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The agrarian history of colonial Mexco, the Wars of Independence, and the cultural, social, and political history of the nineteenth century.
Department of History, 0104
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0104
Phone: direct--(858) 534-3612 (voicemail)
message--(858)
534-1996
FAX: (858) 534-7283
e-mail: evanyoung@ucsd.edu
Education:
B.A. with Honors, History, University of Chicago, 1967
M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Academic
Employment:
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1979-1980
Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at
Austin, 1980-1982
Assistant Professor of History, University of
California, San Diego, 1982-1984
Associate Professor, UCSD, 1984-89
Professor, UCSD, 1989--; Chair, 2000--
Associate Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies,
University of California, San Diego, 1997-2001
Awards,
Honors, Fellowships, Visiting Professorships
(since 1982)
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Tinker Foundation, Inc., New York, 1982-1983.
2. Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize in History, Rocky Mountain Council
on Latin American Studies, Annual Meeting, Tucson, February, 1984 (co-winner
for best paper in Latin American history).
3. Hubert Herring Award for the Best Article in Latin American Studies,
Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, 1984 (for an article
published in Latin American Research Review, 1983).
4. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study
and Research, 1986 (calendar-year).
5. Conference Prize of the Conference on Latin American History (for the
best article in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical
Review), 1989, for the article "Islands in the Storm: Quiet
Cities and Violent Countrysides in the Mexican Independence Era,"
Past and Present, no. 118 (1988).
6. Professeur invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris, May-June, 1991.
7. Seminar Director, "Resistance, Rebellion, and Adaptation in Rural
Latin America, 1500-1900," National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, UC San Diego, July-August, 1992.
8. Vice-President, Conference on Latin American History, 1992; President,
1993.
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9. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universidad Autónoma de México-Iztapalapa/Instituto
Nacional de Antropologiá e Historia, Mexico City, January, 1993.
10. Visiting Professor, Programa de Maestriá en Historia Latinoamericana:
"Tierras, hombres y dioses. Sociedades agrarios e imaginarios colectivos
en América Latina," Universidad Internacional de Andaluciá,
La Rábida, Spain, December, 1995. Programa: "Rebeliones y
Revoluciones," November, 1997
11. Seminar as Visiting
Professor: "Regionalidad y espacialidad," Centro de Investigaciones
Historicas de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, April, 1996.
12. Distinguished Speaker Series, "North-South Dialogues: Conversations
on the Changing Shape of Local, Regional, and National Cultures in Mexico
and the United States," University of California Institute for Mexico
and the United States (UC MEXUS), University of California, Riverside,
February, 1999.
13. Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American history,
2002, for the best book on Latin American History published during 2001,
for The Other Rebellion:Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican
Struggle for Independence,1810-1821 (Stanford, 2001).
Major
University, Community, and Professional Service
1. Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UCSD: Executive Board, 1985-1986, 1990-.
2. Committee on Privilege and Tenure, UCSD Academic Senate, 1984-1985, 2000-2001; Counselor, 1986-1987.
3. University of California Consortium on Mexican-United States Studies (UC MEXUS), Executive Board, 1985-1986; Campus representative, 1985-1990; Grants Advisory Committee, 1993-94.
4. Conference on Latin
American History:
Committee on Historical Statistics, 1983-1986
Program Committee, 1985-1986 (for joint CLAH-American
Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1986).
Bolton Prize Committee, 1987 (for 1986 books).
Chairman, Mexican Studies Committee, 1987-1988.
Member, Haring Prize Committee, 1991.
Chair, Robertson Prize Committee, 1998.
5. Doctoral Fellowship Screening Committee, Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1984-1987.
6. Editorial Board, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1986-1991.
7. Editorial Board, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 1986- ; Chair, UC Editorial Board, 1998- .
8. Editorial Board, Colonial Latin American Review, 1993- 1999; Advisory Board, 1999- .
9. Comite Editorial, Historia y Grafia (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico), 1993-.
10. Comite Editorial, Vetas: Revista de El Colegio de San Luis Potosi, A.C., 1999-.
11. Comite Editorial, Consejo Editorial de la Division de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, 1993-.
12. Editorial Advisory Committee, Dellplain Latin American Series, Westview Press, 1994-.
13. Editorial Committee, Takwa (Universidad de Guadalajara), 2005-.
14. Editorial Committee,
Encuentros (Universidad Autonoma de
Tamaulipas), 2005-.
15. Member, Joint Organizing Committee, Conference of Mexican and North American Historians (1985-1995); Co-Coordinator, VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, 18-20 October 1990.
16. Co-Organizer and
Staff Member, Bicentennial Constitution
Project, University of California, San Diego, 1986-1987 (primary funding
by National Endowment for the Humanities).
17. Advisory Council,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies,
University of California, San Diego, 1987--.
Editorial Advisory Board, 1988--.
International Advisory Committee, 1995-98.
Associate Director, 1996-2001.
Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, 2001--
18. Organizer, Workshop on "Mexican Regions: Comparative History and Development," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, December, 1988 (funded by SSRC).
19 Member, Faculty Selection Committee for Humanities Research Grants, UCSD, Fall, 1987.
20. Member, Evaluation Committee on Third College Writing Adjunct Program, UCSD, 1987-88.
21. Member, Discipline Screening Committee, Fulbright Scholar awards for Latin American History, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1988-1991; Chair, 1990-91.
22. Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Portland, August, 1989.
23. Vice-Chair, Department of History, UCSD, 1988-1990.
24. Member, Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, 1990.
25. Workshop presenter on Latin America in the California secondary schools history curriculum, California Teachers' Institute, University of California, San Diego, August, 1990.
26. Member, Committee
on Academic Personal, UC San Diego
1990-92; "Shadow CAP" committee member, 1995-97.
27. Project consultant, Mexico in the K-12 curriculum in California schools, Social Science Education Consortium, Inc., and International Studies Education Project, San Diego State University, San Diego, 1991.
28. Member, campus
Affirmative Action Committee, UC San
Diego, 1992-93; Chair, 1993-94.
29. Chair, Planning Committee, Department of History, UC San Diego, 1993-95.
30. Graduate Placement Officer, Department of History, UC San Diego, 1992-94.
31. Graduate Committee,
Department of History, UC San Diego,
1993-94, 1995-96.
32. Advisory Committee on Fellowships for College and University Teachers in History, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., August, 1993, 1999.
33. Co-Convenor (with Steven Topik, UC Irvine) of All-UC Group in Latin American History, 1995; member, Steering Committee for First Annual Conference, UC Riverside, February, 1997.
34. Member, Review Committee, Undergraduate Program in Anthropology, UC San Diego, 1995-96.
35. Faculty Welfare Committee, UCSD, 1996-97.
36. Thesis advisor, Programa de Maestria en Historia Latinoamericana, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, La Rabida, Spain, 1995-97.
37. Board member, Trans-Border Institute, University of San Diego, 1999-2000.
38. Chair, Department of History, UC San Diego, 2000-
Major University, Community, and Professional Service
1. As director or co-director: about 20 doctorates since 1983.
2. As committee member:
about 12 doctoral committees since
1983.
3. Masters’ theses supervised: about 6 since 1983.