Tulane University

Contact Info
jwolfe@tulane.edu

Department Affiliation
History

Degrees

• B.A., Oberlin College, Economics and Latin American Studies, 1990
• M.A., University of California-Los Angeles, History, 1993
• Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, History, 1999

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2007-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2000-2007
• Visiting Fulbright Professor, Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua, 2005
• Teaching Assistant, University of California-Los Angeles, 1993-1994

Research & Teaching Specializations: Post-colonial social and cultural history, nation-state formation, race and ethnicity, African Diaspora, Central America

Related Experience

• Editor, Mesoamérica, a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal of Central American studies, 2013-2018
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Tulane University, 2011-2014
• Co-founder and organizer of The Seminar on Historical Change and Social Theory
• Chair, Central American Section of the Conference on Latin American History, 2005
• Member, James R. Scobie Memorial Award Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2007

Distinctions

• Lavin-Bernick Faculty Development Grand, Tulane University, 2016
• CELT Faculty Development Grant, 2016
• CELT Faculty-Student Scholarly Engagement Grant, 2016
• Monroe Fellowship, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University, 2014
• Lurcy Grant, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2014
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend, 2013
• Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2013
• Weiss Presidential Fellow Award, Tulane University, 2009
• Central American Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 2008
• Tulane Honors Professor of the Year, 2004-2005
• Georges Lurcy Faculty Summer Research Grant, Tulane University, 2004, 2002
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1995, 2005

Languages:

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French

Overseas Experience

• Nicaragua
• Costa Rica
• Guatemala
• Spain
• Brazil

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. “On Equal Grounds: Race and Empire in the Age of Manifest Destiny”
• Forthcoming. “‘The Nobles are Finished’: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Nicaragua through the
  Eyes of Aristocratic Women, 1807-1847”
• 2010. Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America. Editor with Lowell Gudmundson. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2010. “‘The Cruel Whip’: Race, Politics and Manifest Destinies in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua.” In Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America. Edited with Lowell Gudmundson. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2010. “Soldiers and Statesmen: Race, Nation and the Paradoxes of Afro-Nicaraguan Military Service, 1844-1869.” In War, Protest and Identity: Military Struggle and the Formation of Race, Community and Nation in Latin America 1850-1950. Nicola Foote and René H. Horst, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
• 2009. “La ejecución de Ponciano Corral en Granada, Nicaragua/The Execution of Ponciano Corral in Granada, Nicaragua.” Mesoámerica 51.
• 2008. “‘No nacen aquí hombres serviles’: Raza, política y filibusterismo en el siglo XIX.” In Memoria del Simposio International Filibusterismo y Destino Manifiesto en las Américas. Víctor Hugo Acuña Ortega, ed. San José: Editorial del la Universidad de Costa Rica.
• 2007. The Everyday Nation-State: Community, Ethnicity and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• 2004. “Those That Live by the Work of Their Hands: Labour, Ethnicity and Nation-State Formation in Nicaragua, 1850-1900.” Journal of Latin American Studies. 36 (1): 57-83.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: HISL 1710: Introduction to Latin American History Modern Central America; History of Central America; U.S.-Latin American Relations; Narrating Race and Nation in Latin America; HISL 6600: Peasants, Rebellion and the State in Latin America, Race and Ethnicity in Central America

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Curriculum Vitae