Rank:

Associate Professor of History and Latin American & Latino Studies


Address:

Department of History  (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone: (312) 413-1216
Fax: (312) 996-5799
Email: crboyer@uic.edu

Education:

 

• Ph.D. 1997 University of Chicago, Department of History
• M.A.  1991 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Political Science
• A.B.   1986 Dartmouth College, Program in Comparative Literature, with high honors
  

 

Areas of Expertise: 

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Modern Mexico, Environmental History

Publications: 

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• Book
  
  
• Becoming Campesinos: Agrarian Mobilization and Postrevolutionary Ideology in Michoacán, Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2003)

• Articles:
  
  

  • "La revolución inventada. Salvador Sotelo y el papel del 'intelectual local' en el Michoacán posrevolucionario," Estudios Michoacanos (forthcoming)
  • “Naranja Revisited: Agrarian Caciques and the Making of Campesino Identity in Postrevolutionary Michoacán,” in Wil Pansters and Alan Knight (eds.), Cacique and Caudillo in Twentieth-Century Mexico (The Institute for Latin American Studies, Brookings Institution Press: Washington, 2005).
  • “Contested Terrain: Forestry Regimes and Community Responses in Northeastern Michoacán, 1940-2000” in David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez and Deborah Barry (eds.) The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005), 27-48.
  • "The Threads of Class at La Virgen: Misrepresentation and Identity at a Mexican Textile Mill, 1918-1935," The American Historical Review, 105, No. 5 (December 2000), 1576-98
  • "Old Loves, New Loyalties: Agrarismo in Michoacán, 1920-1928," Hispanic American Historical Review, 78, No. 3 (August 1998), 419-55
  • "Keeping the People in: An Examination of Non-Revolution in Honduras," LASA Forum, 22, No. 2 (1991), 1, 5-11

Awards and Fellowships:  

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• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2005-06.
• 1999-2000 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
• 1999-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (declined)
• 1994-1995 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship  

Previous Appointments :  

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2001-2003, Assistant Professor of History and Latin American and Latino Studies, UIC
1997-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kansas State University
1996-1997 Lecturer, Program in Continuing Education, University of Chicago