histories: The Politics of Settler-Colonialism,

Comparative Studies, and Interplays with Hegemony

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00

AM Sheraton New York, Murray Hill

Chair: Guillaume Boccara, Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, EHESS

Speaker(s): Joanna Crow, University of Bristol Allison Ramay, Pontificia Universidad Católica de

Chile Cristian Perucci, Universidad de la Frontera

Romina Green Rioja, Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria de América Latina

40. Archival Extremes and Historical Outliers: Challenging

Sources from Early Latin America


AM Sheraton New York, Sugar Hill

Chair: Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State

University

Seeking Safe Haven and Citizenship: African

American Migration to Mexico across the Gulf in the

Early 19th Century

Beau Gaitors, Winston-Salem State University

Beyond Imagining: Cases of Uncommon

Violence in Colonial Guatemala

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, Boston College

A Spanish Polytheist in 16th-Century Mexico: Sociological Anomalies or Normative Acculturation Process?

Martin A. Nesvig, University of Miami

How to Read a Rock Face? The Interpretive

Challenge of History and Prophecy in Early Mexico

Matt D. O'Hara, University of California, Santa Cruz

Comment: Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State

University

41. The Slave Societies: Digital Preservation and Innovation


AM Sheraton New York, Sutton Place

Chair: Kara Schultz, Vanderbilt University

Speaker(s): Jim Schindling, West Virginia University

Daniel Genkins, John Carter Brown Library

42. The Privilege That Slavery Confers: Brazilian Planters

and Imperial Government in the Shaping of a Slave Society


AM Sheraton New York, Union Square

Chair: María Verónica Secreto,

Universidade Federal Fluminense

Enforcing Whiteness: The 1831 Law and the

Racial Borders of Brazil

Isadora Moura Mota, Princeton University

Domestic Economy, Privilege, and Second Slavery: Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1790–1850

Ricardo Salles, UniRio

The Defense of Privilege: Elite Response

to Abolitionism in Imperial Brazil

Jeffrey D. Needell, University of Florida

Comment: María Verónica Secreto, Universidade Federal Fluminense

43. Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Early Modern World, Part 1: Iberian Borderlands in the Americas and Beyond (Joint with

AHA #174)

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom West

Chair: Susan M. Deeds, Northern Arizona

University

The Making of an Oceanic Borderland: British,

Portuguese, and Spanish Merchants in 18th-Century Rio

de la Plata

Fabricio Prado, College of William and Mary

Geographical Mobility and Interethnic Alliance

in the Formation of Amazonian Identities, 1700–1800

Barbara A. Sommer, Gettysburg College

Gift Giving: The Burden of Sustaining Peace

with the Spaniards

Jose Manuel Moreno Vega, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sandía Pueblo between Empire and Nation: A

Borderlands Story of Land Dispute and Legal Maneuver Danna Alexandra Levin-Rojo,

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco

Comment:The Audience

44. Proof: Technology, Knowledge, and the Body in

Early 20th-Century Latin America (Joint with AHA #172)


AM Sheraton New York, Riverside Ballroom

Chair: Chantel Rodriguez, University of

Maryland, College Park

Picturing Medical Modernity: Facilities,

Technology, and Patients in the Photographic Records of

Lima’s Society for Public Beneficence, 1910–20

Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington

Inválidos: Hospitals and Asylums in the Rise

of Medical Professionalism in Guatemala and El

Salvador, 1890–1944

Heather Vrana, University of Florida

“The Singular Halo”: How Peruvian Doctors

Proved a Five-Year-Old Was a Mother in 1939

Bianca Premo, Florida International University

Bodies, Race, and Native Diets across Mexico

and the United States, 1930–50

Karin A. Rosemblatt, University of



45. Remembering the 500th Anniversary of the Conquest of

Mexico (Joint with AHA #61)


AM Sheraton New York, Central Park West

Chair: John Schwaller, State University of New York, University at Albany

Mesoamerican Histories of Defeat: From Omens

to Sacred Narratives

David E. Tavárez, Vassar College

Conquest and Mestizaje: On the

Groundless Foundations of a Myth

Luis Fernando Granados, Universidad Veracruzana

La Reconquista de México:

Postindependence Revisionist History

Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles

Comment: John Schwaller, State University of New York, University at Albany

46. Black Migration and the Luso-Hispanic World



Chair: Darién J. Davis, Middlebury College

The Last Straw: A Case of Racism and Violence

in Salvador, Capital of Bahia State

Elaine P. Rocha, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill

Luciana Brito, Federal University of Reconcavo da Bahia

Haitian Immigrants in Cuba during the

First Decades of the 20th Century: Ethnicity and

Political Participation

Katia do Couto, Universidade Federal

do Amazonas

Life after Slavery: Migration, Work and Culture in Brazil: 1900–29

Lúcia Helena Oliveira da Silva,

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

Comment: Daryle Williams, University of


47. Remembering Revolutionaries, Civilians, and

Former Servicemen in Late 20th-Century Latin America

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Chair: Colin M. Snider, University of Texas at Tyler

“Spilled Blood Will Not be Negotiated”: Argentine

Militant Groups and Revolutionary Justice in the 1970s Jennifer L. Schaefer, Washington State

University Vancouver

Resisting Reconciliation through

Commemoration in Postwar El Salvador

Stephanie Huezo, Mount Holyoke College

Expelled Low-Ranking Soldiers,

Redemocratization, and the Fight for Memory in Brazil,

1985 to the Present

Marilia Correa, University of Michigan


48. Interior History: Rethinking Brazil from the Inside (Joint

with AHA #183)



Chair: Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State

University

“The Bandeirantes of Freedom”: The Prestes

Column and the Myth of Brazil's Interior, 1924–30 Jacob Blanc, University of Edinburgh

Daughters of the Sertão: Family and Faith in

Jacobina and Minas Novas de Araçuaí, Bahia, 1720–60 Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico

Planting the Future of Brazil: Economic Botany

and the Conquest of the 19th-Century Frontier

Seth Garfield, University of Texas at Austin

The Making of the Brazilian Backlands by

Naturalists, Military Engineers, and Cartographers,

1750–1850

Íris Kantor, Universidade de São Paulo

Comment: Frederico Freitas, North Carolina State

University

49. Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Early Modern World, Part

2: Routes, Roots, and Frontier Peoples (Joint with AHA #199)


PM Sheraton New York, Central Park West

Chair: Lisa A. Lindsay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Debitage of the Shatter Zone: The Context of

Requests for Friars and Petitions of Asylum in 17th-

Century Florida

Amy Turner Bushnell, John Carter Brown Library

The Many Women (Children and Families Too)

of New Spain’s Mining Borderland

Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego

Shaping an Interimperial Exchange Zone:

Smuggling Ideas, Goods, and People in the

Southern Caribbean

Linda M. Rupert, University of North Carolina

at Greensboro

Illicit Crossings: Transimperial Trade in

the Caribbean Maritime Borderlands, 1763–1810

Daniel Velasquez, University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill


50.The Lettered City's Workshop: Print Politics in 19th-

Century Latin America

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00


Chair: Cristina Soriano, Villanova University

The Printing Press as an Agent

of Republicanization: Chile in the 1840s

James A. Wood, North Carolina A&T State University

Man or Machine? Situating the Printer

in 19th-Century Mexican History

Corinna Zeltsman, Georgia Southern University

Sharp Pens, Outraged Readers: Press Crimes

in São Paulo's Courts, 1850–1930

Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi, Universidade

Estadual de Campinas

Puerto Rican Typographers, New York

City Publishing, and the Cuban Revolutionary

Struggle, 1889–1900

Jesse E. Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan

Comment: Jean M. Hébrard, Johns Hopkins

University

51. Ethereal Communities of Resistance: Radio and Dictatorship

in the Cold War Caribbean and Southern Cone Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00


Chair: Ayanna Legros, Duke University

Vernacular Radio and the Consolidation of

New Transnational Political Communities

Jennifer Garcon, University of Pennsylvania

Radio, Borders, and Dictatorship in the

Southern Cone, 1960s–80s

Christine Ehrick, University of Louisville

Radio Wars: From Cold War History

to Decolonization in the Caribbean

Alejandra Bronfman, State University of New

York, University at Albany

Comment: Mary Roldán, Hunter College, City University of New York

52. Infrastructures of Privilege in Imperial Brazil



Chair: Amy Chazkel, Columbia University

Company Privilege: Government Concessions

and Migrant Settlement Benefits in the Peopling of Brazil

José Juan Pérez Meléndez, University of California, Davis

From Gas to Electric Illumination in 19th-Century

Rio de Janeiro: Liberated Africans and the Barão de Mauá's

Capitalist Ascent

Martine Jean, Harvard University

Privilege and Policy Making: The Modernizing

Ambitions of the Brazilian State in the 19th Century Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois University

The Great Grabbing: Land, Labor, and Politics

in Brazil, 1870–90

Tâmis Parron, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Comment: Amy Chazkel, Columbia University

53. Transnational Human Rights Histories from the

Americas: Discourse and Contested Negotiation in the 1980s


PM Palmer House Hilton, Salon 3

Chair:Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago

Divergent Discourses: Justice and Human Rights in Transition

Debbie Sharnak, Harvard University

Revolutionary Rights and Reconciliation:

Human Rights and the Left at the End of El Salvador’s

Civil War 1984–92

Evan McCormick, University of Texas at Austin

West German and Chilean Activists

between Human Rights and Revolution

Felix A. Jiménez, Boston College

Comment: Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago

54. The European Experience of Latin American History:

Perspectives from the Association of Latin American Historians

in Europe (AHILA)



Chair:Antonio Ibarra, Universidad Nacional

Autónoma de México

Panel:

Mirian Galante, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent


55. Science and the Construction of Indigeneity in 20th-

Century Mexico and Peru



Chair: Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois

University

Archaeology as Spectacle: Excavations in

the Heart of Turn-of-the-Century Mexico City

Christina Bueno, Northeastern Illinois University

Cataloging Antiquity and the Expeditionary Eye: The Yale Peruvian Expedition Photographic Albums, 1911–15

Amy Cox Hall, Amherst College

Picturing Indigenismo: Isabel T. Kelly's

Photograph Collection of Totonac Indians, c. 1947–48

Monica Salas Landa, Lafayette College

Animals and the Construction of Indigeneity

in Peruvian Racial Science, 1930–55

Adam W. V. Warren, University of Washington

Comment: Alexander Dawson, State University of New York, University at Albany

56. Scale, the Global, and the City before 1850 (Joint with

AHA #206)

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom East

Chair: Zephyr L. Frank, Stanford University Panel: Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina

Mariana L. Dantas, Ohio University Jennifer

Van Horn, University of Delaware Emma F.

K. Hart, University of St. Andrews

57. The Slave Societies Digital Archive: Preserving African

and Indigenous History in the Americas (Joint with AHA #220)



Chair: Pablo F. Gómez, University

of Wisconsin–Madison

Panel: Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

David Clark LaFevor, University of Texas at Arlington

Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University Renée Soulodre-La France, King’s University

College at Western University

58. New Approaches to the Early Spanish Caribbean, Part

2: Habitual Liminalities



Chair: David Wheat, Michigan State University

Negros en la Grangeria: Africans

and Afro-descendants in Rio Hacha

Abraham Liddell, Vanderbilt University

Infecting Them with Heretic Propositions:

Decrying Trans-imperial Exchange in the Fringes of the

Spanish Caribbean during the Counter-Reformation

Ramón Miranda-Beltrán, Michigan State University

A Frontier of Enemies: Caribbean Economies of Access and the English Invasion of Spanish Jamaica, 1600–62

Casey Schmitt, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Jewish Portuguese and Dutch Spaniards: Cultural

and Religious Fluidity in the Early Modern Caribbean Oren Okhovat, University of Florida


59. Developing Amazonia in the 20th Century



Chair: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Washington State

University

Global Capitalism and Amazonian Deforestation

in Worker Experience on the Brazil-Bolivia Border, 1970–99

Kathryn Lehman, Indiana University

Reframing Brazil’s Developmentalism as

Transnational: The Treaty of Amazon Cooperation Oliver Dinius, Croft Institute for

International Studies at the University of Mississippi

The League of Nations in the Amazon: The

Leticia Conflict, 1932–34

Sarah Sarzynski, Claremont McKenna College

Comment: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Washington State University

60. Tales from the Archive: Chronicling Latin America’s Cold War



Chair: Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University

Burned, Hidden, Digitized: Reconstructing the

Narrative of University Student Politics in Chile’s Cold

War through Archival Sources

Danielle Barefoot, University of Arizona

Vanguardia Revolucionaria and an Inca Utopia:

Peru’s Revolutionary Left and Indigenous Peoples in Cold

War Sources

Rohan Chatterjee, University of Chicago

Amanuenses of the Invisible: “Tactical Instinct”

in the Collecting of Plebeian Culture in Northeast Brazil,

1971–86

Gray Fielding Kidd, Duke University

Comment: Alexander Aviña, Arizona State

University

61. Forging a Catholic Nation amidst a Secular State: Catholic

Mobilization and Contentious Politics in 20th-Century Mexico



PM Sheraton New York, Chelsea

Chair: Matthew Butler, University

of Texas at Austin

Religion, Violence, and the Secular State in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920s–40s

Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda, Loyola University Chicago

Nazis, Fascists, or

Something Else? International Media

Coverage of Mexico's Union Nacional

Sinarquista, 1937–45

Julia G. Young, Catholic

University of America

Cristeros, Sinarquistas, and Sedevacantistas: Conflict and Convergence in Mexico’s Catholic Right during the Cold War

Luis Herran Avila, University of New Mexico

Conflicting Notions of Modernity

and Female Youth Rebellion in the Time

of Miranda Prorsus: Emma Ziegler and

Her Cinematic Movement in Mexico during

the 1950s

Jaime Pensado, University of Notre Dame

Comment: Matthew Butler, University of Texas at Austin

62. Policing, Labor, and Geographies of the State in

the Americas(Joint with AHA #234)

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Sheraton New York, Empire Ballroom West

Chair: Joshua Savala, Rollins College

Securing the Frontier: The Chilean Rural Police and

Challenges to State Formation in the Araucanía, 1883–1907 Amie Campos, University of California, San Diego

Constructing the El Centro Immigration Detention

Camp: Policing, Forced Labor, and State Violence in 1940s

California

Jessica Ordaz, University of Colorado Boulder

Circulation and the Politics of Space in

Policing Arequipa, Peru

Joshua Savala, Rollins College

Policing the Border: Rural Workers, the Border,

and Police Forces in Northern Patagonia, 1910–30

Maria de los Angeles Picone, Boston College

Comment: Micol Seigel, Indiana University

63. The Interior Lives of Enslaved and Free People in Colonial

Latin America (Joint with AHA #250)


PM Sheraton New York, Riverside Ballroom

Chair: Rachel O'Toole, University of California, Irvine

The Limits of Devotion and the Weight of

Suffering in Colonial Lima, Peru

Tamara Walker, University of Toronto

Speaking of Suffering: Legal Testimony and the

Interior Lives of Enslaved People in Colonial New Granada Brandi M. Waters, Yale University

Conditionally Freed: “Future Libertos”

and Claims-Making in Late Colonial Rio De Janeiro

John Marquez, University of California, Irvine

Civic Freedom in Colonial Peru Rachel O'Toole, University of California, Irvine

Comment: David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania

64. Hispanic American Historical Review Board Meeting

Sunday, January 5, 2020: 6:00 PM-7:30 PM


65. Colonial Studies Committee Meeting: Historical Fact Formation

and the Colonial Archives of Indigenous and Afro Descendants



Chair: Alcira Dueñas, Ohio State University at Newark

Speaker(s): Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon

Adriana Chira, Emory University Kris E.

Lane, Tulane University

Max Deardorff, Max Planck Institute for

European Legal History

Juan Cobo Betancourt, University of

California, Santa Barbara

66. Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee Meeting: All

Roads Lead to Roma: Grappling with Film in Latin American

History



Chair: Jethro Hernandez Berrones, Southwestern

University

Speaker(s): Michael LaRosa, Rhodes College, Anne Rubenstein, York University Seth Fein, Brooklyn College, City University of New

York

67. Central American Studies Committee Meeting: The History

of Capitalism in Central America



Chair: Kevin P. Coleman, University of Toronto

Speaker(s): Virginia Garrard, University of Texas at Austin Dario Aquiles Euraque, Trinity College Jordana Dym, Skidmore College Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College Erik Ching, Furman University Joaquin M. Chavez, University of Illinois at Chicago Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University

68. Caribbean Studies Committee Meeting: New Directions in

Caribbean and Latin American Studies: Black

Internationalism, Travel, and the Modern Caribbean



Chair: Quito Swan, Howard University

Speaker(s): Glenn Anthony Chambers, Michigan State

University Devyn Benson, Davidson College

Milagros Denis-Rosario, Hunter College, City University of New York

Theodore Francis, Huston-Tillotson University

69. CLAH Cocktail Party


PM Sheraton New York, Lenox Ballroom

70. Cinematic Interventions in the Political: Forging the Nation in

Argentina

Monday, January 6, 2020: 9:00 AM-10:30

AM Sheraton New York, Murray Hill

Chair: Matthew B. Karush, George Mason

University

“Juan Moreira, Which Side Is He On?” The

Politics of a Gaucho Rebel in 1970s Argentina

Matthew B. Karush, George Mason University

Green Hell: Exploitation of Yerba Mate Workers

as Portrayed in Film

Julia Sarreal, Arizona State University

“Please, Not Another Negro Film”: Richard Wright

and the Shooting of Native Son in Peronist Argentina Ernesto Semán, University of Bergen

Comment: Paula Halperin, Purchase College, State University of New York

71. Bolshevik Impacts on Latin American and Hispanic

Anarchism in the Americas, 1917–30


AM Sheraton New York, Sugar Hill

Chair: Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University, Berks

Speaker(s): Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University, Berks Steven Hirsch, Washington University in St. Louis David Marshall Struthers, University of

Copenhagen Chris J. Castaneda, California State University,

Sacramento Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University

72.Ordinary People and the State: New Biography

and 20th-Century Mexico


AM Sheraton New York, Union Square

Chair: Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Sons of Vatican II and Medellín:

Indigenous Priests in the Mexican Countryside

Eben Levey, University of Maryland, College Park

Miss Bell: Dance and Physical Education

in Guadalajara, 1934–49

Hilda Monraz, CIESAS Occidente

Informal Metropolis: Land and Shelter in

Mexico’s Largest Shantytown David James Yee, University of Colorado at

Boulder Comment: Christopher Boyer, University of

Illinois at Chicago

73. Maritime Voyages in the African Atlantic: Narratives of

Return and Reunion from Cuba and Brazil (Joint with AHA

#274)


AM Sheraton New York, Riverside Ballroom

Chair: Yuko Miki, Fordham University

Negros Fugitivos: Black Mobility in 18th-

Century Cuba and the Caribbean

Elena Schneider, University of California, Berkeley

Reversing the Middle Passage: Cubans’ Voyage

Back to Africa in the Revolutionary 1970s and 1980s Anasa Samantha Hicks, Florida State University

“Going to Their Own Country”: Enslaved

Maritime Labor and the Bahian Transatlantic Slave Trade

Mary Hicks, Amherst College

Comment: Yuko Miki, Fordham University

74.Where Did Gender and Sexuality Go? Conversations

on Latin American History (Joint with AHA #259)


AM Sheraton New York, Central Park West

Chair: Elizabeth Q. Hutchison, University of New

Mexico

Panel: Benjamin A. Cowan, University of California, San

Diego Eileen J. Findlay, American University Abel

Ricardo López, Western Washington University

Michelle McKinley, University of

Oregon Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University

Rebekah E. Pite, Lafayette College

75.The Native Pathways of Colonial Contacts: Kinship,

Alliances, and Gender in the Early Modern Americas



AM Sheraton New York, Gramercy

Chair: Brett Rushforth, University of Oregon

Native Rules along Native Borders in

the Indigenous American Southwest, 1200–1700

Juliana Barr, Duke University

Alliance, Kinship, and Gender in the Conquest of

the River Plate Basin: Indian Women in Asunción and São

Paulo during the 16th Century

Elisa Frühauf Garcia, Universidade

Federal Fluminense

Indigenous Rituals, Kinship, and Autonomy in the

Borderlands of Northeastern South America, 1600–1750 Silvia Espelt-Bombin, University of Exeter

Indigenous Spies and Sojourners in Colonial

Brazil Heather Flynn Roller, Colgate University

76. Black Migrations and the Luso-Hispanic World in the

Postabolition Era (Joint with AHA #263)


AM Sheraton New York, Madison Square

Chair: Elaine P. Rocha, University of the

West Indies at Cave Hill

Racialized Migration: Unpacking the Black-

Puerto Rican Experience after 1898

Hilda Lloréns, University of Rhode Island

The Silver Women: West Indian Migration,

Gender, and Community Formation in Panama

Joan Flores-Villalobos, Ohio State University

Afro-Brazilian and African American Migrant

Connections in the City of Lights in the Post-World War II Era Darién J. Davis, Middlebury College

Comment: Kim Butler, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

77. Conservative Modernization? Family, Capital, and Law in

the Formation of Privilege in 19th-Century Brazil

Monday, January 6, 2020: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Chair: Miqueias Mugge, Princeton University

Crimes, Punishments, and Due Process: Penal

Laws and the Shaping of Brazilian State and Society Monica Duarte Dantas, Universidade de São Paulo

Among Us: Family, Privilege, and Habitus in

the Brazilian Empire

Mariana Muaze, Universidade Federal do

Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Proslavery Privilege: Confederado Constructions

of Conservative Power

Claire Marie Wolnisty, Austin College

Birth Rights: Pregnancy, Power, and Privilege

in Brazilian Abolition

Cassia Roth, University of Georgia

Comment: Miqueias Mugge, Princeton University

78. Imperial Performances: The Sensory History of Missions

in Colonial New Spain



Chair: Jason Dyck, University of

Toronto Mississauga

Signs and Wonders: Missionaries, Indigenous People, and the Changing Sensory Landscape of Contact-Era New Spain

Scott Cave, Penn State University

Jesuit and Native Preaching in Northwestern New

Spain Jason Dyck, Western University

Authority and Performance: Bells and Power

in New Spain

Kristin Dutcher Mann, University of Arkansas

at Little Rock

Comment: Barbara Ganson, Florida Atlantic

University

79.Global Cities of the North and South: Transnational

Connections and Urban Development in the Americas (Joint

with AHA #290)


Sheraton New York, Bowery

Chair: Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Penn State

University

The Pressure for Profit: Deregulation, the

Santiago Metro, and the Urban Environment in 1980s Chile

Andra Chastain, Washington State University

Manaus as a Pole of Development: Amazonian

Urbanization during Brazil’s Military Dictatorship Adrián Lerner, Yale University

The Making of New York’s Avenue of the Americas: Transnational Circuits of Urban Renewal

Marcio Siwi, Towson University

Selling the American Dream in Uruguay and

Argentina: Urban Agglomerations and Neoliberal Visions

of Citizenship, 1990–2006

Daniel Richter, University of Maryland, College Park

Comment: Amy C. Offner, University of Pennsylvania

80. Indigenous Collectives and the Generation and

Regeneration of Native History in Colonial Latin America (Joint

with AHA #294)


Sheraton New York, Madison Square

Chair: Cynthia Radding, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Crisis of Community in the New Kingdom of Granada

Juan Cobo Betancourt, University of

California, Santa Barbara

Indigenous Collectives and Church Jurisdiction

in the Colonial Andes

Gabriela P. Ramos, University of Cambridge

Native Contracts: Indigenous Custom and the

Spanish Laws of Obligation in 18th-Century Oaxaca, Mexico Yanna P. Yannakakis, Emory University

Deciphering the Butalmapu:

Mapuche Confederations in Late Colonial Chile

Jesse Zarley, Saint Joseph's College

Comment: Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

81.Politics in the Shadow of Transatlantic Slavery:

Financialization, Fugitivity, Fetishes, and Freedom (Joint

with AHA #286)


Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom East

Chair: Anna More, Universidade de Brasília

Financialization and the Early Portuguese Slave Ship

Anna More, Universidade de Brasília

Beyond Escape: Fugitive Practice in Colonial Mexico

Daniel Nemser, University of Michigan

“As Slaves and Not Vassals”: Inter-Ethnic Struggles

to Define Freedom and Unfreedom in Midcolonial Peru Karen B. Graubart, University of Notre Dame

Fetish Contracts and Fante States: The Rise of

a Ritual Confederacy in 18th-Century Fanteland

Andrew Apter, University of California, Los Angeles


82.Capitalism and Globalization in Latin American

from Colonial to Modern Period (Joint with AHA #299)


Sheraton New York, New York Ballroom West

Chair: Edward (Ted) Beatty, University of Notre Dame

Harvesting Technology Use and Development

in Argentina during the Interwar Period, 1930–45

Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida

From Protection to Neoliberalism: Mexico’s

Brewing Industry in the 20th Century

Susan Gauss, University of Massachusetts Boston

Embracing International Standards: The Metric

System and Domestic Economic Integration in 19th-

Century Brazil

Anne G. Hanley, Northern Illinois University

The Political Economy of Money Production in

the Colonial Americas, 1600–1800

Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont

Jane Knodell, University of Vermont

CEPAL, the International Monetary Fund of the Left?

Margarita Fajardo, Sarah Lawrence College

The Impact of Global Capitalism in Welfare

Institutions and Living Standards: The Case of 19th-

and 20th-Century Mexico

Moramay Lopez-Alonso, Rice University

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