DAVID LEE SOWELL
Department
of History 1623 Washington
Street
Juniata College Huntingdon, PA
16652
Huntingdon, PA 16652 814
643 3676
Telephone 814 641 3535 sowell@juniata.edu
FAX 814 641 3185
EDUCATION
Ph.
D. University of Florida,
August 1986
M.
A. University of Florida,
1980
B.
A. Grand Valley State Colleges, 1976
A.
B. Western Kentucky
University, 1975
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Juniata
College Professor, 2001-
Associate
Professor, 1992-2001;
Chair of History Department,
1993-1994; 2001 -
Assistant Professor, August
1989-May 1992
Director
of International Programs, 1996-99;
University of South Carolina Visiting Assistant Professor,
August 1988 to May 1989
Allegheny
College Assistant
Professor,
September 1987 to July 1988
Fort
Hays State
University Assistant Professor,
August 1986 to August 1987
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS
- Co-Chair, Section on the
Social Studies of Medicine, Latin American Studies Association, 1998-2000
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President, Gran Colombian Committee, Conference on Latin American
History, 1991-1994,
1999-2001
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Member,
Pennsylvania
Council on International Education Board of Directors, 1996-98
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Member
of NEH Institute on "The Contributions of the History of Medicine to
Social History," June 1995, Columbia
University
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American
Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1995: "A History of Latin
American Social Violence"
-
Who's Who in the East, listed 1994
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Juniata College Junior Faculty Award for
Excellence in Teaching, 1994
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N.
E. H. Study Grant, 1992
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N.
E. H. Travel to Collections Grant, 1991
-
Tinker
Research Grant, 1985
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Fulbright
Fellowship, 1983
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Doherty
Fellowship, Princeton
University, 1983
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Organization
of American States Fellowship, 1983
COURSES TAUGHT
Latin American
Civilization
Latin American Colonial
History
Modern Latin American History
Latin American Revolutions
Aztecs, Incas, Maya, and
Spaniards: Early American History
1492: Contact, Conquest, and
Consequences
Social Violence in Latin America
Contemporary Latin America (Economic development, political culture)
United States History to 1877
United States History since 1865
Contemporary United States
History
United States Social and Labor History
International
Studies: The Making of the Modern World System
International Studies:
Politics and Cultures of Modernization
Western Civilization Since
1750
Social Science
Interdisciplinary Core Courses; on "Work" and on "The City"
The Social History of
Medicine
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical
Association
Latin American Studies
Association
Conference on Latin American
History
Sigma Iota Rho, International
Studies Honorary Society
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
"A History of Social Violence in Latin America," book-length manuscript in
preparation, supported by American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS: Books;
The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Healing,
Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes (Wilmington, DE:
Scholarly Resources, 2001)
Contact, Conquest, and Consequences: A
Lecture Series in Commemoration of the Quincentennial
of 1492
(Huntingdon, PA: Juniata College, 1993)
The Early Colombian Labor Movement:Artisans and Politics in
Bogotá, 1832-1919 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992)
Santander
y la opinión Angloamericana: Visión de viajeros y periódicos, 1821-1840, compiler (Bogotá: Fundación Francisco de Paula
Santander, 1991)
Articles;
“Colombia,”
encyclopedia entry for Open Society Institute, forthcoming.
“La lucha política-laboral: Artesanos, industriales y obreros en Bogotá,
1904-1919,” trans. by Isidro Vanegas, forthcoming in
a book on socialism and the labor movement in early twentieth century Colombia.
"The Mirror of Public Opinion: The
Image of Simón Bolívar in
the United States Press, 1825-1831" ("El Espejo
de la opinión pública: La imagen de bolívar en la prensa de los Estados
Unidos"), forthcoming in Simón
Bolívar y los Estados Unidos, ed. by David
Bushnell.
“Recent Perspectives on the Latin
American City,” Journal of Urban History, 24:6
(September 1998), 764-767.
"Repertoires of
Contention in Urban Colombia, 1760s - 1940s: A Preliminary Inquiry into Latin
American Social Violence," Journal of Urban History, guest editors,
Diego Armus and John Lear, 24:3 (March 1998), 302-336.
"Political Impulses: Popular
Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia,
1870-1930," in The Condition of the
City, ed. by Ronn F. Pineo
and James Baer (San Francisco: Westview Press, 1998),
1-29.
“Miquel Perdomo Neira: Healing, Culture,
and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura,
No. 24, 1997, 167-188.
"Artisans and Tariff Reform: The
Sociopolitical Consequences of Liberalism in Early Republican Spanish
America," in Liberals, Politics, and Power: State Formation in
Nineteenth-Century Latin America, ed. by Vincent Peloso
and Barbara Tenenbaum (Athens: The University of
Georgia Press, 1996), 166-185.
"Colombia:
Since Independence,"
major entry in Encyclopedia of Latin American History, ed. by Barbara Tenenbaum (New York: Scribners,
1995)
"Débora Arango, Barrancabermeja,
Buenaventura, Cauca River, Rufino
José Cuervo, Democratic Society of Artisans, Santiago
M. Eder, Gólgotas,
Independent Republics, Lorenzo María Lleras, Ambrosio López, José María Melo, Miguel Samper, Siete de Marzo, Union Society of
Artisans," minor entries in Encyclopedia of Latin American History,
ed. by Barbara Tenenbaum (New York: Scribners, 1995)
"La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá,
1846-1865: Artisans, Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National
Colombia," Hispanic American Historical Review, 73:4 (November
1993), 615-38. Republished as “La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá, 1846-1865,” in Colombia
en el Siglo XIX, ed. by Michael LaRosa, Germán Mejia, and Mauricio Nieto Orlarte, trans.
by Juan Pablo Lombana
(Bogotá: Planeta, S. A., 1999), 217-50.
"Santander
en los Estados Unidos," Credencial Historia, No. 3 (April 1992), 4-7, co-authored with David Bushnell. Also published as "Bolivarismo y santanderismo en Estados Unidos" in the Lecturas Dominicales, El Tiempo, March 29, 1992, 9-11.
"Artisans and Latin American Labor
History," Latin American Labor News, No. 4 (1991), 5-10.
"José Leocadio
Camacho: Artisan, Editor, and Political Activist," in The
Human Tradition in Latin America: The
Nineteenth Century, ed. by Judith Ewell and
William H. Beezley (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly
Resources Inc., 1989), 269-79.
"The 1893 bogotazo: Artisans and Public Violence in Late
Nineteenth Century Bogotá," Journal of Latin American Studies, 21
(May 1989), 267-82. Forthcoming in translation in Algaradas,
motines y tumultos: La política popular del urbano
pobre en América Latina,
comp. by Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando
Ortoll with a conclusion by Charles Tilly. Reprinted in Riots in the
Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin
America, 1765-1910, ed. by Sylvia Marina Arrom
and Servando Ortoll with a
conclusion by Charles Tilly (Wilmington, DE:
Scholarly Resources, 1996), 137-54.
" 'La teoría
i la realidad': The
Democratic Society of Artisans of Bogotá 1847-1854," Hispanic American
Historical Review, 67:4 (November 1987), 611-30. Re-published as “La Sociedad Democrática de Artesanos de
Bogotá,” in Colombia en el Siglo XIX, ed. by Michael LaRosa, Germán Mejia, and Mauricio Nieto
Orlarte, trans. by Juan
Pablo Lombana (Bogotá: Planeta, S. A., 1999), 189-216.
"Las
bases sociales para las movilizaciones de obreros en Bogotá: 1866-1912,"
in Ensayos de literatura colombiana, comp. by Raymond Williams (Bogotá: Plaza y
Janes, 1985), 275-83.
"The Racial Division of
Labor in Postbellum Florida,
Gainesville, 1870-1900," Florida Historical Quarterly,
63:4 (April 1984), 434-44.
"Agentes
diplomáticos de los Estados Unidos y el golpe de Melo,"
Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, No. 12 (1984),
5-13.
"Bogotá’s
Society of Artisans and the Era of Liberal Reform," Latinamericanist,
16:2 (April 1980), 1-3.
Book reviews in Hispanic American
Historical Review (6), Southern Historian, SELA (2), American
Historical Review (3), The Americas, Estudios
Colombianos, Inter-American Review of
Bibliography, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Social History,
and Florida Anthropologist. Abstractor for ABC-CLIO, 1987 to 1996.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“Miguel Perdomo Neira: The Ideologies and Practices of a Nineteenth Century
Empírico,” presented at a conference on “Practices
of Healing in Modern Latin America and Spain,” New York University, April 2001
“Scientific Medicine, State Formation,
and the Development of Medical Pluralism in Colombia,” presented to the joint
meeting of the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical
Association, Boston, January 2001
“Disease, Public Health and Identity in
Latin America,” Commentator on panel at the 22nd Meeting of the
Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL March 2000
Invited presenter, “So You Want to be A
Professor,” Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University, February 29, 2000
“Twentieth Century Colombia: Bananas,
Bosses and Business,” commentator on panel and the Annual Conference on Latin
American History meeting, Chicago, IL January 2000
“The Socio-ideological Dimensions of
Nineteenth Century Andean Medical Systems: The Case of Miguel Perdomo Neira,”
presented at 49th Congreso de Americanistas, Quito,
Ecuador, July
1997
“Bogotá,”
presentation to roundtable on Latin American urban history, Conference on Latin
American History Annual Meeting, New
York, January 1997.
"Medicina
y poder ideológica el el siglo XIX: El caso de Miguel
Perdomo," Universidad Nacional de Colombia, June,
1996.
"Patterns of Popular
Protests and Working Class Politics in Bogotá," XVII Annual Conference of
the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies, Bucknell University, March 1996.
"Medical Systems and Social
Conflict: Healing, Culture, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Colombia,"
delivered to the Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia Technological
University, November 1995.
"Political Impulses:
Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia,
1870-1930," 1995 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association,
Washington, D. C.
Commentator on four papers,
"Electoral Participation in the Making of Spanish American Republics,
1830-1930," 1995 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association,
Washington, D. C.
"Medical Systems and Social
Conflict: Healing, Ideology, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes,"
1995 Annual Joint Meeting, American Historical Association/Conference of Latin
American History, Chicago, Illinois, January 1995
"Miguel Perdomo
Neira: Healing, Culture, and Power in the Nineteenth
Century Andes," Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky,
November 1994
"State and Society in Colombia: The Role of Artisans," Annual
Convention of the Middle Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies, State College, PA,
April 1993.
Commentator on two papers on
"Lawyers and Artisans: New Studies in Colombian history," CLAH/AHA
meeting, December 1992, Washington D. C.
1492 lecture series: "Thinking
about Colombus"; "The Destruction of the
Indies"; "Tenochtitlan:
' . . . we did not know what to say' "; "Las Casas
and the Struggle for Justice in the Americas";
and "Encounter at Cajamarca," Juniata College, Fall
1992.
"Europe and the Americas, 1492-1992: The American
Perspective," keynote address to Central Pennsylvania Collaborative for
International Education, Huntingdon,
PA, October 1992.
"Teaching the United States
History Survey," with David C. Hsiung, Twenty-sixth Annual Duquesne
History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA October 1992.
"Rethinking the Role of Artisans
in Latin American Labor Studies," Latin American Studies Association, XVII
annual meeting, Los Angeles,
California, September 1992.
Comment, "War, Industry, and Labor
in 20th Century America,"
25th Annual Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh,
PA, October 1991.
"The Establishment of Economic,
Social, and Cultural Norms in Mature Colonial Societies: A Criticism of the
Frontier Thesis in Colombian History," Ohio
Academy of History, April 1991.
"Cultural Contact and Economic
Integration in Mature Colonial Societies: The Colombian Example," 24th
Annual Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, October 1990.
"La Caja de Ahorros de Bogotá,
1845-63: Credit, Development, and Savings in Early National Colombia,"
Latin American Studies Association, XV International Congress, Miami, Florida,
December, 1989.
"Artisans,
Socioeconomic Change, and Partisan Politics: The First 100 Years of Colombian
Labor History" American Historical Association annual meeting, Cincinnati, December 1988.
"Savana
City and Valley Town: The Democratic Societies of Artisans of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia, 1847-54," Fifth Annual Latin American
Labor History Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April
1988.
"Artisan Republicanism: The Union
Society of Artisans of Bogotá, Colombia, 1866-68," Kansas
History Teachers Association, Emporia,
Kansas, March 1987.
"Collective Violence in Late
Nineteenth Century Bogotá: Some Incidents and Implications," Missouri Valley
History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1987.
"Crowd Violence in
Nineteenth Century Bogotá: Artisans and the 1893 bogotazo,"
Social Science History Association, Chicago,
November 1985.
"Political
Objectives of Artisans in Late Nineteenth Century Bogotá," XXXII Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Rollins College,
Winter Park, Florida, March 1985.
"La
clase obrera en los Estados Unidos y Colombia," Primer Seminario de
Historia Comparada de los Estados Unidos y América Latina, Universidad Nacional
de Colombia, Bogotá, July 1984.
"Las
bases sociales para las movilizaciones de obreros: Bogotá, 1866-1912,"
Primer Conferencia de Colombianistas Norteamericanos,
Rio Negro, Colombia, June
1984.
"Black
Labor Patterns in Gainesville, Florida, 1860-1900," Florida College
History Teachers Conference, Stetson University, De Land, FL, March 1983.
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Pre-screener,
Central Fellowship Program, ACLS, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Member of dissertation
committee of Ms. Diana Obregón Torres, a student
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
1996.
Reader for
National Research Council and the United States Agency for International Development
University Development
Linkages Program, 1991, 1992.
Co-editor, El Eco de los Andes, a
newsletter for the Gran Colombian Committee of the
Conference on Latin American History. 1990 - 1994
Research in United
States archives for the Fundación
Francisco de Paula Santander,
an agency formed by the Colombian government to gather historical materials
relating to the life of Santander. 1987-90.
Editorial Assistant, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 1982-83, 1985-85
Reader for article
manuscripts for Hispanic American Historical Review (5), The Americas
(1).
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE (JUNIATA COLLEGE)
Chair,
International Studies Program, 1999 -
Director of International
Programs, 1996-99
Chair, History Department
1993-1994
International Education
Committee, 1994-99
Working Group on
Internationalizing Juniata
College, 1993
Chair, Academic Planning and
Assessment Committee, 1992-93
Member of Art History Search
Committee, 1996
Member of Spanish Search
Committee, 1992, 1996
Member of History Search Committee, 1990-91, 1996-97,
1998-99
Member of Anthropology Search
Committee, 1990, 1996, 1997
Updated
August 2001