Raymond B. Craib

Associate Professor

Department of History

Cornell University

436 McGraw Hall

Ithaca NY 14853

(607) 255-6745

rbc23@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, Yale University, 2001

M.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, 1994

B.A., History, Eastern Michigan University, 1990

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, July 2001-March 2006

Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, April 2006--

Current research

I am currently writing a book on the “proceso de los subversivos” in Santiago, Chile, in 1920. This persecution of ‘subversives’ targeted presumed pacifists, anarchists, and members of the IWW, with university students, workers, immigrants, and Peruvian nationals all coming under increased scrutiny in the wake of Chilean mobilizations on the Peruvian border. I focus in particular on the persecution and subsequent death of José Domingo Gómez Rojas—a poet and political activist who died in police custody in September, 1920—as well as his socialist and anarchist comrades (including literary figures such as Manuel Rojas, José Santos González Vera, Pablo Neruda, and Roberto Meza Fuentes).

Publications

“Daniel Riquelme,” “José Domingo Gómez Rojas,” and “Mexican Liberal Agrarian Policies, Nineteenth Century,” all in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2^nd edition, ed. by Jay Kinsbruner (New York: Charles Scribner Sons, forthcoming 2008).

“El archivo en el campo: Conocimiento, espacio y cartografías mentales en la reforma agraria mexicana,” in Héctor Mendoza Vargas and Carla Lois, eds., Historia de la Cartografía de Iberoamérica (UNAM y INEGI, forthcoming 2008).

Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. (Duke University Press, 2004)

“Peasants, Politics and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography.” Radical History Review 88 (Winter 2004).

“Standard Plots and Rural Resistance.” In Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2003).

“A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 82:1 (February 2002).

“Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain.” Latin American Research Review 35: 1 (Spring 2000).

“Discurso cartográfico en el Mexico del Porfiriato.” In Héctor Mendoza Vargas, coord., Mexico a través de los mapas (Plaza y Valdés Editores y Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, México, 2000).

“‘Estas cuestiones no se terminan nunca’: Los límites de la propiedad en la sierra de Chiconquiaco, norte de Xalapa, Veracruz, a finales del siglo XIX.” Memorial: Boletín del Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz 3: 7/8 (January/August, 2000).

“Cartografía y conflicto en la sierra veracruzana: El caso de Las Minas, 1897-1912.” Boletín del Archivo General Agrario de Mexico 7 (July-September, 1999).

(with D. Graham Burnett), “Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish American War.” The Historian 61: 1 (Fall 1998).

“Re-‘covering’ Chinese in Mexico.” The American Philatelist 112: 5 (May 1998).

“Chinese Immigrants in Porfirian Mexico: A Preliminary Study of Settlement, Economic Activity and Anti-Chinese Sentiment.” The Latin American Institute Research Paper Series (Albuquerque: The Latin American Institute and the University of New Mexico, 1996).

Book Reviews

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina (forthcoming)

Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, et. al., Atlas ilustrado de los pueblos de indios: Nueva España, 1800. Hispanic American Historical Review 87: 4 (Nov. 2007).

Paul Vanderwood, Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina 17: 2 (July-Dec., 2006).

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara and John M. Nieto-Philips, eds., Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 63: 1 (July, 2006).

Jens Andermann and William Rowe, eds., Images of Power: Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies 37: 4 (November, 2005).

Susie S. Porter, Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 58: 4 (July, 2005).

Susan Schulten, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. Investigaciones Geográficas: Boletín del Instituto de la Geografía del UNAM 55 (2005).

Paula Rebert, La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. Hispanic American Historical Review 83: 4 (November, 2003).

Stephen J. Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 57: 1 (October, 2003).

Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, eds., The Mapping of the Entradas into the Greater Southwest. Hispanic American Historical Review 80: 3 (August 2000).

Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio, eds., Mexico Under Zedillo. New Mexico Historical Review 74: 3 (July 1999).

Victoria Chenaut, coord., Procesos rurales e historia regional: Sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz. Hispanic American Historical Review 79: 1 (February 1999).

(with D. Graham Burnett) Barbara Mundy, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas. Cartographic Perspectives 27 (Spring 1997).

Awards and Fellowships

The American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, Fall 2007.

Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Service Learning, 2007.

Humanities Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2005-2006.

Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Spring 2005.

Faculty Fellow-in-Service Grant, Cornell University, Spring, 2004.

Eastern Michigan University Department of History Distinguished Alumni Award, 2004.

National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Summer Stipend Award, 2003.

Arthur and Mary Wright Prize (for outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United

States and Europe), Yale University, 2001-02.

Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000.

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1998-99.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998-99.

American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, 1998.

Gertie Emily Gorman Webb Fellowship, Yale University, 1995-98.

Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies Summer Field Research Fellowships, 1996; 1997.

Yale Center for International and Area Studies Henry Hart Rice Fellowship, 1996-97.

Invited Talks and Lectures

“El archivo en el campo: Conocimiento, espacio, y cartografías mentales en la reforma agraria mexicana.” Symposium Campesinos y pueblos indígenas en América Latina y Chile, Siglos XIX y XX, held as part of the XVII Jornadas de Historia de Chile, Universidad de la Frontera de Temuco—Pucon, Chile, October 2007.

“The Killing of José Domingo Gómez Rojas: Santiago, 1920.” University of Connecticut Department of History Colloquia, September 2007.

“The Killing of José Domingo Gómez Rojas: Poetry, Politics, and Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1920.” Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami, March 2007.

Guest Seminar: “Agriculture, Land, and Labor in 19^th and 20^th Century Mexico,” for the course Migration, Migrant Labor, and Social Movements in the Americas: Miami in Perspective, University of Miami, March 2007

“Fugitive Landscapes: Mapping Mexico in the Nineteenth Century.” Wolleman Family Lecture, The Cornell Club, New York City, May 2006.

“‘If you don’t speak up’: Students, Workers, and Struggle in Early 20^th Century Santiago, Chile.” International Planning Series Lecture, College of Art, Architecture, and Planning, Cornell University, May 2006.

“Time Passages: Nature, Nation and History in Mexico.” Telluride House Faculty Lecture Series, Cornell University, November 2005.

“Time Passages: Nature, Nation and History in Mexico.” Workshop on Transnational Circulation of Landscape Narratives and Nation Building, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, April 2005.

“Creating Space for Peasants in the History of Cartography.” Conference on Creating Space: Across Histories, Cultures, and Disciplines, Montana State University, September 2004.

“Students, Universities, and Politics in Latin America: Four Points of Orientation.” Telluride House Summer Program, Cornell University, August 2004

“Fugitive Landscapes: Border Fixations and the Limits to Land Division in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Department of Geography Colloquium, Syracuse University, April 2004

“El discurso cartográfico del Porfiriato.” Guest seminar, Historia de Geografía, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 2003

“Plotting a Revolution: Surveyors, Campesinos and Ejidos in Postrevolutionary Veracruz.” The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, February 2003.

“Indians and Land Divisions in Nineteenth-Century Veracruz.” Guest lecture, History of Modern Mexico, Yale University, February 2003.

“Geographic Practice and Political Power: The Traverse Surveys of Mexico’s Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora.” The Latin American Studies Program Speaker Series, SUNY—Binghamton, October 2002.

“Spatial Histories: Locating Geography in History.” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Cornell University, June 2002.

“Standard Plots and Master Narratives: Surveyors, Villagers and the Histories of Communal Land Division in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Department of Rural Sociology Seminar Series, Cornell University, February 2002.

“Topographies of Rule: Traverse Surveys, Situated Knowledge and Political Power in Rural Mexico, 1880-1910.” Latin American Studies Program Seminar Series, Cornell University, October 2001

“Cartografía y conflicto en el campo rural mexicano al fines del siglo pasado.” V Congreso Nacional de Historia Regional y Local, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela, October 1998.

Conference Presentations and Panels

Panel discussant: “Science and State Formation in Modern Mexico,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, September 2007

Panel discussant: “Making Colombian and Venezuelan Territories through Maps,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Montreal, September 2007

“Time Passages: Nation, Nature, and the Persistence of Cortés.” New York State Latin American History Workshop, Syracuse University, March 2006.

“Time Passages: Landscape and the Persistence of Cortés.” Presented at the Comparative History Colloquium, Dept. of History, Cornell University, February 2006.

“The Archive in the Field: The Work of Agrarian Reform in Mexico.” Presented at the workshop on Social Histories of Space in Latin America, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, October 2005.

Panel discussant: “Archeology of Identity, Agency and Reclaiming Culture,” Latin American Studies Program Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2005.

Panel chair: “Political Economy and Wartime,” Agricultural History Society Symposium, Cornell University, September 2004.

“A Topography of Rule: Situated Knowledge, Political Power and the Traverse Surveys of the Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora in Rural Veracruz, 1877-1911.” XI Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2003.

“Mapping Mexico From Below (or, why peasants are also protagonists in the history of cartography).” The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Harvard University/University of Southern Maine, June 2003.

Commentary: Eric Worby, “Grasping an Elusive State: Practical Epistemologies of Power in Zimbabwe at a Time of Crisis.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, January 2001.

“History, Geography and the State in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2001.

“A Nationalist Metaphysics: History, Geography and the Carta General in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” New England Council on Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Amherst, Mass., October 2000.

“State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes in the Sierra Veracruzana.” Andrew W. Mellon Inter-University Latin American History Conference, University of Chicago, April 2000.

“‘Estas cuestiones no se terminan nunca’: The Limits to Land Division in the Sierra Veracruzana, 1869-1904.” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Miami, March 2000.

Commentary: Cindy Hahamovitch, “‘In America Life is Given Away’: Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University,

October 1999.

“State Cartography and Fugitive Landscapes in Veracruz, Mexico.” Graduate Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Work in Progress, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, April 1998.

“History and Philately: Recovering the History of the Chinese in Revolutionary Mexico.” 5th Annual Conference on the Chinese American Experience, New York University, October 1997.

Commentary: Kathryn Dudley, “The Entrepreneurial Self: Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community.” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, March 1996.

“Immigration, Integration and Segregation: The Chinese under the Porfirian State.” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Ft. Worth, February 1994.

Courses taught:

Undergraduate

Modern Latin America

Modern Mexico

History and the Geographical Imagination

Comparative Agrarian History

Farmworkers

Radicalism in Latin America

Honors Proseminar

Borders and Borderlands in Comparative Perspective

The U.S.-Mexico Border (co-taught with María Cristina García)

Foreign Policy as Subversion: The U.S. in Latin America and Southeast Asia (co-taught with Tamara Loos)

Culture and Empire, 1898 (Freshman Writing Seminar)

Spatial Histories of Latin America (Society for the Humanities seminar)

Anarquía Transnacional: España, Chile, y la Argentina, 1840-1945 (Cornell Abroad, Sevilla, Spain)

Graduate

Introduction to Graduate Study of History (co-taught with Holly Case)

Graduate Readings and Research in Latin American History

Article referee:

Hispanic American Historical Review Journal of Historical Geography

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos National Identities

Political Power and Social Theory Ulúa: Revista de Historia, Sociedad, y Cultura

The Americas

Manuscript referee:

Duke University Press

University of Arizona Press

University of California Press

University of Nebraska Press

Professional Memberships

Latin American Studies Association

American Historical Association

Conference on Latin American History

Service

Advisory Board, History of the Cornell Migrant Program, 2005-2007

Co-Chair, Comparative History Colloquium, 2002-2004; 2006-2007

Co-curator (with D. Graham Burnett), Insular Visions, 1898, an exhibit on cartography, photography, and anthropology in the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, held at the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 1998

Co-founder and coordinator of Farmworkers, an interdisciplinary service-learning course on the world of migrant farm labor in the Americas and especially upstate New York.

Co-founder and co-organizer, New York State Latin American History Workshop

College of Arts and Sciences Admissions Committee, 2002

Department Search committees

Early America/American Indian, 2002

U.S. Intellectual/Cultural, 2003

Modern Africa, 2006

Faculty Adviser, Student Farmworker Advocacy Coalition, 2002-2005

Faculty Adviser, Friends of Farmworkers, 2005-2007

Faculty Fellow, Knight Institute’s Study of Student Writing, 2003-2004

Faculty-in-Residence, Programa Michigan-Cornell-Penn, Sevilla, Spain, Spring 2008

Faculty Senate, Spring 2002-Spring 2004

Member, International Organizing Committee, for the Second Iberoamerican Simposium on the History of Cartography, to be held in Mexico City, April 2008

Organizer, Workshop on Social Histories of Space in Latin America, Yale University, October 2005

Participant and Panelist, Cornell Consortium for Writing in the Disciplines, June 2004

Program Board, Latin American Studies Program, 2002-present

Reader, Society for the Humanities Postdoctoral Applications, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07

Reader, Tinker/Einaudi/FLAS Grant applications for the Latin American Studies Program, 2004, 2005

Reader, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Grants, 2007-08

Steering Committee, Latin American Studies Program, 2005-present

James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2005-2006