JOHN LEAR History Department CMB 1033 University of Puget Sound 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416 office: (253) 876-2792 email: lear@ups.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University of California-Berkeley, 1993
M.A. History, University of California-Berkeley, 1986
B.A. History and Literature, Harvard University, 1982, Magna cum laude

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Mexico, Chile, Cuba, post-independence Latin America. Comparative labor and urban history, cultural politics, gender and social movements

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. Professor, Latin American history, Fall 1993 to present.
Universidad de Granada, Spain. ILACA program, Spring 2003
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Masters program in History, Spring 1997 as a Fulbright Scholar.
University of California-Berkeley, Teaching Assistant and Associate, 1986-1988.

CURRENT COURSES
History Department Courses
History 280 Colonial Latin America
History 281 Modern Latin America
History 283 The United States and Latin America
History 380 Modern Mexico
History 381 History and Film: Latin American
History 382 Comparative Latin American Revolutions
History 385 Cities, Workers and Social Movements in Latin America
History 400D Research Seminar in Historical Methods: The United States and Latin America/ Latin Americans in the United States

Latin American Studies
LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAS 111 Soccer, Samba and Salsa: Latin American Popular Culture

Non-Puget Sound Courses
Latin American Urban History, Graduate course, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Spring, 1997

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Workers, Neighbors and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City, University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look, Oakland: Food First Books,
1995 (co-authored with Joseph Collins).

Articles and Book Chapters
'"¡No vamos a la Revolución!": Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the Mexican Revolution,' forthcoming in Latin America from the Wars of Independence to the Drug Wars, edited by Pedro Santoni, Greenwood Publishing.
"La Revolución en Blanco, Negro y Rojo: Arte, Política y los inicios del periódico El Machete." Forthcoming in Cultura política, instituciones y procesos económicos en la historia económica de México, edited by Alejandro Tortelero, Universidad Autónoma de México.
"El trabajador cualificado en la ciudad de México en los años de la revolución," in En el nombre del oficio; El trabajador especializado: corporativismo, adaptación y protesta, editors Vicent Sanz Rozalén and José Piqueras Arenas, Universidad Jaume I, 2005.
"Retiring on the Free Market: Chile's Privatized Social Security, 20 Years After" in NACLA: Report on the Americas, forthcoming January, 2002. "Revolutionary Politics and Popular Classes: Mexico City 1911-22," in Cities of Hope and Despair: People, Protests and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930, edited by Ronn Pineo and James Baer, Westview Press 1998.
"The Trajectory of Latin American Urban History," Introductory essay in special issue on Latin American cities, Journal of Urban History, March 1998 (coauthored with Diego Armus).
"La XXVI Legislatura y los trabajadores de la ciudad de México (1912-1913)" in Poder Legislativa en las Décadas Revolucionarias, Instituto Nacional de Estudios de la Revolución and in Secuencias, Instituto Mora, Mexico City, July 1998.
"Del mutualismo a la resistencia: las organizaciones laborales en la Ciudad de Mexico desde fines del porfiriato a la Revolucion" in Carlos Illades y Ariel Rodriguez Kuri (eds.). Ciudad de México: instituciones, actores sociales y conflicto político, 1774-1931. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-El Colegio de Michoacan 1997.
"Mexico City: Space and Class in the Porfirian Capital (1884-1910)," Journal of Urban History, May 1996.
"Working in Chile's Free Market," Latin American Perspectives, Issue 84, Vol. 22:1, Winter 1995, pp. 10-29 (co-authored with Joseph Collins).
"Free Market Miracle or Myth? Chile's Neo-Liberal Experiment," The Ecologist, October 1996.
"Chile's Privatization Experience," Multinational Monitor (co-authored with Joseph Collins), May 1991.

Other
Book Review, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey : Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950. By Michael Snodgrass, English Historical Review, forthcoming.
Book Review, Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002, editor Peter Winn, American Historical Review, October 2005
Book Review, Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910, by Claudia Agostoni, American Historical Review, December 2004.
Book Review, Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, by Julia E. Sweig, Americas, (60: 4, April 2004).
Book Review, Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930 by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (57:2, January, 2004).
Book Review, Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic, by Richard Warren, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, (9:1, July 2003)
Book Review, !Viva Mexico! Viva La Independencia! Celbrations of September 16, edited by William H. Beezley and David E. Lorey, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 8:1, July 2002.
Book Review, Integral Outsiders: The American colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911, by William Schell Jr., Hispanic American Historical Review, 82.2 (2002).
Guest Editor, Special issue on Latin American cities, Journal of Urban History, March 1998.
Book Review, A Peaceful and Working People by William French in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Spring 1998.
Entry, on the Mexican workers' organization the Casa del Obrero Mundial, for the Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture,1998.
Referee for Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Journalism History, Signos and university presses.

 

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
"¡No vamos a la Revolución!": Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the Mexican Revolution," International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
"The Revolution in Black, White and Red: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and El Machete." Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 10-13, 2004.
"El trabajador calificado de la ciudad de México en los años de la revolución." Fourth International colloquium on social history, Benicássim-Castellón, Spain, October 1-3, 2003.
"The Mexican Revolution in Black and White? The Early Murals of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco." Daedalus presentation, University of Puget Sound, February 21, 2001.
"A Fox in the Palace and Rebels in the Plaza: The Battle for the New Mexico," Summer Institute: Internationalizing the Curriculum, Tacoma Community College, June 18-22, 2001.
"Crouching Tiger: The Chilean Economy and Society a Decade after Military Rule," Summer Institute: Internationalizing the Curriculum, Tacoma Community College, June 18-22, 2001.
Panel Presentations on Current Events, Revolutions and Comparative Social Systems in Latin America, Summer Institute: Internationalizing the Curriculum, Tacoma Community College, June 17-19, 2000.
"Riots and Popular Politics in Mexico City during the Revolution." Canadian Historical Association, May 30-31, 1998 in Ottawa, Canada.
"The 26th Mexican Congress and the Workers of Mexico City (1912-1913)," Conference "Legislative Power in the Revolutionary Decades, 1908-1929," sponsored by the National Institute of Historical Studies of the Mexican Revolution (INEHRM) in Mexico City, August 9,1996.
"New Approaches to Mexican Labor History," Conference "Mexican Labor in Transition," Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, April 18-19, 1996.
"Rethinking Space, Class and Gender in Mexican Labor History," Workshop presentation at the Mexico Center of the University of Chicago, March 15, 1996.
"From Mutualism to Resistance: Labor Organizations in Mexico City from the late Porfiriato to the Revolution," IX Southern Labor Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 26-29, 1995.
"Women, Work and Urban Mobilization during the Mexican Revolution," International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 10-12, 1994, and a revised version given at the Latin American Labor Studies Conference, Duke University, April 10-11, 1994.
"Revolutionary Politics and Popular Classes: Mexico City 1911-22," International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, September 1992.
"Labor and Community in Mexico City," Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, Research Seminar on Mexico, May 6, 1992.

Chair and Discussant
Discussant, "Visions of Rebels: Hope and the Continuum of Protest from the Porfiriato through the 20th Century, " at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 7-10, 2004.
Discussant, "Urban Resistance and Local Autonomy in Modern Mexico," American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, August 9-12, 2001.
Discussant, "Rural-Urban Migrations during the Porfiriato," X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Fort Worth, Texas, November 19-22, 1999.
Chair and discussant, "Re-imagining the Nation in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" Canadian Association of Latin American Studies, March 19-21 1998, Vancouver, Canada.
Chair and discussant, "Internal Migration and Labor Militancy in Mexico," IX Southern Labor Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 26-29, 1995.
Chair and discussant, "Reworking Mexican Society: Urban Women, 1900-1940." at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September 28-31, 1995.

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Graves Award in the Humanities, Pomona College, 2000
Fulbright Scholar Research/Teaching award, Mexico, Spring 1997
Martin Nelson Junior Sabbatical, University of Puget Sound, Fall 1996
Finalist for the 1995 Harry Chapin Media Awards for Books, for Chile's Free-Market Miracle
Martin Nelson Summer Research Award, University of Puget Sound, Summer 1995
Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (1991-92)
UC-Berkeley History Department Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, 1990-91.
Inter-American Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (1989-90)
Organization of American States Research Fellowship (1989)
Fulbright IIE Fellowship (declined 1988)
Bancroft Library Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1987-1988)
Humanities Graduate Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley (1987)
Center for Latin American Studies Graduate Student Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley (1986)
History Department, University of California, Berkeley, Heller Fellowship (1984)

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Spring 1997.
Colégio de México, Mexico City, Spring 1997.
Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (1991-92).
Departamento de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México (1990).
Exchange Scholar, Harvard University, History, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Historical Association
Conference on Latin American History
Latin American Studies Association

OTHER RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

Ford Foundation, Lima, Peru. Staff Assistant for urban and
rural poverty programs (Summer 1987).

Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco.
Research Affiliate. (1984-1994).

Other employment includes journalism, translation, restaurant, agricultural and factory work.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent Spanish, Good French, Fair Portuguese