Institute Staff, 2009-10
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 (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. Professor Hardwick's faculty web page.
Program Coordinator
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 with Ilona Katzew, Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America (2009). She is currently writing a book on artists, artisans, and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in late colonial Mexico City. She teaches courses on conquest and colonialism in Latin America, race and ethnicity, and visual culture. Professor Deans-Smith's faculty web page.
Steering Committee
Matthew J. Butler, Associate Professor
Matthew Butler is the author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacan, 1927-1929 (Oxford, 2004) and the editor of Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico (New York, 2007). Most recently he co-edited, with Ben Fallaw, a special issue of The Americas (2009) on Mexican anticlericalism. Currently he is preparing a manuscript on the Mexican revolutionary Church for the University of New Mexico Press and beginning a microhistory of the Catholic clergy in twentieth-century Mexico. He teaches courses on Church and State, religion, revolution, and peasant society in Latin America. Professor Butler's faculty web page.
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is the author of How to Write the History of the New World (Stanford University Press, 2001), Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (Stanford University Press, 2006), and Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford University Press, 2006). Professor Canizares-Esguerra's faculty web page.
Neil F. Foley, Associate Professor
Neil Foley is the author of The White Scourge: Mexican, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, which won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the OAH as well as awards from the American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, and Western Historical Association. He is also author of Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity, and Latino USA: Mexicans and the Remaking of America, both forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2010 and 2011. He teaches courses on immigration, civil rights, and race/ethnicity in the U.S. Professor Foley's faculty web page.
Madeline Y. Hsu, Associate Professor
Madeline Y. Hsu is director of the Center for Asian American Studies and an associate professor of history. She is the author of the award-winning Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and Southern China, 1882-1943 (Stanford 2000), co-editor with Sucheng Chan of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture (Temple University Press 2008), and editor of an anthology of essays by Him Mark Lai about transnational Chinese politics forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. She has taught courses concerning Chinese in the United States, Chinese transnationalism, Asian American history, and modern China. Professor Hsu's faculty web page.
Huaiyin Li, Associate Professor
Huaiyin Li is the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875-1936 (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-history, 1948-2008 (Stanford University Press, 2009). His interests include modern Chinese history; contemporary Chinese economy, society, and politics; agrarian studies; Chinese historiography; Chinese culture and religions; and comparative studies of development and globalization. Professor Li's faculty web page.
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