Academic & Professional History

Skidmore College,Associate Professor, 2007-; Assistant Professor, 2000-2006;
Director of Latin American Studies, 2007-Fall 2011

B.A. in History (with honors), Stanford University; M.A. in Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University;
M.Phil.and Ph.D. in Latin American History with minor in Early Modern European History, New York University

Research interests in independence-era and early national Central American history; history of cartography; cartography and travel writers, 1600s-1950s

U.S. Foreign Service Officer, 1990-1995, US Embassy Tegucigalpa (Honduras), 1990-1992; US Mission to the United Nations, 1992-1995.

(Short CV and publications)  

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Select Publications

• From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839,
  University of New Mexico Press (November 2006) Available at Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
  
  
• Co-editor with Christophe Belaubre, Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America.
  The University Press of Colorado (January 2007). Available at Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
  
  
• Co-editor with Christophe Belaubre and John Savage,Napoléon et les Amériques:
  Histoire atlantique et empire napoléonien. Université de Toulouse-LeMirail/Méridiennes (2009). Available at FRAMESPA.
• English edition, Napoleon's Atlantic: The Impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic World (Brill, 2010)
  
  
• "Citizen of Which Republic: Foreigners and the Construction of National Citizenship in Latin America, 1823-1845"
  The Americas, Vol. 64, No. 4 (April 2008) ** New England Council of Latin American Studies "Best Article" Award for 2009.
• "The Familiar and the Strange: Western Travelers' Maps of Europe and Asia, ca. 1600-1800,"
  Philosophy & Geography 7:2 (August 2004): 155-191.
• "More Calculated to Mislead than Inform: The Cartography of Travel Writers in Central America, 1821-1950"
  Journal of Historical Geography (April 2004)

  • See also a virtual slideset at the Newberry Library on the same theme.
• "George Thompson, Henry Dunn & Frederick Crowe: Tres Viajeros Ingleses en América Central, 1825-1845:
  La Reconciliación de la Historia y la Modernidad," Mesoamérica 40, December 2000. 
• "Soberanía Transitiva y Adhesión Condicional: Lealtad e Insurrección en el Reino de Guatemala, 1808-1811"
  in 1808: la eclosión juntera en el mundo hispano (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica/Colegio de México, 2007),
  coord. Manuel Chust. And in Araucaria.
• De Reino de Guatemala a República de Centro América: Un Periplo Cartográfico, AFEHC, 2011.
• Editor, sección monográfico, "Mapeando Patrias Chicas y Patrias Grandes: Cartografía
  e Historia Iberoamericana, Siglos XVIII-XX" and author of the Presentación. Araucaria 24, 2010.