Emmanuel College

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 Javier F. Marion

Javier F. Marion

Chair, Department of History; Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., M.A., B.A., University of New Mexico

Office hours: By appointment

Office: Administration Building, Room 360
Phone: (617) 264-7638
E-mail: marionj@emmanuel.edu

Current Research

My research interests include the evolution of regional and national identities in Latin America and the American West. I am particularly interested in the ways that ethnic, class, and gender lines blur during periods of social conflict. My current research explores the notions of nationalism and political identity as they evolved among indigenous communities and other rural groups during the wars of independence (1809-1825) in the Andean region of South America.

Courses Taught

  • HIST2122 - History of Colonial Latin America
  • HIST2125 - History of Modern Latin America
  • HIST2701 - Historical Methods & Research
  • HIST3121 - Surviving Columbus: 500 Years of Indigenous History
  • HIST3205 - Themes in the American West
  • HIST3225 - Themes in Latin American History
  • HIST4000 - Historiography Seminars
  • FYS1101 - Call of the Wild: An Introduction to American Environmental History

Significant Publications/Presentations/Panels

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

  • "Nascent Nations: The Ayopaya Rebellion and the Forging of the Bolivian State, 1800-1830," (forthcoming book manuscript)
  • "Forging a Guerilla Nation," Gender and Race, Empire and a Nation: A Documentary History on the Making of Latin America, eds. Erin E. O'Connor and Leo J. Garofalo, (Prentiss Hall, 2010)
  • "Indios Blancos: Nascent Polities and Social Convergence in Bolivia's Ayopaya Rebellion, 1814-1821," Colonial Latin American Historical Review, vol. 15, no. 4 (Fall/Otõno 2006)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS/PANELS

  • "Loyalism, Liberalism, and Revolutions: The Cádiz Court and Latin American Independence," in series of conferences entitled "Art, History, Politics and the Beginning of Modernity in the Hispanic World," Emmanuel College, Boston, (Oct., 2009)
  • "‘Tending to their Fields,' Community and Political Legitimacy in Sicasica, 1814-1818," American Historical Association (AHA/ CLAH), Washington DC, (Jan., 2008)
  • "Che and Bolivia's Guerrilla Nationalism," in "Che: the Man, the Myth, the Brand," presented by the Latin American Studies Minor, Emmanuel College, Boston, (Nov., 2007)
  • "El Diario del ‘Tambor Várgas': Contextualizing Localized Expressions of Dissent." Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, (Sept., 2007)
  • "Patronage, Identity, and Peasant Politics in Insurgent Bolivia, 1800-1830," International Congress of Americanists (ICA), Seville, Spain, (July, 2006)
  • "Imagining a Peasant ‘Republic': The Ayopaya Insurgency, 1814-1818," Latin American Studies Association (LASA) San Juan, Puerto Rico (March, 06). Also presented as a Faculty Seminar, Emmanuel College, (Feb., 2007)
  • "Participación popular en la guerrilla de Ayopaya, 1815-1820," Archivo Historico de Cochabamba, Bolivia (Aug., 2005)
  • "Patronage, Reciprocity, and the Devolution of the State in Insurgent Ayopaya, 1810-1820," in American Historical Association conference (CLAH), San Francisco, CA (Jan., 2002)
  • "The Soil on Which We Walk And on Which We Live: Rural Expressions of Patria in Insurgent Ayopaya, 1810-1825" in Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies (RMCLAS), Tucson, AZ (Jan. 2001)