CURRÍCULUM VITAE


Darío Aquiles Euraque

104 Whitney, Hartford, Connecticut 06105

Home: (860) 233-4047; Office: (860) 297-2398

Fax: (860) 297-5111; Email: Dario.Euraque@trincoll.edu

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

          UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINMadison

 

1986-1990    Ph.D, Latin American History, Focus on Central American History

 

1984-1986    Master of Arts, History, Focus on Latin American History

 

1982-1984    Master of Arts, Ibero-American Studies, Focus on Social & Economic Change in Latin America

 

           MARQUETTE UNIVERSITYMilwaukee

 

1978-1982    Bachelor of Arts, History & Philosophy, Focus on European Ideas Dean's List; Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa

 

1978            Jesuit High School- New Orleans

 

HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS:

 

2002   “Corona de Oro, Jose Miguel Gomes”, Fundación para el Museo del Hombre       Hondureño. 

 

2002   Trinity College Math Center Summer Course

           Development Grant, 2002.

 

2000   Trinity College Human Rights Program Course

          Development Grant, 2002.

 

1991   Trinity College Faculty Summer Research Grant

 

1991   Trinity College Women's Studies Summer Course

          Development Grant, 1991

 

1986   Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad

          Fellowship to research in Honduras 1986-1987.

 

1984   Awarded a Tinker Summer Research Fellowship by the Ibero-American Studies           Program to research in  Honduras 1984.

 

1982-1984     Awarded Annual Advanced Opportunity Fellowships for Graduate Study at the University of Wisconsin.

 

 

ACADEMIC & RELATED PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:

 

 

7/2006-                  Director, Honduran Institute of Anthropology & History

 

7/1996-current         Associate Professor of History- Trinity College,

                  

8/1990-5/1996         Assistant Professor of History- Trinity College,

         

7/1997-7/2000         Director, International Studies Program, Trinity College

 

9/1995-7/1997;        Coordinator, Latin American Studies, Trinity College

9/1992-5/1994                  

 

9/1988-5/1990         Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois

                   

1/1986-5/1986         Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wisconsin       

           

9/1985-12/1985       Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

10/1985-11/1985      Madison Public School System, Adult Education.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

                                                I.  Books

 

Conversaciones Históricas con el Mestizaje en Honduras y su Identidad Nacional (San Pedro Sula: Centro Editorial, 2004).

 

El Capitalismo de San Pedro Sula y la Historia Política de Hondureña, 1870-1972 (Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1997). Second edition, 2001.

 

Estado, Poder, Nacionalidad y Raza en la Historia de Honduras: Ensayos (Tegucigalpa: Ediciones Subirana, 1996).

 

Reinterpreting the "Banana Republic": Region and State in Honduras, 1870s-1972 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). 

 

 

                                      Current Research:

 

A general introduction to sexuality in Honduran history.

 

 

                                                II. Essays in Books

 

Honduras.” In Robert A. Hill, Editor, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. XI, Caribbean Series (Los Angeles: UCLA, forthcoming, submitted).

 

“Free Pardos and Mulattos Vanquish Indians: Cultural Civility as Conquest and Modernity in XVIII and XIX Century Honduras.” In Darien Davis, Editor, Beyond Slavery: The Multi-faceted Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, at press)

 

“Negritud Garifuna y Coyunturas Políticas en la Costa Norte de Honduras, 1940-1970.” In Charles Hale, Jeffry Gould & Darío A. Euraque, Editors, Memorias del Mestizaje: Política y Cultura en Centroamérica, 1920-1990s (Guatemala: CIRMA, 2004), pp. 295-323.

 

“The Threat of Blackness to the Mestizo Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Banana Economy, 1920s and 1930s.” In Steven Striffler and Mark Moberg, Editors, Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas  (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 229-249.

 

“Procesos e Infraestructuras de la Hondureñidad en el Siglo XX.”  In Julio Escoto, Editor, Honduras. Sucesos del Siglo XX (San Pedro Sula: Centro Editorial, 2003), pp. 35-57.

 

“On the Origins of Civil War in Nineteenth-Century Honduras.” In Rebecca Earle, Editor, Rumours of Wars: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000), pp. 87-102.

 

“The Banana Enclave, Nationalism and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s.” In Avi Chomsky & Aldo Lauria Editors, At the Margins of the Nation-State: Identity and Struggle in the Making of the Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1860-1960 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 151-168.

 

“La Metamorfosis de una Oligarquía y las Elites de Poder en la Década de 1980: el Caso de Honduras.” In Marta Elena Casaus Aarhus, Editors,  Elites de Poder en América Central (Madrid: Fundación CEDEAL, 1996), pp. 59-83.

 

“Los Recursos Económicos del Estado Hondureño, 1830-1970.” In Arturo Taracena y Jean Piel, Editores,  Identidades Nacionales y Estado Moderno en Centroamérica, (San José, Costa Rica: EDUCA, 1995): 135-150.

 

“Modernity, Economic Power and the Foreign Banana Companies in Honduras: San Pedro Sula as a Case Study: 1880s-1945.” In Edwin J. Perkins, Editor, Essays in Economic and Business History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Vol. XI (June 1993): 49-65.

           

 

                             III. Essays in Academic Journals

 

“Jamaican Migrants and Settlements in Honduras, 1870s-1954.”  Caribbean Studies submitted and accepted for publication in a special issue on Central American historical studies, forthcoming 2007.

 

“Sexualidad Masculina y Homofobia en la Historia de Honduras: Las Pistas Disponibles,” Revista Modernidades, No. 2 Cordoba, Argentina (December 2005). Electronic journal: www.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/modernidades/index.htm.

 

“Apuntes para una Historiografía del Mestizaje en Honduras.” Revista Iberoamericana, Madrid, No. 19 (2005): 105-25.

 

“En Busca de Froylan Turcios: Apuntes sobre la Vida y Obra de Armando Méndez Fuentes.” Paraninfo, Tegucigalpa, No. 23 (July 2003): 177-197.

 

“Historia e Historiografía en la novela La Guerra Mortal de los Sentidos de Roberto Castillo.” Paraninfo, Tegucigalpa, No. 23 (July 2003): 251-269.

 

“Los Políticos Hondureños y la Costa Norte (1876-1950).”  Revista Política de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, No. 24 (December 2000): 113-156.

 

“El Archivo Privado de Federico Lunardi.” Paraninfo, Tegucigalpa, No. 17 (July 2000): 199-209.

 

“Federico Lunardi, Mayanizacion y la Identidad Nacional de Honduras.” Paraninfo, Tegucigalpa, No. 16 (December 1999): 159-172.

 

“Antropólogos, Arqueólogos, Imperialismo y la Mayanizacion de Honduras: 1890-1940.”  Revista de Historia, San Jose, Costa Rica No. 45 (January-June 2002): 73-103.

 

“The Arab-Jewish Economic Presence in San Pedro Sula, the Industrial Capital of Honduras: Formative Years, 1880s-1930s.” Immigrants and Minorities, London, Vol. 16, Nos. 1 & 2 (March-July 1997): 94-124.

 

“Movimientos Populares, Etno-racismo y la Problemática de la Identidad Nacional.” Paraninfo, Tegucigalpa, No. 10 (December 1996): 1-14.

 

“La Creación de la Moneda Nacional y el Enclave Bananero en la Costa Caribeña de Honduras: ¿En Busca de una Identidad Étnico-Racial?” YAXKIN, Revista del Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 & 2 (October 1996): 138-150.

 

“Nation Formation, Mestizaje and Arab-Palestinian Immigration to Honduras, 1880-1930s.” Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East, No. 6 (Spring 1995): 25-37.

 

“Formación Nacional, Mestizaje, y la Inmigración Arabe-Palestina a Honduras.” Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Año 9, No. 26 (April 1994): 47-66.

 

“The Social, Economic & Political Aspects of the Carías Dictatorship in Honduras: The Historiography.” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Albuquerque, New Mexico, (1994): 238-248.

 

“San Pedro Sula, Actual Capital Industrial de Honduras: Su Trayectoria entre Villorrio Colonial y Emporio Bananero, 1536-1936.” Mesoamérica, No. 26, Vermont-Guatemala, (December 1993): 217-252.

 

“Zonas Regionales En La Formación Del Estado Hondureño, 1830s-1930s: El Caso De La Costa Norte.” Historia y Sociedad, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Año IV, (1993): 105-139.

 

“Estructura Económica, Formación de Capital Industrial, Relaciones Familiares y Poder Político en San Pedro Sula: l870s-1958.” Revista Polémica, San Jose, Costa Rica, No. 18 (September-December 1992): 31-50.

 

“Zonas Regionales En La Formación Del Estado Hondureño, 1830s-1930s: El Caso De La Costa Norte.” Revista Centroamericana de Economía, Tegucigalpa, Año 13, No. 39 (September-December 1992): 65-102.

 

“Notas sobre formacion de clases y poder político en Honduras (1870-1932).” Historia Crítica, Tegucigalpa,  No. 6 (November 1991): 59-79.

 

“La ‘Reforma Liberal’ en Honduras y la Hipótesis de la ‘Oligarquía Ausente’: 1870s-1930s.” Revista de Historia,  San Jose, Costa Rica, No. 23 (January-June 1991): 7-56.

 

                                       IV. Working Papers Series

 

“Regional Economic Integration in the Periphery: A Comparison of Central America and Southern Africa.” Co-authored with Prof. Michael Niemann. Southern African Perspectives: a working paper series, No. 31, University of the Western Cape, Belville, South Africa, (Feb. 1994).

 

 

                                      V. Entries in Reference Works

 

Co-authored, with Prof. Stephen Webre, Louisiana Tech University, the introductory essay to the bibliographical citations on Central America in Vol. 60 of the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004), pp. 243-262 (includes annotated bibliography.)

 

Guatemala, Managua, and Nicaragua,” In  World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Publishing, 2004).

 

“Francisco Morazán.” In Historic World Leaders, Vol. 5, ed. Anne Commire (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1994): 601-604.

 

“Tiburcio Carías Andino, Ramón Villeda Morales & Oswaldo López Arellano.” In Historic World Leaders, Vol. 4, ed. Anne Commire (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1994): 344-348.

 

                                      VI. Book Reviews

 

Consuelo Cruz, Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in American Historical Review (forthcoming).

 

Thomas J. Dodd, Tiburcio Carías Andino: Portrait of a Honduran Political Leader (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2005), in The Historian (forthcoming).

 

John Soluri, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), in Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming).

 

Lara Putnam, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), in Journal of Social History (forthcoming, submitted).

 

Ivan Molina Jiménez, La Estela de la Pluma: Cultura Impresa e Intelectuales en Centroamérica durante los Siglos XIX y XX (San Jose: Editorial Universidad Nacional 2004), in Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 36 (2) (May 2006), pp. 397-399.

 

Rolando Sierra, Colonia, Independencia y Reforma: Introducción a la Historiografía Hondureña (Tegucigalpa: Universidad Pedagógica Francisco Morazán, 2001), in Mesoamérica, Vol. 46 (January-December 2004), pp. 276-278.

 

Luis Pedro Taracena Arriola, Ilusión Minera y Poder Política: La Alcaldía Mayor de Tegucigalpa, Siglo XVIII (Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1998), in

Mesoamérica, Vol. 46 (January-December 2004), pp. 274-276.

 

Gilbert M. Joseph, Editor, Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), in Journal of Latin American Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, Vol. 36 (May 2004): 379-380.

 

Carlos Contreras, Hacia la Dictadura Cariísta: La Campaña Presidencial de 1932 (Tegucigalpa: Editorial Iberoamericana, 2000) in Hispanic American Historical Review 82:4 (2002): 813-814.

 

Deborah J. Yashar, Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), in New England Historical Association News, Vol. XXVI  (April 2000): 16.

 

Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), in American Historical Review, Vol. XIV (June 1998): 1010-1011.

 

Lowell Gudmundson & Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Central America, 1821-1871: Liberalism before Liberal Reform (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1995), in Journal of Latin American Studies (Spring, 1997): 232-234.

 

Robert G. Williams, States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), in International Labor and Working-Class History, Vol. 50 (Fall 1996): 188-190.

 

Leticia Oyuela, Un Siglo en la Hacienda: Estancias y Haciendas Ganaderas en la Antigua Alcaldía Mayor de Tegucigalpa (Tegucigalpa: Banco Central de Honduras, 1994), in Paranínfo, No. 9 (July 1996): 173-182.

 

Rocío Tábora, Masculinidad y Violencia en la Cultura Política Hondureña (Tegucigalpa: CEDOH, 1995), in Revista de Historia, Costa Rica, No. 33 (January-June 1996): 187-200.

 

Leslie Bethell, Editor, Central America since Independence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), in Mesoamérica, No. 30 (December 1995): 412-413.

 

Nancie L. González, Dollar, Dove, and Eagle: One Hundred Years of Palestinian Immigration to Honduras (University of Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1992), in Migration World Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1993): 45.

 

Alan Gilbert, Latin America (London: Routledge, 1990) and James Cockcroft, Neighbors in Turnmoil: Latin America (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), in The History Teacher, Vol. 26, No. 1 (November 1992): 103-105.

 

Héctor Pérez-Brignoli, A Brief History of Central America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), in The History Teacher, Vol. 26, No. 1 (November 1992): 114-115.

 

 

                                    VII. Academic Conference and Seminar Papers

 

                                      In the United States

 

“El Poder Garífuna y las Elecciones Presidenciales en Honduras de Noviembre de 2005: Una Perspectiva Historica,” Paper presented at a seminar on “Race and Politics in Central America,” University of Texas, February 24-25, 2006.

 

“Jamaican Migrants and Settlements in Honduras, 1870s-1954,” Paper presented at a conference on “Between Race and Place: Blacks in Central America and the Mainland Caribbean,” Tulane University, New Orleans, November 11-13, 2004.

 

“Arab and Jewish Economic Power & Politics in Honduras, 1980s-1990s,” Paper presented at a colloquium on “Middle Eastern Migrations to Latin America”, University of Chicago, May 31, 2003.

 

Honduras in the 20th Century and its Historiography,” Paper, Invited lecture, California State University, Northridge, November 21, 2002.

 

“El Mestizaje en Honduras y la Negritud Garifuna, 1940s-1970s,” Paper presented at a conference on “From Purity of Blood to Indigenous Social Movements: Cultural Race, Racism, and the Meanings of Mestizaje in the Andes and Central America,” University of Iowa,  October 24-26, 2002.

 

Discussant, Panel on “Race and Nation in the Western Caribbean,” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, September 7-8, 2001.

 

“The Honduran Banana Enclave of the 1920s and a Reinterpretation of the Racial-Ethnic Symbolism of its Currency,”  Paper presented at the University of Texas, Austin as part of a workshop on “Race and Politics of Mestizaje: Central America, Mexico & the Borderlands,” May 5-6, 2000.

 

“Antropólogos, Arqueólogos, Imperialismo y la Mayanización de Honduras: 1890-1940.” Paper presented at the New England Council of Latin American Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, October 24, 1998.

 

“Intellectuals, Racial Ideologies, and Ideal Conceptions of the Nation in the Formation of the State in 19th Century Honduras," Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 8-10, 1998.

 

“Interpreting U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Two Military Coups in Honduras, 1956 and 1963: Beyond the ‘Banana Republic’?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Historical Association, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, April 20, 1996.

 

“Imagined Mestizo Communities in Honduras and Nicaragua: Comparative Nation-Building, 1880s-1930s,” Paper presented at the New England Historical Association, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, April 23, 1994.

 

“Nation Formation, Mestizaje, and Arab Palestinian Immigration to Honduras, 1880s-1930s,” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 10-12, 1994.

 

“Labor Recruitment and Class Formation on the Banana Plantations of the United Fruit Co. and the Standard Fruit Co. in Honduras: 1910s-1930s,” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, January 6-9, 1994.

 

“Zonas Regionales en la Formación del Estado Hondureño, 1830s-1930s: el Caso de la Costa Norte,” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 25, 1992.

 

“Honduran Agricultural History of the l9th & 20th Centuries: Available Research and Needed Agendas.” Workshop Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 25, 1992.

 

“Modernity, Economic Power and the Banana Companies in Honduras: San Pedro Sula as a Case Study,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society, Seattle, Washington, April 24, 1992.

 

“Elites, Ethnicity and State Formation in Honduras: The Case of Palestinian Arabs,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1, 1991.

 

 

 

                                                Europe

 

On the Origins of Civil Wars in Honduras in the 19th Century.” Paper presented before the 5th Annual Nineteenth Century History Workshop at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, May 23, 1997.

 

“Elites de Poder en Honduras y la ‘Recomposición de la Oligarquia’ en los 1980s: Apuntes Históricos.” Talk at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, October 30, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

                                      Latin America & Caribbean

 

“Historia e Historiografía en la Novelística del Cacique Lempira en Honduras,” Paper to be presented  at the 8th  Annual Central American Congress on History, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, July 10-14, 2006.

 

“Sexualidad Masculina y Homofobia en la Historia de Honduras: Las Pistas Disponibles,”  Paper presented before the 7th Annual Central American Congreso of History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 19-23, 2004.

 

“200 Años de Categorías Raciales y Étnicas en Honduras, 1790-1990s”, Paper at the Third International Conference on Population of the Central American Isthmus, Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica, November 16-19, 2003.

 

“Historia e Historiografía en la novela La Guerra Mortal de los Sentidos de Roberto Castillo,” Paper presented at the 11th International Congress of Central American Literature, San José, Costa Rica,  March 5-7, 2003.

 

“En Busca de Froylan Turcios: Apuntes sobre la Vida y Obra de Armando Méndez Fuentes,” Paper presented at the 6th Annual Central American Conference on History, Panama, July 22-26, 2002.

 

“Negros y Mulatos en la Evangelización y Civilización de los Pueblos Indígenas de Honduras, ca. 1750-1860,”  Paper presented at the 6th Annual Central American Conference on History, Panama, July 24, 2002.

 

“Enseñando la Intersección entre la Escenificación (Performance) y las Razas de las Migraciones Minoritarias en América Latina y el Caribe,” Paper presented at a seminar on “Globalización, Migración y Espacio Público,” at the Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política, Lima, Peru, July 5-13, 2002.

 

“The Historiography of the West Indian Diaspora in Central America viewed from Honduras,” Paper, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica, February 21,  2002.

 

“Evangelización, Civilización y Civismo como Discursos Modernizantes en un Pueblo Mulato de Honduras.” Paper at an international seminar entitled “Colectividades Frente a los Proyectos Modernizadores Latinoamericanos, Siglos XIX-XX,” Colegio de México, San Luís Potosí, CIESAS-AHILA, March 14-16, 2001.

 

“Cultura, Poder y Política Desde Una Perspectiva Comparada: América Latina, Argentina y Córdoba (Siglos XIX y XX).” One week seminar given at the Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina, October 23-27, 2000.

 

“Negritud y Esclavitud en América Latina, Centroamérica y los Garifunas de Honduras.” One week seminar given at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad de Costa Rica,  May 29-June 6, 2000.

 

“Historia de la Negritud en Honduras.” Paper, Centro Satuye y la Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras, La Ceiba, Honduras, March 20, 2000.

 

“El Mestizaje y los Negros en la Historia de Honduras: Apuntes para una Próxima Investigación.” Paper, Workshop on the project “Memorias del Mestizaje,” Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, July 24-25, 1999.

 

“Antropólogos, Imperialismo y la Mayanización de Honduras: 1890-1940.” Paper presented before the 4th Annual Central American Congress on History, Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, Universidad de Centroamérica, Managua, Nicaragua, July 14-17, 1998.

 

“Notas Sobre la Investigacion en Intibuca,” with Jeff Gould, University of Indiana. Paper presented in Antigua, Guatemala, December 5-6, 1997. Work in Progress associated with, “Memories of Mestizaje: Cultural Politics in Central America since 1920,” an inter-disciplinary research project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.

 

“Imperialismo y Honduras como ‘Republica Bananera’: Hacia Una Nueva Historiografía.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara México, April 17-19, 1997.

 

“Movimientos Populares, Etno-racismo y la Problemática de la Identidad Nacional: Apuntes sobre los Palestino-Hondureños.” Paper, Seminar, “Significado de los Movimientos Populares en la Gestación del Estado y la Identidad Nacional en Honduras,” Museo de la República, Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, September 20, 1996.

 

“La Historiografía Hondureña y el Caudillismo Indígena: Entre Lempira y Gregorio Ferrera.” Paper presented before the 3rd Annual Central American Congress on History, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, July 15-18, 1996.

 

“La Creación de la Moneda Nacional y el Enclave Bananero en la Costa Caribeña de Honduras: ¿En Busca de una Identidad Étnico-Racial?” Paper presented before the 2nd International Seminar on Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, July 31-August 4, 1995.

 

“La Construcción del Mestizaje y Movimientos Políticos en Honduras: los Casos de los Generales Manuel Bonilla, Gregorio Ferrera y Tiburcio Carías Andino,” Paper presented before the Seminar, “Estado, Participación e Identidad Nacional en Centroamérica, Siglos XIX y XX,” San José, Costa Rica, February 23-25, 1995.

 

“Los Recursos Económicos del Estado de Honduras: 1830s-1970s.” Seminar, “Balance Histórico Del Estado-Nación Centroamericano,” Centro Loyola, San Salvador, El Salvador, November 22-24, 1993.

 

“Regional Economic Integration in the Periphery: A Comparison of Central America and Southern Africa: 1870s-1990s.” Paper co-authored with Prof. Michael Niemann, and presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, March 24, 1993.

 

 

           

                                    VIII. Professional Consulting and Education

 

 

           

A.     Manuscript Reviews, Dissertation and Prize Committees

 

Currently serving on the “Best Book” Prize Committee of the New England Council of Latin American Studies.

 

Have served as an anonymous referee for article manuscripts for Comparative Studies in Society & History (UK), American Historical Review (US), Ethnic & Racial Studies (UK); Journal of Latin American Studies (UK); Mesoamerica (Guatemala); Paraninfo (Honduras); and Revista de Historia (Costa Rica).

 

Have served as an anonymous referee for book manuscripts for the University of Michigan Press, the University of Alabama Press, the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, and Editorial Guaymuras in Honduras.

 

Have served on dissertation committees, and other terminal degrees for the University of Texas, Austin; at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor; the Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica; and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

 

 

B.     Academic Consulting

 

 Consultant, United Nations, Honduras, Seminar and Workshop, “La Importancia del Análisis Político Para la Toma de Decisiones,” Tegucigalpa, July 21-22, 2005.

 

Main Discussant, one week seminar before the Doctoral Program on Development Promotion, Faculty of Social Work, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, May 22-27, 2005. The seminar involved leading discussion of historical theory, modern historiography and Honduran development.

 

“Ciclo de Conferencias Sobre Raza, Etnicidad Cultura y Poder en la Historia de Honduras.” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, April 23-27, 2001. Cycle of conferences hosted by the Commission on Human Rights of Honduras, Tegucigalpa.

 

Main Discussant, one week seminar before the Doctoral Program on Development Promotion, Faculty of Social Work, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, May 3-7, 1999. The seminar involved leading discussion of historical theory, modern historiography and Honduran development.

 

Co-organizer, Conference in Managua, Nicaragua, July 10-13, 1998. Work in progress associated with, "Memories of Mestizaje: Cultural Politics in Central America since 1920," an inter-disciplinary research project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.

 

Consultant on Issues of Race and Ethnicity to the United Nation’s Program for Development (PNUD) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July-August, 1997. Charged with developing a working paper on ethnicity, history and development for the PNUD's and Honduras' National Report on Human Development.

 

Speaker before an International, Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Racism, Mestizaje and National Identity.” May 8, 1997, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Indiana, Bloomington.

 

Speaker at the “Simposium sobre la Realidad Negra Centroamericana.” Delivered a paper entitled, “El Estado, Mestizaje y Racismo en Honduras.” La Ceiba, Honduras, April 7, 1997. Organized by the National Coordinating Committee of Black Organizations in Honduras.

 

Main Discussant, one week seminar before the Doctoral Program on Development Promotion, Faculty of Social Work, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, November, 1996. The seminar involved leading discussion of historical theory, modern historiography and Honduran development.

 

Consultant to a National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored project entitled, “Memories of Mestizaje: Cultural Politics in Central America since 1920.” The project is headed by Profs. Jeff Gould (Indiana University), Charles Hale (University of Texas, Austin, and Carol Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara). (1995-96).

 

Consultant to the Department of Historical Research of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, March and July, 1995. This institute is an autonomous agency of the Honduran Ministry of Culture. My particular task was an evaluation of the Department of Historical Research, and submission of a policy paper for a new agenda for research.

 

                                      C. Community Talks

 

 

“Los Estados Centroamericanos: Recientes Interpretaciones.” Talk before the Escuela de Historia, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, November 18, 1994.

 

“Politics: Dictatorship and Revolution in Latin America.” Talk and workshop discussion at the Elderhostel of the Institute of World Affairs, Salisbury, Connecticut, August 17, 1993.

 

“In Search of the Honduran Oligarchy: Explanations of the Central American Crisis of the 1980s.” Paper presented at The University of Connecticut, Hartford as part of its “Ethics and Global Issues” Lecture series. December 2, 1992.

 

“Latin America's New Course: Bridge to Closer U.S. Ties? - A Historical Perspective.” Talk to the World Affairs Council's Great Decisions series, Hartford, Connecticut, March 3 & 4, 1992.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

 

American Historical Association

Latin American Studies Association

Social Science History Association

Economic and Business Historical Society

New England Historical Association

New England Conference on Latin American Studies

 

PESONAL DATA:

 

Born: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 24, 1959

Married: Polly C. Moran

Children: Katalina Teresa (10) & Sebastian Ariel (7)

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