Patrick McNamara

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.

Specialties

• Comparative Revolutions
• Cognitive History
• History and Memory
• Human Rights
• El Salvador
• Drug Violence in the Americas
• Mexico

Publications

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Publications

• "Saving Private Ramí­rez: The Patriarchal Voice of Republican Motherhood in Mexico". Gender and History, McNamara, Patrick, 2006.
• "Felipe Garcí­a and the Real Heroes of Guelatao". Jeffrey Pilcher, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., McNamara, Patrick, 2003.
• “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.
• Rewriting Zapata: Generational Conflict on the Eve of the Mexican Revolution: McNamara, Patrick, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 30:1, 122-149, 2014.
• "My Zapotec Museum: Violence, Capitalism and Memory in Oaxaca, Mexico": McNamara, Patrick, Ethnohistory, 61:4, 671-679, 2014.
• Political Refugees from El Salvador: Gang Politics, The State & Asylum Claims: Oxford , McNamara, Patrick, Refugee Survey Quarterly, 36, 1-24, 2017.

Activities

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Activities

Disabilities Issues Committee, Chair

Sat, 01/01/2005 - 12:00

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2005 - 2007, 2014-15

Department of History, Associate Chair

Sat, 01/01/2005 - 12:00 - Mon, 01/01/2007 - 12:00

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2005 - 2007

Minnesota-Mexico Dialogue

Description

IAS funded research collaborative

Expert Witness/Consultant

Description

El Salvador & Mexico Immigration Cases

The Centennial Stage: Mexico's Old Regime and the Independence Celebrations of 1910

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none - none

Description

(an examination of the importance of the 1910 Centennial in rural Mexico and the southwestern United States)

Credible Fear: A Decade of Violence in El Salvador, 2010-19

The Juárez Inquisition: Art, Performance, and Politics in Porfirian Mexico

A Brief History of Memory

Description

(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

Description

(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)

Awards

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Awards

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

Thu, 01/01/2009 - 12:00

2009

University of Minnesota Community-Engaged Scholar Award

Fri, 01/01/2021 - 12:00

2021

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

Hist 3402W: Modern Latin America 1825 to Present

Hist 4961W: Major Paper

Hist 3425: Modern Mexico

Hist 3423: Central American Revolutions

HIST 8025: The Politics of Historical Memory

HIST 5950: 20th Century Mexico

Hist 1911: A History of the Drug Wars in the Americas

HIST 3418: History of Drink

HIST 3429: Latin American History in Film & Text

Hist 3711: Cognitive History

HIST 5902: Modern Latin America Proseminar