Academic & Professional History

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; cartography of 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.

(Full CV)  

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• 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.



• "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. 


 

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• http://www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic