EMPLOYMENT ULICES PIÑA 14 East Cache La Poudre ST. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 upina@coloradocollege.edu O: 719.389.7524 2017-Present: Riley Scholar-in-Residence, CFD Postdoctoral Fellow The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 2017-Present: Visiting Assistant Professor in History The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO EDUCATION 2017 Ph.D. in History,, La Jolla, CA Dissertation Title: Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, Mexico, 1914-1940. Chair: Eric Van Young 2011 M.A. in History, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 2009 B.A. in History and Spanish, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mexican History; Latin America (modern and colonial); Revolutions; Social Movements; Political Violence and Culture; Borderlands, Food Studies; Global History. PUBLICATIONS Peer-Review Journal Articles The Different Roads to Rebellion: Socialist Education and the Second Cristero Rebellion in Jalisco, 1934-1939. Letras Históricas (Universidad de Guadalajara) No. 16 (Spring 2017 Summer 2017): 165-192. Books Reviews Review of A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico. By Pablo Piccato (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017). i plus 374 pp. Journal of Social History (Forthcoming). Graduate Student Publication Lords of Agave: Eladio Sauza, Agraristas, and the Struggle for Land in Tequila, Mexico, 1932-1937. UCLA Historical Journal. Volume. 23, Issue 1 (2012): 13-30. In Progress Debating Democracy: Popular Anxieties and Political Violence in the Guadalajara Region of the 1920s (journal article manuscript).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2017-2018 Riley Scholar-in-Residence, Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Colorado College. 2017 Dissertation Award, National Institute of Historical Studies on the Revolutions of Mexico (INEHRM). 2016-2017 Writing Fellowship, UC San Diego, Department of History. 2015-2017 Visiting Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at UC San Diego School of Global Policy & Strategy. 2015-2016 Dissertation Research Grant, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS). 2015 Honorable Mention List, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. 2014-2015 Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, United States Department of State and the Comisión México-United States (COMEXUS). 2013 Research Grant, Institute for International, Comparative and Areas Studies (IICAS). 2013 Small Grant, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS). 2013 Travel Grant, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UC San Diego. 2012 Travel and Research Grant, UC San Diego Department of History. 2011-2012 History Department Fellowship, UC San Diego Department of History. 2010 Research Grant, UC Riverside Henry R. Marcoux and Carl Marcoux Award. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2016 They Threaten Us with Death: National Reform and the Second Cristero Rebellion in Post- Revolutionary Jalisco presented at the 2016 Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Atlanta, GA, January. 2015 Rethinking Popular Movements and Political Violence in Jalisco presented at the XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May. 2012 All God s Children: Agraristas, Cristeros, Pacíficos, and Rural Rebellion in Jalisco, 1926-1929 presented at the History Graduate Conference,, La Jolla, CA, October. 2012 Writing the History of the Unacknowledged roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association Conference, San Diego, CA, (April); panel organizer. 2012 In the Name of Justicia: Resistance, Renegotiation, and Ownership in Tequila, Mexico presented at the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Conference, Miami, FL, March. 2011 Lords of Agave: Eladio Sauza, Agraristas, and the Struggle for Land in Tequila, Mexico presented at the History+ Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, Westwood, CA, October. 2011 New Directions in Latin American Research roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March.
CAMPUS/INVITED TALKS 2017 Rebellious Citizens in Revolutionary Mexico invited lecture at The Junta, Latin American Student Group, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, November. 2016 The Anatomy of Rule and Local Power Structures in the Guadalajara Region, 1923-1926 presented at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Fellows Seminar, UCSD School of Global Policy & Strategy, La Jolla, CA, April. 2015 Understanding Violent Episodes in Postrevolutionary Jalisco: Historiography, Methodology, and Sources presented at the Fulbright Commission in Mexico (COMEXUS), Midyear Reunion, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, January. 2014 Unconventional Protest: Political Violence, Socialist Education, and State Formation in Rural Jalisco presented at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies Graduate Symposium,, La Jolla, CA, May. 2013 The Alma-Ata Conference and the Global Politics of Public Health in the Cold War Era invited lecture in HILD 30: History of Public Health,, La Jolla, CA, May. 2013 The Cold War in Latin America invited lecture in HILA 122: Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic,, La Jolla, CA, May. TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Colorado College Visiting Assistant Professor 2018 HY239: History of Mexico 2018 HY110: Revolutionary and Social Movements in Latin America 2017 HY238: Colonial Hispano-America: Conquest and Empire Instructor 2016 History, Lower Division 14: Film & History in Latin America 2015 History of Latin America 113: Lord & Peasant in Latin America 2014 Muir College Writing Program 50: Borders, Journeys, and Home Teaching Assistant 2016 Muir College Writing Program 50: Revolutions and Social Movements in 20 th Century Latin America 2015 Muir College Writing Program 40: Critical Writing 2014 Muir College Writing Program 50: Borders, Journeys, and Home 2013 Muir College Writing Program 40: Critical Writing 2013 History of Public Health 2013 Dictatorship in Latin America 2012 Film and History in Latin America Course Reader/Grader (2011-2013, 2016)
2016 History of Bioethics 2013 History of Latin America 122: Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic 2012 Western Environmental History 2012 Lord & Peasant in Latin America 2012 History of Mexico, 1821-1924 2011 History of Argentina University of California, Riverside Teaching Assistant 2011 History 15: World History: 1500-1900 2010 History 20: World History: Twentieth Century Course Reader/Grader 2010 Colonial Latin America Other University Positions 2013 Research Assistant, Department of History, 2010 Research Assistant, Department of History, University of California, Riverside Teaching Areas/Courses Prepared to Teach Lord and Peasant Film & History in Latin America History of Mexico History of Modern Latin America Cycles of Violence in Mexico Revolutions in the Modern World History of U.S./Latin American Relations Colonial Latin America Revolutions and Social Movements in Latin America Columbus to Castro: Caribbean Culture and Society Food & History in Latin America Global History SERVICE ACTIVITIES 2011-2012 Field Group Representative (Latin America), History Collective University of California, Riverside 2010-2011 Editorial Board, Cornerstone UCR Undergraduate History Journal COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/OUTREACH 2017 Diversity in Higher Education Initiative, invited lecture given at Katella High School, Anaheim, CA, August. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association The Conference on Latin American History LANGUAGES Spanish (fluent) Portuguese (basic) REFERENCES Eric Van Young, Distinguished Professor Emeritus 9500 Gilman Drive, #0104 La Jolla, California 92093 evanyoung@ucsd.edu (858) 534-6891 Christine Hunefeldt, Professor 9500 Gilman Drive, #0104 La Jolla, California 92093 chunefeldt@ucsd.edu (858) 534-8179 José Angel Hernández, Associate Professor University of Houston 3553 Cullen, Boulevard Room 524 JAHernandez27@uh.edu (713) 743-3126