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Aims McGuinness, Associate Professor

Prof. Aims McGuinness interviewing Frank Zeidler

Office: Holton Hall 324
Phone: (414) 229-4227
E-mail: smia@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001

Dissertation:
"In the Path of Empire: Land, Labor, and Liberty in Panamá during the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860"

Presentations and Publications:
"Defendiendo el Istmo: Las Luchas contra los filibusters en la Ciudad de Panamá en 1856," Mesomérica 24 (2003): 66-84.

"Searching for 'Latin America': Race and Sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s," in Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 87-107.

Editor, with Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, and Frederick Cooper, of Societies after Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on the British West Indies, South Africa, British Colonial Africa, Cuba, and Brazil, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

"Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and Interpretations of Urban Violence in Panama City in 1856." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 2001.

"Empire of Liberty? Race, Slavery, and Struggles over U.S. Expansion in Panamá, 1848-1858." Presented at "Sociedad, cultura y vida cotidiana en Cuba, 1878-1917," a conference at the Centro Juan Marinello, Havana, Cuba, June 2000.

"Conflict, Race, and Migration in Panama during the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860." Presented at the conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami, March 2000.

"In the Path of Empire: Race, Popular Politics, and U.S. Military Intervention in Panamá during the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860." Presented at the Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2000.



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