EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TEACHING FIELDS

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

• Fulbright Scholar, 1986.
• University of Illinois, Center for Latin American Studies, 1985.
• Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Caracas, 1984.
• Florida International University, 1984.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983.
• Sabbatical Award, Florida International University, 1982-83.
• Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 1982.
• Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1982, 1981, 1978-79.
• College of Arts & Sciences, Florida International University, 1996, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1980.
• Social Science Research Council, Advanced Faculty Research Grant, 1978-79.
• Salary Grant, Florida International University, 1978-79.
• Department of State, American Specialists Program, 1976.
• University Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974-75.
• Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974.
• Doherty Fellowship, 1972-73.
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Department of HEW, 1972-73 (declined).
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Department of State, 1972-73 (declined).
• Organization of American States, 1972-74 (declined).
• NDEA Title VI, ILAS, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1972-73 (declined).
• NDEA Title VI, ILAS, The University of Texas at Austin, 1970-72.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Conference Prize for Best Article, 1987. Awarded by the Conference on Latin American History for "Household Structure and Political Crisis: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Latin American Research Review, 21 (1986).
• Hubert Herring Prize for Best Film on Latin America, 1985. Awarded by the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for "Hotel Cuba": A Historical Diary of the Pre-Castro Jewish Experience.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Historical Latin America (w.Gilbert C. Joseph). Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1995.
• Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860 (w.Jonathan C.Brown). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
• The Middle Period in Latin America: Values and Attitudes, 17th-19th Centuries. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989.
• Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
• Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: C¢rdoba in the Liberal Era. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1980.

• "The Economic and Social Reconfiguration of Argentina, 1870 - 1930," Historia General de American Latina, vol. VII, ed. Manuel Moreno Fraginals (Paris, forthcoming).
• "Family Drama and Historical Debate: Depicting the Past in Argentina Films," Based on a TRue Story: Latin American History at the Movies, ed. Donald F. Stevens (Wilmington, 1997).
• "The City as Vision: The Development of Urban Culture in Latin America," I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Historical Latin America, ed. Gilbert C.Joseph and Mark D.Szuchman (Wilmington, 1995).
• "The Growth of Cities, 1870-1930," (w.James Scobie) The Historical Literature of Latin America, vol.X of The Cambridge History of Latin America, ed. Leslie Bethell (Cambridge, Eng., 1994).
• "From Imperial Hinterland to Growth Pole: Revolution, Change, and Restoration in the R¡o de la Plata," The Social Order of Argentina: Change, Revolution and Restoration, 1776-1860, ed. Mark D.Szuchman and Jonathan C. Brown (Lincoln, 1994).
• "In Search of Deference: Education and Civic Formation in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," Molding the Hearts and Minds: Education, Communications, and Social Change in Latin America, ed. John A.Britton (Wilmington, 1994).
• "Childhood Education and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Argentina: The Case of Buenos Aires," The Hispanic American Historical Review, 70 (February 1990). "The Middle Period in Latin American History: Values in Search of Explanations," The Middle Period in Latin America: 17th-19th Centuries, ed. Mark D. Szuchman (Boulder, 1989).
• "A Challenge to the Patriarchs: Marital Strategies Among the Youth in Nineteenth-Century Argentina," The Middle Period in Latin America: Values and Attitudes, 17th-19th Centuries, ed. Mark D. Szuchman (Boulder, 1989).
• "En busca del respeto, educación y formación cívica en la ciudad de Buenos Aires del siglo XIX," Cuadernos de Historia Regional, IV (Agosto de 1988).
• "Estructuras familiares y desórden político," Revista de la Junta Provincial de Historia de Córdoba, 12 (1987).
• "In Search of Deference: Education and Civic Formation in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," SECOLAS Annals, XVIII (1987), reprinted in John A.Britton, ed. Molding the Hearts and Minds (Wilmington, 1994).
• "Historical Perspectives" in Commemoration, ed. E. C. Riley, Ann Henderson, and George Schurr (Tampa, 1987).
• "The Binding Threads of the 'Outs'," Florida Forum (Florida Endowment for the Humanities), X (Summer 1987).
• "Household Structure and Political Crisis: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Latin American Research Review, 21 (1986). Winner of the Conference Prize for 1987 by the Conference on Latin American History for Best Article.
• "Familia y estado en una sociedad patriarcal: hacia una base teórica de legitimidad política," Cuadernos de Historia Regional, 7 (1986).
• "Affection and Rebellion in an Iberian Society: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," Occasional Papers Series, Women's Studies Center, Florida International University, 1986.
• "Visions of the Melting Pot in the American City: The United States and Argentina in the Period of Mass Immigration," The Primordial Challenge: Ethnicity in the Contemporary World, ed. John F. Stack (Westport, 1986).
• "The Faces of Labor in Latin America: Migration, Tradition, and Organization," Journal of Urban History (August 1985).
• "Disorder and Social Control in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XV (Summer 1984).
• "Continuidades no controle social: criminalidade na area urbana de Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Crime, violencia e poder, ed. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (São Paulo, 1983).
• "Aliens in Latin America: Function, Cycles and Reaction," European Exiles and Latin America: A Comparative View, ed. H. B. Moeller (Heidelberg, 1983).
• "Conflict and Continuity in Buenos Aires: Comments on the Historical City," Four Hundred Years: Buenos Aires,1580-1980, eds. Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann (Austin, 1982).
• "Commerce and Spatial Mobility in Argentina, 1870-1900," Proceedings of the World Conference on Records (Salt Lake City, 1980).
• "La colonia francesa en Córdoba," Revista Hist¢rica, I, 4 (1979).
• "Un breve anáisis de la extrema derecha mejicana, 1934-1940," América, No.6 (1979).
• "City and Society: Their Connection to Latin American Historical Research," Latin American Research Review, XIV, 2 (1979) (with E. Sofer).
• "On the Balkanization of America," Caribbean Review (Winter 1978).
• "Visiones del crisol en la ciudad americana: esperanzas europeas y nacionales en los Estados Unidos y la Argentina durante el período de la inmigración masiva," La ciudad en la Argentina y los Estados Unidos, ed. Asociación Argentina de Estudios Americanos (Buenos Aires, 1978).
• "The Limits of the Melting Pot in Urban Argentina: Marriage and Integration in Córdoba, 1869-1909," Hispanic American Historical Review, 57 (February 1977).
• "Occupational Stratification Studies in Argentina: A Classificatory Scheme," Latin American Research Review, XI, 1 (1976) (with E. Sofer).
• "Educating Immigrants: Voluntary Associations in the Acculturation Process," Educational Alternatives in Latin America: Social Change and Social Stratification, ed. Thomas J. LaBelle (Los Angeles, 1975) (with E. Sofer).

Film:

• "Hotel Cuba": A Historical Diary of the Pre-Castro Jewish Experience. Winner of the 1985 Hubert B. Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for Best Film on Latin America. Written, produced, and directed with Robert M. Levine, and underwritten by grants from the Florida Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Miami, 1984.

• "Dreams, Delusions and Damas: Family and Drama in Argentine Historical Films," Latin American Studies Association Congress, 1995.
• "Delinquency, Welfare, and Social Reform in Urban Mexico and Argentina, 1870-1940," American Historical Association Meeting, 1995.
• "Architecture and Political Transition in Urban Argentina: From Ancien Régime to Liberalism," Latin American Studies Association, 1992.
• "The State of Family History in Spanish America: The Southern Cone," American Historical Association Meeting, 1990.
• "Political Legitimacy and the Western Tradition in Spanish America: Conflict and Reconciliation," Department of History Colloquium, University of Florida, 1990.
• "In Search of the Modernizing Bourgeoisie," presented at the Conference on Agrarian Structure and Political Power in the Period of Export Expansion in Latin America, Northwestern University, 1990.
• "The World of the Nineteenth-Century Worker: Wealth Distribution, Savings Patterns and Small Producers," Latin American Studies Association Congress, 1989.
• "Socialization and the Ideological Formation of Children in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," American Historical Association Meeting, 1988.
• "The Politics of Brokering in a Pre-constitutional Order: The Case of Argentina," Latin American Studies Association, 1988.
• "Class and Spatial Distinctions in the Latin American City," Conference on Latin American Urbanization in the Years of the Crisis, 1975-1985," FIU, 1988.
• "Ignorant Masses and Unavoidable Progress: Children, Politics and Education in Nineteenth-Century Argentina," Department of History, UCLA, 1987.
• "A Challenge to the Patriarchs: Marital Strategies Among the Youth in Nineteenth-Century Argentina," Conference on Mentalities and Attitudes in Latin American History: The Hidden Engines of Change, 1700-1800, FIU, 1987.
• "The Binding Threads of the `Outs'," Southern Regional Conference of State Humanities Councils, 1987.
• "The Search for Deference: Education and Civic Formation in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, 1986.
• "Domestic Rebellion and Affection in an Iberian Society: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires," Women's Studies Colloquium, FIU, 1986.
• "Labor and Childhood in Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Center for the Study of Industrial Societies, Workshop on the Political Economy of Latin America, University of Chicago, 1985.
• "Política y sociedad en la Argentina del siglo XIX: el marco explicativo de la familia plebeya," Universidad Nacional de Córdoba: Instituto Ravignani, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1985.
• "Pueblo y caudillo en el siglo XIX," Departamento de Historia, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, 1985.
• "Family and State in a Patriarchal Society: A Theoretical Framework of Legitimacy," Department of History Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.
• "Family and Household in the Absence of a Central State: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, 1984.
• "Familial Structures and Political Turmoil: Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," Social Science History Association Meeting, Toronto, 1984.
• Seminar on History and Political Ideology, Cambridge University and Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados, Caracas, 1984.
• "Germans in Latin America in World Wars I and II," (commentator) American Historical Association Meeting, 1982.
• "Continuities in Social Control: Criminality in Urban Buenos Aires, 1810-1860," International Political Science Association Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1982.
• Seminar on Violence, Crime and Prisons, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, 1982.
• "Conflict and Continuity in Buenos Aires: Comments on the Historical City," Symposium on Buenos Aires, 1580-1980, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1980.
• "Commerce and Spatial Mobility in Argentina, 1870-1900," World Conference on Records, Salt Lake City, 1980.
• "Social Change and the Commercial Sector in Argentina, 1870-1900," American Historical Association Meeting, 1979.
• "Segregation from Within: European and Criollo Expectations in Nineteenth-Century Argentina," Southern Historical Association Meeting, 1977.
• "Status vs Wealth: Socioeconomic Mobility in Urban Argentina, 1870-1900," Social Science History Association Meeting, 1977.
• "The Assimilation and Adaptation of Ethnic Groups in Twentieth-Century Latin America," (commentator) American Historical Association Meeting, 1977.
• "Visiones del crisol en la ciudad americana," X Jornadas de Historia y Literatura Argentina y Norteamericana, Buenos Aires, 1976.
• "Methodological Approaches to the Study of Occupational and Economic Mobility Patterns in the 19th Century," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, 1976.
• "Social Integration and Mobility Through Intermarriage in Argentina," Southwest Social Science Association Meeting, 1975.
• "The French in Córdoba: Social Structure and the Mechanics of Group Integration, 1870-1900," Texas Graduate History Symposium, Austin, 1974.
• In Progress:
• "Authority and Society in Spanish America, 1776-1880": a long-term project dealing with notions associated with the relationships between political leadership and deference in the period between the Enlightenment and the export-led boom.

MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Service in the Profession:

• Haring Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1990
• Program Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1990.
• Chair, Conference on Latin American History Prize Committee, 1989.
• Demographic History Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1989-1991.
• International Scholarly Relations Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1987-90.
• Chair, CLAH-Chile/Río de la Plata Studies Committee, 1987-88.
• Chair, Social Mobility and Social Processes Network, Social Science History Association, 1978-79 (declined).
• Executive Secretary, CLAH-Chile/Río de la Plata Studies Committee, 1976-78.
• Program Chair, CLAH-Chile/Río de la Plata Studies Committee, 1975.
• Board of Editors, Cuadernos de Historia Regional, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina.

• American Historical Association.
• Conference on Latin American History.
• Latin American Studies Association.
• Social Science History Association.
• Concejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales.

• Associate Dean for Faculty & Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, 1996-.
• Chair, Search & Screen Committee, Dean of Continuing Education & Distance Learning, 1996.
• Member, Faculty Senate, 1995-96.
• Chair, Dean's Committee on Faculty Assignment and Evaluation, 1994-96.
• Member, Search & Screen Committee, Vice-President for Advancement, 1994-95.
• Member, Judaic Studies Steering Committee, 1993-.
• Chair, Scholarship Referendum Initiative sub-committee, 1994-95.
• Chair, Department of History, 1989-95.
• Search & Screen Committee, Chair, Department of Economics, 1993-94.
• Search & Screen Committee, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, 1991.
• Member, University Graduate Studies Committee, 1988-89, 1991-95.
• Member, University Honorary Awards Committee, 1986-87, 1989-93.
• Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1989-90.
• Member, Steering Committee, Graduate Program in International Studies, 1988-.
• Member, Cuban Studies Committee, 1988-.
• Search & Screen Committee, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, 1985-86.
• Associate Director, Latin American & Caribbean Center (Title VI), 1979-81.
• Co-coordinator, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Council, 1977-78.
• Member, Latin American & Caribbean Center's Advisory Council, 1979- .
• Budget Committee, College of Arts & Science, 1976-78, 1979-80, 1986-87.
• Provost's Task Force on University Development, 1980-81.

• Board of Directors, Florida Endowment for the Humanities, 1986-1991.
• Executive Committee, Florida Endowment for the Humanities, 1987-88.
• Book reviews in: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Urban History, and others.
• Evaluator of mss. for scholarly journals and presses: (American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Peasant Studies, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Labor History, Social Science History, Oxford University Press, The University of Texas Press, Stanford University Press, Duke University Press, University of Pittsburg Press, and others).

TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE ABROAD

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