Politics, Pedagogy, and Historical Scholarship: Remembering Michael F. Jiménez

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

In 2001, the year historian Michael F. Jiménez died, a volume Gilbert Joseph edited called on historians of Latin America to “reclaim the political”—a concern at the heart of Jimenez’s lifework. Almost fifteen years later, in a dramatically altered landscape, a group of Jiménez’s former students will reflect on his influence on their own scholarship and pedagogy. They will address themes such as nationalism, universalism, and local identity; empire, class, and state formation; insurgency and counter-insurgency; Marxism, Christianity, and humanism; race and ethnicity; and changes in the U.S. academy and the historical profession.

Sub Track

• History and Historiography

Session Organizer

• Forrest T Hylton, Northwestern University

Chair

• Matilde Zimmermann, Sarah Lawrence College

Individual Presentations

• “I am Marxist AND Christian!”: Michael F. Jiménez’s “Revolution of the Heart” in the Classroom - Ellen Walsh, Governors State University

• Michael Jiménez’s “Enlightened” Left, Universalism, and Latin American History - James E Sanders, Utah State University

• Class Notes: Michael Jiménez and the Dialectic of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Colombia - Forrest T Hylton, Northwestern University

• “Emancipatory Alternatives” and the Teaching of Latin American History - Betsy O Konefal, College of William and Mary

Discussant

• Catherine C LeGrand, McGill University