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Areas of Research/Interest: Central America and Latin America; the cold war; nationalism.

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

	Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Metropolitan Books, 2006).
	The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Duke University Press, 2000).

"How to Be a Good Neighbor," New York Times, July 8, 2006

"Your Americanism and Mine: Americanism and Anti-Americanism in the Americas," American Historical Review, Fall 2006

"The Swift Boating of America," Mother Jones

"The Wide War,"

"The Rebel and Mr. Danger," Boston Review, May-June 2006

"Latin America's New Consensus," The Nation, May 1, 2006

"The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, State Formation, and National identity in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala," American Historical Review, February 2005.

"Can the Subaltern Be Seen? Photography and the Affects of Nationalism" Hispanic American Historical Review 84:1(February 2004): 5

"Revolution and the Solution of Ethnographic Embrace," Anthropological Theory 3:2 2003

History, Motive, Law, Intent: Combining Historical and Legal Methods in Understanding Guatemala’s 1981-1983 Genocide," in The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds, (Cambridge 2003)

"Plumping for Pinochet" The Nation, January 21, 2002

"Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War," to be published in A Companion to Post 1945 America, Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., (Blackwell 2002)

"Chronicles of a Guatemalan Genocide Foretold: Violence, Trauma, and the Limits to Historical Inquiry," Nepantla: Views from the South, Spring 2000, V. 1:2.

"An Onerous Citizenship: Race, Disease, and the Realignment of Rule in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala," in Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays in Honor of Emilia-Viotti-da Costa, Gilbert M. Joseph ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

"Coming of Age in Venezuela" -- A review of Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado, Norton, 2000, in The Nation, December 11, 2000.

"No Victory for Dictators," The New York Times, March 7th, 2000

"Days of the Condor" -- A review essay on recent books dealing with the Cold War in Latin America, including John Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, Oxford University Press, 1997, and Hugh O'Shaughnessy's Pinochet: The Politics of Torture, New York University, 2000, in The Nation, May 22, 2000.

"Bitter Fruit for Rigoberta" -- A review of David Stoll's Rigoberta-Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, in The Nation, February 8, 1999.

"Everyday Forms of State Decomposition, Quetzaltenango 1954," in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Spring 2000.

"Asesinato, memoria y resistencia en el altiplano occidental de Guatemala: Cantel, 1884-1982," Mesoamérica, 36, 1998.

"The Strange Case of la Mancha Negra: Mayan-State Relations in Nineteenth Century Guatemala," Hispanic American Historical Review, 77:2, 1997.

"To End with All These Evils: Ethnic Transformation and Community Mobilization in Guatemala's Western Highlands, 1954-1980," Latin American Perspectives, 24:2, 1997.

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