GLENN A. CHAMBERS, JR., Ph.D.

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1 GLENN A. CHAMBERS, JR., Ph.D. Department of History Old Horticulture 506 E. Circle Dr. Room 256 East Lansing, MI (517) EDUCATION Ph.D. History, Howard University, Foreign Labor and the Struggle for a Honduran Identity: West Indian Workers and Community Formation in the Republic of Honduras, Master of Arts History, Howard University, Para bailar el son: The Rise of Afro-Cuban Son and the Creation of a Cuban National Identity, Bachelor of Arts History, University of St. Thomas, cum laude, ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University, August African American and African Studies Program, Michigan State University (core faculty) Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University, College Station, August 2012 May 2013 Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University, College Station, August 2006 May 2012 Affiliated Faculty, Africana Studies Program, August 2007 May 2013 Pre-Doctoral Fellow, DePauw University, August 2005 July 2006 Graduate Assistant, Howard University, August 2001 May 2004 RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS Caribbean, Latin America, African Diaspora, Immigration/Migration, U. S. Latinos, Twentieth Century United States PUBLICATIONS Monograph Race, Nation, and West Indian Immigration to Honduras, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.

2 Refereed Articles Vigilando al Otro: raza, criminalidad y violencia sancionada por el Gobierno en la Costa Norte de Honduras, (Policing the Other: Race, Criminality, and Government Sanctioned Violence on the North Coast of Honduras, ) Mesoamérica 54 (2012): The Deportation of West Indian Workers from Trujillo, Honduras and the Construction of Race and Nation in a Banana Republic, Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 10, 2 (Spring/Summer 2007): The Rise of Son and the Legitimization of African Derived Culture in Cuba, Callaloo 30, 2 (2007): Book Reviews Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, eds. Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), Journal of Latin American Studies (forthcoming) Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson. Colonial Latin America, 8 th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, Reviewed for Oxford University Press. Robert A. Hill, ed., The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI, The Caribbean Diaspora, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), Journal of World History 23, 3 (forthcoming- Fall 2012). Robert Cassanello and Colin J. Davis, eds. Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009), The Journal of Southern History 77, 3 (August 2011): Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, and Cécile Accilien, eds. Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007), Journal of Southern History 75, 2 (May 2009): 521. From Slavery to Servitude: The African and Asian Struggle for Freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean History: Review of New Books 36, 2 (Winter 2008): Lillian Guerra, The Myth of Jose Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth- Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005), The Latin Americanist 50 (Fall 2006): Encyclopedia Entries Celeo Alvarez Casildo, in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Bibliography. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. (New York: Oxford University Press-forthcoming 2013). 2

3 Salvador Suazo, in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Bibliography. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. (New York: Oxford University Press-forthcoming 2013). Miriam Miranda, in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Bibliography. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. (New York: Oxford University Press-forthcoming 2013). Works in Progress Articles Goodbye God, I m Going to Texas : The Migration of Louisiana Creoles of Color and the Preservation of Black Catholic and Creole Traditions in Southeast Texas (Submitted to the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture April 2013) Monograph From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy: Honduran Immigration to New Orleans and Changing Perceptions of Race and Place in a Divided City, (working title) I am currently researching a project that focuses on the immigration of Hondurans of primarily mestizo, Garífuna, and Bay Islander descent to New Orleans, Louisiana and the broader Gulf Coast from the 1910s through World War II. This study examines how diverse groups of Hondurans integrated into New Orleans and Gulf Coast life and negotiated their distinct historical and racial identity in the Jim Crow South. Central to this study is the role of violence in shaping Honduran nationalism, particularly its modern origins in the anti-immigrant and labor movements that developed in the banana enclaves on the North Coast of the country in the early twentieth century. The sentiments of these groups shaped legislation, highlighted corruption, fomented revolutions, and created diplomatic fallout that hindered political and economic development to the point where many Hondurans fled to cities such as New Orleans where they used the city as a base to organize and garner political and economic support to fight opposition back home, or chose to benefit from the strong historical, political and economic ties of Honduras to New Orleans and settle there and contribute to the growth of the city. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES West Indian Immigration to New Orleans, , Indiana University, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, March 20, From the Banana Zones to the Big Easy: The Early Immigration of Hondurans of West Indian and Bay Island Descent to New Orleans, Louisiana, , Caribbean Studies Association, 37 th Annual Conference, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe, FWI, May 28, Black, Catholic, and Creole: The Migration of Louisiana Creoles of Color to Southeast Texas and the Cultural Politics of Race and Religion in the Jim Crow South, Black 3

4 Migration Symposium, Vanderbilt University, February 11, 2012 Invited Lecture, Black-Latino Relations on the North Coast of Honduras: The Impact of Migration and Culture on Racial Identity Formation, Middle Tennessee State University, September 28, 2010 El Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles en los Estados Unidos: Los Éxitos y Fracasos de los Afroamericanos en la Lucha por la Igualdad, Organization for Economic and Community Development (ODECO), Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba Honduras, April 12-16, The Migration of Louisiana Creoles of Color to Southeast Texas and the Complexities of Race and Culture in an African American Community, Race and Ethnic Studies Institute Speaker Series, Texas A&M University, October 9, The Migration of Louisiana Creoles of Color to Southeast Texas, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, 5 th Biennial Conference, Accra, Ghana, August 3, Race, Crime, and Ethnicity, The Origins of Anti-Black Immigration Sentiment in Honduras, , World History Association of Texas 17 th Spring Conference, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas, February 21, Perceptions of Race and Nation: Blackness and Notions of Criminality on the North Coast of Honduras, , Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, 4 th Biennial Conference, Bridgetown, Barbados, October 12, Race, Nation, and Cultural Retention in the West Indian Migrant Community of Honduras, , Association of Caribbean Historians 38 th Annual Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad, May 16, FELLOWSHIPS and RESEARCH GRANTS Collaborative Research Grant, Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A&M University, ($5,000) Program for the Enhancement of Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant (PESCA), Texas A&M, 2011 ($3,198) Specialist/Speaker Grant-Honduras, U.S. Department of State, 2010 ($2,200) Internal Faculty Fellow, Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A&M University, ($1,500) 4

5 Summer research stipend, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, 2008 ($750) Program for the Enhancement of Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant (PESCA), Texas A&M, 2008 ($1,485) William J. Fulbright Fellowship, Honduras, Library of Congress Hispanic Division, Junior Research Fellow,