Bruce J. Calder
Curriculum Vitae

                             

Personal:____

 

Rank:

Associate Professor

Address:

Department of History
University of Illinois at Chicago                                
1018 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109
Phone: (312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-6377

E-mail: bcalder@uic.edu

 

Education:

·    B.A., Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), 1962, History
·    M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1968, Latin American Studies (History, Anthropology and Economics)
·    Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1974, Latin American History

Areas of Experstise:

Latin and Central America, Caribbean

               

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

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                ·RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS:

 

°          "The Catholic Church and the Guatemalan Maya, 1940-1969: Building a Base for the 1990s," Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 28 September 1995.

°          "The Catholic Church and The Guatemalan Maya, 1940-1969,"  American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 November 1995.

°          "Developmentalist Catholicism:  A Continuation of the Extinguished Guatemalan Revolution of 1944 to 1954?" American Historical Association, New York, New York, 4 January 1997.

°          "Catholics, Protestants amd the Peace Process in Guatemala," Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 19 April 1997.

°          "The Role of the Catholic Church and Other Religious Institutions in the Guatemalan Peace Process, 1980-1996," Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, 26 September 1998.

°          "Processes of Globalization and Hybridization in the New World [Dis]Order; U.S. National and Trans-national Perspectives," moderator and commentator, Conference on Mapping Latino/Latin American Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 29 September 1998.

°          "Non-Traditional Diplomacy in the Guatemalan Peace Process:  The Role of the Catholic Church and Other Religious Institutions in the Guatemalan Peace Process, 1980-1996," Conference on Inter-American Relations, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 11 February 1999.

°          "The Controversy over Rigoberta Menchú," Darcy McNickle Center for American Indian History Colloquium, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, 3 November 1999.

°          "Religious Participation in the Guatemalan Peace Process, 1980-1996," presented in a roundtable discussion on "The United States and Central America in the Post-Cold War, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)/American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 6 January 2000.

°          "The Origins of the Human Rights Programs of the Guatemalan Catholic Church," Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, 18 March 2000

 

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:

 

°          Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1987

°          AMOCO Foundation Award, 1987

°          Teaching Recognition Award, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 1997

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

 

°          NDEA Title VI, 1966-67; 1967-68; 1968-69

°          NDEA-related Fulbright Hayes Research Grant, 1969

°          Grants, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of         Texas, 1969 and 1970

°          Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1976

°          National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1980-81

°          National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1982

°          Fulbright Fellowship (Summer Seminar on South America), 1985

°          Grant, Research Board of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987

°          Fulbright Central American Republics Research Fellowship, 1988-1989

°          Grant, Organization of American States (OAS), 1989

°          Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 1990-1991

°          Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991-1992.