Patrick J McNamara
Affiliations
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1999.
Specialties
- Cognitive History
- History and Memory
- Comparative Revolutions
- Mexico
- El Salvador
- Drug Violence in the Americas
- Human Rights
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Courses Taught
- Hist 1911: A History of the Drug Wars in the Americas
- Hist 3402W: Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
- HIST 3418: History of Drink
- Hist 3423: Central American Revolutions
- Hist 3425: Modern Mexico
- HIST 3429: Latin American History in Film & Text
- Hist 3711: Cognitive History
- Hist 4961W: Major Paper
- HIST 5902: Modern Latin America Proseminar
- HIST 5950: 20th Century Mexico
- HIST 8025: The Politics of Historical Memory
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- Disabilities Issues Committee, Chair: 2005 - 2007, 2014-15
- Department of History, Associate Chair: 2005 - 2007
Research
- A Brief History of Memory: (a book about memory research over the past 100 years as studied by different disciplinary fields: philosophy, sociology, theater, psychology, neuroscience, and history)
- Cognitive History: (a book that examines how cognitive neuroscience might reshape how historians write about the past on specific issues: memory, narrative, aesthetics, the body, and violence)
- Disappearances in El Salvador, 2010-19:
- The Juárez Inquisition: Art, Performance, and Politics in Porfirian Mexico:
- The Centennial Stage: Mexico's Old Regime and the Independence Celebrations of 1910: (an examination of the importance of the 1910 Centennial in rural Mexico and the southwestern United States)
Outreach
- Expert Witness/Consultant: El Salvador & Mexico Immigration Cases,
- Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: IAS funded research collaborative,
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Publications
- “Reacios a proteger: Las respuestas de El Salvador y los Estados Unidos ante la violencia de las pandillas/Unwilling to Protect: El Salvador and United States Responses to Gang Violence,”: McNamara, Patrick, Hispanic Issues OnLine, 26 14-28, 2020. Link
- Political Refugees from El Salvador: Gang Politics, The State & Asylum Claims: McNamara, Patrick, Oxford , Refugee Survey Quarterly, 36 1-24, 2017. LinkDownload
- Rewriting Zapata: Generational Conflict on the Eve of the Mexican Revolution: McNamara, Patrick, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 30:1 122-149, 2014. Download
- "My Zapotec Museum: Violence, Capitalism and Memory in Oaxaca, Mexico": McNamara, Patrick, Ethnohistory, 61:4 671-679, 2014. Download
- Sons of the Sierra: Juarez, Diaz, and the People of Ixtlan, Oaxaca, 1855-1920. McNamara, Patrick, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Author, 2007. Link
- "Saving Private Ramírez: The Patriarchal Voice of Republican Motherhood in Mexico". McNamara, Patrick, Gender and History, Author, 2006. LinkDownload
- "Felipe García and the Real Heroes of Guelatao". McNamara, Patrick, Jeffrey Pilcher, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., Author, 2003. Link
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Awards
- Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2009