J. Gabriel MartÍnez-Serna
Clements Department of History
Southern Methodisti University
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
l Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, 2005- Present
l Dissertation: “The Society of Jesus, Viticulture, and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Frontier Town: Santa María de las Parras, Nueva Vizcaya, 1598-1822”
l Advisors: Peter Bakewell, Edmund J. and Louise Kahn Professor of History and David J. Weber, Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Stanford University, Stanford, California
l Master of Arts, History,1997 (Colonial Latin America)
l Master of Arts, Latin American Studies, 1994 (20th Century Mexico and Argentina)
Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
l Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, 1992 (North America & Latin America)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey Tech), Monterrey, Mexico
2001-2003, Assistant Professor of History, International Baccalaureate Program
2000-2001, Assistant Professor in Department of International Relations and Social Sciences
University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
1998-2000, Assistant Professor in Department of International Relations
Stanford University, Stanford, California
1993 Teaching Assistant, Center for Latin American Studies/Department of History
2008 “Jesuit Procurators and the Making of the Atlantic Network of the Society of Jesus” in Bernard Bailyn, Ed., Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1825 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Forthcoming 2008)
2007 “Las relaciones México-Estados Unidos después de los ataques de septiembre 11 de 2001” in Victor López-Villafañe & Soraya Castro-Mariño, Eds., Estados Unidos y América Latina: Los nuevos desafíos: ¿Unión o desunión? (Mexico City: Jorale Editores, 2007)
2006 Review of Saltillo colonial: Orígenes y formación de una sociedad mexicana en la frontera norte in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 110, Number 2, October 2006
2002 “Hacia una historiografía de Norteamérica” (“Towards a Historiography of North America”) Revista de Humanidades Tecnológico de Monterrey, No. 13, Fall 2002, pp. 211-226
Southern Methodist University
2007 Clements Center Summer Grant Dean’s Travel Research Grant
2006 Dedman Graduate Research Award Clements Center Summer Research Grant
2005 SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Willis Tate Academic and Scholastic Scholarship Clements Center Summer Research Grant Grant
2004 Nancy Underwood Graduate Student Leadership and Achievement Scholarship Graduate Student Association Travel Grant
Monterrey Tech
2003 Highest evaluated history instructor in the International Baccalaureate Program, Preparatoria Eugenio Garza Sada
University of California at San Diego
2000 Fellow in Summer Seminar on U.S. Studies for Latin American Scholars and Social Scientist, Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies
Stanford University
1994-98 Fulbright Scholar
1997 Mellon Summer Dissertation Award, Lisbon, Portugal
1992-94 Stanford Center for Latin American Studies scholarship
University of Monterrey
1988-92 University Scholarship
2008 Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference, Flagstaff Arizona, “Institutionalizing the Jesuit Frontier: Colleges, Missions, and Seminaries of the Society of Jesus in Northeastern New Spain, 1598-1767”
Harvard University Atlantic History Seminar2007 Soundings, “The Society of Jesus and Its Atlantic Network”
2006 The Transit of Christianity, Panel Moderator Religious Orders: Jesuits and Franciscans and The Atlantic and the Wider World
2005 X Anniversary Reunion, “Jesuit Frontiers and Indian Ethnogenesis in Seventeenth-century Spanish America”
2004 Indigenous Cultures, “Instruments of Empire: Jesuit-Indian Encounters in the New World Borderlands” (Working Paper No. 04-11)
Museum of Mexican History, Monterrey Mexico
2005 Reflexiones sobre el Noreste, Panel Texas-Noreste “Industria cervecera y ‘politicas progresistas’ en tierras fronterizas durante la Prohibición” (“The Brewing Industry and Progressive Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands during Prohibition”)
Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
2006 Translator for the panel texts on exhibition for Don Quixote
2005 Assistant to curator, author of exhibition catalogue and panels texts for Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821
DeGolyer Library, Dallas, Texas
2005 Assistant to curator and author of exhibition catalogue Colonial Encounters: Spaniards and Frontier Indians in the Americas (November ’05-January ’06) in honor of the publication of Professor David Weber’s book Bárbaros: Spaniards and their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005)
Feria Internacioanl del Libro (International Book Fair), Monterrey, Mexico
2004 Moderator on panels for books on North America, Canada, the United States, and Mexico
Universidad de Monterrey
2000 Organizer and moderator for an interdisciplinary seminar analyzing the results of the United States Presidential elections Elections 2000: Challenges & Promises
MARCO (Museum of Contemporary Arts, Monterrey, Mexico)
1991 Assistant to Curator