ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor. Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Fall 2009-.

Assistant Professor of History and Director of Latino and Latin American Studies. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, Fall 2005-Present.

Lecturer in History. Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, Winter (Spring) 2005.

Visiting Assistant Professor of History. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, Fall 2004.

EDUCATION:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in the Department of History, December 2003.
 M.A. in the Department of History, May 1998.
Major: Latin American History Minor: Global History

Princeton University
A.B. in the Department of History, June 1996.
Certificate in Latin American Studies.
Certificate in French Literatures and Cultures.
MANUSCRIPT:

Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence. Project awarded the 2007 Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award by the American Association for the History of Medicine. Forthcoming with The University of Chicago Press, Fall 2009.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:

“A Fever For Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba As Colonial Public Health,” in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco Scarano, ed., Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern U.S. State, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.

“The Invincible Generals: Disease and the Fight for Empire in Cuba, 1868 to 1898,” in Poonam Bala, ed., Contested Site: Some Revelations in Imperial Context, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2009.

“The Threat from Havana: Southern Public Health, Yellow Fever, and U.S. Intervention in the Cuban Struggle for Independence, 1878-1898” Journal of Southern History 72:3 (2006); 541-568.


BOOK & MEDIA REVIEWS:

Review of The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Online Collection, a website from the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82, no. 3 (Fall 2008).

Review of The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History, by Molly Caldwell Crosby, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82, no. 3 (Summer 2008).

Review of The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba, by Lillian Guerra, Nations & Nationalism, 13, no. 1, 2007.

Review of Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Posed to Kill Again, by James L. Dickerson, Journal of Southern History 73:3 (2006); 764-765.

Review of Puerto Rico 1898: The War After the War, by Fernando Picó, New West Indian Guide, 79, no. 3 & 4, 2005.

Review of The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Maria Smorkaloff, The Latin Americanist, 48, no. 1, 2004.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Entry on Felisa Rincón de Gautier, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5, 1976-2000. Ed. Susan Ware. Harvard University Press. 2005.

Six entries, including “Cuban Revolutionary Party,” “U.S. Interventions,” and “Platt Amendment.” Cuba: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Eds. Luis Martínez-Fernández, Danilo H. Figueredo and Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Greenwood Press. 2003.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

“Disease and Empire in Caribbean History.” Presented at the New Directions in Caribbean Studies Conference, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 14, 2008.

“Not a Charitable Endeavor: Public Health and U.S. Empire in the Caribbean.” To be presented at the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Seminar, Washington University. St. Louis, MIssouri, October 15, 2008.

“The U.S. Colonial Experience in the Caribbean and the Nationalization of Public Health in the United States.” Presented at Making Empire Visible in the Metropole: A Colloquium on Comparative Imperial Transformations in America, Australia, England, and France; a conference hosted by the World Universities Network partners, the University of Sydney and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the University of Sydney. Sydney, Australia, July 2008.

“Idealizing Imperial Medicine: U.S. Constructions of the Conquest of Yellow Fever.” Presented at the Imagining and Practising Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960 Conference, hosted by the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. University of Oxford, Oxford, England, January 2008.

Latino Heritage Month Keynote Address: “A Fever For Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health.” National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, September 18, 2007.

“A Fever For Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health.” Presented at the Transitions & Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State: The Search for New Synthesis Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2006.

“The Mosquito That Threatened Independence: Yellow Fever, Cuba, and the United States.” Presented as a Medical History and Bioethics Brownbag Seminar. University of Wisconsin. Madison, March 2005.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“¿Quién Gana?: Public Health and Inequality in Cuba, 1898-1909.” To be presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXVIII International Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009.

“The Cuban Traitor: Resistance and Submission to U.S. Yellow Fever Policy Under the Platt Amendment.” Presented at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2008.

“‘The Greatest Vigilance’: The Prevention of Yellow Fever in Cuba Under the Platt Amendment.” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal, September 2007.

“Fighting Mosquitoes, Fighting Hegemony: Yellow Fever and Cuban Nationalism in the Early Republic.” Presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Montreal, May 2007.

“The Limits of Domination: Contesting the Triumph Over Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1909-1940.” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, March 2006.

“‘A More Successful Defensive Warfare’: The U.S. Army and the Fight Against Yellow Fever in Cuba, 1900-1902.” Presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, D.C., January 2004.

“The Mystery of the Yellow Scourge: Initial Sanitation Reforms of the U.S. Military Government of Cuba, 1899-1900.” Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association. Honorable Mention for Best Graduate Paper Presented, Latin American and Caribbean Section. Baltimore, November 2002.

“Latin American Resources for Global Education.” Presented at the World View (International Program for Educators) Residential Leadership Program in Global Studies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, June 29, 2001.

“Accommodating Different Fluency Levels in One Classroom.” Presented at the Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Training Workshop. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, January 13, 2001.

“Sanitary and American: Disease Eradication Efforts and the Transformation of Puerto Rico after 1898.” Presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress. Miami, March 2000.

La cultura de la ciencia en Cuba. Chair and discussant at the Latin American Studies Association XXII International Congress. Miami, March 2000.

“Making an Island Safe for Americans: Health and Sanitation Reform in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930.” Presented at A Conference on The 1898 Spanish-American War and 20th Century Hispanic and American Cultures. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Milwaukee, September 1998.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

At Southern Illinois University:

Colonial Latin America.
Latin America Since Independence.
History of Cuba.
Historical Research and Writing.
Continuity and Change in Latin America.
Senior Seminar (results in capstone research paper): Topic: Disease and Power.
Graduate Colloquium: Latin America and the United States.
Graduate Readings on Gender in Latin America.
Graduate Readings on Race in Latin America and the United States.
Graduate Readings on Race and Revolutions in the Atlantic.
Graduate Readings on Public Health in the Americas.

AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS:

Latin American History: From the Conquest to the Present. Bates College, Department of History, Winter 2005.
Disease, Public Health, and Empire. Bates College, Department of History, Winter 2005.
Latin America in World Setting. Old Dominion University Department of History. Fall 2004.
History of Cuba. Old Dominion University Department of History. Fall 2004.
Democracy and Development in Latin America. Old Dominion University Department of History. Fall 2004.
The World Since 1945. Teaching Assistant. University of North Carolina Department of History. Dr. Don Reid. Spring 2001.
Global Issues (Cross-listed in History, International Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science). Language Across the Curriculum Instructor. University of North Carolina Program in International Studies. Dr. Lloyd Kramer and Dr. James L. Hevia. Spring 1999. Dr. Margaret Wiener. Spring 2000.
Global Issues (Cross-listed in History, International Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science). Teaching Assistant. University of North Carolina Department of History. Dr James L. Hevia. Fall 1999. Dr. Lloyd Kramer and Dr. Margaret Wiener. Fall 1998.

AWARDS:

Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award, American Association for the History of Medicine, 2007.

Mowry-Waddell Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.

Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002-2003.

Latané Interdisciplinary Summer Research Grant, Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Mowry Research Grant, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

Mellon Travel-to-Conference Award, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

Transportation Grant, Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998.

Field Research Grant Fellowship, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998.

Tinker Foundation Summer Research Travel Grant, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE:
Manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press, the University of Chicago Press, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, The Americas, The Latin Americanist, and Peace and Change.
Member of the Garrison Lecture Committee, American Association for the History of Medicine, 2007-2008.

SIU COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS SERVICE:
Director of Latino and Latin American Studies Program, 2006-Present.
Search Committee Member for Associate Director of the University Honors Program, Spring and Summer 2008.

Department Committees:
Policy Committee, 2008-Present.
Core Curriculum Committee, 2008-Present.
Phi Alpha Theta Adviser, 2007-Present.
Salary Committee, 2006-Present.
Undergraduate Studies, 2006-2008.
Library and Instructional Materials, 2005-2008.
British Empire Search Committee, 2006-2007.
Research and Grants, 2005-2006.

AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS:
Global History Committee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1998-2003.
Duke-University of North Carolina Latin American Film Festival Committee, 1998-2003.
Modern Chinese History Search Committee, Department of History and Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2003.
Conference Coordinator, Cuba-Estados Unidos/ Cuba-United States: 1900-2000 Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2000.
Latin American History Search Committee, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2000.
President of the Graduate History Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1999-2000.
Class Representative to the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of History, Princeton University, 1995-1996.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Historical Association.
American Association for the History of Medicine.
History of Science Society.
Latin American Studies Association.
Conference of Latin American History.
Southern Historical Association.

LANGUAGES:

Spanish: read, spoken, and written; native proficiency.
French: read, spoken, and written; fluent.