ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY, Department of History, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, Fall 2017

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1 DR. AARON COY MOULTON ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY,,, Nacogdoches, Texas, Fall 2017 EDUCATION Ph.D., History, May 2016 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Dissertation: Guatemalan Exiles, Caribbean Basin Dictators, Operation PBFORTUNE, and the Transnational Counter-Revolution against the Guatemalan Revolution, Advisors: Alessandro Brogi, Kathryn Sloan, Caree Banton Examination Fields: US-Latin American Relations, Latin America, United States to 1877, United States since 1877 M.A., Latin American Studies, August 2009 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Thesis: Through the Lens of Pater-Americanism: A Comparative Analysis of the Eisenhower Administration s Perception of Guatemala and Bolivia, 1953 and 1954 B.A., Latin American Studies, Spanish, and Mathematics, May 2007 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Honors Thesis in Spanish & Latin American Studies: Through the Words of Martí: An Analysis of Fidel Castro s Government during the Cold War through the Writings of José Martí JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER-REVIEWED) Counter-Revolutionary Friends: Caribbean Basin Dictators and Guatemalan Exiles against the Guatemalan Revolution, , The Americas (In Peer Review) Antes de la CIA y la Operación PBSUCCESS: Las fuerzas regionales anticomunistas en la Cuenca del Caribe, [Before the CIA and Operation PBSUCCESS: The Regional Anticommunist Forces in the Caribbean Basin, ], en Roberto García Ferreira y

2 Arturo Taracena Arriola, Eds., Guerra Fría y anticomunismo en Centroamérica [Cold War and Anticommunism in Central America], Guatemala: Serviprensa, 2017 Building Their Own Cold War in Their Own Backyard: The Transnational, International Conflicts in the Greater Caribbean Basin, , Cold War History Vol. 15, No. 2 (2015): pp Sturgis Leavitt Award, Best Article, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Amplia ayuda externa contra la gangrena comunista : Las fuerzas regionales anticomunistas y la finalización de la Operación PBFORTUNE, octubre de 1952 [ Ample External Aid against the Communist Gangrene : The Regional Anticommunist Forces and the Termination of Operation PBFORTUNE, October of 1952], en El derrocamiento de Jacobo Arbenz y la guerra fría en América Latina: Nuevas fuentes [The Overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz and the Cold War in Latin America: New Sources], Roberto García Ferreira, Ed., Revista de Historia de América [Journal of the History of America] Núm. 149 (julio-diciembre 2015), Costa Rica: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, Organización de los Estados Americanos [Panamerican Institute of Geography and History, Organization of American States]: pp La guerra entre los exiliados y los dictadores: Centroamérica y el Caribe, [The War between Exiles and Dictators: Central America and the Caribbean, ], en Avital Bloch y María del Rosario Rodríguez, Eds., La Guerra Fría y las Américas: [The Cold War and the Americas: ], México: Universidad de Colima y Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2013: pp ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, , (10,000 Words) in William Beezley, Ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Latin American History, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016 Brazil ( ), Dominican Republic ( ), Ecuador ( ), El Salvador ( ), Figueres, José, Grenada ( ), Guano Islands Act of 1856, Guatemala ( ), Guatemala ( ), Gunboat Diplomacy, Haiti ( ), Haiti ( ), Honduras ( ), Honduras ( ), Iran-Contra Scandal, López, Narciso, Missionaries, Hawaii, Monroe Doctrine, Nicaragua ( ), Nicaragua, Republic of, Ostend Manifesto, Pike, Zebulon, School of the Americas, Spanish Civil War, Turner, Frederick Jackson, United Fruit 2

3 Company, United States Out of Central America, Walker, William, Weyler, Valeriano, (26,450 Words) in David Bernstein and Chris Magoc, Eds., Imperialism and Expansionism in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015 Leslie L. Biffle ( ), (750 Words) in Guy Lancaster, Ed., Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System, 2015 Gender, Missionaries, Refugees, Rockefeller, Nelson, Sullivan & Cromwell, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo, World Bank, World War I, Wood, Leonard, (7,000 Words) in Alan McPherson, Ed., Encyclopedia of U.S. Military Interventions in Latin America, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 Digital Resources: The Colección Bernardo Vega at the Dominican Republic s Archivo General de la Nación, (5,000 Words) in William Beezley, Ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Latin American History, New York, NY: Oxford University Press (Under Contract) BOOK REVIEWS Anne Fountain, José Martí, the United States, and Race (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014), in The Latin Americanist 60.4 (December 2016): pp Renata Keller, Mexico s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015), in H-Diplo Roundtable 17.9 (2016) David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios, Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2011), in Journal of Latin American Studies 45.4 (2013): pp James Colby, The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), in Essays in History (Winter 2013) James Wiley, The Banana: Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), in The Middle Ground Journal No. 7 (Fall 2013) 3

4 Herbert S. Klein and Ben Vinson III, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2 nd Edition (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007), in The Middle Ground Journal No. 6 (Spring 2013) Natalie Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012), in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 71.4 (Winter 2012): pp. 447 Aragorn Storm Miller, Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), in H- LatAm (Under Contract) Amelia M. Kiddle. Mexico s Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2016), in The Latin Americanist (Under Contract) Ellen D. Tillman, Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), in The Americas (Under Contract) EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2017 Bordin-Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017 Research Grant, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, 2017 Research Travel Grant, Eisenhower Foundation, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, 2017 Grant-in-Aid, Roosevelt Institute, FDR Presidential Library & Museum, 2017 Dissertation Year Fellowship, Truman Library Institute, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library,

5 Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2013 John Pine Memorial Scholarship, Phi Alpha Theta, 2013 Research Grant, Truman Library Institute, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, 2012 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant,, University of Kansas, Summer 2008 (Declined) Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, Portuguese, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2008 (Declined) INTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, Arts & Sciences Dissertation Research Award, J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, 2013 Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Arkansas, 2010, 2011, 2013 Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas, First Year Graduate Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Kansas, HONORS AND AWARDS Saki Ruth Dockrill Memorial Prize, Best Paper. London School of Economics-George Washington University-University of California-Santa Barbara 12th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, for Building Their Own Cold War in Their Own Backyard: The Transnational, International War in the Greater Caribbean Basin, Santa Barbara, CA. April INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 5

6 Transnational Anti-Communism in the Caribbean Basin, April Brown Bag Luncheon Series, Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas Exiliados guatemaltecos, los dictadores de la Cuenca del Caribe y la Revolución Guatemalteca, [Guatemalan Exiles, Caribbean Basin Dictators, and the Guatemalan Revolution, ]. March Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas [Institute of Historical Investigations], Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México More than Fidel: Revolutionaries and Guerrillas in the Caribbean Basin, January and Political Science, Middle Georgia State College, Macon, Georgia The Dictator s War against Guatemala: The New History of the U.S.-Led Overthrow of the Guatemalan Government, January Center for International Studies and, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia Las dictaduras contra las democracias y los movimientos de los exiliados en la Cuenca del Caribe, [Dictatorships versus Democracies and Exiles Movements in the Caribbean Basin, ]. December Instituto de Historia de Cuba [Institute of Cuban History], La Habana, Cuba Dictadores, revolucionarios y el origen de la Guerra Fría en la Cuenca del Caribe, [Dictators, Revolutionaries, and the Origin of the Cold War in the Caribbean Basin, ]. October Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central [Center of Historical Investigations of Central America], Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica ACADEMIC CONFERENCES An Island of Anti-Fascism: Cubans and the Transnational Struggle against Caribbean Basin Dictatorships, January American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (Accepted) The Strands of the Caribbean s Cold War : Caribbean Basin Exiles and Transnational Networks, June Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA 6

7 Before the Revolutionary Left: The Militant, Transnational, Anti-Fascist Left in the Caribbean Basin, June Intellectual Cultures of Revolution in Latin America: A Transnational Perspective, Transnational and Global Histories of Latin America s Revolutionary Left of the London School of Economics and the Instituto Mora, Mexico City, Mexico A Caribbean Cold War?: The Anti-Dictatorial and Counter-Revolutionary Networks in the Caribbean Basin, May Latin American Studies Association, New York City, NY Discussant, Animating El Oro: A Digital and Historical Account of Post-War Rehabilitation. May Latin American Studies Association, New York City, NY A Common Action against the Machinations... against Our Countries : The Strategies of the Caribbean Basin Anti-Communist Network, January American Historical Association-Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, GA Open Our Eyes... Defend Ourselves against Caribbean Revolutionaries that Are Perfectly Allied : The Ideology of the Caribbean Basin Anti-Communist Network, January American Historical Association-Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, GA Exiles, Journalists, and Air-Bombings: Dictators and the Financing of Anti-Communism in the Caribbean Basin, July World History Association, Savannah, GA Their Own Containment, Their Own Backyard: Caribbean Basin Dictators and Military Regimes, June Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA Los Hijos de Ubico: Dissident Guatemalan Exiles and the Transnational Counter-Revolution against the Guatemalan Revolution, May Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico Air-Bombing Caracas, 1948: Caribbean Basin Dictators, Venezuelan Exiles, and the Latin American Cold War. February Regional Phi Alpha Theta, Fayetteville, AR A Regional Containment of Guatemala: The Regional Anti-Communist Forces in the Greater Caribbean Basin and the Guatemalan Revolution, November Midwest Association for Latin American Studies, Panama City, Panama 7

8 Their Own Cold War: The Dominican Exiles Struggle against Trujillo, November Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, GA A Hotter and Dirtier Kind of Cold War Down There: Reconsidering the Transnational Dimensions of the Cold War in the Greater Caribbean Basin, June Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lexington, KY Building a Dictator s Cold War: Imperialismo Dominicano in the Greater Caribbean Basin, April Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Durango, CO Containing Their Own Backyard: Dictators and Counterrevolutionary Exiles in the Early Cold War in Central America and the Caribbean, June Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA The Transnational Cold War between Exiles and Dictators in the Caribbean Basin in the 1940s and 1950s. April Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM The Vision of la Revolución del Caribe : The Transnational Anti-Dictatorship Ideology of Exiles in Central America and the Caribbean, January Radical Americas of the Institute of the Americas, London, England INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Costa Rica, Archival Research: Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica Biblioteca Enrique Guier Sáenz, Museo Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Centro de Investigaciones Centroamericanas, Universidad de Costa Rica Costa Rica, Interviews: Alberto Cañas, Former Costa Rican Ambassador to the Organization of American States Costa Rican Veterans of 1948 Costa Rican Civil War Descendant of Anti-Carías Honduran Exiles Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier, Costa Rican Ex-President Cuba, Archival Research: Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Archivo del Instituto de Historia de Cuba 8

9 Archivo Nacional de Cuba Biblioteca del Instituto de Historia de Cuba Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí Dominican Republic, Archival Research: Archivo Central de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo Archivo General de la Nación Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca Pedro Mir de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo Museo Memorial de la Resistencia Dominicana Dominican Republic, Interviews: Descendants of Anti-Trujillo Dominican Exiles England, Archival Research: National Archives, Kew, London Mexico, Archival Research: Archivo General de la Nación Archivo Histórico Genaro Estrada, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores Biblioteca Nacional de México Panama, Archival Research: Archivo del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Museo Biblioteca Archivo Ricardo J. Alfaro Puerto Rico, Archival Research: Archivo General y Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín LANGUAGES Spanish, Written and Conversational Fluency Portuguese, Written Competency PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Historical Association, AHA 9

10 Caribbean Studies Association, CSA Conference on Latin American History, CLAH Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, LACS-SHA Latin American Studies Association, LASA Organization of American Historians, OAH Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, RMCLAS Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, SHAFR Society for History Education, SHE Society for Latin American Studies, SLAS Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, SECOLAS World History Association, WHA PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Sturgis Leavitt Award Committee, Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, SECOLAS, TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record, Fall 2010 Spring 2013, Fall 2015 Spring 2017 University of Arkansas,, Fayetteville, Arkansas Upper-Level Courses: Modern Latin America, Colonial Latin America, World War II Lower-Level Courses: History of the American People since 1877, History of the American People to 1877, World Civilizations I, Honors World Civilizations II Senior Capstones: U.S.-Latin American Relations Freshmen Courses: University Perspectives Online Courses: History of the American People to 1877, History of the American People since 1877, World Civilizations I Adjunct Professor, Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Crowder College, Department of Social Sciences, McDonald County Campus, Jane, Missouri Lower-Level Course: World Regional Geography 10

2009 M.A., Latin American History, University of New Mexico

2009 M.A., Latin American History, University of New Mexico Academic Appointment Jason B. Kauffman Florida International University Department of History Deuxieme Maison, Room DM 397 11200 SW 8th Street Miami, FL 33199 305-348-2035 jkauffma@fiu.edu 2015 Visiting