Biographical Statement Dr. Andrae Marak is the Division Head of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) in Columbus, Indiana and an associate of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Indiana University. He has published articles in the Review of International Political Economy, Paedagogica Historica, the New Mexico Historical Review, and the Journal of the Southwest on the impact of ideology on oil and natural gas policies, the creation of the corporatist state in post-revolutionary Mexico, U.S.-Mexico borderlands schooling, and education in the Sierra Tarahumara. He has presented on Mexican electoral politics, the impact of NAFTA on U.S. elections, and Latina/o immigration to the United States.
Education - B.A. in Political Science from Marquette University
- M.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University
- Ph.D. in Latin American Studies (History and Political Science) from the University of New Mexico
Research Activities — Gendering the Periphery of the Empire: The Tohono O'odham, Gender and Assimilation, 1880-1934, with Laura Tuennerman.
— Transnational Indians in the North American West, with Lissa Confer.
— A special edition of the World History Bulletin on transnational crime in world history with Elaine Carey.
— An article on the political impact of Chinese purchases of Latin American primary products, especially oil, gas, and minerals, over the last several decades with Scott Morgenstern and Nan Li.
Awards and Activities - Grant Writers Fellow, Cal U, 2010
- Presidential Gala Faculty Award for Research, Cal U, 2010
- FPDC Research Merit Award, Cal U, 2006
Grants - Fulbright-Robles-García Dissertation Fellowship, United States Information Agency and Mexican Government, 1999 to 2000.
- Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Faculty Professional Development Council (FPDC) Annual Research Grant: Gendering the Periphery of Empire: The Tohono O’odham and the American Borderlands, 1880-1934, 2009.
- PASSHE Diversity and Equity Grant, “The Other Side of Beauty: Impact on a Woman’s Sense of Self,” 2007-08
- PASSHE, Diversity and Equity Grant, “Women at Risk: Life in the Global Village,” 2005-06
Publications Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, edited with Elaine Carey, University of Arizona Press, Forthcoming, Fall 2011. From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista Mexico (1924-1935), University of Calgary Press, 2009, Christon Archer, series editor. “Explaining Oil Nationalization in Latin America: Economics and Political Ideology,” with Scott Morgenstern and Ruben Berrios, Review of International Political Economy, October 2010. “Los vicios trasnacionales de los Tohono o´odham a principios del siglo XX,” with Laura Tuennerman, in En la encrucijada. Historia, marginalidad y delito en América Latina y los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, siglos XIX y XX, University of Guadalajara, 2010, Jorge Alberto Truillo Bretón, editor. “Frontier Masculinity, Femininity, and the Ideological Cleansing of Borderlands Teachers, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85:2 (Spring 2010), 155-178. “Forging Identity: Mexican Federal Frontier Schools, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review 80:2 (Spring 2005), 163-88. “Federalization of Education in Chihuahua,” Paedagogica Historica 41:3 (June 2005), 357-75. “The Failed Assimilation of the Tarahumara in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” Journal of the Southwest 45:3 (Autumn 2003), 411-35. “Historica política de México en los años veinte: petróleo, ejército y educación: Consulta de los archivos Calles-Torreblanca por académicos de la Universidad de Nuevo México,” with Linda B. Hall, Robert Carriedo, and Joseph Lenti, in Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca: Un ejemplo de la importancia de los archivos privados en la historiografía de México, Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2009, Norma Mereles de Ogarrio, editor. Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), special issue on American Indians and the Borderlands of the West, edited with Laura Tuennerman. “Engagement or Isolation: Latin America’s Populist Left and the United States,” Harvard International Review, commentary, with Scott Morgenstern, November 2, 2006, http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1461. “Pancho Villa: The Twice-Made Bandit,” in Negotiation and Conflict: Essays in United States and Mexican History, Kathleen P. Chamberlain and Jonathan Ablard, eds., Occasional Papers, University of New Mexico, Center for the American West, No. 14, 1999.
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