Curriculum Vitae Matthew Rothwell October 2015 Education: University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD, 2009 Dissertation: Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America Dissertation Committee: Christopher Boyer (co-chair), Bruce Calder (co-chair), Nils Jacobsen, Javier Villa Flores, James Searing University of Illinois at Chicago, MA, History, 2003 Northeastern Illinois University, BA, History, 1998 Research Interests: Revolutionary Movements in Latin America Latin American Maoism Cold War in Latin America The Global 1960s International Communism in Latin America and Asia Academic Experience: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa, fall 2015-spring 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of History & Geography, Texas Southern University, fall 2012-spring 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2009-spring 2012 Instructor, Loyola University Chicago, fall 2008 Instructor, University of Illinois at Chicago, spring 2005 Publications: Book: Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America (New York: Routledge, 2013).
Articles and Book Chapters: Secret Agent for International Maoism: José Venturelli, Chinese Informal Diplomacy and Latin American Maoism. Forthcoming in Radical Americas no. 1 (fall 2015). Metodología para el análisis de la historia inmediata and La Revolución China y Latinoamérica: El impacto de redes comunistas globales en movimientos sociales y grupos guerrilleros latinoamericanos in Resquicios (Cochabamba, Bolivia), enero 2013. The Chinese Revolution and Latin America: The Impact of Global Communist Networks on Latin American Social Movements and Guerrilla Groups in World History Connected, October 2010. Influencia de la Revolución China en América Latina: México, Perú y Bolivia in Fuentes: Revista de la Biblioteca y Archivo Histórico de la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional (La Paz, Bolivia), agosto 2010. Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America in The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds, Zheng Yangwen, Hong Liu and Michael Szonyi, eds., Brill, 2010. Revolucionarios transpacíficos: La creación del maoísmo latinoamericano in Retornos: Revista de Historia y Ciencias Sociales (La Paz, Bolivia), 2009. Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Creation of Latin American Maoism in New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Karen Dubinsky, Catherine Krull, Susan Lord, Sean Mills, and Scott Rutherford, eds., Between the Lines, 2009. Book Reviews: Steven Saxonberg, Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism: Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. Choice, February 2014. René De la Pedraja, Wars of Latin America, 1948-1982: The Rise of the Guerrillas. Choice, February 2014. John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell, editors, New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico. Canadian Journal of History 48, no. 3 (Winter 2013). Samantha Christiansen and Zachary A. Scarlett, The Third World in the Global 1960s. Choice, August 2013. 2
Encyclopedia Entries: Grenada, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Peru, and Third World in Encyclopedia of the Cold War, MTM Publishing, 2008. Iran-Contra Affair, Iranian Hostage Crisis and Socialism: Socialism, Anarchism, and Communism in East Asia in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008. Presentations: (* indicates invited lecture) The Chinese Revolution and Latin America: Global Communist Networks and the Creation of Latin American Maoism. Presented at the Radical Americas Conference, University College London, January 28-29, 2013. How Did Maoism Get to Latin America? Latin American Agency and Chinese Informal Diplomacy. Presented at the American Historical Association 127 th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6, 2013. * La revolución china y Latinoamérica: El impacto de redes comunistas globales en movimientos sociales y grupos guerrilleros latinoamericanos. Presented at the Congreso Internacional de Historia Inmediata: De la Doctrina de Seguridad Nacional al Cambio Social del siglo XXI (1970-2012), Cochabamba, Bolivia, November 28-30, 2012. The Chinese Revolution and Latin America: The Impact of Global Communist Networks on Latin American Social Movements and Guerrilla Groups. Presented at the conference Cold War Encounters: National, International and Transnational History in the 20 th Century, University of Waterloo, Ontario, October 16, 2010. * Comparando la influencia de la revolución china en Bolivia y el Perú. [Comparing the Influence of the Chinese Revolution in Bolivia and Peru]. Presented at the Biblioteca del la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional [Library of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly], La Paz, Bolivia, July 8, 2010. * La influencia de la revolución china en Bolivia. [The Influence of the Chinese Revolution in Bolivia]. Presented at the Universidad Pública de El Alto, El Alto, Bolivia, July 6, 2010. * La influencia de la revolución china en Bolivia. [The Influence of the Chinese Revolution in Bolivia]. Presented at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, June 28, 2010. Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America. Presented at the Third Annual Midwest Workshop on Latin American History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 4-5, 2008. 3
Transpacific Solidarities: A Mexican Case Study on the Diffusion of Maoism in Latin America. Presented at the conference The Cold War in Asia: Beyond Geopolitics and Diplomacy, Sun Yat-sen University (co-sponsored by Harvard University and the University of Manchester), Guangzhou, China, November 1-2, 2007. The Origins of Latin American Maoism: A Mexican Case Study. Presented at the 13th congress of the Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe: América Latina-Caribe y Asia-Pacífico en el siglo XXI, Macau, September 25-28, 2007. Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Creation of Mexican Maoism. Presented at the conference New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, June 13-16, 2007. Transpacific Solidarities: Latin American Maoists and China. Presented at the conference Solidarities Through History, Columbia University, March 30, 2007. * Revolucionarios transpacíficos: La influencia de la revolución china en América Latina [Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Influence of the Chinese Revolution in Latin America]. Presented at the Biblioteca del H. Congreso [Library of Congress], La Paz, Bolivia, March 22, 2007. Transpacific Encounters, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Origins of Mexican Maoism. Presented at the First North American Conference on the Study of Global Radicalism, Michigan State University, January 25-27, 2007. Transpacific Revolutionaries: Latin Americans Learn from Maoist China (a Mexican Case Study). Presented at the conference The Fortieth Anniversary: Rethinking the Genealogy and Legacy of the Cultural Revolution, City University of Hong Kong, June 9-10, 2006. Antonio Díaz Martínez, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Creation of Peruvian Maoism. Presented at the Regional Mellon Conference in Latin American History, University of Chicago, April 8-9, 2005. Antonio Díaz Martínez and the Creation of Peruvian Maoism. Presented at the 25 th Conference of the Institute for Latin American Studies Student Association, Austin, TX, February 10-12, 2005. Conference Panels Organized: Latin America in the Aftermath of the Chinese and Cuban Revolutions. American Historical Association 127 th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6, 2013. 4
Media Appearances: Conference participation discussed in Claudia Gonzales Yaksic, Congreso de Historia reúne masiva audiencia, Los Tiempos (Cochabamba), November 29, 2012. Interviewed in Claudia Gonzales Yaksic, La dictadura militar fue más fuerte en Bolivia, Los Tiempos (Cochabamba), November 28, 2012. Guest on Que No Me Pierda national evening talk show (Bolivia), November 28, 2012. Guest on ATB Cochabamba Noticias de la mañana morning news television show, November 28, 2012. Interviewed on radio program Combates por la historia in La Paz, Bolivia, March 15, 2007. Honors and Awards: External Grant Summer Research Fellowship, University of Southern Indiana, 2012 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, University of Southern Indiana, 2010 College of Liberal Arts Faculty Development Award, University of Southern Indiana, 2009 Liberal Arts Research Award, University of Southern Indiana, 2009 Dean s Scholar Award Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007 Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere, American Historical Association, 2006 David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship, National Security Education Program, 2006 Multi-Country Research Fellowship, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, 2006 (declined) Provost s Award for Graduate Research, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006 Judy Curry Endowed Award for Study Abroad, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006 Graduate Student Council Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006, 2007 Student Travel Award, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 5
Courses Taught: U.S. History since 1877 (fall 2013, spring 2014) U.S.-Latin American Relations (spring 2013) World History to 1500 (fall 2012) Historiography (fall 2011, spring 2012) Modern Latin American History (spring 2011) History Seminar: International Communism (spring 2011) Colonial Latin American History (fall 2010) Revolution and Revolutionaries in Latin America (spring 2010, fall 2011) Latin America in the Global Cold War (fall 2009) World History, 1500-Present (fall 2009-spring 2010, fall 2012, spring 2013, spring 2014) Latin America in Recent Times (fall 2008) China Since 1911 (spring 2005) Graduate Courses Taught: Readings in Modern Latin American History (fall 2013) Distance Education Courses Taught: World History, 1500-Present (fall 2010-spring 2012, spring 2013) Service to the Profession: NEH Summer Stipend peer review panel, fall 2015. Manuscript reviewer, Oxford University Press. Discussant on Imperial and Common Histories: The United States and Latin America during the Twentieth Century at the 127 th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-6, 2013. Panelist on The Academic Job Market in World History roundtable session at the 21 st World History Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 27-30, 2012. Discussant on The Final Frontier: Bringing Star Trek into the Classroom panel at the 21 st World History Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 27-30, 2012. Editor of H-Latam email list, Feb. 2010 to July 2014. (Main professional listserv for historians of Latin America.) 6
University Service: Chair, Assessment Committee, Department of History & Geography, Texas Southern University, fall 2012-spring 2014. General Education Subcommittee of the University Assessment Council and the University Curriculum Council, Texas Southern University, fall 2012-spring 2014. Faculty Advisor, Amalgam: A Multidisciplinary Journal by and for the Students of USI, spring 2012. Chair, Assessment Committee, Department of History, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2011-spring 2012. U.S. History Search Committee, Department of History, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2011-spring 2012. Faculty Development Award Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2011-spring 2012. Curriculum Committee, Department of History, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2009- spring 2011. Faculty Sponsor of Student History Society, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2010-spring 2011. Oral Histories Committee, Office of the President, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2010- spring 2011. Distinguished Professor Lecture Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana, fall 2010-spring 2011. McGucken Prize Committee, Department of History, University of Southern Indiana, spring 2010. Professional Affiliations: American Historical Association Latin American Studies Association Conference on Latin American History World History Association Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Language Skills: Fluent in Spanish and Finnish 7