Dr. Todd Hartch: Vita

Todd F. Hartch

Assistant Professor of History
Eastern Kentucky University
E-mail: todd.hartch@eku.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D.	Yale University, History Department	2000
M.A.R.	Yale University, Divinity School	1995
B.A.	Yale University, English Department	1989

DISSERTATION

At the Service of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico, 1935-1985 Committee: Gilbert Joseph (Advisor); Lamin Sanneh; Stuart Schwartz.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

University of Notre Dame, Cushwa Center Research Travel Grant, 2005

Catholic University of America, Mohler Research Grant, 2005

Indiana University, Helm Research Fellowship, 2005

Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Library Scholars Fellowship, 2004

University Research Fellowship, Eastern Kentucky University, 2004

Pew Mentoring Fellowship, 2000-2003

Finalist, Best Dissertation related to American History, The Historical Society, 2001

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1999

Mellon Research Fellowship, Yale University, 1998

Coca-Cola World Fund Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1997

University Fellowship, Yale Graduate School, 1995-2000

PUBLICATIONS

Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and Indigenous Mexico (forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press in 2006).

“El Credo Revolucionario: David Berlanga and the Convention of Aguascalientes,” Paisano Online Journal 3 (Winter 2001).

Review of Susan Migden Socolow, The Women of Colonial Latin America. Journal of World History 12:2 (Fall 2001)

Review of Ross Hassig, Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico. Tesserae: Journal of Latin American and Iberian Studies 7:2 (2001).

Review of Simon Coleman, The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity: Spreading the Gospel of Prosperity. Religion. Forthcoming.

PRESENTATIONS

“Mexican Athens: Ivan Illich, Cuernavaca, and the Attack on Missions,” Midwestern Association of Latin American Studies, St. Louis, 5 November 2005.

“Common Goals: The Strange Partnership between Mexican Indigenistas and North American Fundamentalist Missionaries,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Nashville, Tennessee, 8 April 2005.

“Linguistics, Translation, and Protestant Evangelism in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas,” Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Columbus, 4 March 2005.

“Sown Among Thorns: American Missionary Failures in Mexico, 1950-1980,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Cookeville, Tennessee, 21 October 2004.

“American Fundamentalists, Mexican Nationalists, and the Secularization of Indigenous Mexico,” Midwestern Association for Latin American Studies, Charleston, Illinois, 7 November 2003.

“Missionary Scientists and Scientific Missionaries: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and Indigenismo in Mexico,” CHEIRON (Society for the History of the Social Sciences) Annual Meeting, Keene, New Hampshire, 19 June 2003.

“Protestantism as a Secularizing Influence in Twentieth Century Mexico,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3 January 2003.

“The Rise and Fall of Indigenismo: The Social Sciences, Religion and Indigenous Culture in Modern Mexico.” Mellon Program on Latin America, Harvard University, 27 April 2001.

“State Formation through Community Division: The Mexican State and the Summer Institute of Linguistics in an Otomi Community.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, 16 March 2000.

“Mexican History’s Blind Spot.” Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Conference, Mundelein, IL, 10 March 2000.

“A Faith Superior to the Cult of the Saints: Revolutionary Ideology and the Catholic Church in Mexico, 1910 to 1940.” Pew Younger Scholars Conference, Catholic University, Washington, DC, 21 May 1998.

TEACHING

Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, 2003 -
Teaching Latin American and American history. Honors Program Faculty and Mentor. Graduate Faculty. Academic Advisor.

Assistant Professor, Teikyo Post University (Waterbury, Connecticut), 2001-2003
Teaching World, United States, and Latin American history. Academic advisor. University Curriculum, Adult Education and Advancement Committees. NCAA Faculty Athletic Advisor. Faculty Advisor to American Politics Forum. Evaluating course proposals by adjunct faculty. Recruitment of prospective students. Secretary of Faculty Senate.

Lecturer, Yale University, 2001

Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut at Stamford, 2000

Teaching Fellow, Yale University, History Department, 1998

TEACHING AREAS

Mexico
United States-Mexican Relations
History of Christianity
Religion in Latin America
World History
United States

COURSES TAUGHT

Latin America in the National Period
Colonial Latin America
Latin America 1492-2000
Mexico 1492-2000
Mexico 1821-2000 (grad and undergrad)
Mexican Revolution 1910-1940
United States-Mexican Relations (grad and undergrad)
World Civilizations to 1600
World Civilizations from 1600
Western Civilization to 1600
Western Civilization from 1600
United States to 1877
United States from 1877
U.S. Civil War
American National Government
Comparative Politics
International Relations
First Year Foundations (Introduction to college life for first year students)

MEMBERSHIPS

Midwestern Association of Latin American Studies: Advisory Committee, Student Essay

Prize Committee

American Historical Association

American Society of Church History

American Academy of Religion

Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

LANGUAGES

Spanish (proficient); Portuguese (reading knowledge)

Last Updated: June 20, 2006 at 03:10 pm