1999		Ph.D. in History, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: “Rising from the Ashes: Ethnicity, Community and Nation-State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua”
1993		M.A. in History, University of California, Los Angeles
1990		B.A., in Economics and Latin American Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Associate Professor, William Arceneaux Professorship in Latin American History, History Department, Tulane University (2007-present)

Assistant Professor, History Department, Tulane University (2000-2007)

Visiting Fulbright Professor, Universidad Centroamericano, Managua, Nicaragua (2005)

The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Cenrtal America, edited collection with Lowell Gudmundson (under contract with Duke University Press).

“Those That Live by the Work of Their Hands: Labour, Ethnicity and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua, 1850-1900,” Journal of Latin American Studies 36, no. 1 (Feb. 2004): 57-83.

“Race, Image and Myth in Nicaragua: Visual Representations of Nineteenth-Century National History.” Paper presented at the PCB-AHA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, July 24-26, 2007.

“‘No nacen aquí hombres serviles’: Raza, política y filibusterismo en el siglo XIX.”  Paper presented at the Simposio Internacional: Filibusterismo y Destino Manifiesto en las Américas, Liberia, Costa Rica, May 2-4, 2007.

“‘Black and White Live Like Brothers’: Afro-Nicaraguans, Democratic Liberalism, and Discourses of Race in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.”  Invited lecture presented at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, February 7, 2007.

“Race, Love, Honor, and Public Secrets in Late-Eighteenth-Century Nicaragua.”  Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.

“‘Here no man is born servile’: Race, Politics and Filibustering in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.” Paper presented at the Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 30, 2006.

“‘We Were Called Savages’: Race, Slavery and William Walker’s War in Nicaragua.” Paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-8, 2006.

“Mulatto Nation, Mestizo History?: Constructions of Race and Place in Postcolonial Nicaragua.” Paper presented at the Between Race and Place Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11-13, 2004.

“Imagining Race in Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.” Paper to be presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 27-29, 2003.

“When Nicaragua Wasn’t: Rethinking Ideologies of Postcolonial State-Formation and Local Political Identity.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association National Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001.

“Indian Fact, Black Fiction: (De)Constructing Identity in Nicaraguan History.” Paper presented at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 8-10, 2001.

“Of Brothers, Families, Bodies and Communities: Elite and Subaltern Struggles over the Meaning of ‘Nation’ in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association National Meeting, Miami, Florida, March 16-18, 2000.

“Land and Community in Nicaraguan Nation-State Formation, 1850-1900.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.

“La riqueza de un país: Land, Ideology and Nation in Nicaragua, 1850-1900.” Paper presented at the SCOLAS Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, February 20-22, 1997.

“Becoming Mestizo: Ethnicity, Culture and Nation in Nicaragua, 1850-1900.” Paper presented at the Tercero Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, San José, Costa Rica, July 15-18, 1996.

“Liberalism in the Treinta Años Conservadores: Policy, Discourse and Historiography, 1857-1893.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, January 6-9, 1993.

“Nicaragua’s Conservative Republic: 1858-1893 by Arturo J. Cruz, Jr.” The Americas 61, no. 1 (July 2004), 144-5.

“The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua by Timothy C. Brown,” The Historian 65, no. 6 (Winter 2003), 1411-2.

“Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Matilde Zimmermann,” Science & Society 67, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 370-2.

“Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico by Olivier Debroise,” The Historian 65, no. 3 (Spring 2003), 713-4.

Central American Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2007-2008

Fulbright Teaching/Research Grant, 2005

Stone Center Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2004

Georges Lurcy Faculty Summer Reseach Grant, 2004

Tulane Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 2003

Eva-Lou Joffrion Edwards Grant, Newcomb College, Tulane University, 2003

Innovative Learning Center, Intensive Summer Institute, 2002

Georges Lurcy Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2002

Tulane Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 2001

Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Grant (IIE), 1995

UCLA Latin American Center Small Grant, 1994

Committee on Tulane College, 2002-2005
Josephine Louise Newcomb Fellowship Committee, 2002-2005
Graduate Summer Fellowship Committee, Center for Latin American Studies, 2002
Central America Library and Archive Project, Center for Latin American Studies, 2000-2004
Speakers Committee, Department of History, 2001-2002
Department of History Colloquium, 2000-2002

Spanish, fluent
Portuguese, reading and speaking
French, reading

American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Conference on Latin American History
CLAH Central American Section, Chair (2005)