Overview
[Watercolor by Connor Craib, 2022]
I am a historian of modern Latin America with research and teaching interests in the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. My home department is History and I have affiliations with Romance Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Latino Studies and work with students from a wide range of disciplines and with a particular focus on the history of modern Latin America and the intersection of history, geography, and social theory.
Publications
Books:
Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press/Spectre, 2022). Spanish translation forthcoming with Prometeo Editorial (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and poetry in interwar Chile (Oxford University Press, 2016) Published in translation as: Santiago Subversivo 1920: Anarquistas, universitarios y la muerte de José Domingo Gómez Rojas. Trans. by Pablo Abufom Silva, LOM Ediciones, Chile, 2017
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke University Press, 2004). Published in translation as: México Cartográfico: Una historia de límites fijos y paisajes fugitivos. Trans. by Rossana Reyes, UNAM/Inst. de Geografía/CISAN, Mexico, 2014
Martirio, memoria, historia: Sobre los subversivos y la expulsión de Casimiro Barrios, 1920 (Santiago: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Serie Signos de la Memoria, 2015)
Edited books:
No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms [co-edited with Barry Maxwell] (PM Press, 2015). German translation, edition assemblage, forthcoming.
Recent essays:
“Escape Therapy,” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 2023)
“Blast Off,” Anarchist Review of Books (Fall 2022)
“The Brief Life and Watery Death of a ‘70s Libertarian Micronation,” Slate (May 21, 2022)
“Crypto Bros are Trying to Buy an Island in the Pacific,” Jacobin (April 22, 2022)
“Egotopia,” Counterpunch (Aug. 23, 2018)
"Lxs anarquistas," Latin American Research Review (2023)
In the news
- Twelve new Klarman Fellows to pursue innovative, timely research in A&S
- California Forever plans prove ‘colonizing spirit’ still exists
- Shadow of former dictatorship hangs heavy in Chile
- History department begins three-year active learning initiative
- Craib and Fiani win graduate, professional teaching prize
- Think twice before founding that free-market utopia
- Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships
- Book retrieval effort gives grad student welcome relief
- Six on faculty receive Einaudi Center grants for international work
- Einaudi Center welcomes new program directors
- Small grants fire up new research in the social sciences
- Einaudi Center to provide research help to doctoral students
- Historian to speak on American exceptionalism
- Catching the research bug
- Atkinson Center gives record number of seed research grants
- Social Science institute supports nine A&S faculty projects
