Professor
Department of History
Office - B/L112J
Phone: 610-660-1747
Email: warren@sju.edu
Education
A.B., Harvard University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Courses Taught
HIS 1011-1021 Historical Introduction to Western Civilization
HIS 1521 Historical Introduction to Latin America
A survey of the development of Latin America, emphasizing the era from the independence movements of the nineteenth century to the present day. The course will focus on the changing social, economic, and political structures in the region. This course serves as a prerequisite to the courses listed below. Exceptions can only be made with the permission of the professor.
HIS 1531 Latin American - U. S. Migration
This course will provide students with a deeper understanding of the processes that led migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean to the United States, and their experiences after arrival. The course focuses on three interdisciplinary topics: community formation; the variety of individual and group experiences; and current policy questions for the hemisphere.
HIS 2031 United States and Latin America
An exploration of the complex relationship between the United States and the Latin American nations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
HIS 2041 Colonial Mexico
The course examines social and cultural relations and conflicts in the Spanish colony that later became Mexico and the southwestern United States. Emphasis is placed on the 17th and 18th centuries.
HIS 2051 History of Modern Mexico
A study of the major social, political and economic factors that have shaped Mexico in the twentieth century.
HIS 2061 The Modern Caribbean
A study of the major currents in Caribbean economic, social and political history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
HIS 2071 Religion and Politics in Latin America
This course will analyze the different ways in which religion and politics have interacted in Latin America since the Spanish Conquest, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century political movements, liberation theology, and the contemporary progressive church.
HIS 2081 Identity and Power in the Americas, 1350-1650
In this interdisciplinary course, students will use both primary and secondary sources to examine the construction of identities and the relations between different kinds of power-for example, military, social, political-among three distinct peoples who built imperial states in the Americas: the Aztec, the Inca, and the Spanish.
HIS 2091 Social Protest in Latin American History
An examination of upheaval in Latin American history, from village riots to social revolutions. Students will analyze relevant theoretical and historiographical literature on social protest and explore case studies that will test the explanatory strength of these different models.
Fields:
Latin-American History
Western U. S. History