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Frank R. Safford

Education

1948-53 Austin High School, El Paso, Texas

1953-57 Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude

Major field: History and Literature of United States, Englandand Russia

1957-65 Columbia University1959 M.A., United States history

M.A. thesis: “In Search of Community: The New Republic’s

Views on International Affairs in the World War I Period.”

Ph.D., Latin American historyPh.D. thesis: “Commerce and Enterprise in Central Colombia,

1820-1870”

Academic employment1962-65 Instructor in History, Dartmouth College

1965-66 Assistant Professor, History, Dartmouth College1966-72 Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University

Summer, 1967 Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

1972-76 Associate Professor, History, Northwestern University

1972-73 Associate Professor, History, University of Texas, Austin

1976-Present Professor, History, Northwestern University1986-89 Department Chair

1992-94 Department Chair

1994-98, 2000-01 Associate Dean for the Social Sciences2002-06 Director, Undergraduate Program in International Studies

Honors and awards

1957 Phi Beta Kappa1957-58 Woodrow Wilson Fellow1960-61 Henry L. And Grace Doherty Fellow

1961-62 Inter-American Cultural Convention Grant

1971 Intersocietal Studies Seed Money Grant

1971-72 Spencer Foundation--Northwetsern University Inter-Disciplinary Research in EducationGrant

1974-75 Social Science Research Council, Committee on Latin American Studies

1980-81 Social Science Research Council, Committee on Latin American Studies

1995 Orden de San Carlos (conferred by Republic of Colombia for work on Colombian economichistory)

1993-97 First president, Colombia Section, Latin American Studies Association

Courses regularly taughtUndergraduate:

Slavery and Race Relations in the Americas

The Formation of Latin American Society (colonial period)Latin America in the Independence Era

Politics and Development in Latin America

Revolution in Twentieth-Century Latin America


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Perspectives on Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Media Coverage of Latin AmericaMedia Coverage of World Affairs

State and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Practicing Hegemony: The United States in World Affairs

Graduate Seminars:Classics of Social Thought and their Application in Historical Writing (Marx,

Gramsci, Weber)The Use of Social Science Concepts in Historical Writing

The Literature of Latin American History

Publications

I.Books

Latin America: A Culture Area in Perspective. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1970, 1974, 1978.

The Ideal of the Practical: Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite. Austin:University of Texas Press, 1976.

Spanish translation: El ideal de lo práctico: El desafío de formar una élite técnica yempresarial en Colombia. Bogotá: El Ancora Editores-Universidad Nacional, 1989.

Aspectos del siglo xix en Colombia. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial Hombre Nuevo, 1977.

Agrarian Structure and Political Power: Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin

America. With Evelyne Huber. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society. With Marco Palacios.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (404 pp.)

Colombia: País Fragmentado, Sociedad Dividida. Su Historia. With MarcoPalacios. Bogotá: Editorial Norma, 2002. (742 pp.)

II.Articles and chapters in books

“Foreign and National Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,”

Business History Review (December 1965), 503-526.

Reprinted in Lewis Hanke, ed., History of Latin American Civilization (2 vols., Little,

Brown, 1967, 1973), vol. II.Reprinted in Spanish translation as “Empresarios nacionales y extranjeros en Colombia

durante el siglo xix,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, no. 4, 1968, 87-111.

“Significación de los antioqueños en el desarrollo económico colombiano. Un examen crítico delas tesis de Everett Hagen,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, no. 3, 1967,

49-69. Reprinted in the United States by Center for Latin American Studies, University of

California, Berkeley, 1968.

“Social Aspects of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: New Granada, 1825-1850,”

Journal of Social History, 5:3 (Spring 1972), 344-370.


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“Bases of Political Alignments in Early Republican Spanish America,” inRichard Graham and Peter Smith, eds., New Approaches to Latin American History.

Austin. University of Texas Press., 1974), 71-111. Excerpted in The Sociology of

Developing Societies: Latin America, edited by Eduardo Archetti, Paul Cammack, and

Bryan Roberts. New York: Macmillan/Monthly Review press, 1987.

“Trade,” Encylopedia of Latin America. Helen Delpar, ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974, pp.

589-592.

“Economy and Culture in Three Colombian Peasant Communities,” Peasant Studies, 5:4

(October 1976), 3-11.

“On Paradigms and the Pursuit of the Practical: A Response,” Latin American Research

Review, 13:2 ((1978), 252-260.

“Algunos problemas de método y análisis del libro de William Paul McGreevey,” in Historiaeconómica de Colombia: Un debate en marcha. Bogotá: Instituto de Estudios Colombianos,

1979, pp. 25- 40.

“Modes of Production and Planter Hegemony in Two Coffee Economies,”Agricultural History, 56:2 (April 1982), 453-462.

“Formación de los partidos políticos durante la primera mitad del siglo xix,” in Aspectos polémicos

de la historia colombiana del siglo xix: Memoria de un seminario. Bogotá: Fondo CulturalCafetero, 1983. pp. 11-28.

“Economía y clases sociales en el siglo xix,” in Aspectos polémicos de la historia colombina delsiglo xix: Memoria de un seminario. Bogotá:

Fondo Cultural Cafetero, 1983. pp. 153-164.

“Politics, Ideology and Society in Post-Independence Spanish America,” inCambridge History of Latin America, vol. 3 (1985), pp. 347-421, 869-871.

“Acerca de la incorporación de las ciencias naturales en la periféria: el caso de Colombia en el

siglo xix,” Quipu: Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología, 12:3(September-December, 1985), 423-435.

“Empresarios ingénuos: Organización, capital y conocimientos técnicos en las fábricas de Bogotá,

1814-1850,” Revista de Investigaciones, Universidad del Quindío, 1:2 (July 1986), 17-26.

“Conciencia supranacional: Variaciones sobre el tema “La América Española,” Sotavento (Bogotá:

Universidad Externado de Colombia), 1:1 (July-September, 1987), 6-21.

“The Emergence of Economic Liberalism in Colombia,” in Joseph L. Love and Nils Jacobsen, eds.,

Guiding the Invisible Hand: EconomicLiberalism and the State in Latin American History. New

York: Praeger, 1988. pp. 35-62.

“Commercial Crisis and Economic Ideology in New Granada,” 1820-1850,” in Reinhard

Liehr, ed., América Latina en la época de Simón Bolívar: la formación de las economías


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nacionales y los intereses económicos europeos 1800-1850. (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana; Bd. 33)

Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1989. pp. 183-206.

“Race, Integration, and Progress: Elite Ideology and the Indian in Colombia, 1755-1865,” Hispanic

American Historical Review, 72:1 (February 1991), 1-33.

“History: Middle,” in Paula Covington, ed., Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide toResearch Sources. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1992. pp. 343-362.

“The Problem of Political Order in Early Republican Spanish America,”

Journal of Latin American Studies, 24:3 (August, 1992), 83-97.

“Post-Independence Spanish America: Society and Politics,” Cambridge History of Latin America,vol. 11 (1995), 252-259.

“Las economías de la América Andina, 1830-1885,” with Nils Jacobsen, in

Enrique Ayala Mora, coordinador general, Historia de América Andina, vol. 5 (volumeeditor, Juan Maiguashca), 70 pp. ms., Quito, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, forthcoming.

“Reflections on Internal Wars in Nineteenth-Century Latin America,”

lead chapter in Rebecca Earle, ed., Rumours of War: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2000.

Los valores socioculturales, las estructuras, y las políticas públicas en el desarrollo colombiano. 50

pp., “Cátedra Corona Lectures,” four lectures given at the Universidad de los Andes , Bogotá,October-November, 1998, now in publication, in condensed form, by the Universidad de los

Andes, Bogotá.

“El comercio de importación hasta 1870: Francisco Vargas, un comerciante de corte inglés,”

Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara, ed.,Empresas y empresarios en la historia de Colombia, siglos xix-

xx. Estudios recientes (2 vols., Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes/Grupo Editorial Norma/CEPAL, Naciones Unidas, 2002), I, 375-407.

Colombia,” Oxford Encylopedia of Economic History, edited by Joel

Mokyr (5 vols,., New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), I, 473-74.

“Bolivar, el estadista triunfante y el democrata frustrado: los orígenes de la polarización partidista

en Colombia,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, # 31 (2004), 119-158.

“Colombia,” and “Cartagena,” Encyclopedia of World Trade (forthcoming)

“Colombia,” Iberia and the Americas. (3 volumes, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2006), I, 260-

265.

“Colombia,” Encyclopedia of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press,

forthcoming)

“Bolívar as Triumphal State-maker and Despairing Democrat: Origins of

Party Polarization in Colombia,” for volume of essays on Simón


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Bolívar,” being edited by Lester Langley.

“Colombia: Economic History,”EH.NET Online Encyclopedia. Forthcoming.

III.Reviews

Too numerous to list, principally for Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin

American Studies, The Americas, American Historical Review, Journal of Social History, Journalof Economic History, Agricultural History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History and History.

Works in progress

1) The Transporation Problem in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, for Banco de la República

(Colombia’s central bank), to be presented in Bogotá, August 2007

2) Manufacturing enterprise in Colomia, to be presented at conference on Colombian

entrepreneurial history, Cartagena, Colombia, August 2007

3) The preceding two papers will be initial steps in a book on aspects of the Colombian economy inthe nineteenth century.

4) Edited book on the contemporary crisis in Colombia (on hold until 1) and 2) have been

completed.

Other professional activities

1) Papers

“The Promotion of Agricultural Exports in Colombia,” American Historical Association,December 1966

“Social Aspects of Political Alignments in Colombia, 1820-1860,”

Southern Historical Association, November 1970“Problems in the Transportation Development of Colombia,”

American Historical Association, December 1972

“Algunos problemas de método y de análisis en la obra de William PaulMcGreevey,” symposium on Colombian economic history, Institutode Estudios Colombianos, July 1975

“Colombian Merchants in the Nineteenth Century,” University of Chicago, Social History

Seminar, Winter 1977

“The Historical Community in Colombia,” American Historical Association, December 1978“On the Socio-economic Interpretation of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Latin

American Studies Association, October 1980

“Formación de los partidos políticos durante la primera mitad del siglo xix,” Symposium on

Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Banco Cafetero, Bogotá, July 1981“Economía y clases sociales en el siglo xix,” Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Banco

Cafetero, Bogotá, July 1981.

“Elites and the Nation in New Granada, 1830-1865,” VI Conference of Mexican and United StatesHistorians, September 1981“Commercial Crisis and Economic Ideology in New Granada (1825-` 1850),” Symposium on

the Formation of National Economies in Latin America and European Economic Interests in the

Time of Bolívar,” Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin,September 1983

“Las investigaciones sobre la historia de Colombia en el siglo xix,” IV Congreso de la Historia

de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia, December 1983


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“Patterns in the Politics of Church and State in Republican Spanish America,” Southern

Historical Association, November 1984“On the Incorporation of Natural Science in the Periphery: Nineteenth- Century Colombia,”

American Historical Association-History of Science Society, December 1984

“Manufacturing Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,”

Latin American Studies Association, April 1985

“Patterns in Church-State Relations in Spanish America,” Congreso deAmericanistas, Bogotá, July 1985

“La actuación de los empresarios industriales en Bogotá en la primera mitad del siglo xix,” VCongreso de Historia de Colombia, Armenia, Colombia, July 1985

“Supranational Consciousness in Weak Nations: Spanish America,” International Studies

Association/Midwest, November, 1985

“Hacia una comprensión de la economía colombiana en el siglo xix,”Association of North American Colombianists, Bogotá, June 1986

“Commercial Crisis and Economic Ideology in New Granada, 1825-1850,”

Latin American Studies Association, October 1986

“The Emergence of Economic Liberalism in Colombia,” Conference on the Rise andDecline of Economic Liberalism in Latin America, University of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign, April 1987“Variaciones en la política de Iglesia y Estado en América,,” VI Congreso de Historia de

Colombia, Ibagué, Colombia, November 1987“Hacia una comprensión de la economía colombiana en el siglo xix,”

VI Congreso de Historia de Colombia,” Ibagué, Colombia, November 1987

“Race, Climate, and Progress: Racial Ideologies of Colombian Elites in the Middle of the

Nineteenth Century,” American Anthropological Association, November 1989“Las investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en Colombia,” Instituto Colombiano para el

Fomento de la Educación Superior (ICFES), Bogotá, March 1990

“Los Ospinas en el siglo xix,” Conference on Latin American History, December 1990“Colombia,” Conference on applying the analysis of Barrington Moore to Latin American

countries, Northwestern University, March 1993

“La historiografía norteamericana sobre Colombia: la colonia y el siglo xix,” SeminarioInternacional de Historiografía Colombiana y Latinoamericana, Universidad Nacional deColombia, Santafé de Bogotá, August 1993

“Applying Barrington Moore to Latin America,” session on “Great Ideas in Latin America,”

Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997

“Reflections on Civil Wars in Nineteenth-Century Latin America,” lead paper in Conference onCivil Wars in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Institute of Latin Studies, University of

London, May 1997

“Bolívar and the Shaping of Colombian Politics,” symposium “Perspectives on Bolívar,” John

Carter Brown Library, Brown University, March 2000, to be published in volume on Bolívar.

2) Comments on papers:

Hermann Kellenbenz, “Effects of Growth on Government: Spain under the Hapsburgs,”Economic History Association, September 1966Session entitled “Latin America: The Intellectual Roots” (three diverse papers on ideological

origins of Spanish American independence, educational reform in nineteenth-century

Colombia, and ideologies in Mexico, 1890-1910), American Historical Association,December 1970

Two papers on aspects of the history of railway construction in Mexico and Brazil, American

Historical Association-Sjociety for the History of Technology, December 1973


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Stanley and Barbara H. Stein, “The Mercantile Bourgeoisie of Spain and America in the

Eighteenth Century,” American Historical Association, December 1977Jorge Orlando Melo, “Política y políticos de Antioquia,” Conference on Regional Studies in

Colombia, Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, Colombia, August

1979

Three papers on changing social structures in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, Latin American

Studies Association, October 1980Malcolm Deas, “La Regeneración y la Guerra de los Mil Días,” Symposium on Nineteenth-

Century Colombia, Banco Cafetero, Bogotá, July 1981Three papers on the economic and social history of Mexico in the nineteenth century

(María Dolores Morales, “La distribución de la propiedad en la ciudad de México, 1813-1848;”

Doménico Síndico, “The Merchant-Hacendado-Entrepreneur Relationship in Nineteenth-

Century Mexico;” Barbara Tenenbaum, “Humboldt’s Heirs: Development Planning in Mexicounder the Reform and the Empire,” Latin American Studies Association, March 1982

Renato Barahona, “The Basques and the Loss of the American Colonies,” Seminar in Social

History, Newberry Library, March 1985

Commentator on panel “Labor Organization in the Hispanic World” (3 papers on Spain,Guatemala, and Bolivia), Social Science History Association, November 1988

Panelist in roundtable on intellectual currents in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries(with Richard Herr, Charles Hale, and Tulio Halperín Donghi), at conference entitled

“Bridging the Atlantic: Iberian and Latin American Thought in Historical Perspective,”Milwaukee, March 1991

Comment on two papers: “Agrarian Class Relations and Political Regimes in Latin

America” and “Agrarian Elites and Delayed State Formation in Argentina,” Latin American

Studies Association, April 1991Comment on three papers in session on “Ideological Transformations in the Post-Colonial Andes,”


Comment on Fabio Zambrano paper on social history of nineteenth- century Colombia,Seminario Internacional de Historiografía Colombiana y Lationoamericana, Universidad

Nacional de Colombia, Santafé ade Bogotá, August 1993

Commentator at conference on “The Ambiguities of Revolution,”Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, St. Louis, October 1993

Comment on three papers in panel on “Nation-building, Political Space, and Elections in

Nineteenth Centukry Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico,” American Historical Association, January

1995

Chair and commentator on three papers in panel on “Latin American Families and the State in theEarly Nationla Period” (papers on Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay), Latin American Studies

Association, September 1995

Chair and commentator on panel on “Race, Class, Gender and Power in the Transition from

Colonial to National Latin America, 1750- 1850.” Papers on 1) the changing meaning ofhonor, status, and class in Colombia, 2) Gender ideology and single parenthood in Mexico,

3) Popular dance as a means of political legitimation in Argentina, 4) Elite attitudes toward Indians

in Peru. Latin American Studies Association, September 1995General commentator on all papers, Conference on Political Culture in the Andes, University ofIllinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2000

Chair and panelist, Panel on Current Situation in Colombia, Chicago

Council on Foreign Relations, September 2002.Comments on four papers, “States and Subalterns in Latin America in the Age of Revolution,”

American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January, 2006.


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3) Sessions chaired

“Characteristics of Latin American Elites in the Nineteenth Century,”American Historical Association, December 1974

“Economic History of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador since 1850,”


Chair of Commission on Nineteenth Century (seven panels, plus one roundtable discussion),

IV Congreso de Historia de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia, December 1983Chair of Commision on Economic History (five days of sessions), V Congreso de Historia de

Colombia, Armenia, Colombia, July 1985Chair of Commisions on Nineteenth Century (four days of sessions), Vl Congreso

de Historia de Colombia, Ibagué, Colombia, November 1987

Panel on Latin American Families in the Early National Period, American Historical Association,

January 1995Panel on “Politics, Ritual and Rebellion in the Nineteenth Century,” Latin American Studies

Association, September 1995

Panel on “Race, Class, Gender, and Power in the Transition from Colonial to National Latin

America, 1750-1850,” Latin American Studies Association, September 1995

4) Panels organized“Urban Elites in Colonial Latin America,” American Historical Association, December 1973

Chair, Program Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1980- 1981Organizer and chair of panel on “The Construction of New States (and

Nations?), American Historical Association/Conference on Latin

American History, January 2003

5) Lectures at universities in the United States

“Problems in the Quantification of History, Social Science Research Council Summer

Workshop, University of Chicago, Summer 1972“Social Aspects of Political Alignments in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America,” University of

Texas, Austin, Spring 1973

“Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite,” Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Northwestern University, Fall 1975‘Analyzing Spanish American Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Cultural Model,”

Department of History, Notre Dame, Winter 1978

“Political Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America,” Department of History, University of

Wisconsin, Madison, Spring 1978“Political Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Latin America,” Chicago Colloquium on Latin America,

Newberry Library, Fall 1978

“The Problem of Political Order in Post-Independence Spanish America,”

Duke University, Spring 1992“Bolívar and the Shaping of Colombian Politics,” Brown University, March, 2000.

6) Lectures at universities in Colombia (titles translated)“Regional Economies in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Facultad de Administración,

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, September 1974

“Problems in the Formation of a Technical Elite in Colombia,” Center for Economic DevelopmentStudies, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, March 1975


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Two lectures: “The Formation of Political Parties in Nineteenth-Century Colombia” and

“Manufacturing Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Department of History,Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, May 1975

“Political Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Department of Political Science,

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, June 1975

“Manufacturing in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Committee on Research, Universidad

de los Andes, Bogotá, July 1976“Problems and Possibilities in the Use of Colombian Archives,” Universidad Pontificia

Javeriana, Bogotá, July 1976“On the Teaching of Social Science Concepts to Graduate Students in History,” Department of

History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, February 1981

“Analyzing Colombia’s Export Economy in the Nineteenth Century,” Universidad Externado

de Colombia, Bogotá, March 1981“Research with Archival Materials in Colombia,” Archivo Nacional de Colombia, March 1981

“The Formation of Political Parties in Colombia,” Universidad del Valle, Cali, July 1981

“Commentary on Charles Bergquist’s Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, Fundación Antioqueña

para Estudios Sociales, Medellín, July 1981“Critical Analysis of Socio-economic Interpretations of the Liberal Revolution in the Middle

of the Nineteenth Century,” Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Bogotá, July 1985

“Critical Analysis of Socio-economic Interpretations of the Mid-century Liberal Revolution,”Fundación Antioqueña para los Estudios Sociales, Medellín, July 1985

“Critical Evaluation of the Analysis of José Antonio Ocampo,” Facultad de Estudios

Interdisciplinarios, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, June 1986

“Commercial Life in Colombia in the Nineteenth Century,” Pontificia Universdad Javeriana,Bogotá, June 1986

“Entrepreneurs and Manufacturing in Bogotá in the Nineteenth Century, Pontificia Universidad

Javeriana, June 1986“Toward an Understanding of the Colombian Economy in the Nineteenth Century,” Facultad de

Administración, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, November 1987

“Toward a Systematic Comprehension of the Politics of Church and State in SpanishAmerica,” Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, November 1987“The Ideal of the Practical,” Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, August 1993

“Overview of the Entrepreneurial History of Colombia in the Nineteenth Century,” Facultad de

Administración, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, August 1993

“Observations on the History of Primary Education in Colombia,” UniversidadPedagógiuca de Colombia, Bogotá, August 1993

“Manufacturing Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” Corona Chair Lecture, Facultad

de Administración, Universidad de los, Andes, Bogotá, October, 1998

“Obstacles to the Development of Exports in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,” CoronaChair Lecture, Facultad de Administración, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, October 1998

“Sociocultural Values, Structures, and Public Policy as Factors in Colombian Economic

Development,” Corona Chair Lecture, Facultad de Administración, Universidad de los Andes,Bogotá, October 1998“Sociocultural Values, Structures, and Public Policy as Factors in Colombian Economic

Development: 4 cases (Growth in Antioquia, Manufacturing, Technical Education, Exports),”

Faculty and Graduate Students, Department of History, Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Bogotá, November 1998

Series of lectures, totaling 14 hours, on patterns in Colombian political

History, for M.A. program in Political Science, Universidad


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Pontifícia Simón Bolívar, Medellín, March 2000.

Member, panel on “Historians’ Perspectives on the Present Situation inColombia,” Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, August 2003.

“Patterns in the Commerce of the Caribbean Ports of Colombia,”

sponsored by Banco de la República, Cartagena, January 2004.

“The Pleasure of Historical Research,” lecture to students in the Maestría

program in History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, January2004.

7) Activities in Professional Organizations

a) Conference on Latin American History

Nominations Committee, 1967 and 1973Committee on Historical Statis;tics, 1966-1980

Chair, Committee on Gran Colombia, 1974

Conference Prize Committee, 1976-77 (chose best article on Latin

American History)Chair, Herbert E. Bolton Memorial Prize Commitee, 1979 (chose best book on

Latin American history published in 1978)Chair, Program Committee, 1980-81

Chair, Distinguished Service Award Committee, 1985Member, Conference on Latin American History Prize Committee,

1993

Chair, James A. Robertson Memorial Award Committee, 1994

Lewis Hanke Hanke Prize Committee, 1996-97 b) Hispanic American Historical Review,

Associate Editor (in charge of all decision concerning articles, 1972-

73)Member, Editorial Board, 1989-86

c) Statistical Abstract of Latin America

Editorial Advisory Board, 1977-82d) Latin American Studies Association

Membership Committee, 1977-78

First president, Colombia Section, 1993-97

e) Social Science Research Council, Committee on Latin American and he Caribbean, International

Dissertation Research FellowshipsSelection Committee, 1978-81

Selection Committee, 1984

f) National Endowment for the Humanities

Referee, 1985-g) Woodrow Wilson Center

Referee, 1989-

h) Newberry Library-NEH Fellowship CommitteeChair, 1995-96

i) Advisory Board, Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives,

1999-present

8) Editorial Services (other than as associate editor of the Hispanic American Historical

Review, 1972-73)


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a) Reviews of book manuscripts for Houghton-Mifflin, University of Chicago Press, University of

Texas Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Duke University Press,Rutgers University Press, Ohio University Press, University of Georgia Press, University of

Alabama Press, Louisiana State University Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of

Pittsburgh Press, Palgrave-Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Rowman-Littlefield, Publishers.

b) Reviews of article manuscripts for Hispanic American Historical Review, American HistoricalReview, Business History Review, Journal of Social History, Technology and Culture,

Agricultural History, Americas, Journal of Latin American Studies, Colonial Latin AmericanHistorical Review.

9) Research in Latin America

Colombia 1961-62 (18 months)Colombia, 1965 (4 months);

Colombia, 1968 (2 months)

Colombia, 1971 (1 month)

Colombia, 1972 (1 month)Colombia, 1974 (1 month)

Colombia, 1975 (6 months)Colombia, 1980-81

Colombia, 1985 (1 month)Colombia, 1986 (1 month)



Colombia, 1998 (1 month)Colombia, 1999 (December)

Colombia, 2000 (March)

Colombia, 2003 (August)Colombia, 2004 (January)

Colombia, 2006 (August)

10) Travel in Latin AmericaMexico, 1954, 1972-73, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Central America, 1960-61, 1987, 2001

Colombia, 1961-62, 1965, 1968, 1975, and perennially (see above)

Ecuador and Peru, 1965Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, 1975

Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, June-July, 2003

Brazil, December, 2005

11) Major University Service (at Northwestern University)

Intersocietal Studies Fellowship Committee

Council on Intersocietal Studies, 1968-71 Northwestern Community Council, 1970-71General Faculty Committee, 1971-72

Committee on University Committees, 1972

Faculty Planning Committee, 1973-74Faculty Committee on Research, 1976-77

General Faculty Committee, 1977-80; Chair, 1979-80

Policy Advisory Council, 1981-84; Chair, 1982-84


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College of Arts and Sciences, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1982-84

Program Review Committee, 1985-86; chair, subcommittee on School of JournalismFulbright Committee, 1985-86

Chair, Committee to plan center for international Studies (appointed by President Weber), 1985-86

Chair, Department of History, 1986-89, 1992-94

Chair, Committee for International Studies, 1986-88

Director, Program for International Studies, 1988-90Chair, Leopold Lecture Committee, 1990-93, 1997-2003; Member 2003-present

Director, Adjunct Major in International Studies, 1991-92, 1997-98, 2002-06Director, Latin American-Caribbean Studies Program, 1991-92, 1994-98

Chair, Department of History, 1986-99, 1992-94

CAS Budget Committee, 1992-94, 2004-06 (I think also sometime between, but I’ve lost track)

Program Review, Subcommittee on School of Journalism, 1994-95CAS Associate Dean, 1994-98, 2000-2001

Co-director, College Scholars Program, 1997-98

Co-chair, Search Committee in Latin American literature, for Department of Spanish andPortuguese (!)

Miscellaneous ad hoc committees (maybe Marie Jones has a record of these)

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