Brian Bockelman

  Brian Bockelman

 

Education

  • A.B. in Religion, Dartmouth College
  • A.M. in History, Brown University
  • Ph.D. in History, Brown University

 

Current Courses Taught

  • HIS 271  Colonial Latin America: Conquerors, Rebels, and Slaves
  • HIS 272  Modern Latin America: The Struggle for Reform
  • HIS 276  Latin America at the Movies: History and Film
  • HIS 299  History and Historians
  • HIS 375  United States and Latin America, 1776 to the Present
  • HIS 377  Dirty Wars in Latin America
  • HIS 282  World History II
  • HIS 480, 490  Senior Seminar
  • LAC 201  Introduction to Latin American & Caribbean Studies

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • ACM/Newberry Faculty Fellow, Newberry Library (2012)
  • President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Brown University (2003)
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellow (1997-2001)

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Along the Waterfront: Alejandro Malaspina, Fernando Brambila, and the Invention of the Buenos Aires Cityscape, c. 1794,” in Journal of Latin American Geography (forthcoming Spring 2012)
  • Review of Brian Loveman, “No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere Since 1776,” in Pacific Historical Review (November 2011)
  • Review of Adriana Bergero, “Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900-1930,” on H-Net (September 2011)
  • “Between the Gaucho and the Tango: Popular Songs and the Shifting Landscape of Modern Argentine Identity, 1895-1915,” in American Historical Review (June 2011)
  • “The Borderlands of Buenos Aires: Histories and Fictions of the Argentine Quinta, 1880-1930,” in Clio (Summer 2011)
  • Review of Nicola Miller, “Reinventing Modernity in Latin America: Intellectuals Imagine the Future, 1900-1930,” in Hispanic American Historical Review(February 2010)
  • “The Return of Pío Collivadino: An Argentine Master Painter Reinvents Himself,” in Ilja van den Broek, Dirk Jan Wolffram and Christianne Smit, eds., “Commitment and Imagination: Changes in the Perception of the Social Question” (2010)
  • Review of Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós, “Civility and Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1852″ inHispanic American Historical Review (November 2008)
  • “Evaristo Carriego: An Argentine Bohemian Discovers the Urban Fringe,” inBrújula: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Latin American Studies (2006)
  • Entries on “Gaucho” and “Fin de Siecle” in “Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History” (2005)

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Latin American history
  • Modern Argentine intellectual and cultural history
  • Suburbs and slums in art, literature, and film