Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR and the Jews of Sosúa (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009).
Gallery of historical images from the book »
"Reports of its Demise are not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen," In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, eds.Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank and Steven Topik. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 300-320.
“Los mayas en las obras de los historiadores yucatecos del siglo XIX,” in Los mayas de ayer y hoy: Memorias del Primer Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, eds., Alfredo Barrera Rubio y Ruth Gubler, 2 Vols. (México: Solar, Servicios Editoriales, 2006), II: 807-830.
"Dialectical Bananas," in Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds., Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003): 316-334.
The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930. Co-editor and contributor, with Steven Topik (University of California, Irvine). (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998).
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Rebellion in Yucatán, 1876-1915 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), co-author, Gilbert M. Joseph. Published in Spanish as Verano del descontento, epócas del trastorno: Élites políticas e resistencia rural en Yucatán, 1876-1915, trans. Ari Bartra (Mérida, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Press, 2011).
"A Welcome Shift of Emphasis: Scholarship on Plantations,Haciendas and Ranches in Nineteenth-Century Latin America," Plantation Society in the Americas 6:1 (Spring 1999): 1-12.
"Out from the Shadows: Recent Scholarship on Late-Nineteenth-Century Mexico," Latin American Research Review 35:1 (Winter 2000): 172-186.
"Clientelism and the Political Baptism of Yucatán's Urban Working Classes, 1880-1929," Wil Pansters, ed., Citizens of the Pyramid: Essays on Mexican Political Culture (Amsterdam: Thela, 1997), 66-106.
"Forgotten Chapters of Yucatán's Past: Nineteenth-Century Politics in Historiographical Perspective," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12:2 (Summer 1996), 191-229.
"All in the Family: Railroads and Henequen Monoculture in Porfirian Yucatán," Hispanic American Historical Review, 72:2 (May, 1992), 159-209.
Fernando Castro Pacheco Mural, State Government Palace, Mérida, Yucatán
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Forthcoming Publications
“Playing God: Choosing Central European Jewish Refugees for the Dominican Republic during World War II,” in Exile and the Politics of Exclusion, eds., Luis Roniger, James Green, and Pablo Yankelevich (Eastbourne, East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, forthcoming, 2012).
“Commodity Chains in a Global Economy, 1870-1945,” co-author, Steven Topik, Vol. 5, Transformation and Crisis, 1870 to 1945, ed., Emily Rosenberg, A New History of the World, general editors, Akira Iriye and Jürgen Osterhammel, 6 vols. (Cambridge, MA and Munich: Harvard University Press and C. H. Beck Publishers, forthcoming, fall 2012).
“Rivalidad económica y inquietud rural durante los últimos años del Porfiriato en Yucatán,” and “El ‘Porfiriato prolongado’ de Yucatán: La resistencia popular y de los élites, 1910-1915,” co-author of both essays, co-author, Gilbert Joseph, Historia General de Yucatán, eds. Jorge I. Castillo Canché, Inés Ortiz Yam and Sergio Quezada, (Mérida: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Press, forthcoming, 2012).
American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Award, 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Sabbatical Fellowship, 2012-2013
Fletcher Family Award, 2011-2012
Charles Griffin Memorial Lecture in History, Vassar College, February 3, 2010.
Delbert McQuaide Distinguished Lecture in History, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, March 22, 2010.
Karofsky Faculty Encore Lecture, nominated by the Senior Class ’08. “Cuba’s Favorite Pastimes: Baseball and Politics,” September 7, 2007.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006-2007.
American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council/National Endowment for the Humanities International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2006-2007
President, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2005-2006.
Fund for Course Development Grant for travel to Cuba in April 2000 with Nat Wheelwright (Biology) to acquire materials to co-develop a course entitled, "Contemporary Central America and the Caribbean: Environment, Politics and Culture."
Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915, named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1997 by Choice.
Appointment, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, New Jersey. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 1995-1996.
Advanced International Research grant from the Joint Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-1996
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Brant, Sarah, '94. "Assimilation, Accommodation and Resistance: A Reevalution of Gender in Colonial Mapuche Society."
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