Joshua M. Rosenthal
Warner Hall 212
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Education:
Ph.D. in History, Columbia University, 2001
M.A. in History, Columbia University, 1992
B.A. in History, Wesleyan University, 1988
Teaching Interests:
Latin American History
Mexico
Colombia
Brazil
State Formation
Research Interests and Publications:
Joshua M. Rosenthal specializes in Latin American History. In addition to surveys he has taught courses on Mexico, Colombia, pre-Columbian America & Conquest Literature, and Latino/a history. His major research to date focuses on nineteenth-century Colombia examining the local impact of state formation on local society. After presenting papers on this topic at various conferences he is working on a book manuscript Siervos de Sal. The Poverty of Colombia’s Republican State as well as a related article. His new projects include a comparative look at the Colombian and Venezuelan Finance Ministries in the nineteenth-century and archival work on the civil litigation that followed civil wars in Colombia. He has written and presented smaller pieces, perhaps best thought of as scholarly commentary, on the Brazilian culture form/dance/martial art of Capoeira. He is also a passionate if unskilled student of capoeira under contre-Mestre Caxias of Grupo Capoeira Brazil. He is a member of the Colombia section of the Latin American Studies Association, the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association. He lives with his spouse, a professor of psychology who wishes to remain nameless, and their son who is dedicated to all of the toddler arts.