MB 215; Fall 2005 office hours: Tues/Thurs. 1-2:15
phone: 512-863-1511
email: castrod@southwestern.edu

My area of specialization is Colonial Latin American history, with a secondary concentration in the history of revolutionary movements in Indoamerica.  I am interested in exploring the complex relationships evolving as a result of the of the encounter between Europe and America.  I have focused particular attention on the role played by religious reformers, the Inquisition, and the consequences of ecclesiastical imperialism in that New World gestated as a result of the encounter of two worlds.  My other academic interest focuses on the phenomenon of revolution as an agent of transformation in twentieth-century Indoamerica.  As an expression of my academic interests, I have edited Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerrilla Movements in Latin American History (Scholarly Resources, 1999) and I am currently under contract with Duke University to have Another Face of Empire: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Human Rights and Ecclesiastical Imperialism published in August, 2006.  I have written articles and presented academic papers about the Peruvian Inquisition, Indoamerican guerrillas, and Bartolomé de Las Casas.  Some of these articles include "Beatas, visionarios e imperialismo eclesiástico: María de Pizarro, Fray Francisco de la Cruz y otras inquisiciones," in Identidad, ciudadanía y participación popular desde la colonial al siglo XX, 2003.  “Bartolomé de Las Casas: Peacemaker in the ‘Land of War;’ ” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures,  2001.  "The Interminable War: Guerrilla Movements in Latin American History;" "The Iron Legions: Women and Armed Struggle in Peru, 1980-1992 " (all in Revolution and Revolutionaries, 1999). "Luchando por la otra mitad del cielo: Mujer y política en Amauta" (Simposio Internacional Amauta y su Época, Lima, Peru, 1998). "War is Our Daily Life: Women's Participation in Sendero Luminoso" (in Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History, Scholarly Resources, 1994), among others.  I am currently working on two book manuscripts Creole Utopia: Francisco de La Cruz, the Inquisition of Lima and the Politics of Mysticism (working title); the  Estimated date of completion is December 2006, and Idolized Revolution or Definitive Patriarchal Lie?: Revolution, Revolutionaries and Repression in Twentieth Century Latin America another manuscript, which should be finished in 2007.

Since coming to Southwestern I have had the opportunity to co-organize the 1999 Brown Symposium, "España y América: Cultural Encounter, Lasting Legacy," which featured author Carlos Fuentes and peace activist Rigoberta Menchú.  I have also had the privilege of being one of the founding members of the Latin American Studies program at Southwestern.

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Exploration, Discovery, and Colonization; Colonial and Modern Latin America; History of Mexico 1519-1920; Women in Colonial Latin America; Guerrilla Movements in Latin American History; History of Peru; Latin American History in Film and Literature;  Research Seminar: On Revolution; First year Seminar: Another Way of Seeing: Realities, "Surrealities", and Social Commitment in Film and Literature, (a first year seminar).

CONTACT:
Department of History
Daniel Castro, Jr., Chair
Southwestern University
P.O. Box 770
Georgetown, TX 78627