Latin American History

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University of Houston

Faculty

Professor R. Andrew Chesnut (UCLA 1995; Modern Brazilian and Latin American history, religions of Latin America, and U.S.-Latin American relations) is the author of Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty (Rutgers University Press, 1997), a book on the Pentecostal boom in Brazil. Some of his current projects include "Health Maintenance: Spiritual Ecstasy and Mutual Aid;" a chapter in Virginia Garrard Burnett's On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion in Latin America (Scholarly Resources, Jaguar Series on Latin America, forthcoming, Spring 1998) and "Pentecostalize or Perish?," editor and translator; an edited volume on charismatic Christianity in Brazil authored by a joint team of Brazilian and U.S. scholars (under consideration at Duke University Press).

Professor John Mason Hart (UCLA 1970; Modern Mexico and the United States and Mexico) has published more than 25 articles. Among the six awards he has received for his writing, three were given by academic organizations, the Conference Prize from the Conference of Latin American History, the Herring Prize, and the Johnson Prize, from the Pacific Coast Council and the Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies, respectively. His research has earned him a Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a Senior University Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Shelby Cullom Davis Fellowship from Princeton Universtiy. He is presently completing work on a 700 page manuscript entitled "Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War."

Books written by Professor Hart include Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution (University of California Press, 1987-three printings in the United States and three printings in Mexico); Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931 (University of Texas Press, 1978-two printings in the United States and four printings in Mexico, and included on the newspaper Uno mas Uno recommended reading list for 1980); and Los anarquistas mexicanos (35,000 copies printed).

Professor Susan Kellogg's (Rochester 1980;Colonial Mexico and Latin America; Ethnohistory; Women's History) expertise lies in the area of the impact of Spanish colonial rule on indigenous peoples, particularly the Nahuas of Central Mexico. She has strong interests in women's history and anthropology. She is presently working on a project on Indian, African and mixed-race women in colonial Mexico. Prof. Kellogg has held fellowships at the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and an NEH Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library. Author of numerous articles published in the Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Ethnohistory, and Social Science History, she also serves as a Book Review Editor for Ethnohistory. Prof. Kellogg is the author of Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), and coauthor of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life with Steven Mintz; (Free Press, 1988).

Professor Thomas F. O'Brien (University of Connecticut 1976; Latin American National Period and the U.S. and Latin America) has published numerous articles in The American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Business History Review and The Americas. His article, "The Antofagasta Company: A Case Study of Peripheral Capitalism" won the 1980 Robertson Prize, which is awarded by the Conference on Latin American History. Professor O'Brien has also served as the director of the University of Houston's Institute for International Business Analysis and chief of party for the U.S. AID business school project in Ecuador. He is currently working on a book length study of American multinationals in Latin America since World War II. His other books include The Nitrate Industry and Chile's Crucial Transition (NYU Press, 1982); The Revolutionary Mission: American Enterprise in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 1996).