LALS Speaker Series with Alejandro Quintana, St. Johns University.
“Latin American National Identities in the Shadow of the Conquest and Independence Wars.”
Monday, October 2, 12:15-1:30 pm
DH-122/Q-Side Lounge
About the Speaker
Dr. Alejandro Quintana is an Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University, teaching Global and Latin American history. His research interests include processes of modernization, globalization, post-colonialism, state formation, national identity, sovereignty, authoritarianism, revolutions, social movements, and democracy in Latin America. He has written two monographs: Maximino Avila Camacho and the One-Party State (2011) and Pancho Villa: A Biography (2013). He is the editor and contributor to Lynn V. Foster’s A Brief History of Mexico (5th edition, 2022) and A Brief History of Central America (3rd edition, forthcoming).
He has also published numerous articles on Latin American history, including “Violence and Revolution in Latin America during the American Century,” “Cycles of Collapse in Mesoamerica,” and “The Invention of National History and Its Utility.” Dr. Quintana has also authored numerous articles on World History, including “The Spread of Communism,” “Archipelagos of Trade,” and “Migration, Diaspora, and Immigration in Modern World History.”
