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Curriculum Vitae
Adrian Shubert
Department of History
York University
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
Canada
Present Position:
Professor of History
Degrees:
1982, PhD, History, Queen Mary College, University of London,
1978, MA, Comparative Social History, University of Warwick
1976, MA, History, University of New Mexico
1975, BA, History, University of Toronto
Awards:
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, September 2013
Leadership in Internationalization, Canadian Bureau for International Education,
November 2009
Comendador de la Orden de Mérito Civil (awarded by King Juan Carlos of Spain),
April 1999
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1997-1998
York University Faculty of Arts Leave Fellowship, 1997-1998 (declined)
Nave Fellowship, Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison, October
1994
SSHRC Research Grant, 1992-1995
Canada Research Fellowship, 1987-1990
Ministry of Culture (Spain), Publication Grant, 1986
York University Faculty of Arts Research Grant, 1985-1986
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 1983-1985
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary,
1982-1983
Vicente Cañada Blanch Fellowship, University of London, 1981-1982
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 1978-1981
William Lyon Mackenzie King Travelling Fellowship, 1977-1978
S.F. Buckland Memorial Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1975
Teaching Experience:
Professor, Department of History, York University, 1994Visiting Professor, Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), 1994
Associate Professor, Department of History, York University, 1991-1994
Assistant Professor, Department of History, York University, 1985-1991
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Teaching Fields:
Modern Europe
History of Spain
European Social History
Transnational and World History
Recently Taught Courses:
HIST 2300 Modern Europe
HIST 3392 The Spanish Civil War
HIST 5590 Transnational and History
HIST 6040 Modern Europe Field Course
HIST 6041 Issues in 19th and 20th Century Mediterranean Europe
Publications
A. Books:
Europe in the 20th Century, (San Diego, Bridgepoint, 2012), with Robert J. Goldstein
A las Cinco de la Tarde: Historia de la Corrida de Toros, (Madrid, Turner, 2002), 300
pages
The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections, (Toronto, Gage, 2002), 500
pages, with Arthur Haberman
Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of Spanish Bullfighting, (New York, Oxford
University Press, 1999), 270 pages.
Spain at War: the Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939, (London, Longmans, 1995),
co-authored with George Esenwein, 289 pages
The Land and People of Spain, (New York, HarperCollins, 1992), 256 pages
Historia social de Espana, 1800-1990, (Madrid, Nerea, 1991), 390 pages
A Social History of Modern Spain, 1800-1982, (London and Boston, Unwin-Hyman,
1990), 292 pages
- second printing by Routledge, 1993
The Road to Revolution in Spain. The Coal Miners of Asturias, 1860-1934,
(Champaign-Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1987), 185 pages
Hacia la revolución. Orígenes sociales del movimiento obrero en Asturias, 1860-1934,
(Barcelona, Crítica, 1984), 174 pages
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B. Edited Collections:
Canada’s Universities go Global, (Halifax, Lorimer, 2009), with Roopa Desai-Trilokaker
and Glenn Jones
The West and the World since 1500: Selected Readings , (Toronto, Gage, 2003), 310
pages, with Arthur Haberman
The Historical Practice of Diversity: Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern
Mediterranean World to the Twentieth-Century Postcolonial World, with Dirk Hoerder
and Christiane Harzig, (New York, Berghan, 2003), 278 pages
Negotiating Nations: Exclusions, Networks, Inclusions, special issue of Histoire
sociale/Social History, Dec. 2000, with Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
Spanish History since 1800, with José Alvarez Junco, (London, Edward Arnold, 2000)
Spectacle, Monument and Memory, special issue of Histoire sociale/Social History, Nov.
1997, with Nicholas Rogers
C. Chapters in Books:
“José Alvarez Junco: un historiador transatlántico” in Miguel Martorrel and Javier
Moreno, eds., Pueblo y nación: homenaje a José Alvarez Junco, (Madrid, Taurus, 2013),
pp. 309-15, with Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
“North of 49: Global citizenship a la canadienne”, in Ross Lewin, ed., The Handbook of
Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global
Citizenship, (New York, Routledge, 2009), with Roopa Desai-Trilokekar
“Introducción”, Conde de Romanones, Espartero. El general del pueblo, (Vitoria,
Lusiger, 2007)
“Treading the Spanish Earth: Using Propaganda Films in the Classroom”, in Noel Valis,
ed., Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, (New York, MLA, 2007)
“Bullfighting” in Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History, (Sanra Barbara,
ABC-CLIO, 2005)
“El toreo en la historia española”, in Javier Paniagua, ed., De toros, toreros y tendidos,
(Valencia, UNED, 2004)
“Cu-Cut! Incident”, in D. Jones, ed., Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, (London, Fitzroy
Dearborn, 2001)
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“The Liberal State” in P. Stearns, ed., Scribner’s Encyclopedia of European Social
History, (New York, Scribner’s, 2001)
“Espartero: del ídolo al olvido”, in Isabel Burdiel and Manuel Pérez Ledesma, eds.,
Agitadores, conspiradores y revolucionarios, (Madrid, Espasa, 2000)
"Spain" in R.J. Goldstein, ed., The Battle for the Public Mind: Censorship in 19th-Century
Europe, (New York, Praeger, 2000)
"The Spaniards", in The Peoples of Canada: An Encyclopedia for the Country, (Toronto,
Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1999) with Antonio Cazorla
"Iberia", in American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature, (New York,
Oxford University Press, 1995) with Richard Kagan
"A Community Divided: the Social Development of the Asturian Coalfields to 1934", in K.
Tenfelde, ed., Sozialgeschichte des Bergbaus in 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, (Munich, C.H.
Beck, 1992), pp. 284-93
"Asturias", "Marcelino Camacho" and “Juan March" in R.W. Kern, ed., Historical
Dictionary of Modern Spain, (New York, Greenwood Press, 1990), pp. 51-55, 97-99,
320-321
"Civil War, Revolution and Foreign Corporations: the Case of 'La Canadiense'", in
Historia, Literatura, Pensamiento: Estudios en homenaje a María Dolores Gómez
Molleda, (Salamanca, 1990), 461-74
"Reinterpreting the Spanish Popular Front: the Case of Asturias", in M. Alexander and H.
Graham, eds., The Popular Front in France and Spain, (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 1989), pp. 213-225
"La Epopeya Trágica. La Revolución Asturiana de 1934", in P. Preston, ed., Guerra y
Revolución en España, 1931-1939, (Madrid, Alianza, 1986), pp.101-120
"Entre Arboleya y Comillas: El Fracaso del Sindicalismo Católico en Asturias", in
Octubre 1934, (Madrid, Alianza, 1985), pp. 243-252
"The Epic Failure: The Asturian Revolution of October 1934", in P. Preston, ed.,
Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939, (London, Methuen, 1984), pp. 113-136
"Private Initiative in Law Enforcement. Associations for the Prosecution of Felons,
1744-1856", in V. Bailey, ed., Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain,
(London, Croom Helm and New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1981), pp. 25-41
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D. Articles (Refereed):
“Being – and Staying – Famous in 19th-century Spain: Baldomero Espartero and the
Birth of Political Celebrity”, Historia y Política, (forthcoming)
“Sports and Pastimes in Spain”, Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe,
(University of Leiden, forthcoming)
“Spanish history in North America”, Mélanges de la casa de Velásquez, (Forthcoming)
“Lost in Digitization”, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,
(forthcoming, December 2014)
“Women Warriors and National Heroes: Agustina de Aragón and her Indian Sisters”,
Journal of World History, June 2012, pp. 279-313
“The Pursuit of Exotica: A Comment”, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study
Abroad, Winter 2007, pp. 197-201
“American Exceptionalism and the Teaching of European History”, Perspectives,
(November 2006), with Arthur Haberman
“The Teaching of European History”, American Historical Association Perspectives,
October 2005, with Arthur Haberman
“Spanish historians and English-speaking scholarship”, Social History, (August 2004)
“A inmigración española en Canadá: unha vision de conxunto”, in Estudios Migratorios,
December 2000, pp. 9-26 (with Antonio Cazorla)
“En la vanguardia del ocio comercializado de masas: la corrida de toros en España,
siglos XVIII y XIX”, Historia social, Fall 2001
“A inmigración española en Canadá: unha vision de conxunto”, in EStudios Migratorios,
December 2000, pp. 9-26 (with Antonio Cazorla)
"La historiografía contemporánea en Norteamérica", Ayer, 1999
“O Franquismo Vai a Feira: O Regime Franquista as Feiras Mundiais e as Imagens da
Nacao", Penelope, 1999
"The Spanish Civil War: New Questions for Old?", Peasant Studies, (Summer, 1991), pp.
279-290
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"'Charity Properly Understood': Changing Ideas Towards Poor Relief in Nineteenth
Century Spain", Comparative Studies in Society and History, (January, 1991), pp. 36-55
"Autobiografía obrera e historia social", Historia Social, 1990, pp. 141-159
"Observaciones sobre el socialismo en Asturias", Anales de Historia, 1988, pp. 119-138
"Anarchism and Civil War in Spain: a Review Essay", International Labor and Working
Class History, Spring 1985, pp. 77-82
"The Threat to Spanish Democracy" A Historical Perspective on the Military in Politics",
Armed Forces and Society, Summer 1984, pp. 529-544
"Nuevos enfoques sobre la beneficencia en la España del Siglo XIX", Estudia
Zamorensia, 1984, pp. 325-336
"A Militancia dos Mineiros: Teoria e Realidade. O Caso dos Mineiros do Carvao das
Asturias", Boletim de Estudos Operarios, July 1984, pp. 1-11
"Spanish Labor Historiography, 1979-1982", International Labor and Working Class
History, Spring 1983, pp. 9-20
"Revolution in Self-Defence: The Radicalization of the Asturian Coal Miners,
1921-1934", Social History, October 1982, pp. 265-282
"The Social Origins of Labour Militancy in Asturias, 1860-1914", European Studies
Review, April 1982, pp. 167-185
"Una revolución de autodefensa. La radicalización de los mineros asturianos,
1921-1934", Sistema, January 1982, pp. 103-120
"Los raices sociales del radicalismo obrero en Asturias, 1860-1914", Estudios de
Historia Social, January 1981, pp. 229-240
"Oil Companies and Governments: International Reaction to the Nationalization of the
Petroleum Industry in Spain, 1927-1930", Journal of Contemporary History, October
1980, pp. 701-720
E. Articles (Not Refereed):
"En el Feudo del Marqués de Comillas. La Práctica Social de la Hullera Española", in
Cuadernos del Norte, May-June 1982, pp. 82-93
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F. Reviews:
In the following journals:
American Historical Review
Journal of Modern History
Cultural and Social History
Labour/Le Travail
Canadian Journal of History
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool)
Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Glasgow)
European Studies Review
European History Quarterly
Canadian Historical Review
Southern European Society and Politics
Catholic Historical Review
Cuadernos del Norte
San Jose (California) Mercury
Diario de Noticias (Lisbon)
G. Other:
“The Reign in Spain: Felipe must defend the legitimacy of the crown”, Globe and Mail
(online edition), June 5, 2014, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/thereign-in-spain-felipe-must-defend-legitimacy-of-the-crown/article18998110/
“Why we shouldn't treat higher education as a commodity”, Globe and Mail (online
edition), November 23, 2004, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/adrianshubert/article1144538/
Consultant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2000-2006
"Spain", Encyclopedia Britannica, (Chicago, 1994)
Translation of Fernando Basurto, Dialogue Between a Hunter and a Fisher, (Zaragoza,
1539), (with Thomas V. Cohen and Richard C. Hoffmann), in R. Hoffmann, Fisher's Craft
and Lettered Art, (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
"Spain", Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook, 1989, 1990 and 1991
"The Socialists and NATO: Bringing Spain Back into Europe", The Nation, December 21,
1985
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Manuscript Evaluation
A. Books:
For the following presses:
Cambridge University Press
University of California Press
Princeton University Press
Brill
University of Nevada Press
Stanford University Press
Harper Collins
Copp Clark Pitman
M.E. Sharpe Ltd.
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (University of California at Santa
Barbara), University of Illinois Press
Louisiana State University Press
Wiley-Blackwell
B. Articles:
For the following journals
Journal of Modern History
Social History
Comparative Studies in Society and History
International Review of Social History
Mediterranean Studies
Social History/Histoire sociale
Rethinking History: Journal of Theory and Practice
Ayer
Environmental History
European History Quarterly
Historia y Política
Cultural and Social History
Critical Historical Studies
Tenure and Promotion Assessments
For the following institutions:
Johns Hopkins University
Open University of Israel
Indiana University
University of California at San Diego
Georgia Institute of Technology
Southern Methodist University
University of Delaware
University of Arizona
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Carnegie-Mellon University
Florida International University
Trent University
Fordham University
University of California at Irvine
University of Bristol
Research Project Assessments
For the following agencies and organizations:
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva, Ministerio de Cultura (Spain)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
Conference Papers/Lectures
“America and the Making of Baldomero Espartero, 1815-1825”, American Historical
Association, New York City, January 2015
“Being and staying famous in 19th century Spain: Baldomero Espartero and the birth of
political celebrity", Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, December 2014
“Being and staying famous in 19th century Spain: Baldomero Espartero and the birth of
political celebrity", Department of History, University of Valencia, Madrid, December
2014
“Baldomero Espartero and the Mechanisms of Fame in 19th-Century Europe”, Annual
Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, St. Catherines, May 2014
“Canada and the Spanish Civil War”, A Tribute to Norman Bethune, Frontier College,
May 2014
“The Many Esparteros of 1868”, International Network on 19-th Century Hispanism,
Toronto, April 2014
“Strategies for a More Inclusive Modern European Survey”, Roundtable on Including
Spain and Portugal in Courses on Europe”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Washington, January 2014
“Hecho en América: las guerras americanas de la independencia y la creación de
Baldomero Espartero”, Empires Research Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
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July 2013
“After Civil War: Dictatorship and Reconstruction in Franco’s Spain”, Decades of
Reconstruction conference, University of Toronto, May 2013
“Lost in Digitization: the changing face of historical research in Spain”, keynote talk,
Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2013
“La Historia de España en Norteamérica”, Roundtable on “La Internacionalización de la
Historia de España”, Annual Meeting of the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea,
Granada, September 2012
“Espartero en América: la formación de un liberal español”, International Network on
19-th Century Hispanism, Universidad de Cádiz, May 2012
“Querida Chiquita: General Espartero writes to his wife, 1834-1840”, Annual Meeting of
the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Boston, March 2012
“The Constitution of Cádiz as a transnational document”, The Constitution of Cádiz and
the Birth of Modern Liberalism, Glendon College, March 2012
“Integrating 19th-century Spain into World History: an example”, International Network
on 19th Century Hispanism, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, May 2011
“Press and Theatre Censorship in Spain”, meeting of the Working Group on 19th Century
European Censorship, University of Milan, May 2010
“Women Warriors and National Heroines: Agustina de Aragón and her Indian Sister”,
Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Ottawa, April
2010
“Espartero y el Liberalismo Español”, Department of History, University of Santiago de
Compostela, October 2009
“Canada”, Roundtable on Global Perspectives on Global Citizenship, Annual Meeting of
NAFSA, Los Angeles, May 2009
“Does the Dos de Mayo Matter?”, Department of History, University of Buffalo, May 2009
“What’s in an Acronym? The Development of the Tranborder Research University
Network”,
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bureau for Internacional Education, St. John’s,
November 2008
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“Operación Bisonte”, Symposium on Reflexiones sobre la migración en Aragón, Amarga
Memoria, Gobierno de Aragón, Teruel, November 2008
“Does the Dos de Mayo Matter?”, Symposium on Spain and Latin America and the Birth
of Liberalism, University of Toronto, October 2008
“Canadian Panorama: Government and Institutional Policy Shifts” Annual meeting of
NAFSA, Washington, DC, May 2008
“Does the Dos de Mayo Matter?”, Keynote lecture, Conference on the Bicentenary of the
Dos de Mayo, May 2, 2008, King’s College, London
“York University Engages Asia”, Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Association for
International Education, Tokyo, March 2008
“Global Citizenship and Study Abroad: North of 49”, Annual Meeting of the Association
of International Education Administrators, Washington, DC, February 2008
“The Bologna Process and International Mobility”, Conference on Transatlantic
Academic Mobility and the Bologna Process, Canadian Centre for German and European
Studies, December 2006
“The Bullfighter Puts On Her Makeup: Gender and the Bullfight in Modern Spain”,
Seasons of Iberia series, Trent University, March 2006
“Teaching European History: the Next Task”, Beijing Forum, Peking University,
November 2005
“The Bullfight” Commercial Spectacle and National Nostalgia”, keynote address, Second
Annual York University Symposium on the Modern Mediterranean, Athens, March 2005
“The Bullfighter takes off her make-up: Gender and the Bullfight in Spain”, Institute for
the Study of Spain and Latin America, Tel Aviv University, January 2005
“Internationalizing the University: A Canadian Perspective”, Keynote Address for the
Symposium on Languages and Cultures across the Curriculum, Binghamton University,
November 2004
“La corrida y la historia de España”, 25th Annual Inaugural Lecture, Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Valencia, November 2003
"A las cinco de la tarde: la historia social de la corrida de toros en España, 1700-1900",
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, June 2003
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“When Spain wasn’t Different: the Beginnings of Tourism Policy in Spain, 1905-1936”,
Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of
Georgia, April 2002
“The Co-ordinates of Time and Place: History and the Paradoxes of Globalization”,
Symposium on the Paradoxes of Globalization, Canadian centre for German and
European Studies, York University, March 2002
“’At Five in the Afternoon”: Writing the History of Spanish Bullfighting”, Centre for
European Studies, University of Connecticut, October 2001
“What do the Basques Want?: The Basque Situation in Spain Today”, World Events
Forum, Toronto, February, 2001
“Censorship in 19th-century Spain”, Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Boston, January, 2001
“Espartero: del ídolo al olvido”, Symposium on Biography in Spanish History,
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Y Pelayo, Valencia, September, 2000
“Death and Money in the Afternoon: Writing the History of Bullfighting”, University of
Bielefeld (Germany), May 2000
“Espartero: from idol to oblivion”, Annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, April 2000
“Death and Money in the Afternoon: Writing the History of Bullfighting”, Graduate
Programme in Sociology Workshop, York University, March 2000
"La Historiografía Norteamericana", Sypmosium on "España: la Mirada del Otro",
Universitat de Valencia, June 1998
"Spain Goes to the Fair: Spanish Self-Representation at International Expositions,
1893-1992", Conference on "Discovery, New Frontiers and Expansion in the
Luso-Iberian World", Lisbon, May 1998
"A las cinco de la tarde: la historia social de la corrida de toros en España, 1700-1900",
ISCTE, University of Lisbon, May 1998
Chair, Session on "Making and Breaking Empire: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in
the Spanish Imperial Order, 1833-1898", Annual Meeting of the American Historical
Association, Seattle, Jan. 1998
"'At Five in the Afternoon': An Overview of the Social History of Bullfighting", Shelby
Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Dec. 5, 1997
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"Francoism Goes to the Fair: the Franco Regime, World's Fairs and Visions of the
Nation", Symposium on Spanish Nationalism, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, October
1996
"The Gender of Bullfighters: Women and the Corrida in 19th-Century Spain", Annual
Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of
Arizona, April 1996
"Consuming Leisure: the Professional Bullfight in Spain: 1750-1880", Conference on
Consumption in the Ibero-American World, University of Delaware, April 1996
"Politics in the Afternoon: Bullfighting, Power and Nation in Spain, 1789-1921", Annual
Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 1995
"Spain in the Modern History of Europe: The Peculiarities of the Historians", University
of Wisconsin at Madison, October 1994
"Consuming Leisure: The Bullfight as a Form of Consumption in 18th and 19th-Century
Spain", International Congress of Latin American Studies, Stockholm, July 1994
"'I Never Been to Spain': Spain in the Modern History of Europe", Prince of Asturias
Roundtable, Tufts University, May, 1994
"Pioneering Commercialized Leisure: Bullfighting in 18th and 19th Century Spain",
Huron College, University of Western Ontario, January 1994 and University of Toronto,
November 1993
"Politics in the Afternoon: Bullfighting, Power and Nation in Spain, 1789-1898", Iberian
Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 1993
"Doña Leonor's Divorce: Defining Gender in Early 19th Century Spain", International
Conference on the History of Marriage and the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa, May
199
"The Spanish Civil War: New Questions for Old?", Conference of the Society for Spanish
and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1992
"El federalismo español visto desde Canadá", Ciclo sobre la transición española,
Universidad de Oviedo, May 1991
"Pioneering Spectator Sport, or Just a Lot of Bull? First Thoughts on the Social History
of Bullfighting in Spain", Seminar on Anthropology and History, York University, May
1991
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"A Community Divided: The Social Development of the Asturian Coalfields to 1934",
International Mining History Conference, Bochum, West Germany, September 1989
"La Historia Social de la España Contemporánea: una Visión Global", Universidad de
Salamanca, June 1989
"The Bourgeois Experience of Revolution: Fraser Lawton and Barcelona Traction
During the Spanish Civil War", Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies, Nashville, April 1988
"El Socialismo en Asturias hasta la Guerra Civil", Ciclo sobre el Socialismo en las
regiones de España, Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Madrid, October 1987
"The Spanish Transition to Democracy and its Implications for Latin America", Canadian
Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Windsor, October 1987
"The Popular Front in Asturias", Conference on the Spanish Civil War, Center for
European Studies, Harvard University, November 1986
"The Spanish Experience", Fifty Years of the Popular Front: A Symposium, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 1985
"El Sindicalismo Católico", Simposio sobre la Revolución Asturiana de 1934", Oviedo,
October 1984
"Morality, Discipline and Social Control: In the Fief of the Marquis of Comillas",
Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Bloomington,
April 1984
"Asturias and the Revolution of October 1934", Conference of the Society for Spanish
and Portuguese Historical Studies, Boston, April 1983
"The Military in Contemporary Spain", Symposium on the Military in Spain and Portugal
Under Democracy, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, January 1983
Service
A. Department and Graduate Programme:
Member, TA Liaison Committee, 2014-15
Member, Nominating Committee, Graduate Programme in History, 2014
Member, Early Modern Europe Search Committee, 2013-14
Chair, Modern Europe CLA Search Committee, 2013
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Chair, File Adjudication Committee, 2011-14
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010-13
International Co-Ordinator, 2010-11
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2010-11
Member, Graduate Programme in History Executive Committee, 2005-07
Member, Modern China CLA Search Committee, 2004
Member, Affirmative Action Working Group, 2003
Chair, Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair Search, 2002-2003
Member, Modern Greece Search Committee, 2001-2002
Chair, Latin America Search Committee, 2000-2001
Chair of the Department, 1994-2000
Member, Graduate Programme Executive Committee, 1994-2000
Member, Chinese History Search Committee, 1993
Chair, US History Search Committee, 1992-1993
Chair, Quebec History Search Committee, 1992
Director of Undergraduate Programme, 1991-1993
Member (ex-oficio), Curriculum Committee, 1991-1993
Member (ex-oficio), Executive Committee, 1991-1993
Member, US History Search Committee, 1991
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1989-1990
Member, German History Search Committee, 1988-1989
Member, Graduate Programme Executive Committee, 1989-1991
B. University Level:
Member, Decanal Search Committee, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies,
2014-15
Trustee, York University Faculty Association, 2012-13
Review Committee, Centre for Jewish Studies, 2010-11
Associate Vice-President International, 2002-2009
Member, Vice-President for Research and Innovation’s Working Group on International
Research, 2002-2003
Interim Associate Director, Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, 20002001
Co-ordinator, Interdisciplinary Programme in European Studies, 2000-2001
Member, Senate of York University, 1994-2000, 2003-2006
Member, President’s Advisory Committee for the Selection of the Vice-President:
Academic and Vice President: Research and Innovation, 1999-2000
Member, Dean’s Task Force on Internationalization, 1999-2000
Member, Executive Committee, Canadian Centre for German and European Studies,
1998-2009
Chair, Selection Committee for the Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and
Linguistics, 1996, 1997
Member, Search Committee, Director of the Advising Centre, 1995
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Member, Search Committee, Founders College Academic Advisor, 1995
Chair, Faculty of Arts Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1992-1993
Member, Essay Prize Committee, 1992
Interviewer, Steps to Arts Programme, 1991-1995
Member, Faculty of Arts Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1991-1992
Member, Faculty of Arts Petitions Committee, 1990-1991
Member, Graduate Faculty Council, 1989-1991
Network Adviser, 1988-1989
C. Extra-University:
Member, Advisory Committee, Historia y Política, 2015Assessor, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships, 2012-15
External Assessor, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, 2011
Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 2010Member, Advisory Board, Semata. Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2010
Consultant, International Division, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada,
July-August 2009
Chair, Program Committee, 2009 Annual Meeting, Canadian Bureau for International
Education
Member, Advisory Committee on Delivery of Educational Programs and Services
Abroad, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, 2008
Member, Conference Advisory Board, Association of International Education
Administrators, 2007-2008
Member, Working Group on South Africa, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
of Ontario, 2007-2008
Member, Reference Group on Internationalization, Ministry of Training, Colleges and
Universities of Ontario, 2006-2008
Member, Advisory Committee, Alcores. Revista de Historia Contemporánea de Castilla y
León, 2005Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Institute in Greece, 2003-6
Member, International Advisory Board, Penélope. Revista de Historia y Ciencias Sociais
(Lisbon), 2002Member, Quality Assessment Panel, Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment
Board, Ontario Ministry of Colleges, Training and Universities, 2002
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2000-2003
Member, Editorial Board, Hispania Nova (on-line journal), 1998-2000
President and General Secretary, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies,
1996-1998
Chair, History Panel, Ontario Graduate Scholarships, 1996-1997
Executive Committee, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1994-1996
Programme Chair, Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies
(SSPHS), 1992-1993
A. Shubert/17
Contributing Editor, American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature,
1992-1993
Chair, Prize Committee, SSPHS, 1991-1992
Member, Editorial Board, Social History/Histoire sociale, 1991-1994
Member, Ontario Graduate Scholarship Selection Committee, 1989-1991
Member, Advisory Board, Historia Social (Spain), 1988-