Raymond Craib
Associate Professor
Office: 436 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6745
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: rbc23@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On leave Academic Year 2007-2008
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 2001
M.A. University of New Mexico, 1994
B.A. Eastern Michigan University, 1990
Courses
| Fall 2007: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2008: | On Leave |
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 Jos Domingo Gmez 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, Jos Santos Gonzlez Vera, Pablo Neruda, and Roberto Meza Fuentes).Recent Publications and Awards
Publications
"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 approx. 2007).
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 Porfiriato.” In Hector 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 propriedad 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).
Some Good Links:
http://www.philosophyfootball.com/
"Sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
The National Security Archive.
http://www.soaw.org/
School of the Americas Watch website--organizing to close the School of Assassins.
http://www.proceso.com.mx/
Proceso, Mexico.
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
The Independent Media Center
http://www.thomasekennedy.com/
Thomas Kennedy, author of, among many other novels, Greene's Summer about a Chilean exile in Copenhagen. Kennedy is currently translating works on the life and work of Inge Genefke, founder of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.
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