Kevin A. Young CV

• 2013
  Ph.D., History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• 2010
  M.A., History, State University of New York at Stony Brook Exam fields: Modern Latin America; Colonial Latin America; Comparative Labor History and Social Movements (Passed with distinction)
• 2007
  B.A., History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University (High Honors)

• 2020–present
  Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2015–2020
  Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2016–2017
  Fellow, Crossroads in the Study of the Americas program, Five Colleges, Amherst, MA
• 2014–2015
  Research Affiliate, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador
• 2011–2014
  Academic Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, University of Michigan
• 2014
  Long-term substitute teacher, U.S. History and Economics, Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 2008–2011
  Adjunct instructor and graduate teaching assistant, Stony Brook University

• Peasant politics and authoritarianism in Bolivia, 1930s–1980s
• Leftist political movements in El Salvador, 1970–present
• U.S. climate movements and energy policy
• Interracial coalitions in U.S. working-class history
• Collective punishment in U.S. foreign policy
• Antiwar activism among U.S. soldiers and veterans, 2003–present

• Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It. New York: Verso, 2020. (with Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz)
• Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.

• Trump and the Deeper Crisis. Political Power and Social Theory volume 39. Bingley, UK: Emerald, forthcoming (2023). (with Michael Schwartz and Richard Lachmann)
• Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019

(sole author unless noted)

• “Smoothing the Contradictions: The Politics of Fossil Fuels in Bolivian History.” In Natural Resources and Political Struggle: Lessons from Bolivian History, ed. Carmen Soliz and Rossana Barragán. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (forthcoming).
• “Our Vietnamese Compañeros: How Salvadoran Guerrillas Adapted the ‘People’s War’ Strategy.” In Transnational Communism across the Americas, ed. Marc Becker, Margaret Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob Zumoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (forthcoming).
• “Our Social Conquests Will Be Respected: Peasants and Military Dictatorship in Cochabamba, Bolivia.” Hispanic American Historical Review 102, no. 3 (2022): 481–512.
• “El Salvador’s FMLN and the Constraints on Leftist Government.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, ed. Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost, 520–537. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 (originally published online, 2019).
  • Spanish translation published as “El FMLN de El Salvador y las restricciones sobre el gobierno de izquierda.” Cuadernos Inter.c.a.mbio sobre Centroamérica y el Caribe (San José) 17, no. 1 (2020).
• “Introduction: Revolutionary Actors, Encounters, and Transformations.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 1–18. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Young, Kevin A., Tarun D. Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz. “Capital Strikes As a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era.” Politics & Society 46, no. 1 (2018): 3–28.
• “Alianzas revolucionarias del siglo XX en Bolivia: Entre la coalición y la ruptura.” Fuentes (La Paz, Bolivia) 11, no. 49 (2017): 6–18.
• “From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952–1969.” Hispanic American Historical Review 97, no. 1 (2017): 95–129.
  • Abridged Spanish translation published as “De ‘Puertas Abiertas’ a la nacionalización: Los hidrocarburos y el choque de visiones económicas en Bolivia, 1952–1969.” Historia (La Paz, Bolivia) 40 (2017): 59–90.
• “The Making of an Interethnic Coalition: Urban and Rural Anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946– 1947.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 11, no. 2 (2016): 163–188.
  • Revised version published as “Total Subversion: Interethnic Radicalism in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946–1947.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 129–155. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy.” Mobilization 19, no. 3 (2014): 239–260.
• Young, Kevin, and Diana C. Sierra Becerra. “How ‘Partnership’ Weakens Solidarity: Colombian GM Workers and the Limits of UAW Internationalism.” WorkingUSA 17, no. 2 (2014): 239–260.
• Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How Corporate Power Shaped the Affordable Care Act.” New Labor Forum 23, no. 2 (2014): 30–40.
• “Purging the Forces of Darkness: The United States, Monetary Stabilization, and the Containment of the Bolivian Revolution.” Diplomatic History 37, no. 3 (2013): 509–537.
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left.” Latin American Perspectives 40, no. 3 (2013): 207–225.
  • Revised version published in Latin America’s Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Steve Ellner, 249–269. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
  • Spanish translation published as “Buena izquierda, mala izquierda e intervenciones benevolentes: Periodismo al servicio de una agenda neocolonial.” In La izquierda latinoamericana en el poder: Cambios y enfrentamientos en el siglo XXI, ed. Steve Ellner, 321–353. Caracas: Fundación Celarg/Fundación Centro Nacional de Estudios Históricos, 2018.
• Young, Kevin, and Michael Schwartz. “Can Prefigurative Politics Prevail? The Implications for Movement Strategy in John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism.” Journal of Classical Sociology 12, no. 2 (2012): 220–239.
• “Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960–1970.” Latin American Perspectives 38, no. 6 (2011): 6–24.
• “Patria, progreso y héroes: Una crítica del currículo de historia.” Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa 15, no. 45 (2010): 599–620.

• South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left, by Jessica Stites Mor. Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 1 (forthcoming, February 2023).
• “Beyond the Comandantes: Revolutions and Revolutionaries since 1959” (review essay based on eight books). Latin American Research Review 57, no. 2 (2022): 504–514.
• Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left, edited by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez. Hispanic American Historical Review 102, no. 2 (2022): 366–368.
• No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War, by Ariel Mae Lambe. The Volunteer 39, no. 2 (2021): 18–19.
• Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present, by Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Mennonite Quarterly Review 45, no. 2 (2021): 265–267.
• Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas, by Amy C. Offner. The Americas 77, no. 4 (2020): 670–671.
• The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Sinclair Thomson, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, and Mark Goodale. The Historian 81, no. 4 (2019): 716–717.
• USAID in Bolivia: Partner or Patrón? by Lawrence C. Heilman. Journal of Latin American Studies 51, no. 1 (2019): 222–224.
• Where Are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East and Europe, edited by Sian Lazar. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 15, no. 3 (2018): 120–122.
• Oil and Nation: A History of the Bolivian Petroleum Sector, by Stephen C. Cote. Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 1 (2018): 158–159.
• “Stimulating a Cooperative Spirit? Public Health and U.S.-Bolivia Relations in the 1950s,” by Nicole Pacino. H-Diplo, December 6, 2017.
• Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia, by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Ethnohistory 64, no. 2 (2017): 322–323.
• Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World, edited by Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Alwyn Lim. Contemporary Sociology 45, no. 4 (2016): 506–508.
• “Dividing the Waters: How Power, Property, and Protest Transformed the Waterscape of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1879–2000” (Ph.D. diss.), by Sarah Thompson Hines. Dissertation Reviews, April 4, 2016.
• The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952–Present, by James F. Siekmeier. Bulletin of Latin American Research 32, no. 2 (2013): 242–244.
• A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952, by Laura Gotkowitz. Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 4 (2010): 863–865.
• Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, by Dahr Jamail, and Blind into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, by James Fallows. Peace & Change 34, no. 3 (2009): 282–289.

(for full list see http://www.kevinyoung.org/)

• “Fossil Fuels, Capitalists, and Prospects for the Climate Movement.” In Trump and the Deeper Crisis, Political Power and Social Theory volume 39, ed. Kevin A. Young, Michael Schwartz, and Richard Lachmann, 127–57. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2023.
• “Trump, Biden, and Why Elections Don’t Bring Bigger Policy Changes.” In Trump and the Deeper Crisis, Political Power and Social Theory volume 39, ed. Kevin A. Young, Michael Schwartz, and Richard Lachmann, 7–29. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2023.
• “Introduction: Trump As Symptom.” In Trump and the Deeper Crisis, Political Power and Social Theory volume 39, ed. Kevin A. Young, Michael Schwartz, and Richard Lachmann, 1–6. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2023.
• “Stop Calling Them Conservatives.” Counterpunch, October 22, 2021.
• “Georgia’s Voter Suppression Is Sparking Boycotts. History Shows They Can Work.” Truthout, April 9, 2021.
• “Smarter Empire.” Sidecar (blog of New Left Review), March 8, 2021.
• “When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1% Wins.” Truthout, December 24, 2020. With Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, and Michael Schwartz.
• “No Co-Sponsor of ‘Medicare for All’ Has Lost Reelection in the Past Decade (Even in GOPLeaning Districts).” Common Dreams, December 21, 2020. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
• “A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels? How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally).” TomDispatch, December 10, 2020. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
• “To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers.” Truthout, November 21, 2020.
• “The Bolivian Left’s Election Win Is a Positive Sign, But It Inherits a Dire Situation.” The Guardian, October 21, 2020.
• “Workers and Consumers Have Forced GOP Governors to Mandate Masks.” Jacobin, September 13, 2020. With Michael Schwartz.
• “How the 99% Can Force the 1% to Defeat COVID-19.” Salon, July 12, 2020. With Michael Schwartz.
• “History Shows That Sustained, Disruptive Protests Work.” YES! July 8, 2020.
• “The Cops Can Be Defeated – But Not by Taking Obama’s Advice.” Jacobin, June 17, 2020. “Letting Latin Americans Live.” NACLA Report on the Americas 52, no. 1 (2020): 93–99. With Atenea Jiménez Lemon. (Spanish version)
• “HAHR Forum on Contemporary Bolivia and History.” Hispanic American Historical Review blog, December 18, 2019.
• “Our Debt to Central American Refugees.” Published by Democratic Socialists of America and Historians for Peace and Democracy, September 9, 2019.
• “Liberating the Left’s History.” Fifteeneightyfour (Cambridge University Press blog), August 27, 2019.
• “Washington Intensifies Its Collective Punishment of Venezuelans.” North American Congress on Latin America, August 14, 2019.
• “Will Climate Change Make Family Separations the Norm?” Truthout, August 25, 2018.
• “Who Wants the Iran Deal Canceled?” Counterpunch, November 27, 2017. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
• “The Huddled Masses Were Never Welcome.” Counterpunch, September 5, 2017.
• “A Partial Peace in Colombia.” Against the Current 187 (March-April 2017): 9–11.
• “Who’s Calling the Shots?” Jacobin, February 6, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
• “When Capitalists Go on Strike.” Jacobin, February 3, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
• “Why They Hate the Deal with Iran.” Counterpunch, July 15, 2015. With Richard Lachmann and Michael Schwartz.
• “A Winning Strategy for the Left.” Jacobin, May 18, 2015. With Michael Schwartz.
• “War by Other Means in El Salvador.” North American Congress on Latin America, March 16, 2015.
• “Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism.” Against the Current 175 (March-April 2015): 18–22. With Diana C. Sierra. (Spanish version)
• “Community Democracy Confronts Mining in El Salvador.” Upside Down World, December 2, 2014. With Diana C. Sierra.
• “Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror.” NACLA Report on the Americas 46, no. 2 (2013): 58–61.
• “Turning Michigan into Colombia: The Global Assault on Labor and the Prospects for Solidarity.” ZNet, December 25, 2012.
• “The Real Enemy in the Middle East: Why U.S. Leaders Fear Arab Democracy.” Z Magazine (September 2012): 41–44.
• “The Propaganda of False Trade-Offs: Pitting the Public against Social Spending, Good Wages, and Environmental Protection.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 27, 2012.
• “Contempt for International Law: A Survey of New York Times and Washington Post Editorials on Iran.” NYTimes eXaminer, March 16, 2012.
• “To Repress or Co-Opt? OWS Media Coverage Mirrors Splits within the 1 Percent.” The Indypendent (November 2–22, 2011): 15.
• “Laboratorio boliviano: Intervención norteamericana y la economía política de la contrarrevolución, 1952–1969.” Análisis Político (La Paz) 15 (2011): 87–108.
• “Deficit Myths: The Six Most Prevalent Lies about Budget Deficits and Economic Recovery.” ZNet, July 24, 2011.
• “Two, Three, Many Colombias: The Logic and Consequences of the U.S. Vision for Latin America.” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 29, 2010.
• “Discrediting Alternatives to Neoliberalism.” NACLA Report on the Americas 43, no. 5 (2010): 45–48.
• “Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model.” ZNet, July 4, 2010.
• “Colombia and Venezuela: Testing the Propaganda Model.” NACLA Report on the Americas 41, no. 6 (2008): 50–52.
• “Targeting Civilians: The Path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Counterpunch, August 9–11, 2008.
• “The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Reexamines the Japanese Surrender.” Counterpunch, August 6, 2008.
• “The Effects of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq: Tracking Violence and Popular Opinion.” Z Magazine (online) (March 2008).

• Hylton, Forrest. “Common Ground: Caciques, Artisans, and Radical Intellectuals in the Chayanta Rebellion of 1927.” In Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, ed. Kevin A. Young, 19–43. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

• Venezuelans Under Siege (Spanish title: Venezuela frente las sanciones). Co-director/producer with Atenea Jiménez Lemon and Athaimarú Álvis Jiménez. 2019. 42 minutes. Available at https://VenezuelansUnderSiege.com.
• Liberating History (series of video shorts featuring historical experts, published by Historians for Peace and Democracy). Director, co-producer with Craig Feldman. 2019–2021. Available at www.HistoriansForPeace.org.

(selected)

• “Creando el poder popular: Un ensayo de economía solidaria en Massachusetts.” Demokrazia Komunala (Communal Democracy) congress, Donostia, Spain, October 13–16, 2021 (virtual).
• “When Black Movements Win, the Whole 99% Wins: The Multiracial Benefits of Black-Led Struggles.” American Sociological Association, August 6–10, 2021 (virtual). With Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, and Michael Schwartz.
• “Los campesinos disidentes y el Pacto Militar-Campesino en Bolivia, 1964–1978.” Latin American Studies Association, May 13–16, 2020 (virtual).
• “Social Movements and Policy Implementation: The Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty.” American Sociological Association, New York, August 10–13, 2019. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
• “Una sublevación total: La Federación Agraria Departamental y la alianza obrero-campesina en La Paz, 1947.” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22–26, 2019.
• “Coacción y consentimiento en el Pacto Militar-Campesino.” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22–26, 2019.
• “Precarious Padrino: The Military-Peasant Pact in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1964–1978.” Latin American Studies Association, Boston, MA, May 24–27, 2019.
• “Rethinking the History of the Latin American Left: New Approaches, Findings, and Proposals.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2018.
• “Izquierdas bolivianas y luchas campesinas e indígenas: Hacia una historia más completa.” Latin American Studies Association, Lima, April 29–May 1, 2017.
• “Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy: Business Responses to Financial Reform Initiatives under Obama.” How Class Works, Stony Brook, NY, June 9–11, 2016; American Sociological Association, Seattle, WA, August 20–23, 2016; Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, February 23–26, 2017. With Tarun Banerjee and Michael Schwartz.
• “Puntos de encuentro: Urban-Rural Coalition Formation in 1970s El Salvador.” Latin American Studies Association, New York, May 27–30, 2016.
• “Temptations and Demonstrations: Resource Nationalism and U.S. Responses in TwentiethCentury Bolivia.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, GA, January 7–10, 2016.
• “Hidrocarburos en la revolución del 52: Movilización popular, intervención extranjera y pleito de visiones económicas.” Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 21–24, 2015.
• “Oil and Nation in Revolutionary Bolivia: Development Visions, Foreign Intervention, and Popular Mobilization.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27–30, 2015.
• “The Slippery Contours of Bolivian Nationalism: Oil in the Popular Economic Imaginary, 1952– 1969.” American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, New York, January 2–5, 2015.
• “Oil Nationalism and the Working Class in Revolutionary Bolivia, 1952–1969.” Labor Politics in the Oil Industry: New Historical Perspectives, Padua, Italy, October 24, 2014. (presented in absentia)
• “Total Subversion: The Formation of an Urban-Rural Alliance in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946–1947.” Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May 21–24, 2014.
• “The U.S. Labor-Community Solidarity Campaign with GM-Colombia Workers, 2012–2013.” Empire and Solidarity in the Americas, New Orleans, LA, October 18–19, 2013. With Diana C. Sierra Becerra.
• “Targeting the Real Enemy: How Anticorporate Activism Can Contribute to Government Policy Change.” Left Forum, New York, June 7–9, 2013.
• “The Labor Aristocracy That Wasn’t: Factory Workers and Economic Ideas in La Paz, Bolivia, 1952–1964.” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, May 29–June 1, 2013.
• “The Obama Conundrum: Corporate/Institutional Power and Social Movement Impact on the Adoption and Implementation of Progressive Reform.” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, March 21–24, 2013; American Sociological Association, New York, August 10–13, 2013. With Michael Schwartz.
• “Waging the Campaign of Truth: Economic Ideas and U.S. Propaganda in Bolivia, 1952–1969.” Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, Hartford, CT, June 28–30, 2012.
• “Gas Drilling, Rural Class Structure, and the Fracturing of a Small Town.” How Class Works, Stony Brook, NY, June 6–9, 2012.
• “Using Gramsci to Explain the Appeal of Right-Wing Movements to U.S. Workers.” Italian Social Theory: From Gramsci to Agamben, Boston, MA, April 13, 2011.
• “The ‘Healthy Nucleus’ in U.S. Public Opinion.” Left Forum, New York, March 18–20, 2011.
• “Purging the Forces of Darkness: The U.S., George Eder, and the Containment of the Bolivian Revolution.” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 6–9, 2010.
• “Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The U.S. and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960–1970.” Stony Brook University Latin American Studies conference, New York, April 9, 2010.
• “Patterns of Protest in Rural Colombia: The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, 1971–1991.” New England Council of Latin American Studies, Schenectady, NY, October 3–5, 2009.
• “Educating the ‘New Man’: The Pedagogy of the 1980 Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade.” Latin American Studies Symposium at Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL, April 7–8, 2006.

• “Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left.” James Connolly Social Club, Troy, NY, February 5, 2022 (virtual).
• Book Forum for Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It. American Sociological Association, August 6–10, 2021 (virtual).
• “‘We’re Going to Keep It on the Venezuelans’: U.S. Sanctions and the Pandemic.” Webinar organized by Massachusetts Peace Action, April 2, 2020.
• “Incomplete Revolutions in Bolivia, Past and Present.” Washington University of St. Louis, November 3, 2017.
• “Anti-Imperialism in Bolivia: The Promise and Peril of Resource Nationalism.” Part of the panel Focus on Bolivia: New Perspectives on Past and Present, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department of History, New York University, March 20, 2017.
• “Revolutionary Coalition-Building in El Salvador: Urban and Rural Radicals in the 1970s.” Research Colloquium Series, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 7, 2016.
• “Parasites, Traitors, and Patriots: Popular Development Paradigms in Twentieth-Century Bolivia.” Economic History and Development Seminar Series, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 26, 2016.
• “Laboratorio boliviano: Intervención norteamericana y la economía política de la contrarrevolución, 1952–1964.” Universidad Nuestra Señora de La Paz, Bolivia, September 28, 2010.
• “The Propaganda Model and Other Patterns in U.S. Press Coverage of Latin America.” Part of the panel U.S. Policy in Latin America: Economics, Human Rights and Media Complicity, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA, May 1, 2010.

• What Role Can Historians and Historically Oriented Intellectuals Play in the Current Crisis? American Historical Association, February 21, 2022 (virtual).
• Revisitando los procesos revolucionarios de México y Bolivia. Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 22–26, 2019. (Co-organized with Carmen Soliz)
• Rethinking the Left in 20^th -Century Latin America. American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC, January 4–7, 2018.
• New Histories of the Latin American Left. Latin American Studies Association, Lima, April 29–May 1, 2017.
• Rethinking the Salvadoran Revolution: Political Cultures, Ideologies, and Praxis. Latin American Studies Association, New York, May 27–30, 2016.
• Revolución y desarrollo: Economía y formación del Estado, 1940s–1970s. Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos, Sucre, Bolivia, July 21–24, 2015. (Co-organized with Hernán Pruden)
• Revolution and Development: Economy and State-Making in Bolivia, 1940s–1970s. Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27–30, 2015.
• Resource Conflicts and Popular Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century Latin America. American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, New York, January 2–5, 2015.
• Inter-Ethnic Popular Struggle in the Twentieth Century: The Andes and Central America. Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May 21–24, 2014.
• Anticorporate Activism and Progressive Policy Change. Left Forum, New York, June 7–9, 2013.
• Creating Leverage: Non-Electoral Strategies for Change in the Obama Era. Left Forum, New York, March 18–20, 2011.
• Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Past, Present, and Future. New England Council of Latin American Studies, Schenectady, NY, October 3–5, 2009.

• Petroleum Nationalism in Latin American History. American Historical Association and Conference on Latin American History, New Orleans, LA, January 6–9, 2022. (cancelled due to pandemic)
• Violent Constructions of the State. Graduate History Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 10, 2021.
• Histories of Popular Resistance. Graduate History Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 9, 2019.
• Movement, Migration, and Nation-Building. Graduate History Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 25, 2017.
• Reworking Cold War Narratives. Graduate History Conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, March 5, 2016.

• 2009-present
  Bolivia: Research in 14 archives, 18 oral history interviews, and related research trips to the U.S. National Archives in Washington, DC, on natural resources, social movements, and U.S. intervention
• 2014-present
  El Salvador: Research in 3 archives, 19 oral history interviews, and 16 journalistic interviews on social movements and political violence
• 2019
  Venezuela: Research for documentary on impact of U.S. sanctions
• 2009-2012
  United States: 24 oral history interviews with U.S. military veterans regarding wartime experiences and antiwar activism
• 2009
  Colombia: Archival and interview research on Indigenous movements
• 2006
  Mexico: Participatory-observation research, including 10 interviews, on autonomous Indigenous education in Chiapas and Oaxaca
• 2005
  Nicaragua: 22 oral history interviews and archival research on the 1980 National Literacy Crusade

• Strategies for Liberation. Social Thought and Political Economy 491H, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2020, Fall 2022 (planned).
• The U.S. in Latin America. History 392E, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
• New Approaches to History: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present. History 200, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2018.
• Workers and Work in the Americas. History 693W, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2017, Fall 2019.
• Mass Resistance and Political Strategy. Social Thought and Political Economy 491H, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2017.
• History of Mexico. History 354, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
• Capitalism and Alternatives in Latin America. History 220, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022 (planned).
• Power and Resistance in Latin America. History 397PR and 397PRH, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2021.
• Poverty, Inequality, and Alternatives in Latin America. History 397PA, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2015.
• Latin American Revolutions. History 595L and 450, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2020.
• History of U.S.-Latin American Relations. History/Political Science 216, Stony Brook University. Summer 2011.
• Modern Latin American History (Master’s level). History/Continuing Education 517, Stony Brook University. Spring 2011.
• Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Societies. Latin American and Caribbean Studies 200, Stony Brook University. Summer 2010.
• Revolutionary Movements in Latin America. History 380–J, Stony Brook University. Summer 2009

• 2017
  Planning Grant, Center for Racial Justice and Urban Affairs, University of Massachusetts Amherst (co-PI, with Millie Thayer, for project “Mapping Policy Impacts on Pioneer Valley Latin@ Communities,” March–June 2017)
• 2016
  Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2011
  Bernard Semmel Memorial Award for dissertation research, Stony Brook University
• 2011
  Student Defender of Justice Award, New York Civil Liberties Union
• 2010
  Jackson Turner Main Award for best History seminar paper in 2009–2010 academic year, Stony Brook University
• 2009
  Comprehensive Qualifying Examination, Passed with distinction, Stony Brook University
• 2009
  Tinker Foundation summer research grant, Stony Brook University
• 2007
  Frankel fellowship, Stony Brook University
• 2007
  Butler Prize for most distinguished thesis in the fields of African, Asian, and Latin American History, Wesleyan University (for thesis “Expressing What They Live: Radical Pedagogy and Power in Southeastern Mexico, 1990–Present”)
• 2007
  Dutcher Prize for academic achievement in History, Wesleyan University
• 2007
  Juan Roura-Parella Prize for general academic achievement, Wesleyan University
• 2007
  Levy-Spira Prize for excellence in Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
• 2006
  Phi Beta Kappa early inductee, Wesleyan University
• 2006
  Davenport summer research grant, Wesleyan University

(selected)

• 2021–present
  Reviewer of graduate fellowship applications, Center for Engaged Scholarship (2x)
• 2017–present
  Steering committee, Historians for Peace and Democracy
• 2015–present
  Participating editor, Latin American Perspectives
• 2010–present
  Article/book manuscript reviewer for 24 academic journals and presses: The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History; Bolivian Studies Journal; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Cambridge University Press (2x); Cold War History; Hispanic American Historical Review; História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos; Journal of Contemporary History; Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies; Latin American Perspectives (26x); Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies; Mobilization: An International Quarterly; Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research; Radical History Review; Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales; Routledge (2x); Social History of Alcohol and Drugs; Social Movement Studies; Third World Quarterly; University of California Press; University of Nebraska Press; University of Pittsburgh Press; University of Texas Press; War in History
• 2020–2021
  Co-chair, Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, UMass Amherst, Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency
• 2018–2019
  Co-chair, Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, UMass Amherst, Another World Is Possible: Revolutionary Visions, Past and Present
• 2012
  Organizing committee, How Class Works conference, Stony Brook University
• 2008–2009
  Organizing committee, annual graduate student conference in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Stony Brook University