People
Institute Staff
Director
Julie Hardwick is the author of The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in early modern France (1998) and Family Business: litigation and the political economies of everyday life in early modern France (forthcoming, Oxford, 2009). Her broad research interests include early modern European social and cultural history, economic history, legal history, as well as gender and family history.
E-mail: historyinstitute@austin.utexas.edu
Program Coordinator (2008-2009)
Mark Atwood Lawrence is a specialist in the history of U.S. foreign relations and author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005), which won two prizes from the American Historical Association in 2007. He is now writing a history of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2008) and a study of U.S. policymaking toward the developing world in the 1960s (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).
Steering Committee (2008-2009)
H. W. Brands, Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor
H. W. Brands is the author of various works on American history and politics. His most recent books are Andrew Jackson (2005) and The Money Men (2006). He is currently completing a biography of Franklin Roosevelt, which will be published in the autumn of 2008.
Erika Bsumek, Assistant Professor
Erika Marie Bsumek is the author of Indian-made: The Production and Consumption of the Navaho, 1868-1940 (forthcoming, 2008) and is working on an Environmental History of the American West titled The Concrete West: Engineering Society and Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1970. Other research interests include indigenous people and globalization and the links between the environment and cultural formation.
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor
of History
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the author of the award-winning How to Write the History of the New World (2001), Puritan Conquistadors (2006), and Nature, Empire, and Nation, (2006), and co-editor with Erik Seeman of The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000 (2006). He is currently studying historical narratives of Atlantic colonization understood as the fulfillment of prefigurations in four different types of texts (nature, the Bible, the classics, and indigenous sources).
David F. Crew, Professor
David Crew is the author of Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler (1998). He is also editor of Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945 (1994) and of Consuming Germany in the Cold War (2003). His most recent publication is Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents in the "Pages from History" Oxford series (2005). His current research and teaching interests include the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations. He is currently writing a book entitled Bodies and Ruins: Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present.
Susan Deans-Smith, Associate Professor
Susan Deans-Smith is the author of the award-winning Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: the Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico (1992). She is also co-editor with Eric Van Young of Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David Brading (2007) and is co-editing with Ilona Katzew Race and Classification in Mexican America. She is currently writing a book on artists, artisans, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in late colonial Mexico City.
Madeline Hsu, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Asian American Studies
Madeline Hsu wrote Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and Southern China, 1882-1943 (2000) which won an Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. She is the co-editor of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (2008). Her current research explores the intersections between U.S. Cold War foreign policy, immigration laws and practices, and racial ideology as refracted through the migration of Taiwanese Chinese.
