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. More about Julie Hardwick
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 also published The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (Oxford University Press) in 2008, and he is now at work on a study of U.S. policymaking toward the developing world in the 1960s (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). More about Mark Lawrence
Steering Committee (2008-2009)
Erika Bsumek, Assistant Professor
Erika Marie Bsumek is the author of Indian-made: The Production and Consumption of the Navaho, 1868-1940 (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. More about Erika Bsumek
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. More about Susan Deans-Smith
Antony G. Hopkins, Professor, Walter Prescott Webb Chair of History and Ideas
Antony Hopkins' principal publications extend from An Economic History of West Africa (1973) to British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001) written with Peter Cain. His recent publications include two edited volumes, Globalization in World History (2002) and Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (2006). He teaches the history of imperialism and globalization. His main interests lie in the history of the non- Western world and the history of European imperialism.
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Bruce J. Hunt, Associate Professor
Bio forthcoming.
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Martha G. Newman, Associate Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department
Bio forthcoming.
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Emilio Zamora, Associate Professor
Emilio Zamora is the author of the award-winning The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas (1993) as well as Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II (forthcoming 2009). He has also co-edited a forthcoming anthology, Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation (2009). His research and teaching interests include the archival enterprise in Texas and northern Mexico, oral history, and relations between Mexican communities across the international border during the twentieth century.
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Past Steering Committees
2007-2008
H. W. Brands, Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor
Erika Bsumek, Assistant Professor
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
David F. Crew, Professor
Susan Deans-Smith, Associate Professor
Madeline Hsu, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Asian American Studies
Julie Hardwick, Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Historical Studies
Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor
