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Mark Petersen, PhD

Mark Petersen, PhD

Associate Professor of History, Director of Latin American Studies

Phone: (972) 265-5857

Email: mpetersen@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #268

Office Hours: F 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

A native of Florida, Mark Petersen received his D.Phil. in History at the University of Oxford.  He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining the History faculty at ý in 2015.  His specialty is Latin America, Inter-American and Hemispheric History


EDUCATION

PhD, History, University of Oxford
M.Phil., Latin American Studies, University of Oxford
B.A., Modern History, University of Oxford

RECENT COURSES
HIS 1311 American Civilization I
HIS 1312 American Civilization II
HIS 3361 History of Mexico
HIS 3363 History of Latin America I
HIS 3364 History of Latin America II
HIS 4357 Age of Revolution
HIS 4357 Revolution in Latin America
HIS 4357 ST/Modern Latin America
HIS 4357 Inter American Relations 
HIS 4357 Social Justice in Latin America

PUBLICATIONS
With Carsten-Andreas Schulz. "Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean: The View from Elsewhere". In Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870, edited by Eduardo Posada-Carbo, Joanna Innes, and Mark Philp, 239-64. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Latin America, Inter-American Relations, and Hemispheric History  The Southern Cone and the Origins of Pan America, 1888-1933 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022).

"Architects, Exchange, and the Consolidation of Pan-American Cooperation, 1914-40" in The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations, ed. Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin, 22-44 (New York: Routledge, 2022).


“Militaries, Modernities, and 
Mesocracia: Reflections on the Rise of Middle Class Politics in Early-Twentieth-Century Latin America”.  In The Middle Class: Philosophical, Political, and Historical Perspectives, edited by 
José Espericueta, Joshua Parens, and Philipp Rosemann (San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020).

“Encontrando el balance: las visiones de la ciudad en América Latina, 1820-1920”. Translated by José Manuel Orozco. Revista Estudios 134 (Otoño 2020): 11-28.

Petersen and Carsten-Andreas Schulz. “Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism” Latin American Politics and Society 60:1 (January 2018): 102-27. 

“Instituciones e imágenes: política internacional” in Historia Política de Chile, 1810-2010: Historia del Estado. Edited by Francesca Rengifo and Iván Jaksic. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018.

"The Vanguard of Pan-Americanism: Inter-American Multilateralism in the Early Twentieth Century". In  Cooperation & Hegemony in US-Latin American Relations , ed. Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016): 111-37.

Argentine and Chilean Approaches to Modern Pan-Americanism, 1888-1930, PhD Dissertation, University of Oxford, 2014.