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Patrick McNamara

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Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • History and Memory in Mexico
  • Comparative Revolutions
  • Latin America
  • Peasantries

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1999.

Publications

  • Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, and the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855-1920. McNamara, Patrick J, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Author, 2007. Link
  • "Saving Private Ramírez: The Patriarchal Voice of Republican Motherhood in Mexico". McNamara, Patrick J, Gender and History, Author, 2006. Link
  • "Felipe García and the Real Heroes of Guelatao". McNamara, Patrick J, Jeffrey Pilcher, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., Author, 2003. Link

Research Activities

  • The Centennial Stage: Mexico's Old Regime and the Independence Celebrations of 1910: (an examination of the importance of the 1910 Centennial in rural Mexico and the southwestern United States)

Professional Activities

  • Disabilities Issues Committee, Chair: 2005 - 2007
  • Department of History, Associate Chair: 2005 - 2007

Outreach Activities

  • Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: IAS funded research collaborative

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
  • Hist 3423 - Central American Revolutions
  • Hist 3425 - Modern Mexico
  • Hist 4961W - Major Paper
  • HIST 5950 - 20th Century Mexico
  • HIST 8025 - The Politics of Historical Memory
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