EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D., History,1998
M.A., History, 1993
B.A., History, 1991
College Honors, Honors in the Major
University of Vermont
B.A., Religious Studies, 1980

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Professor
Wabash College, 1999-2001

Visiting Professor
University of Utah, 1998-1999

Teaching Fellow, History
UCSC, 1995-1996

Teaching Assistant, History
UCSC, 1991-1997

Teaching Assistant Trainer, UCSC History, 1995-1996

Assistant to the Director, NEH Summer Institute
"Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History"
UCSC, 1995

Research Assistant, Latin American History, 1989-1991

COURSES/TEACHING FIELDS
Latin America, Colonial and National Periods
Colonial United States History
Global and Environmental History
American Indian History
History of Food and Drink
Historiogaphy and Historical Theory

DISSERTATION
"An Ethnohistory of the Coras of Sierra del Nayar, Mexico, 1600-1830" David G. Sweet, advisor

BOOK CONTRACT
University of Arizona Press

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Will the Real Padre Ortega Please Come Forward? Rereading Narratives of Idolatry
from the Nayarit Missions," accepted for American Historical Association
Conference, January 2001.

"Franciscans and Coras in Nayarit: A Period of Decline?," accepted for Academy of
American Franciscan History International Conference, "The Franciscan
Experience in the Americas," Oakland, California, November 2000.

"The Meanings of Idolatría in Sierra del Nayar History," accepted for Society for
Ethnohistory, London, Ontario, October 2000.

"Popular Religion in Revolutionary El Salvador and Nicaragua," Religious Studies
Review 26 (April 2000).

"A Place at the Table: Integrating Latin America into Modern World
History," at Teaching Latin America in a Liberal Arts College Conference, Wabash College, November 1999.

"¿Fueron conquistados los coras?" ("Were the Coras Conquered?"), presented at Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, November 1997.

"The Ambivalent Religious Conversion of Mexico," presented at Modernity's Histories Conference, Santa Cruz, California, Feb. 1997.

"The Sierra del Nayar as a Region of Refuge," presented at Society for
Ethnohistory, Portland, Oregon, November 1996.

Review of Elinor Melville, A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the
Conquest of Mexico, in Capitalism, Nature and Socialism 6:4 (1995) 125-27.

GRANTS/AWARDS
Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Wabash College, Summer 2000

Lilly Internationalization Grant (Latin American Image Database Project), Wabash
College, Summer 2000

Participant, Course Design Workshop, Great Lakes College Association, Hope College, Summer 1999

Bancroft Library Study Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1997-1998

UC Mexus Dissertation Grant, 1995-1997

UC Regents Fellowship, Winter 1996, Winter 1997

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Vatican Film Library, January 1996

Chicano Latino Resource Center Research Grant, 1996

UCSC Re-Entry Services Grant, 1995

UCSC History Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1995

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Wabash College Gender Issues Committee, 1999-2001

Wabash College International Studies Committee, 1999-2001

UCSC History Graduate Committee Representative, 1995-1996

UCSC Faculty Senate Committee on Teaching, 1995-1996

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Council of Latin American Historians
Society for Ethnohistory

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Boy Scouts of America
Little League Baseball
Public Schools Volunteer
American Civil Liberties Union
United Way Selection Committee
Santa Cruz Civil Service Commission

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Prof. Stephen Morillo
Chair, Department of History, Wabash College
765.361.6309

Prof. Melissa Butler
Chair, Social Science Division, Wabash College
765.361.6312

Prof. Peter Frederick
Department of History, Wabash College
765.361.6318

Prof. John Chuchiak
Department of History, Assumption College
508.767.7338

Prof. Philip (Ted) Coyle
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Western Carolina University
828.227.3900

Prof. Susie Porter
Department of History, University of Utah
801.585.5693