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History

William E. Skuban

Professor

Dr. Skuban

Office: Social Sciences 117

Email: weskuban@csufresno.edu

Office Phone: 559-278-5154

Education:

Ph.D. - University of California, Davis (2000)
M.A. - University of California, Davis (1991)
B.A. - California State University, Hayward (1990)

Fall 2024

 
Course Days/Times
HIST 8 - Republics of Latin America TTH 12:30 - 1:45 pm
HIST 230T - History of Modern Latin America T 6:00 - 8:50 pm

Spring 2025

 
Course Days/Times
HIST 8 - Republics of Latin America TTH 12:30 - 1:45 pm
HIST 168 - Latin American History through Film T 6:00 - 8:50 pm

  • Latin American History
  • U.S.-Latin American Relations
  • Nationalism, National Identity, and Nation-State Formation
  • Church-State Relations in Latin America

Books:

Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=11438225483480

Articles and Book Chapters: 

"La apertura y el cierre de la frontera chileno-peruana: El plebiscito de Tacna y Arica, 1884-1929," in Ampliando miradas: Chile y su historia en un tiempo global, ed. Fernando Purcell and Alfredo Riquelme, 129 –158. Santiago de Chile: RIL editores, 2009.

"Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier, 1880-1930." Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 8, no. 3 (2008): 386-407.

"El nacionalismo y la cuestión indígena en el sur del Perú, 1900-1930." Revista Andina 41 (Segundo Semestre del 2005).

Undergraduate:

  • Colonial Americas
  • Republics of Latin America
  • South America
  • Social Revolution in Latin America
  • Latin American History in Film

Graduate:

  • Introduction to Graduate Writing and Historiography
  • The Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
  • Latin American Nationalism
  • Social Revolution in Latin America

I am currently in negotiations with both the Pontifical University of Peru (PUCP) and the Pontifical University of Chile (PUC) to co-publish a second and revised edition of my book Lines in the Sand: Nationalism and Identity on the Peruvian-Chilean Frontier in Spanish.