Craib, Raymond B.

Associate Professor

I am currently writing a book on the 'proceso de los subversivos' in Santiago, Chile, in 1920. This persecution of 'subversives' targeted presumed pacifists, anarchists, and members of the IWW, with university students, workers, immigrants, and Peruvian nationals all coming under increased scrutiny in the wake of Chilean mobilizations on the Peruvian border. I focus in particular on the persecution and subsequent death of Jos Domingo Gmez Rojas--a poet and political activist who died in police custody in September, 1920--as well as his socialist and anarchist comrades (including literary figures such as Manuel Rojas, Jos Santos Gonzlez Vera, Pablo Neruda, and Roberto Meza Fuentes).

research

research areas

international geographic focus

affiliations

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

administrative responsibilities

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of History

background

educational background

  • Ph.D. Yale University, 2001
  • M.A. University of New Mexico, 1994
  • B.A. Eastern Michigan University, 1990

awards and distinctions

  • The American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant (2007)
  • Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (for Spring 2005).
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of History, Eastern Michigan University, 2004.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Summer Stipend Award, 2003.
  • Arthur and Mary Wright Prize (for outstanding dissertation in the field of history outside the United States and Europe), Yale University, 2001-02.
  • Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000.
  • Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1998-99.
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998-99.
  • American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, 1998.

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

  • "El archivo en el campo: Conocimiento, espacio, y cartografías mentales en la reforma agraria mexicana," in Héctor Mendoza Vargas and Carla Lois, eds., Historia de la Cartografía de Iberoamérica (UNAM y INEGI, forthcoming approx. 2008).
  • "The Life of a Map," in Karl Offen and Jordana Dym, eds., Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
  • "Body Politic," in Karl Offen and Jordana Dym, eds., Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
  • "Daniel Riquelme," "Jose Domingo Gomez Rojas," and "Mexican Liberal Agrarian Policies, Nineteenth Century," all in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd edition, ed. by Jay Kinsbruner (New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 2008).
  • Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes. Duke University Press, 2004.
  • "Peasants, Politics and History: Teaching Agrarian History and Historiography.? Radical History Review 88 (Winter 2004).
  • "Standard Plots and Rural Resistance." In Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2003).
  • "A Nationalist Metaphysics: State Fixations, National Maps, and the Geo-Historical Imagination in Nineteenth "Century Mexico." Hispanic American Historical review 82:1 (February 2002).
  • "Cartography and Power in the Conquest and Creation of New Spain." Latin American Research Review 35:1 (Spring 2000).
  • "Discurso cartográfico en el Mexico Porfiriato." In Hector Mendoza Vargas, coord., Mexico a través de los mapas (Plaza y Valdés Editores y Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, México, 2000.
  • "?Estas cuestiones no se terminan nunca?: Los límites de la propriedad en la sierra de Chiconquiaco, norte de Xalapa, Veracruz, a finales del siglo XIX." Memorial: Boletín del Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz 3: 7/8 (January/August, 2000).
  • "Cartografía y conflicto en la sierra veracruzana: El caso de Las Minas, 1897-1912." Boletín del Archivo General Agrario de Mexico 7 (July-September, 1999).
  • (with D. Graham Burnett), "Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish American War." The Historian 61:1 (Fall 1998).
  • "Re-?covering? Chinese in Mexico." The American Philatelist 112:5 (May 1998).