VICTOR M. MACIAS-GONZALEZ
Associate Professor
403J Wimberly Hall
608-785-8349
macias.vict@uwlax.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. History, Texas Christian University, 1999
- M.A. History, University of Texas at El Paso, 1995
- B.A. Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso 1992
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Hispanic Letters and Early Modern Europe.
- Hispanic Cultural Studies, particularly areas of Gender, Sexuality, Class,
- Masculinity in the Long Nineteenth Century, the Mexican Aristocracy, and
- Mexican Letters and Fine Arts.
Professional Interests:
- Director of the Institute for Latina/o and Latin American Studies (see the link provided on the History Home Page)
Publications:
“Masculine Friendships, Sentiment, and Homoerotics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: The Correspondence of José María Calderón y Tapia, 1820s-1850s,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, 3 (September 2007): 416-435.
“The Constitutional Curtsey: Ceremony and Symbolic Power in the Age of Porfirio Díaz.” In Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America, ed. Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, 83-108. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2006.
“Hombres de mundo. La masculinidad y los manuales de urbanidad y buenas maneras.” In Historia de mujeres y de género en México, ed. María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Susie Porter, and Carmen Ramos Escandón, 267-297. Guadalajara: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social and Universidad de Guadalajara, 2006.
“La homosexualidad y los baños de la ciudad de México.” In: Miradas recurrentes: La ciudad de México en los siglos XIX y XX, 2 vols. ed. María del Carmen Collado, vol. II: 293-310. Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, 2004.
“Apuntes sobre la construcción de la masculinidad en México a través del arte decimonónico.” In Hacia otra historia del arte en México. Vol. 2: La amplitud del modernismo y la modernidad, ed. Stacie Widdiefield and Esther Acevedo, 329-350. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and CURARE/Centro Crítico para las Artes, 2004.
“A Note on Homosexuality in Porfirian and Postrevolutionary Northern Mexico.” In On the Border: Society and Culture Between the United States and Mexico, ed. Andrew Grant Wood, 81-90. Lanham and London: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
“The Lagartijo at The High Life: Notes on Masculine Consumption, Race, Nation, and Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico.” In The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901, ed.Robert McKee-Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and Michelle Rocío Nasser, 227-249. New York: Palgrave Press, 2003.
“A Note on the Urban Geography of Homosexuality in Porfirian Mexico and Postrevolutionary Northern Mexico.” Journal of the Southwest. 43, 3 (Autumn 2001): 543-548.
“The Exile of the Chihuahuan Elite in El Paso, 1913-1936.” Password: The Journal of the El Paso County Historical Society. 45, 4 (Spring 2001): 175-195.
"El caso de la belleza asesina: concursos de belleza y la construcción de la nación en el México posrevolucionario, 1921-1931." Historia y Grafía 13 (November 1999): 113-154.
Co-authored with James B. Gardner, Claudia A. Rivers, and Rebecca McDowell Craver. Report on Scholarly Resources for the Study of Immigration and Migration Between Mexico and the United States. Washington, D.C.: James B. Gardner and Associates, 1998.
Work in Progress:
Gentes de Grandes Nombres: The Mexican Aristocracy in the long-nineteenth century. Work in Progress.
“The Case of the Beauty Queen and the Bigamous General: Miss Mexico 1928.” In Causes Célèbres in Mexico, ed. Robert Buffington and Pablo Picatto. University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming.
"El exilio de la elite mexicana durante la Revolución Mexicana en El Paso, Texas: El caso de la familia Terrazas." In El Exilio de la Revolución Mexicana, ed. Javier Garciadiego-Dantán and Victoria Lerner Sigal. El Colegio de México and Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos sobre la Revolución Mexicana, in press.