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:    (click on links for image and information)

"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 Mexico.   Edited by Robert Buffington and Pablo Piccato.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2009. http://www.unmpress.com/Book.php?id=10504291117548

“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.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v016/16.3macias-gonzalez.html

“Presidential Ritual in Porfirian Mexico:  Curtsying in the Shadow of Dictators.”  In  Heroes and  Hero Cults in Latin America.  Edited by Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, 83-108.  Austin:  The University of Texas Press, 2006. http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/bruher.html

“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.

http://books.google.com/books?id=7CSkPvsPWEEC&dq=on+the+border+society+and+culture&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=6n9oJgEivR&sig=90B7-6Y9NkBGDwX6INlQmooCyhA&hl=en&ei=t3SXSeHCMoTSMeP1tYQM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

“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.  Edited by Robert McKee-Irwin, Edward J. McCaughan, and  Michelle Rocío Nasser, 227-249.   New York:  Palgrave Press, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=TgfbUm37fCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+famous+41

“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 Mexicos:  Masculinity in Modern Mexican History. University of New Mexico Press Diálogos Latin American Series.

Editor, special issue of Historia y Grafía, no. 30 (Spring 2009).   Dossier on Gender and Sexuality in Mexican History.  Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

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 Mexicos:  Masculinity in Modern Mexican History.   In Progress, accepted for publication University of New Mexico Press Diálogos Latin American Series.

“The Mexican Colony in Paris during the III French Republic,  Memory, Gender, Space, and Consumption.” Université de Nantes, Migrations et sensibilités :  Les Français au Mexique (XVIIIème-XXIème siècles).

"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.