My research (and graduate training interests) span most of modern Latin America, with an emphasis on Andean and Mexican history and on historical sociology. My current writing is about the history of contested drug-commodities, particularly Andean cocaine in its broadest contexts, on which I recently published Cocaine: Global Histories (Routledge, 1999). Before that, I wrote mainly about nineteenth-century Peru, on its economic history, state formation, political economy, social history and the history of economic ideas. Related to involvements at the Social Science Research Council, I have a continuing interest in social science and historical practice, i.e., the advance of interpretive, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. As Director of the LACS center here, I started a major international research program (supported by Rockefeller) on “Durable Inequalities in Latin America” and a Tinker Field Grant program that supports preliminary travel research for grad students working on Latin America or Iberia.
Books
Editor, COCAINE: Global Histories. Routledge U.K., 1999, 213 pages. Cloth and paper.
IMAGINING DEVELOPMENT: Economic Ideas in Peru's “Fictitious Prosperity” of Guano, 1840-1880. University of California Press, 1993, 244 pages. Cloth and paper.
BETWEEN SILVER AND GUANO: Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru. Princeton University Press, 1989, 234 pages. Paper, 1991.
TEJIDOS Y HARINAS, CORAZONES Y MENTES: El imperialismo norteamericano del libre comercio en el Perú, 1825-1840. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, 1989, 119 pages.
Articles “
Between Coca and Cocaine: A Century or More of U.S.-Peruvian Drug Paradoxes, Hispanic American Historical Review, 83/1 (2003),119-150. Also as “Working Paper” (with commentary of Julio Cotler), LAP, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2001.
Seeing a State in Peru: From Nationalism of Commerce to the Nation Imagined, 1820-80,” 254-274.” In J. Dunkerley, ed., Studies in the Formation of the Nation State in Latin America. Institute for Latin American Studies (London), 2002.
Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron: ‘Latecomer’ Conceptions in Latin American Economic History,” 57-80. In M. Centeno, F. López-Alves, eds., The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America. Princeton, 2001.
Introduction, “Cocaine: Hidden Histories,” 1-17 and “Reluctance or Resistance?: Constructing Cocaine (Prohibitions) in Peru, 1900-1950," 46-79. In P. Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine: Global Histories. Routledge U.K. 1999.
"Paying for Caudillos: The Politics of Emergency Finance in Peru, 1820-45.” In V. Peloso, B. Tenenbaum, eds., Liberals, Politics & Power: State Formation in 19th-Century Latin America. University of Georgia Press, 1996, 134-165.
"On Salamanders, Pyramids, and Mexico's 'Growth-without-Change': Reflections on a Case of Bourbon New Spain, Colonial Latin American Review, 5/1 (1996), 117-128.
"Not So Liberal: Protectionist Peru." In R. Salvucci, ed., Latin America and the World Economy: Dependency and Beyond. D.C. Heath and Co., 1996, 78-84.
"Order(s) and Progress in Developmental Discourse: A Case of Nineteenth-Century Peru," Journal of Historical Sociology 8/2 (1995), 111-135. Also in E. Posada, ed., In Search of a New Order, 61-83. Institute for Latin American Studies, London, 1998.
"Population and Ethnicity in Early Republican Peru: Some Revisions," Latin American Research Review, 26/3 (1991), 109-157.
"North--South: Trade Policy, Regionalism and Caudillismo in Post-Independence Peru,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 23/2 (1991),1-36.
"Carneros y Chuño: Price Levels in Nineteenth-Century Peru," HAHR, 70/1 (1990),1-56.
"Beleaguered Liberals: The Failed First Generation of Free Traders in Peru" In J. Love, N. Jacobsen, eds., Guiding the Invisible Hand: Liberalism and the State in Latin American History. Praeger Publishers, 1988, 63-98.
"The Social Origins of Protectionism and Free Trade in Nineteenth-Century Lima," Journal of Latin American Studies, 14/2 (1982), 329-358.
Forthcoming/in Progress
“Cocaine in Chains: The Rise and Demise of a Global Commodity,1860-1950" Ms. in (CD-Rom) Proceedings of XIII IEHA Congress, Buenos Aires, July 2002; for Topik, Marichal and Frank, eds. “Commodity Chains and Latin American History” (Duke, 2004); French version in special issue of Hérodote (P.-A. Chouvy, ed., no.111, 2004).
“Talking Like a State: Drugs, Borders and the Language of Control,” for I. Abraham and W. Van Schendel, eds. “The Criminal Life of Things” (forthcoming, Indiana, 2004). “Secret Ingredients: The Politics of Coca in U.S.-Peruvian Relations, 1915-1965” Forthcoming, Journal of Latin American Studies (2004); “Furtive Flow” version for B. Nielson, M. Bamyeh, eds.,“Drugs in Motion” (Nebraska, 2005)
“Between a Rock and a Softer Place: New Trends in Latin American Economic History,” Ms. 2003, solicited review article for Latin American Research Review (2004).
Entries
"Guano Industry." Entry in Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture, 1995. "Caudillismo." Entry in the Encyclopedia of Social History, 1995.
“Andean Region.” Entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003.
Translations
Books
CAUDILLOS Y COMERCIANTES: La formación económica del Estado peruano, 1820-1860. Translated by Eleanora Falco. New Prologue. Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Andinos Bartolomé de las Casas, 1997. 328 pages.
IMAGINAR EL DESARROLLO: Las ideas económicas en el Perú postcolonial. Translated by Javier Flores. With Prologue to the Spanish Edition. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Banco Central de Reserva, 1998. 333 pages.
Articles
"Los liberales asediados: la fracasada primera generación de librecambistas en el Perú, 1820-1850," Revista Andina (Cuzco) 6/2 (1988), 403-450, 496-498.
"Niveles de precios en Lima del siglo diecinueve: algunos datos e interpretaciones," Economía (Lima) 13/24 (1989), 137-205. "Los orígines sociales del proteccionismo y libre cambio en el siglo xix limeño," Histórica (Lima) 14/2 (1990), 235-280.
"Población y etnicidad en el Perú republicano (siglo xix): algunas revisiones." Documento de Trabajo 71, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (Lima) 1996. 58 pp.
“¿Hijos de Dr. Gerschenkron?: El extrano caso de los conceptos de desarrollo tardío en la historia económica latinoamericana” in C. Contreras, M. Glave, eds., Estado y Mercado en la Historia del Perú (PUPC, 2002).
Entre la coca y la cocaína” (with Julio Cotler), Documento de Trabajo, IEP, 2004.
In process: "Los órden(es) i progreso”; “Pagando para los caudillos”; ”Norte- Sur”
Translator
Of: Luis Astorga “Cocaine in Mexico: A Prelude to Los Narcos,” 183-191 In Gootenberg, ed., Cocaine: Global Histories, Routledge U.K., 1999.
Of: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “Message to XVI World Congress of Sociology," 7-9, In International Sociology (16/1, 2001).
Commentaries
Revista Andina, Cusco (2/1, 1984; 5/1, 1987; 6/2, 1988; 13, 1995)
Re..view, New York, “1492-1992, An Historian’s View” (Summer 1992)
H.A.H.R., “Daniel Nugent, 1954-1997" (Obituary) 78/1, February 1998 (Reprinted in Critique of Anthropology, London, 19/4, December 1999)
La Vitrina (New York), “El Corrido de Friedrich Katz y Pancho Villa,” March 1999
Book Reviews
American Historical Review (98/3, 1993) (102/1, 1997)
The Americas (50/4, 1994) (53/2, 1997)(55/4, 1999) (58/3, 2002)
Colonial Latin American Review (5/1, 1996)
Hispanic American Historical Review (70/1,1990;71/2,1991;74/2,1994;77/4,1997; 78/1, 1998;79/3 1999;81/2 2001)
Inter-American Review of Bibliography (1989)
Journal of Developing Areas (29/4, 1995)
Journal of Economic History (50/4, 1991) (59/4, 1999) (60/3, 2000)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History (27/1,1996) (30/1,1999)
Journal of Latin American Studies (16/1, 1984) (27/1, 27/3, 1995)
Journal of World History 2003
Revista Andina (2/1, 1984) (17/2, 1992) (23/3, 1997) (24/1998)
Social History (24/3,1999)
Academic Honors & Fellowships
Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 1999-2000
Visiting Scholar, The Russell Sage Foundation, N.Y., 1996-1997
Faculty Achievement Award, Hispanic Heritage Month, Stony Brook University, 2002
Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Award, 1995-1996
Lindesmith Center/Open Society Institute, Research Prizes, 1995-1997, 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1993-1994
“Honorable Mention,” Best Article Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS), 1997
Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1994
H.G. Davis Best Article Prize (1992) and (1995) Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS)
1st Annual Joseph T. Crescenti Best Article Prize (of 1990), NECLAS
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, CLAIS, 1990
John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in the Field of History, 1990 and 1992
Best Article in Latin American Studies Award (of 1988), NECLAS
American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Recent Recipients of Ph.D.,1988
Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1986-87 Social Science Research Council, Postdoctoral Award, 1986-1987
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Award, 1983-1984
Social Science Research Council, International Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1983-84 Searle Graduate Fellow, University of Chicago, 1981-1985
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1979-1981
Professional Service
Chair of the Selection Committee, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF Program), The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), 1999-2002
Director, Latin American and Carribean Studies (LACS), Stony Brook, 2000-03
Co-Coordinator, New York City Latin American History Workshop, 2002-
“Historical Atlas of Globalization” (Sociology, Princeton), Coordinating Committee, 2002- Editorial Board, The Journal of Historical Sociology, 1994-present
Stony Brook University-wide “Promotion and Tenure Committee” (PTC), 2002-05
Chair, NECLAS Best Article Prize Committee, 2002
Grant Evaluator, Social Science Research Council, IDRF Program, 1996-1999
IDRF Doctoral Fellows Workshop Facilitator, SSRC, Amsterdam, 1998
IDRF (Social Science Research Council), Selection Committee, 1999--2000, 2003
Steering Committee, “Beyond Borders: (I)licit Flows of People, Objects, Ideas,” Collaborative Research Network, SSRC, 1999--present
“Visitante Extranjero” (Electoral Observer), Mexican Federal Elections of 1994
Bryce Wood Book Award Committee (Latin American Studies Association), 1993
Co-Chair, Andean Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH-American Historical Association), 1991-1992
Scholarly Reviewer: Duke, California, Stanford, Routledge, North Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Pittsburgh University Presses; HAHR, JLAS, JEH, Americas etc.
Member: LASA, NECLAS, CLAH (Latin Americanist groups).
Major InstitutionalGrants
Durable Inequalities in Latin America: Histories, Societies, Cultures, Rockefeller Foundation, Humanities Fellowship Program, Post-Doctoral Residency Site, Stony Brook University, 2002-2006; $325,000 award
Tinker Field Research Grant Program, Stony Brook LACS, Tinker Foundation (N.Y.), 2003-2006; $60,000 for graduate travel fellowships.
Keynote Addresses
“How a ‘Good’ Latin Americanist Turned to Drugs,” Columbia University
1st Graduate Student Conference on Twentieth Century Latin America,” March 2003.
Major invited lectures at Yale, Harvard, Oxford, University of Texas, University of Florida etc.
Areas of Latin American history (1400-1990)
Teaching Economic history and development
Expertise Andean history* Mexican history* Colonial and Modern Latin America* Historical Political Economy of Latin America* European Expansion and Transnational histories Latin American-United States relations (1823-1973)* Drugs and Food-Commodities in History* Social Science and Historical Practice*
*Graduate training expertise
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