Patrick J McNamara

Contact Me

pjm@umn.edu
612-624-6531

Department of History
1212 HellerH

271 19th Ave S

Affiliations

• History

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1999.

Specialties

• History and Memory in Mexico
• Comparative Revolutions
• Latin America
• Peasantries

Courses Taught

• Hist 3402W - Modern Latin America 1825 to Present
• Hist 3423 - Central American Revolutions
• Hist 3425 - Modern Mexico
• Hist 4961W - Major Paper
• HIST 5950 - 20th Century Mexico
• HIST 8025 - The Politics of Historical Memory

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Disabilities Issues Committee, Chair: 2005 - 2007, 2014-15
• Department of History, Associate Chair: 2005 - 2007

Research

• 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

• Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue: IAS funded research collaborative,

Publications

• Rewriting Zapata: Generational Conflict on the Eve of the Mexican Revolution: McNamara, Patrick, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 30:1 122-149, 2014.
• 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
• "My Zapotec Museum: Violence, Capitalism and Memory in Oaxaca, Mexico": McNamara, Patrick, Ethnohistory, 61:4 671-679, 2014.

Awards

• Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2009