Steven S. Volk

Professor of History Director, Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE)       Department of History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 Office Phone: 440-775-8522       Department Phone: 440-775-8520 Department FAX: 440-775-6910         CTIE: Mudd 052 (775-5177) Email: steven.volk@oberlin.edu OFFICE HOURS - for students (Fall 2008): Tues 11-Noon; Wed 1:30-2:30; Thurs 3:30-4:30, and by appointment [Rice 309] OFFICE HOURS - for faculty (Fall 2008): Wed 3-4:30; Thurs 2-3:30, and by appointment [Mudd 052]

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Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE): Teaching and Learning at Oberlin College

HIST 293: Dirty Wars and Democracy

HIST 362: The Mexican Revolution

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck, "Gender, Order, and Femicide. Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juárez," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 32:1 (Spring 2007): 53-86.

"Chile and the United States Thirty Years Later: Return of the Repressed?" in Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973, eds. Silvia Nagy-Zemki and Fernando Leiva (Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2005), pp. 24-40.

Review: La exportación minera en Chile, 1800-1840. Un estudio de historia económica y social en la transición de la Colonia a la República, by Luz María Méndez Beltrán (Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2004), in Journal of Latin American Studies 38:4 (October 2006): 893-894.

Review: When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror, ed. Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez (Auston: University of Texas Press, 2005), in The Americas 63:1 (July 2006): 193-94.

Fall 2008 Courses

HIST-293: Dirty Wars and Democracy

HIST-361: The Mexican Revolution: Birth, Life, Death

Spring 2008 Courses

HIST-110: Latin America: State and Nation Since Independence

HIST-294: The United States and Latin America

Fall 2007 Courses

HIST-109: Latin America: Conquest and Colonization of Spanish America

HIST-376: Narrating the Nation: Historical and Literary Approaches to Nationalism

Other Courses

HIST-114 (Fall 1997): Colonial Encounters: The Spanish Invention of the New World

HIST-294 (Fall 2003): The United States and Latin America

HIST-312 (Spring 2005): Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge

HIST-365 (Fall 2002): Peasants, the State, and Rebellion in Mexico

HIST-366 (Fall 2000): Gender and Nation in Latin America

HIST-910 (Fall 1999): Making, Unmaking, and Remaking National Identity: Britain and its Colonial Peripheries

FYSP-175 (Fall 2003): How Images Matter: Latin America Through U.S. Eyes

FYSP-175 (Fall 2006): Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Historical Perspectives on Rights and Humanity

   

 

Here's my family at a recent demonstration in Washington DC. From the left, that's Jonah (who works in documentary film and is currently studying film preservation and archiving at the Tisch School at NYU), me, Dinah (Professor of Early Childhood Education at Cleveland State University), and Anna (a teaching assistant in the Fulbright program in Bogota, Colombia).

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