K. Aaron Van Oosterhout, Ph.D.

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1 K. Aaron Van Oosterhout, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Department of History 1881 Sheridan Rd. Evanston, IL kaaronvano.com Education Ph.D., History, Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan), 2014 Dissertation: Popular Conservatism in Mexico: Religion, Land, and Popular Politics in Nayarit and Querétaro, B.A. magna cum laude, Spanish major and Journalism minor, The University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana), 2005 Visiting student, La Universidad de las Americas (Cholula, Puebla, Mexico), fall 2003 Teaching experience Visiting Assistant Professor Northwestern University Modern Latin America in the Colonial Period, c c. 1821, fall 2016 Religion and Deviance in Latin America, winter 2017 Race and Rebellion in Latin America, spring 2017 Hope College Cultural Heritage II: From Don Quixote to the Drug War, fall 2015, spring 2016 World Civilization II, spring 2015 Cultural Heritage II: Reformation to Revolution, spring 2015 Cultural Heritage II: Authority and the Individual, spring 2015 Instructor Michigan State University Historical Methods and Skills: Race and Rebellion in Latin America, fall 2014 Western Michigan University Topics in Latin American History: The Conquest of Mexico, spring 2011

2 Teaching Assistant Michigan State University *The U.S. and the World, spring 2012 *Latin America and the World, fall 2011 *Asia and the World, spring 2011 *Time, Space, and Change in Human Society: Latin America since 1500, fall 2010 Introduction to the Drug War (online course), summers 2010, 2011 African American History Since 1876, spring 2010 *World History since 1500, fall 2009 *Duties included leading three weekly recitation sections of 25 students each lecturing on course content and conducting workshops on writing skills as well as grading assignments. Publications Journal articles Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Confraternities and Popular Conservatism on the Frontier: Mexico s Sierra del Nayarit in the Nineteenth Century. The Americas 71:1 (July 2014): Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron, and Benjamin T. Smith. The Limits of Catholic Science and the Mexican Revolution. Endeavour 34:2 (June 2010): Book chapters Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Cofradías y conservadurismo popular en el Nayarit decimonónico, in a forthcoming edited volume from the Colegio de Hidalgo. Book reviews Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Review of The Lawyer of the Church: Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma, by Pablo Mijangos y González. Catholic Historical Review 102:1 (winter 2016): Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Review of We Are Now the True Spaniards : Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, , by Jaime E. Rodríguez O, and The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, by James E. Sanders. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, forthcoming. Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Land, Politics, and Rebellion in Mexico s Huasteca Potosina. Review of For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca, by Mark Saad Saka. A Contracorriente, forthcoming.

3 Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Review of Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War, by Julia G. Young. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, forthcoming. Van Oosterhout, K. Aaron. Review of Popular Politics and Rebellion in Mexico: Manuel Lozada and La Reforma, , by Zachary Brittsan. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, forthcoming. Select scholarly presentations Afro-Indigeneity in Mexico: Race, Identity, and Rebellion in 19th-Century Nayarit, Latin American Studies Association Congress, New York, New York, Church-State Compromise and Conflict in Western Mexico: Religion and Land in Jalisco, , Great Lakes Latin American History Workshop, Grand Valley State University, 2015 (invited). Popular Conservatism in Mexico: Religion, Land, and Popular Politics in Nayarit and Querétaro, , Colloquium Series, Hope College History Department, 2015 (invited). Cofradías y conservadurismo popular en el Nayarit decimonónico, Coloquio Internacional Formación, desarrollo y conflictos de la Iglesia católica en las regiones de México, siglos XIX y XX, Colegio de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 2014 (invited). Looking at Those Who Know How to Die for Religion : The Sierra Gorda de Querétaro, , Latin American Studies Association Congress, Chicago, Illinois, 2014 (panel organizer, Popular Conservatism in Mexico, ). Commenter on panel Memory and Material Culture in the Atlantic World, International Graduate Historical Studies Annual Conference, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 2014 (invited). Scrambled Indians : Race, Identity, and Rebellion in Western Mexico, , Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations: A Symposium on the Atlantic World, Rice University, Houston, Texas, To Sustain the Divine Cult of the Holy Church : Land, Religion, and Popular Conservatism in Nayarit, , Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Park City, Utah, 2012 (invited). Dedicados a sostener el culto divino de la Sta. Yglesia : conservadurismo popular y la defensa de religión en la Reforma y el Segundo Imperio, , Seminario Los Actores de la Nación: Religión y Revolución, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2012 (invited).

4 The Church under Siege: Popular Conservatism and Defense of Religion in the Mexican Reform Period, , American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Land, Church, and Popular Rebellion in Nayarit, , Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The World and Manuel Lozada: A Social History of Rebellion and the Creation of Nayarit and the Diocese of Tepic, , Academia San Juan de Letrán Annual Meeting, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, Public presentations A Brief History of Brazil, Hope Academy of Senior Professionals Great Decisions series, Holland, Michigan, 2015 (invited). Querétaro and Holland: Histories of the Sister Cities, Hispanic Heritage Month Progressive Event, Holland, Michigan, 2015 (invited). Introduction to the film Colosio: el asesinato, Tulipanes Latino Art and Film Festival, Holland, Michigan, 2015 (invited). Fellowships and grants Andrew W. Mellon Foundation International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Predissertation Travel Award, Michigan State University, 2009 University Distinguished Fellowship, Michigan State University, Research experience Freelance research assignment, over-incarceration in Michigan (in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan); judicial archives, inmate interviews in numerous prisons across Michigan; summer 2016 Freelance research assignment, Cold War-era covert U.S. monitoring of Mexican journalists; National Archives at College Park, Maryland; summer 2015 Freelance research assignment, 1970s U.S. drug policy and interdiction efforts in Mexico; Gerald R. Ford Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan; spring 2015

5 Dissertation research, construction of race and class, anti-state popular movements in Mexico; Church and state archives in Tepic, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Querétaro, Mexico; Austin, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; summer 2009, summer 2011, academic year Oaxaca Summer Institute, instruction in archival research; Oaxaca, Mexico, 2009 Professional activities Ad Hoc Article Reviewer, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, February 2015 present Volunteer community service Vice-Chair, International Relations Commission of the City of Holland, Michigan, appointed June 2015 June 2018 Translator, Research Consultant, Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates, Holland, Michigan, 2015 present ESL Teacher, La Casa de Amistad, South Bend, Indiana, 2004 ESL, Technology Teacher, Centro de Readaptación Social, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 2003 Translator, Consulado Móvil of the Chicago Consulate of Mexico, 2003 Professional memberships Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association (2015 present) Latin American Studies Association (2011-present) Languages Spanish (fluent) Portuguese (reading knowledge) Russian (beginner)