On Saturday, February 4th, 2023, the BBC’s Outlook program re-broadcast a 45-minute special on the life and work of UNLV visiting professor Roberto Lovato (English) and his award-winning memoir, Unforgetting. The program was broadcast worldwide.

Source: UNLV News Center

Michael Alarid (History) authored a book Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power In the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837 – 2860 through the University of New Mexico Press. Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico’s transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, trade between Mexico and the United States attracted wealthy Hispanos into a new market economy and increased trade along El Camino Real, turning it into a burgeoning exchange route. As landowning Hispanos benefited from the Santa Fe trade, traditional relationships between wealthy and poor Nuevomexicanos–whom Alarid calls patrónes and vecinos–started to shift. Far from being displaced by US colonialism, wealthy Nuevomexicanos often worked in concert with new American officials after US troops marched into New Mexico in 1846, and in the process, Alarid argues, the patrónes abandoned their customary obligations to vecinos, who were now evolving into a working class. Ultimately wealthy Nuevomexicanos, the book argues, succeeded in preserving New Mexico as a Hispano bastion, but they did so at the expense of poor vecinos.

Source: New Mexico University Press

Carlos S. Dimas (History) authored a book, Poisoned Eden: Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865-1908 through the University of Nebraska Press. The book analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics, in 1868, 1886, and 1895, that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán to understand the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late 19th nineteenth century.

Source: UNLV News Center

Jeff Schauer (History) published Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth Century Africa with Palgrave Macmillan. This book recounts the emergence of wildlife policy in eastern and central Africa against the backdrop of colonial conquest, the consolidation of colonial rule, the process of decolonization, and the period of national states. It puts five core themes at the heart of this fraught and contested narrative: changing administrative forms, militarization, nationalism, science, and a relentlessly broadening constituency for African wildlife. Based on archival work in Britain, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia, the book intersects with histories of Africa, the British Empire, and the environment.

Source: UNLV News Center