Christy Thornton Curriculum Vitae
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Education
| 2015 | PhD, New York University, Department of History |
| 2003 | Master of International Affairs, Columbia University Concentration in Economic and Political Development |
| 2002 | BA, Barnard College, Department of Political Science Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa |
Professional Appointments
| 2018- | Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
| 2017-2018 | Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University |
| 2017-2018 | Assistant Research Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University |
| 2015-2017 | Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, Rowan University |
Select Publications
Manuscript
| In progress, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Under contract with the University of California Press. |
Journal Articles & Chapters
| 2018 | “A Mexican International Economic Order? Tracing the Hidden Roots of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 9 (3): 389-421. |
| 2018 | “‘Mexico Has the Theories’: Latin America and the Invention of Development in the 1930s,” in The Development Century: A Global History, Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela, eds. (New York: Cambridge), 263-282. |
| 2017 | “Voice and Vote for the Weaker Nations: Mexico’s Bretton Woods,” in Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War World Order, G. Scott-Smith and J. Simon Rofe, eds. (London: Palgrave MacMillan), 149-165. |
| Forthcoming | “Responding to a Revolution: The ‘Mexican Question’ in the United States,” A Companion to U.S. Foreign Policy, Colonial Era to the Present, Chris Dietrich, ed. (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell). |
Review Essays
| 2018 | Review of Maria-Aparecida Lopes and María Cecilia Zuleta, eds., Mercados en común. Estudios sobre conexiones transnacionales, negocios y diplomacia en las Américas (México, D.F.: El Colegio de México, 2016), Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. |
| 2018 | Review of Tore Olsson, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2017), Journal of Peasant Studies 45:3, and H-Diplo Roundtable. |
| 2016 | Review of Alan McPherson and Yannick Wehrli, Beyond Geopolitics: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015), H-Diplo, May 2016. |
Volumes Edited
| 2009 | Co-editor, Real World Latin America: A Contemporary Economics and Social Policy Reader. Boston: Dollars & Sense. |
| 2005 | Co-editor, The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach. New York: Social Science Research Council. |
Fellowships and Awards
| 2019 | Faculty Center Award for Excellence in Faculty Advising, Rowan University |
| 2018 | Dean’s Interdisciplinary Project Grant, Latin America in a Globalizing World Initiative, Johns Hopkins University (with Casey Lurtz, Bécquer Seguin, Alessandro Angelini) |
| 2017 | WIGH Fellowship, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations, Harvard University |
| 2017 | Mellon Fellowship in Comparative Revolutions, Brandeis University (declined) |
| 2017 | Frances R. Lax Award for Faculty Development, Rowan University |
| 2015 | Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) |
| 2014 | Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
| 2014 | Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, NYU GSAS (declined) |
| 2013 | History Project Research Grant Harvard Center for History and Economics / Institute for New Economic Thinking |
| 2013 | Dissertation Research Grant, New York University Department of History |
| 2012 | International Dissertation Research Fellowship Social Science Research Council |
| 2012 | Pre-doctoral Research Grant, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| 2012 | Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) |
| 2011 | Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Research Grant |
| 2010 | Alumni Fellowship, Barnard College Alumnae Association |
| 2009 | McCracken Fellowship, New York University |
| 2002 | Phi Beta Kappa |
| 2001 | Harry S. Truman Scholarship |
Invited Talks
| 2019 | The New School for Social Research, Department of Sociology, “Historical Sociology from the South: Perspectives and the New School Legacy.” |
| 2017 | Yale University, Council of Iberian and Latin American Studies: “Mexico has the Theories: The Latin American Origins of Development in the United States.” |
| 2017 | Temple University, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy: “Neoliberalism and the Narco-State: The Political Economy of U.S.-Mexican Relations Today.” |
| 2017 | Tamiment Library Cold War Seminar: “Not Just Rights, but Duties: Mexico and the New International Economic Order.” |
| 2017 | Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology: “Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy.” |
| 2017 | The New School for Social Research, Janey Program in Latin American Studies: “Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy.” |
| 2015 | University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Social Theory and Comparative History: “Mexico: Popular Resistance, the Narco-state and the U.S.” |
| 2014 | Baruch College, CUNY, Department of History: “A New Legal and Philosophic Conception of Credit:” The International Impact of Mexico’s Vision of Debt, Finance and Development in the 1930s.” |
Select Conference Presentations
| 2019 | American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, PEWS Session on South-South Flows, “A Charter for Economic Decolonization: Mexico, the Third World, and the Contradictions of South-South Development Cooperation.” |
| 2019 | Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA: “‘The Solidarity We Demand is a Condition of Survival’: Mexico, the United States, and the Global Economy in the 1970s.” |
| 2019 | The Making of a World Order Conference, American University in Paris: “‘Mexico is our Balkan Peninsula’: The United States Confronts the Mexican Revolution in the League of Nations Debate.” |
| 2018 | American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Section on Sociology of Development Roundtable Session: “Fue el Estado: Social Movements and Neoliberal Development in Mexico.” |
| 2018 | Comparative & Historical Sociology Mini-Conference, Philadelphia, PA: “Capitalist Crisis and Global Economic Governance: Reform from the South.” |
| 2018 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain: “Overcoming the Decolonization Divide: Mexico, Latin America, and the New International Economic Order.” |
| 2018 | Conferencia Internacional: Democracia y Autoritarismo en México y el Mundo, UNAM, Mexico City: “Retos democráticos en México hacia las elecciones de 2018.” |
| 2018 | Revising the Geography of Modern World Histories conference, York University, York, UK: “Overcoming the Decolonization Divide: Mexico, Latin America, and the New International Economic Order.” |
| 2018 | The United States and Global Capitalism in the Twentieth Century Conference, Fordham University, New York, NY: “‘Give Them a Share’: The Latin American Origins of Development in the United States.” |
| 2018 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC: Roundtable Presentation: “Economic Sovereignty and the Decolonization Divide.” |
| 2017 | Harvard University, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History Seminar: “A Mexican New International Economic Order?” |
| 2017 | Global Histories of Capital: New Perspectives on the Global South Conference, New York University, New York, NY: “‘Taking Seriously the Needs and Wishes of the Debtor Countries’: Mexican Advocacy for International Development in the 1930s.” |
| 2017 | Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA: Roundtable presentation, “Economic Sovereignty, the Third World, and U.S. Foreign Relations.” |
| 2017 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, Denver, CO: “‘Taking Seriously the Needs and Wishes of the Debtor Countries’: Mexican Interwar Advocacy for International Development.” |
| 2016 | Histories of Capitalism 2.0, Cornell University History of Capitalism Initiative Conference, Ithaca, NY: “‘Mexico has the Theories’: Debt, Finance, and Development in the 1930s.” |
| 2016 | Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA: “A Mexican New International Economic Order?” |
| 2016 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY: “Mexico’s Influence on New Deal Conceptions of Debt, Credit and Development.” |
| 2016 | Seminario Internacional: América Latina y el Internacionalismo Ginebrino de Entreguerras, Universidad Michoacana San Nicolas de Allende, Morelia, Mexico: “‘Voz y voto para los países débiles’: México en Bretton Woods.” |
| 2015 | Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Roundtable: Reevaluating Economic ‘Turning Points’ in 20th Century Latin America |
| 2014 | The UN and the Post-War Global Order: Bretton Woods in Perspective, Roosevelt Study Center Conference, Middelburg, Netherlands: “Mexico at Bretton Woods: Postwar Planning and the Influence of the United States’ Southern Neighbor.” |
| 2014 | Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico: “Post-War Planning from the South: Mexico Comes to Bretton Woods.” |
| 2014 | Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference: “‘A New Legal and Philosophic Conception of Credit’: Economic Development from the Inter-American Bank to Bretton Woods.” |
| 2014 | American (Inter)Dependencies: New Perspectives on Capitalism and Empire, 1898-1959, Conference at New York University: “Debt, Trade and Reciprocality: Competing Visions for the Hemispheric Economy at the 1933 Montevideo Conference.” |
| 2014 | American Historical Association Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History: “‘A New Legal and Philosophic Conception of Credit’: Mexico, the Inter-American Bank, and the Origins of Multilateral Development.” |
| 2013 | Latin American History Graduate Student Conference, New York University: “A Revolution Uninvited: Mexico, The Paris Peace Conference, and the Question of Sovereignty.” |
| 2013 | Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference: “Sovereignty, Property Rights, and (Inter)Nationalism: Mexico Crashes Versailles.” |
| 2012 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference: “Mexico comes to Bretton Woods: Multilateral Liberalism, Development, and Empire.” |
| 2012 | Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference: “Mexico comes to Bretton Woods: Multilateral Liberalism, Development, and Empire.” |
| 2011 | Latin American History Graduate Student Conference, Yale University: “Before Bretton Woods: Building a Multilateral Financial Institution Between Two Financial Empires.” |
Session Chair and Comment
| 2019 | Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA: Comment for Panel “Between Nationalism and Internationalism: Latin America, the United States, and the Third World” |
| 2019 | New School for Social Research Sociology Graduate Conference, Ruptures and Continuities: Historical Change in a Contested World: Comment for Panel “Global Capital and Empire.” |
| 2018 | American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA: Presider for Regular Session on Development |
| 2018 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC: Comment for panel “Spain, Latin America, and the Trans-Atlantic Cold War.” |
| 2017 | Tamiment Library Cold War Seminar, New York, NY: Comment on Eric Zolov, “Flirting with Neutralism: The Spirit of Bandung in Mexican National Politics, 1960-1961.” |
| 2017 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, Denver, CO: Comment for the panel “Transnational Perspectives on the Making of 20th Century Latin American Nationalisms.” |
| 2016 | Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA: Chair and comment for panel “Economic History in Alliances and Empires” |
| 2014 | Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico: Comment for panel, “The Logics of Otherness: Mestizaje, Consumption and Gender.” |
Events Organized
| 2018 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, Washington, DC, Roundtable: “Historical Perspectives on Sovereignty in the Americas.” |
| 2017 | American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting/Conference on Latin American History, Denver, CO, Panel: “Mexico on the World Economic Stage.” |
| 2016 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY, Panel: “A conversation with Noam Chomsky on the 30th Anniversary of the Managua Lectures.” |
| 2015 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, San Juan, PR, Roundtable: “Reevaluating Economic ‘Turning Points’ in 20th Century Latin America.” |
| 2014 | American (Inter)Dependencies: New Perspectives on Capitalism and Empire, 1898-1959, Conference at New York University, funded by a grant from the Humanities Initiative, co-organized with Joshua Frens-String and Augustine Sedgewick |
| 2014 | Conference on Latin American History Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Panel: “Post-Depression Histories of Social Welfare in the Americas.” |
| 2013 | Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, Panel: “Reciprocal Impact: Inter-American Capitalisms and U.S. Empire in the 20th Century.” |
| 2012 | Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Panel: “Inter-American System to World System: Some Economic Aspects of New Deal Diplomacy Reconsidered,” co-organized with Joshua Frens-String. |
| 2012 | Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, Hartford, CT, Panel: “The Mexican Revolution, the United States, and the World: South-North Political and Intellectual Transfers, 1925-1945.” |
Teaching
Certificate in Teaching and Learning, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU
| 2019 | Capitalism, Dependency, and Development in Latin America |
| 2018 | Graduate Seminar in Macro/Comparative & Historical Sociology |
| 2018 | Political Economy of Drugs and Drug Wars |
| 2017 | Senior Seminars in History, International Studies |
| 2016 | Introduction to International Studies |
| 2016 | Modern Latin American History |
| 2015 | World History Since 1500: Trade, Commodities, and the History of Global Capitalism |
| 2015 | Colonial Latin American History |
| 2013 | Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Latin America |
| 2012 | Teaching Assistant: Cultures and Contexts: Brazil |
| 2012 | Graduate Assistant: Presidential Scholars Sophomore Research Seminar in Buenos Aires |
Professional and University Service
| 2020 | Chair, Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History Selection Committee, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) |
| 2019 | Program Track Co-chair, Latin American Studies Association, Political Institutions and Processes Track |
| 2018 | Graduate Placement Committee, Department of Sociology; Faculty Search Committee Member and Diversity Advocate, Department of History; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University |
| 2016– | Manuscript reviewer: International Politics; Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development;University of Regina Press; Brill Historical Materialism Series |
| 2015 | Advisory Board, International Studies Program, Rowan University |
| 2015 | Co-chair, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), “Area Studies: Critical and Historical Analysis” Program Track |
| 2015– | Host, New Books in History and Latin American Studies Podcasts, New Books Network |
| 2013 | Member, NYU History Graduate Teaching Collaborative |
| 2009– | Member, Editorial Board, NACLA Report on the Americas |
| 2009 | Media Awards Committee, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) |
Other Professional Experience & Affiliations
| Executive Director, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) June 2005–September 2009, New York, NY |
| Program Coordinator in Applied Economics/International Forum for Development, Social Science Research Council June 2004–June 2005, New York, NY |
| Board of Directors, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) |
| Member, American Sociological Association, Sections: Development, Comparative & Historical, Global & Transnational, Political Economy of the World System |
| Member, Latin American Studies Association |
| Member, American Historical Association |
| Member, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations |
Foreign Languages
| Spanish (fluent, reading, writing, speaking) |
| Portuguese (proficient reading, writing, speaking) |