curriculum vitae

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Education

2006 Ph.D., History, University of New Mexico

Dissertation: "Between Prescription and Practice: Governance, Legal Culture, And Gender in Late-Colonial Quito, 1765-1830." Advisor: Kimberly Gauderman

1999 M.A., History, University of New Mexico Thesis Title: "The Making of an Indigenous Movement: Meaning and Materiality in Ecuador."

1994 B.S., History and Secondary Education, Appalachian State University

Academic Employment

2006 to Present Assistant Professor, History, University of Tennessee.

Spring 2005 Adjunct Instructor, History, University of New Mexico.

Spring 2002 Adjunct Instructor, History, University of New Mexico.

Publications

Limits of Gender Domination: Women, Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765-1830. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

Through analysis of extensive civil and criminal litigation, this book documents impressive economic, legal, and social rights customarily exercised by women of the corregimiento of Quito during the closing decades of Bourbon rule. Following the cultural logic of decentralism and negotiated consent, women were able to mitigate attempts by the centralizing Bourbon state to control their bodies and discourage access to legal resources. The narrative then analyzes the subsequent dismantling of customary legal rights with the emergence of a stricter, more hierarchical gender regime with the shift to a contract society through Ecuador's experience of the Atlantic liberal revolution. On a scholarly level, the book represents a significant revision of late-colonial and early republican gender history. It is also filled with compelling human stories drawn from the litigation pursued in the barrios of Quito.

"Clustering with Compression for the Historian," Journal of Digital Humanities 1.1 (Winter 2011), pp. 34-44. Available online and in pdf.

"Voices: Sharing One's Research," with Mark Sample. In, Daniel Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, editors, Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press/digitalculturebooks, 2011). The edited piece is available here. The longer original submission is available here.

"Between Prescription and Practice: Licensure and Women"s Legal Identity in Bourbon Quito, 1765-1810," Colonial Latin American Review, 16.2 (2007): 273-298.

"The Making of and Indigenous Movement: Culture, Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador," Research Paper Series No. 323 (May 1999), Albuquerque, NM: Latin American and Iberian Institute.

Awards, Fellowships, Grants

Fall 2011 Chancellor's Grant for Faculty Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Sept 2011 ACLS Fellowship application revised and submitted for support for project, "Reading Adultery in Colonial Quito." (Unfunded.)

Co-organizer/tech advisor on application for an NEH/DFG Digital Project grant with the University of Tennessee"s Center for the Study of War and Society to develop a web project entitled, "Friends and Foes: Images of Allies and Enemies in the Second World War." (Unfunded.)

2009 Professional Development Award (PDA), University of Tennessee, Knoxville for summer research in Quito, Ecuador.

2002-2003 Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Quito, Ecuador.

2000-2003 Ph.D. Fellowship, Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII), UNM.

1999-2001 NDEA Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS).

2000 Field Research Grant (FRG) for Pre-Dissertation Research, LAII, UNM.

Howard Rabinowitz Memorial Research Grant, Department of History, UNM.

1990-1994 North Carolina Teaching Fellow, Appalachian State University

Book Reviews

"A Review of Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru", History: Review of New Books 39 (Oct. 2011): 117-118.

"Review: Raising an Empire: Children in Early Modern Iberia and Colonial Latin America, edited, Ondina E. Gonz"lez and Bianca Premo," The Americas, 65.3 (January 2009): 429-431.

"Review: Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550-1782, by Lolita Guti"rrez Brockington" Colonial Latin American Review, 17.1 (2008).

Works in Progress and other Research Activities

Co-Founder and Core Member, Faculty Research Seminar in Digital Humanities, with Dr. Gregor Kalas. Spring 2011.

"Prosecuting Same-Sex Sex in Bourbon Quito," article manuscript for edited collection under the working title, "Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America." This volume is being edited by Dr. Zeb Tortorici of Tulane University.

Sex, Crime, Empire: The Body Politic in the Audiencia of Quito during the Reign of Charles III. Active book and research project that engages both traditional research methods and text mining and encoding methodologies.

Departmental Service

2009-present Chair of the Publicity Committee, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

2007 – present Director Department of History Dissertation Writing Group. (With this group I have currently assisted sixteen students in the successful completion of either their Dissertation or Dissertation Prospectus.)

2011-2012 Member, Department of History Graduate Education Committee, University of Tennessee.

2010-2011 Member, Department of History Undergraduate Education Committee, University of Tennessee.

Spring 2010 Member, Departmental Advisory Committee for a special College-run search for African and African-American Studies.

2009-2010 Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on History 510, Foundations of Graduate Study in History.

2009-2010 Member, University of Tennessee Commission on LGBT People

2009-present Chair of the Publicity Committee, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

2009-2010 Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on designing the Department"s introductory graduate seminar, "Foundations of the Graduate Study of History."

2008-2010 Member, Head"s Advisory Committee, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

2007-2009 Member, Undergraduate Education Committee, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

2008-2009 Member, Job Search Committee for position on Britain and its Empire/France and its Empire.

2007-2010 Founder and Coordinator, Dissertation Writing Seminar, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

2006-2008 Co-Founder and Coordinator, Theory Reading Group, Department of History, University of Tennessee.

Spring 2008 Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on Mentoring and Annual Review, History Department, University of Tennessee.

Service to the Discipline

2011 Secretary, Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee, Conference on Latin American History. (Also Chair-Elect. I will serve as Chair of the Committee for 2012.)

January 2011 Peer referee for the Colonial Latin American Historical Review.

2010-2011 Program Chair for History and Social Science tracks for the 2011 Annual meeting of SECOLAS, Wilmington, NC, 16-19 March 2011.

2008-2009 Web Editor h-net Latin America website, maintaining links to blogs on Latin America. (http://www.h-net.org/\~latam/blog/)

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

Panel Chair, "Legislating the Subaltern in the Andes and Beyond," Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Chicago, IL. 6 January 2012.

"Racial Silences in the Criminal Archive: Jail Censuses in Quito, 1750-1850." Paper accepted to present for the panel, "Racial Silences in the Archive and the Historiography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America." American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. 7 January 2012.

Participant, The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) Un-Conference, Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University, 4-5 June 2011.

"Google Books and the N-Gram Viewer." Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin America Studies, Santa Fe, NM, 7 April 2011.

Program Chair, History and Social Sciences, SECOLAS 2011 Annual Meeting, Wilmington, NC, 16-19 March 2011.

Panel Moderator, "Indigenous Language and Practice: Cultural Meanings and Identity in Early Mexico." SECOLAS 2011, 18 March 2011.

Panel Moderator, "Social Movements in Latin America at the Turn of the 21^st^ Century." SECOLAS 2011, 17 March 2011.

Panel Moderator, "Popular Economies in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico." SECOLAS 2011, 17 March 2011.

Panel Organizer, "Negotiating Authority: Bureaucratic and Cultural Logics in the Early Modern Spanish Empire." Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Boston, Mass. 9 January 2011. (http://chadblack.net/clah2011)

"Negotiating Adultery in Bourbon Quito," Paper presented at the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Boston, Mass. 9 January 2011. (http://chadblack.net/clah2011/)

Participant, The Humanities and Technology Camp -- New Mexico (THATCampNM), National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM. 2-3 October 2010. Led session on using Wordpress as a learning management system.

Participant, The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) Un-Conference, Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University, 22-23 May 2010.

"In the Name of the Republic, by Authority of the Law: Gender and Legal Culture in Revolutionary Quito, 1809-1830." Paper presented at the South Eastern Conference on Latin American Studies, Mexico City, Mexico. 9 April 2010.

Participant and blog coordinator for "The Future of the Andean Past," CLAH Andean Studies Roundtable. AHA/CLAH Annual Conference, San Diego, CA January 2010. Blog address: http://andeanstudies.wordpress.com.

"As One Would Treat a Woman: Gender and Same-Sex Sex in Bourbon Quito." Invited talk, Department of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 15 April 2009.

"As One Would Treat a Woman: Gender, Sodomy, and Love in Late Colonial Quito." Tuesday Lunch Series. Humanities Initiative, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 7 April 2009.

"Edupunk: tech > ppt." Invited talk on using Web 2.0 and social media technologies in the classroom. Dissertation and Professionalization Workshop. Department of History, Univ. of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM, 30 March 2009.

"Content and Form: Reading Sexual Prosecutions in Late Colonial Quito," paper presented at Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, 56^th^ Annual Conference. Santa Fe, NM, 4-7 March 2009.

"By Authority of the Law: The Atlantic Liberal Revolution and Legal Culture in Early Republican Quito." CLAH Andean Studies Roundtable. "The Andes Across Oceans: The Impact of Transatlantic and Transnational Currents on Andean History." AHA/CLAH Annual Conference, New York City, January 2009.

"Public, Notorious, and Scandalous: Adultery and Normative Sexuality in Bourbon Quito," paper to be presented at the 69^th^ Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Eugene, OR, November 2008.

Co-organizer. "Unnatural Acts: Normative Gender and Aberrant Sex in Colonial Latin America," session for LASA2007, Montreal, CA, September 2007.

"As (S)he Would Treat A Woman: Gender and Same-Sex Love in Bourbon Quito," paper presented at LASA2007, Montreal CA, September 2007.

""I Appear and Say": Post-coloniality and the Challenge of Women"s Legal Identity in Quito, 1765-1835," presented at the 2007 Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, 2007.

"Como mas aya lugar en derecho, parezco y digo: Governance, Legal Culture, and Gender in Late-Colonial Quito," presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.

"Between Prescription and Practice: Women, Legality, and Identity in Quito"s Courts, 1765-1774," presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXV International Congress, Las Vegas, NV, 2004.

"Gender and the Judiciary: A Case of Bad Shrimp in Late Colonial Quito," presented at the 2004 Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, 2004.

"Marit"tegui Redux: Materialist Ubiquities in the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador," presented at MARXISM2000, conference of Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, MA, 2000.

"The Making of an Indigenous Movement: Culture, Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador," presented at the 1999 Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, 1999.

"The 1990 Indian Uprising in Ecuador: Culture, Ethnicity, and Post-Marxist Social Praxis in Ecuador," presented at the Latin American Studies Association XXI International Congress, Chicago, IL, 1998.

Service Talks

"We"re All Digital Historians." Invited talk, History 665 Graduate Seminar in Advanced Historical Research Methods, for Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 4 April 2011.

"The Inca." Guest Speaker, Ancient and World History Class, for Mr. Caleb Clark. West High School, Knoxville, TN. 18 January 2011.

"Digital Humanities in Research and Teaching." Invited talk, German 519/French 519 Seminar Bibliography and Methods of Research, for Dr. Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 16 November 2010.

"Tech is Greater than PowerPoint." Presentation at the Department of History Faculty Retreat, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 16 August 2010.

"Archival Research in the Digital Age." Invited talk to the Seminar on Advanced Historical Research Methods, Department of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 1 October 2009.

Assistantships

Spring 2006 Graduate Assistant, History, UNM, course title: "Beauty, Body, and Power."

Fall 2005 Graduate Assistant, History, UNM, course title: "Western Civilization to 1648."

Spring 2005 Graduate Assistant, History, UNM, course title: "Beauty, Body, and Power."

Fall 2004 Graduate Assistant, History, UNM, course title: "History of the United States to 1877."

1999 Member, Publications Committee, Latin American and Iberian Institute, UNM.

July 1999 Research Assistant, LAII, UNM, for Dr. Ricardo Salvatore.

1998-2000 Secretary, History Graduate Student Association.

1998-1999 Graduate Assistant, LAII, UNM.

Courses Taught:

Graduate Seminars:

Culture, Power, and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World

Foundations of Graduate Study in History

History of the Spanish Conquest

Teaching World History (Spring 2012)

Undergraduate Courses:

Survey of Early Latin American History

History of the Early Andes

Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: From Indian to Peasant and Back Again

History of Early Latin America: Colonialism, Culture, Community

History of Modern Latin America: Nation and its Discontents

The Conquest of Spanish America

History of Women in Early Spanish America

Andean Republics: Nation and its Discontents

History of Early South America

Crises from Colony to Republic: Social History of the Trans-Independence Andes

History of the Mexican Revolution

Modern Latin America Through Film

Honors Seminar Historical Research Methods

Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America

Copies of my syllabi are available at: http://chadblack.net/teaching