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The University of Connecticut
Wood Hall, Room 234
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-5571
E-mail: mark.velazquez@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Modern Mexico, U.S Latinos/as, Las Americas.
Biographical Note:
After completing his doctoral studies in Latin American history at Yale University (Ph.D. 2002), Mark Overmyer-Velazquez taught in the History and Chicano/a Studies Departments at Pomona College. As the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities (2003-2004) he finished his book manuscript, Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico (Duke University Press, 2006). The book and related articles analyze how elites (city officials and Church leaders) and commoners (city artisans and female sex workers) mobilized visual cultures to construct and experience the mutually defining processes of modernity and tradition during late 19th and early 20th century Mexico. Supported by an SSRC International Migration Studies Grant, Professor Overmyer-Velazquez has initiated research on a second book project provisionally entitled, “'Bleeding Mexico White': Race, Nation, and the History of Mexico – U.S. Migration.” This study examines critical themes in the transnational history of migration between Mexico and the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The study includes a history of one of the farthest reaches of the Mexican diaspora in the state of Connecticut. Overmyer-Velázquez is the editor of a two volume series entitled, Latino America: State by State, to be published by Greenwood Press in 2008. Uniquely conceptualized, Latino America addresses the historical significance of the growing Latin(o) American population throughout all of the United States. While paying careful attention to the transnational dimensions of Latin American immigration to the U.S, individual chapters will critically examine the wide range of different Latino/a identities, ethnicities, and social and political positions at the state level.
Current Research/Selected Publications:
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico, Duke University Press, 2006.
"Traspasando las fronteras: Pasado y futuro de los estudios de migracion Mexico-Estados Unidos" ("Transgressing Borders: The Past and Future of Mexico - U.S. Migration Studies") in Boris Berenzon ed., Historia de la Historiografia Mexico, Estados Unidos y Canada . Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2007.
Editor, Latino America: State by State . (2 vols.) Westport: Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
"Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Vol. 23 No. 1 2007. |
"A New Political Religious Order: Church, State, and Workers in Oaxaca City, 1887-1911." in Martin A. Nesvig, ed. Religious Culture in Modern Mexico. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
"Tracking the Fugitive City: Recent Works on Modern Latin American Urban History." Latin American Perspectives 29, 4 (July 2002): 87-97.
"The Renaissance of Oaxaca City's Historical Archives." Co-authored with Yanna Yannakakis, Latin American Research Review 37, 1 (2002): 186-198.
"Espacios publicos y mujeres publicas: La regulacion de la prostitucion en la Ciudad de Oaxaca, 1885-1991." ("Public Spaces and Public Women: The Regulation of Prostitution in Oaxaca City, 1885-1911") Acervos-Boletin de los Archivos y Bibliotecas de Oaxaca , Oaxaca, Mexico 20 (2001): 20-26.
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