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:
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"The
Case of the Murdering Beauty:
Narrative Construction, Beauty Pageants, and the
Postrevolutionary Mexican National Myth (1921-1931).”
In
True Stories of Crime in Modern
“Virgin of Guadalupe” and
“Charlotte (Carlota de Bélgica).”
In Encyclopedia of Women in World History.
Edited by
Bonnie G. Smith.
New York and London:
Oxford University Press, 2008.
http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/HistoryofWomen/?view=usa&ci=9780195148909
“Dolores del Río,” and “Terrazas
Family” In The
Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.
–Mexico Divide, ed. Andrew G. Wood.
Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 2008.
http://www.gale.cengage.com/reference/lawrence/200812/encyc_culture_politics.htm
“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): 416-35.
“Presidential Ritual in
Porfirian Mexico:
Curtsying in the Shadow of Dictators.”
In
Heroes and
Hero Cults in
“Hombres de mundo.
La masculinidad y los
manuales de urbanidad y buenas maneras.”
In
Orden social e identidad de género en México, siglos XIX y XX.
Edited by María Teresa Fernández Aceves, Susie Porter, and
Carmen Ramos Escandón,
267-297. Guadalajara, Mexico:
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social and Universidad de Guadalajara, 2006.
http://libreria.mora.edu.mx/?q=node/28943
“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.
http://libreria.mora.edu.mx/?q=node/28009
“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.
Edited by 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.
http://www.fce.com.ar/ar/libros/detalleslibro.asp?IDL=5607
“A Note on Homosexuality in Porfirian and Postrevolutionary Northern Mexico.” In On the Border: Society and Culture Between the United States and Mexico. Edited by 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
“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.
http://swctr.web.arizona.edu/journal/
“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.
http://www.elpasohistory.com/
"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.
Forthcoming
Co-edited with Anne Rubenstein,
Many Men, Many
Editor, special issue of
Historia y Grafía, no. 30 (Spring 2009).
Dossier on Gender and Sexuality in Mexican History.
Work in
Progress
Gentes de Grandes Nombres:
The Mexican Aristocracy in the long-nineteenth century.
In Progress.
Co-edited with Anne
Rubenstein, Many Men, Many
“The Mexican Colony in
"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.
Mexico City:
El Colegio de México and Instituto Nacional de Estudios
Históricos sobre la Revolución Mexicana.
With Steven B. Bunker, “Ch. 3.
Consumption and Material Culture, The Mexican Experience,”
in A Companion to Mexican
History and Culture, ed. William H. Beezley.
Blackwell Publishing, under contract.
“Latin
American Victorianisms,” in
The Victorian World.
Edited by Martin Hewitt.
Routledge Worlds Series.