PATRICK J. IBER Curriculum Vitae 812 Mississippi Ave. pjiber

PATRICK J. IBER Curriculum Vitae 812 Mississippi Ave. pjiber

PATRICK J. IBER
Curriculum Vitae
812 Mississippi Ave.
El Paso, Texas 79902
[email protected]
(773) 632-6175
EMPLOYMENT
University of Texas at El Paso
Assistant Professor of History, 2015-present
University of California, Berkeley
Lecturer in International and Area Studies, Program in Political Economy, 2014-2015
Lecturer in the Department of History, 2013-2014
Stanford University
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in History, 2011-2013
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. in History, with distinction, 2011.
Dissertation: “The Imperialism of Liberty: Intellectuals and the Politics of Culture in Cold
War Latin America.”
Committee: Mauricio Tenorio (chair), Emilio Kourí, Dain Borges, Bruce Cumings.
Stanford University, M.A. in History, 2003.
Stanford University, B.S. in Mathematics, 2003.
BOOKS
Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2015; and under contract for Spanish translation with Paidós.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Building the Cold War Together: Labor Internationalism and the Early Cold War in Latin
America,” submitted to the Hispanic American Historical Review, 7 June 2016.
“Social Science is Fire: The Ford Foundation in Latin America and the Problem of Cultural
Imperialism in the 1960s,” forthcoming in The Global 60s, edited by Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney
and Tamara Chaplin, with expected publication in 2016 by Routledge.
“The Cold War Politics of Literature and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores,” Journal of Latin
American Studies 48, no. 2 (May 2016): 247-272.
“Who will Impose Democracy?: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the
Anticommunist Left in Latin America,” Diplomatic History 37, no. 5 (November 2013): 9951028.
“Managing Mexico’s Cold War: Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Uses of Political
Intelligence,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 19, no. 1 (July 2013): 11-19, Special
Dossier “Spy Reports: Content, Methodology, and Historiography in Mexico’s Secret Police
Archives,” eds. Tanalís Padilla and Louise E. Walker.
“El imperialismo de la libertad: el Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura en América Latina,”
117-132 in La guerra fría cultural en América Latina: desafíos y límites para una nueva mirada de las
relaciones interamericanas, edited by Benedetta Calandra and Marina Franco, Biblos, 2012.
“Anti-Communist Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Cultural Cold War in Latin America,”
pp. 167-186, in De-centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change, edited by Jadwiga PieperMooney and Fabio Lanza, Routledge, 2012.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University, 20112013.
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011.
Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2005-2010.
UC-AFT Unit 18 Professional Development Grant, 2015.
Berkeley International and Area Studies Travel Grant, 2014.
George C. Marshall-Baruch Research Fellowship, 2008.
Mellon Prize Lectureship, Fall 2009.
Ignacio Martín-Baró Prize Lectureship, Fall 2008.
Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, Fall 2010.
CLAS Summer Travel Grant, 2006 and 2007.
President’s Scholar, Stanford University, 1999-2003.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, AND ESSAYS
“Karl Polanyi for President,” (with Mike Konczal), Dissent, 23 May 2016,
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/karl-polanyi-explainer-greattransformation-bernie-sanders
“The Path to Democratic Socialism: Lessons from Latin America,” Dissent, Spring 2016, 115-121,
and in Spanish for Horizontal, 11 May 2016, http://horizontal.mx/los-caminos-al-socialismodemocratico-ensenanzas-de-estados-unidos-y-america-latina/
“What should the world learn from the experience of inequality in Latin America?” in What do we
do about inequality?, ed. Chris Oestereich (Journal Review Foundation Press, 2016), 109-114.
“The Two Lefts of Jorge Castañeda,” Dissent, Winter 2016, 88-97, and in Spanish for Nexos, 1
May 2016, http://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=28265
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“Arguing Against Evil: Liberal Hawks and Neocons’ Congress for Cultural Freedom Delusion,”
The New Republic, 4 August 2015, https://newrepublic.com/article/122452/arguing-againstevil
“Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas,” in Iconic Mexico, ed. Eric Zolov (ABC-CLIO, 2015), 96-104.
“Paraíso de espías: la ciudad de México y la Guerra Fría,” Nexos XXXVI, no. 436 (April 2014):
68-73.
“¿Padece el liberalismo una tentación imperial?,” Letras Libres XV, no. 172 (April 2013): 31-33.
“Balas de papel, ¿tigres de papel? Sobre la guerra y la creación de opinión pública [Paper bullets,
paper tigers? War and the creation of public opinion],” Istor XIII, no. 50 (Fall 2012): 95-120.
“A Conversation with Jorge Edwards,” Chicago Review 55:1 (Winter 2010): 118-125; and in Spanish
as “El escritor y la política: entrevista con Jorge Edwards,” Letras Libres (ver. España), no. 104
(May 2010): 42-45.
Other online contributions to public debate at these sites: The Awl; Washington Center for
Equitable Growth; Inside Higher Ed; Slate; and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
I have been interviewed about my work in articles for: Confabulario de El Universal (Mexico), Radio
Francia Internacional (France), Al-Jazeera America
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Renata Keller, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican
Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015), forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American
Studies 48, no. 4 (November 2016)
Review of Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left (Columbia University Press, 2016), for The
Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2016
“Helpless Collector: The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda” (in conversation with Tess Taylor), for
the Barnes & Noble Review, 9 August 2016, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/review/helplesscollector-the-lost-poems-of-pablo-neruda
“Brazil’s Billionaire Problem,” review of Alex Cuadros, Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and
Hope in an American Country (Spiegel & Grau, 2016), for The New Republic, 1 August 2016,
https://newrepublic.com/article/135691/brazils-billionaire-problem
“The Spain Orwell Never Saw,” review of Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), for The New Republic, 28
April 2016, https://newrepublic.com/article/133146/spain-orwell-never-saw
Review of Jorge García Robles, At the End of the Road: Jack Kerouac in Mexico (University of
Minnesota Press, 2014), Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 2 (May 2016): 412-414.
“Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go,” review of Rafael Rojas, Fighting over Fidel: The
New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution (Princeton, 2015), for the Los Angeles Review of
Books, April 28, 2016, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/words-weapons-weapons-mustgo-cuban-revolution-american-left/
Review of Nick Witham, The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and the Central American
Revolutions (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), for H-Diplo, 27 December 2015, https://www.hnet.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=45572
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Review of Antonio Niño and José Antonio Montero (eds.), Guerra fría y propaganda: Estados Unidos
y su cruzada cultural en Europa y América Latina (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2012), in Estudios
Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 26, no. 2 (July-December 2015): 104-106.
Review of Deborah Cohn, The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold
War, (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012) in The Latin Americanist 59, no. 2 (June
2015): 90-92.
Review of Phillip Deery, Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York, for the
Australasian Journal of American Studies 34, no. 1 (July 2015).
“La diplomática historia diplomática de México,” review of Roberta Lajous Vargas, Las relaciones
exteriores de México (1821-2000), in Letras Libres XV, no. 175 (July 2013): 68-70.
“Cuauhtémoc: congruencia y contradicción,” review of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Sobre mis pasos
(México: Aguilar, 2010), in Nexos XXXIII, no. 400 (April 2011): 117-118.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso.
History 5305. Studies in U.S. History (Ideas across Borders: Transnational Intellectual
Histories of the United States). Fall 2016.
History 1302. History of the U.S. since 1865. Spring 2016, Fall 2016.
History 3312. History of American Foreign Relations since 1914. Fall 2015.
Lecturer, University of California-Berkeley.
International & Area Studies 150. Market Empire and American Foreign Intervention.
Spring 2015.
Political Economy 160. Ideologies of Social Justice in the Twentieth Century. Spring 2015.
International & Area Studies 194. The Problem of Inequality (and how to solve it). Fall 2014.
History 100E. Latin America and the World. Spring 2014.
History 103E. Artists, Intellectuals, and Social Change in Latin America. Spring 2014.
History 101E. Seminar in Historical Research and Writing. Spring 2014.
History 8B. Modern Latin America. Fall 2013.
History 103E. Latin American Revolutions: Causes, Consequences, Myths and Memories.
Fall 2013.
Lecturer, Stanford University.
History 220/320. Left, Right, and the Intellectual Life: Politics and Intellectuals in the Short
Twentieth Century. Fall 2012.
History 75/175. Modern Mexico. Spring 2012.
History 70/170B. Culture, Politics and Society in Latin America. Fall 2011, 2012, and 2014.
Instructor, University of Chicago.
History 16205. Democracy in Central America. Fall 2009.
History 26405. U.S. Imperialism in Latin America. Fall 2008.
Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago.
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History 26505, Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America. Professor
Alma Guillermoprieto, Fall 2008 & Fall 2009.
History 16101, Latin American Civilization / 1 (pre-contact to 1640), Professors Dain
Borges and Alan Kolata, Fall 2007.
History 16103, Latin American Civilization / 3 (1880-present), Professor Mauricio Tenorio,
Winter 2007.
Teacher, Mountain View High School. Mountain View, California, 2004-2005. Recognized for
exceptional dedication to students.
Teacher, Mary Hoge Middle School. Weslaco, Texas, 2003-2004.
Volunteer Teacher, Instituto Nacional San Antonio/Los Ranchos, Chalatenango province, El
Salvador, 2001 and 2002.
PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED LECTURES
“Social Democracy and the Labor Movement in Early Cold War Latin America,” Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations, San Diego, 23 June 2016.
“An Evening with Patrick Iber and Karen Paget on the Cultural Cold War,” Brooklyn Public
Library, New York, 31 May 2016.
“Social Science is Fire: The Ford Foundation and Latin America in the 1960s,” Latin American
Studies Association, 27 May 2016.
“Ironic Gramscianism: Implications of the Cultural Cold War in Latin America,” for “From Cold
War to Theory Wars: A Symposium of Latin American Thought,” Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas, 28 April 2016.
“Humanismo, revolución, y las leyendas negras del siglo XX,” Cátedra Internacional Friedrich
Katz, Chicago, Illinois, 30 October 2015.
“Painters, Poets, and Spies: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America,” University of Texas at El
Paso, 2 October 2015; New Mexico State University, 16 October 2015; Northwestern University,
29 October 2015; Commonwealth Club of California, 5 January 2016; Tamiment Library at New
York University, 22 February 2016; Princeton University, 23 February 2016, Hoover Institution,
Stanford, California, September 2016.
“El Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura y las izquierdas latinoamericanas,” Centro de
Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en Argentina, Universidad Nacional
de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 March 2015.
“La diplomacia cultural y el diplomático culto: Jaime Torres Bodet y las ciencias sociales en la
UNESCO,” XIV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Chicago, Illinois, 19
September 2014.
“Che Guevara’s Cold War,” program on American Uprisings, Yale Programs in International
Educational Resources, New Haven, Connecticut, 7 July 2014.
“Building the Cold War Together: The AFL and the U.S. Government in Latin America, 19441951.” 128th Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 4 January 2014.
“The Movement for National Liberation, 1961-1964: The Mexican Left between the Soviet
Union, Cuba, and the United States.” Latin American History Working Group, University of
California-Berkeley, 22 March 2013.
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“Painters, Politicians and Spies in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Building Latin America’s Cultural
Cold War in the 1930s and 1940s.” Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, 22
February 2013.
“The ‘Americas’ Before the Americas.” Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program, Stanford
University, 14 February 2012 & 12 February 2013.
“What is the Purpose of Democracy?” Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, 8 October 2012.
“Making the World Unsafe for Social Democracy: The United States in Cold War Latin
America.” University of Connecticut Foreign Policy Seminar, 14 September 2012.
“Displacing Social Democracy: Imperialism and Exile in Cold War Mexico and Cuba.” Yale
International History Workshop, 13 September 2012.
“Mexicanizing Americanization: The Foundations and the Centro Mexicano de Escritores.” Latin
American Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 26 May 2012.
“Anti-Communist Entrepreneurs and the Response to the Peace Movement in Latin America.”
De-centering Cold War History conference, University of Arizona, 5 November 2010.
“The Partisans of Peace and the Aesthetic of Socialist Realism.” Cold War Cultures conference,
University of Texas-Austin, 2 October 2010.
“Who will Impose Democracy?: The United States, Anticommunism, and the Democratic Left in
the Cold War in Latin America.” Latin American History Working Group, University of
California-Berkeley, 24 September 2010.
“Mexico City: Capital of the 20th Century Cultural Congresses.” 124th Meeting of the American
Historical Association, San Diego, California, January 8, 2010.
“Cold Words in the City of Exiles: Antecedents to the Cultural Cold War.” Latin American
History Workshop, University of Chicago, 29 October 2009.
“Doves and Vipers: Mexico in the Origins of the Cominform’s Peace Movement.” Latin
American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 20 November 2008.
“The Weapon of Peace and the Imperialism of Liberty: Communism and Anticommunism in
Latin America, 1949-1954.” Mellon Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, 3
May 2008.
“The Liberal Mind in a Radical Age: The Politics of Culture and the Cold War in the Americas,
1937-1991.” Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 1 November 2007.
“Forty Years of Chilean Political History.” ITP-Chile program, Northwestern University Law
School, 22 January 2007.
“CIA by day, Castro by Night: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Cuban Revolution.”
Globalizing Political History Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 17 November 2006.
“The Congress for Cultural Freedom as Americanization.” American Political History Workshop,
University of Chicago, 19 October 2006.
“Comprometido con qué? The Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America, 1953-1972.” Latin
American History Workshop, University of Chicago, 5 October 2006.
“Intellectuals and the Cultural Cold War in Latin America.” 3rd Annual Midwest Regional
Workshops on Latin America, Notre Dame University, 16 May 2006.
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PANELS ORGANIZED & CHAIRED
Organized: “Social Democracy, Covert Diplomacy, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Society for the
History of American Foreign Relations, 23 June 2016.
Chaired: “Latin American Intellectuals and the World,” Latin American Studies Association, 30
May 2016.
Organized: “The Inter-American Cultural Cold War,” Latin American Studies Association, 27
May 2016. Chair: Monica Rankin. Discussant: Elizabeth Cancelli. Members: Elisa Servín, Patrick
Iber, Jorge Nállim.
Chaired: Socialist Internationalism: Cold War Legacies conference. Berkeley, 12 April 2014.
Members: Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney and Elizabeth McGuire.
Organized: “Workers, Labor, and Transnational Politics in Latin America,” American Historical
Association, January 2014. Members: Patrick Iber, Rafael Ioris, John Lear, Ernesto Semán.
Commentator: Joel Wolfe. Chair: Angela Vergara.
Organized: “Culture and Society in Cold War Mexico,” American Historical Association, January
2010. Members: Claire Fox, Patrick Iber, Jaime Pensado, Elisa Servín. Commentator: Eric
Zolov. Chair: Alex Saragoza.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES
Spanish – fluent spoken and written Spanish.
French – reading and speaking competence.
Portuguese – reading and speaking competence.
German – developing reading knowledge.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Anonymous reviews for: Humanity, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Iberian and Latin
American Research, Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos, and Diplomatic History
UTEP History Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2016UTEP Phi Alpha Theta faculty advisor, 2016Contributing writer, Teaching United States History collective, Spring 2016
Arranged and coordinated visit of Sebastian Junger to UTEP, April 2016
UTEP Borderlands Search Committee, 2015
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Society for the History of American Foreign Relations
Latin American Studies Association
Society for U.S. Intellectual History
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