Carlos Aguirre

Professor, Department of History
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
e-mail: info@uoregon.College

 

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1996.
M.A. Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, 1990.
B.A. Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (Lima, Peru), 1986.

Current affiliation

Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon

Other Professional Positions

2024 Visiting Professor, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
2004-2014 Director, Latin American Studies Program, University of Oregon
2000 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico (R�o Piedras)
1999 Visiting Professor, Graduate School, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima)
1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon.
1994-95 Mentor, MacArthur Summer Honors Program in International Studies.
1993-95 Instructor, Department of History, University of Minnesota.
1991-93 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Minnesota.
1990-91 Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Minnesota.
1987-89 Researcher, Instituto Pasado & Presente (Lima) and Editor of the journal Pasado & Presente.


Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2024 Outstanding Career Award, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Oregon
2024 Faculty Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Oregon
2024 Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University
2023 College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, Summer Grant for Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty
2020 Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, University of Oregon
2019 University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award
2017 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant
2017 Brush Fellowship (Department of History, University of Oregon)
2014 University of Oregon RIGE IDEA award for a project on �Libraries of the Americas: Power, Cultural Capital, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1800-2000�
2012 Two-year UISFL Grant, US Department of Education, �Enhancing Latin American Studies at the University of Oregon� (Co-PI with Prof. Lynn Stephen)

2008 Outstanding Faculty Award, Office of Multicultural Academic Support, University of Oregon
2007 University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award
2007 Bibliographical Society of America Research Fellowship
2006 Brush Fellowship (Department of History, University of Oregon)
2004 University of Oregon Summer Research Award
2003 University of Oregon Williams Council Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship
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2002 University of Oregon Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching
2002 Wayne Morse Center Vision Grant
2001 Littleton-Griswold Research Grant (American Historical Association)
2001 University of Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1999 Endeavor Faculty Fellowship, Department of History, University of Oregon
1997 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1997 University of Oregon Junior Professorship Grant
1997 University of Oregon New Faculty Award
1995-96 University of Minnesota Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship
1994-95 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Grant
1992 MacArthur Pre-dissertation Research Grant
1990-94 Fellow, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Minnesota.
1986-88 Research Grant, Peruvian Council of Science and Technology (CONCYTEC).


Publications

a) Books

2025 (with William Fisher) Vigilar, castigar e imprimir. La producci�n de libros en la penitenciar�a de Lima (1907-1961) (Trujillo: Reino de Almagro).

[Reviewed in BuenaPepa, El reportero de la historia, Hist�rica, F�nix, Hispanic American Historical Review, Periphērica, Revista de Indias, Trama cr�tica, Iberoamericana]

2025 La ciudad y los perros. Biograf�a de una novela, 3rd edition (Lima: Debate).

[Reviewed in Correo, El reportero de la historia, El Hablador]

Translated into Portuguese: A Cidade e os Cachorros. Biografia de um Romance (S�o Paulo: Ateli�, 2026).

2025 (with Charles Walker), Alberto Flores Galindo. Utopia, History, and Revolution (Leiden: Brill). US edition published by Haymarket Books.

2024 (with Kristina Buynova), Cinco d�as en Mosc�. Mario Vargas Llosa y el socialismo sovi�tico (1968) (Trujillo: Reino de Almagro).

[Reviewed in NACLA, Correo, La Industria, La Rep�blica, Escritura y Pensamiento, El Comercio, Jacobin, (Jacobina, in Portuguese), Letras, London Review of Books, Revista del Archivo General de la Naci�n, Puerta a Rusia, Hispanic American Historical Review, Perro negro]

Translated into Russian: Пять дней в Москве. Визит Марио Варгаса Льосы в Советский Союз (1968) (Moscow: LitFact, 2025).

[Interview with Kristina Buynova] [Reviewed in Literature of the Americas, in Russian]

2022 Breve historia de la esclavitud. Una herida que no deja de sangrar, 2nd edition (Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Jurado Nacional de Elecciones).

[Interview, Libros a m�] [Interview, El arriero]

2020 (with Charles Walker), Alberto Flores Galindo. Utop�a, historia y revoluci�n (Lima: La Siniestra ensayos).

[Reviewed in Hist�rica, Hispanic American Historial Review, The Americas, Archivos, Prismas, Pol�ticas de la memoria, El Peruano, La Corriente, El Comercio, El ejercicio del pensar; Historia y Regi�n, Interview with Per�21]

2019 Donde se amansan los guapos: las c�rceles de Lima, 1850-1935 (Lima: Universidad del Pac�fico).

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2017 La ciudad y los perros. Biograf�a de una novela, 2nd edition (Sevilla: Renacimiento).

[Reviewed by Xavi Ay�n in La Vanguardia (Barcelona); by Luis Antonio de Villena; Revista de Libros]

2015 La ciudad y los perros. Biograf�a de una novela (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�).

[Reviewed in Contempor�nea, Apuntes, Hist�rica, Per�21, Exitosa, Review by Alejandro Susti, Interview with PuntoEdu, Interview by Luis Rodr�guez Pastor, Interview with El Comercio, Interview with Javier Torres for �El Arriero�]

2008 D�nle duro que no siente. Poder y transgresi�n en el Per� republicano (Lima: Fondo Editorial del Pedag�gico San Marcos).

[Reviewed in The Americas, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Caravelle, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am�rica Latina y el Caribe, Libros & Artes, Revista de Historia Iberoamericana, Tiempo Hist�rico]

2005a The Criminals of Lima and their Worlds: The Prison Experience (1850-1935) (Durham: Duke University Press).

[Reviewed in The Americas; Journal of Latin American Studies ; American Historical Review; The Latin Americanist, Punishment and Society, Radical History Review; International Criminal Justice Review , Journal of Social History, Hispanic American Historical Review, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am�rica Latina y el Caribe, Bulletin of Latin American Research]

2005b Breve historia de la esclavitud en el Per�. Una herida que no deja de sangrar (Lima: Fondo Editorialdel Congreso del Per�)

[Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review; Revista Andina; Caravelle-Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Bresilien, Investigaciones Sociales, Ethnohistory, Hist�rica]

1993 Agentes de su propia libertad. Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegraci�n de la esclavitud, 1821-1854 (Agents of their own freedom. The Slaves of Lima and the desintegration of slavery, 1821-1854). Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�.

[Reviewed in Hist�rica, Revista Andina, Hispanic American Historical Review, American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Colonial Latin American Review]

b) Edited volumes

2025 El Estado editor en Am�rica Latina. Libros, pol�tica y cultura, coedited with Mart�n Bergel and Sebasti�n Rivera Mir (Temperley: Tren en movimiento).

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2023 Las cartas del Boom, by Julio Cort�zar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa (Barcelona: Alfaguara), coedited with Gerald Martin, Javier Mungu�a and Augusto Wong Campos.

[This volume has been reviewed in more than 100 newspapers, supplements, and magazines in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, the UK, and other countries. The entire list could be accessed at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/lascartasdelboom/resenas-reviews/]

TRANSLATIONS

Portuguese (Portugal): As Cartas do Boom (Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2025).

Portuguese (Brazil): As cartas do Boom (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2025).

Italian: Il Boom latinoamericano. Lettere 1955-1975 (Milan: Mondadori, 2026).

Turkish:
Latin Amerika Patlamasi. �Boom� Mektuplari (Istambul: Can, 2026).


2021 Alberto Flores Galindo, La agon�a de Mari�tegui, edited and with an introduction by Carlos Aguirre (Lima and Havana: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per� and Casa de las Am�ricas).

2019 Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros. Criminalidad y violencia, siglos XVIII-XX, 2nd edition (Lima: La Siniestra Ensayos).

2018 Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot, eds. La revoluci�n peculiar. Repensando el gobierno militar de Velasco (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos).

2018 Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore, eds. Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en Am�rica Latina. Siglos XIX y XX (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�).

[Reviewed in Orbis Tertius, Historia y espacio]

2017 Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot, eds. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule (Austin: University of Texas Press).

[Reviewed in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, English Historical Review, Radical Americas, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am�rica Latina y el Caribe, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, The Americas]

2017 Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press).

[Reviewed in Latin American Research Review, Journal of Global South Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Latin Americanist]

2015 Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores, eds. From the Ashes of History. Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente).

[Reviewed in A Contracorriente, Journal of Latin American Studies, The Americas]

2013a Carlos Aguirre and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Lima siglo XX. Cultura, socializaci�n y cambio (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�).

2013b Carlos Aguirre, ed. Militantes, intelectuales y revolucionarios. Ensayos sobre marxismo e izquierda en Am�rica Latina (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2013).

[Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review, Revista Andina]

2010 Carlos Aguirre, Charles F. Walter, and Willie Hiatt, editors and translators, In Search of an Inca. Identity and Utopia in the Andes, by Alberto Flores Galindo (New York: Cambridge University Press, 21010). [Editors Introduction, �Alberto Flores Galindo: Historian and Public Intellectual�]

[Reviewed in The Americas, Ethnohistory, Hispanic American Historical Review, American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Latin American Research Review, American Journal of Sociology, Histoire Sociale/Social History]

2008 Carlos Aguirre and Carmen McEvoy, eds. Intelectuales y poder. Ensayos en torno a la rep�blica de las letras en el Per� e hispanoam�rica (ss. XVI-XX) (Lima: Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos � Instituto Riva Ag�ero).

[Reviewed in The Americas, Mercurio Peruano, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Libros & Artes]

2001 Ricardo Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, and Gilbert Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin America. Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times (Durham: Duke University Press).

[Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies, American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Journal of Social History, Punishment and Society, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Am�rica Latina y el Caribe]

2000 Carlos Aguirre and Robert Buffington, eds.Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources).

[Reviewed in Journal of Latin American Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, Quinto Sol, H-Net, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe]

1996 Ricardo Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre, eds. The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America, 1830-1940 (Austin: University of Texas Press).

[Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Bolet�n del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani, International Criminal Justice Review, Law and History Review, Crime, Histoire et Soci�t�s]

1990 Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker, eds. Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros. Criminalidad y violencia en el Per�, siglos XVIII-XX (Lima: Instituto de Apoyo Agrario/Instituto Pasado & Presente).

[Reviewed in Hispanic American Historical Review, Ethnohistory, Revista Andina, The Americas, Hist�rica, IAHCCJ Bulletin, Bulletin of Latin American Research]

c) Book chapters

2026 �El f�tbol peruano en la escena e imaginario globales (1970-1978),� in Adri�n Lerner and Alberto Vergara, eds. Per� Global. Explicar el Per� con el mundo, vol. 2 (Lima: Cr�tica / Universidad del Pac�fico).

2025 �Hombre y rejas. El APRA en prisi�n, 1932-1945,� in Mart�n Bergel and Paulo Drinot, eds. La revoluci�n que no fue. Nuevas miradas a la historia del APRA (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos).

2024 �Making Books at the Penitentiary: C�sar Vallejo�s Trilce,� in Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman, eds. American Contact. Intercultural Encounters and the History of the Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press).

2023 �Vigilar e imprimir: Vallejo, Trilce y los talleres tipogr�ficos de la penitenciar�a de Lima� (with Bill Fisher), in Miguel �ngel Zapata, ed. Trilce (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de Quer�taro and Ediciones El Tuc�n de Virginia).

2018 �Los intelectuales de izquierda y la revoluci�n latinoamericana: sue�os y pesadillas (1959-1990),� in Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Ferran Archil�s, eds. Ideas comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la pol�tica (Madrid: Akal).

2018 �Los intelectuales y sus bibliotecas en el Per� del siglo XX,� in Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore, eds. Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en Am�rica Latina. Siglos XIX y XX (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�).

2018 ��La segunda liberaci�n? El nacionalismo militar y la conmemoraci�n del sesquicentenario de la independencia peruana,� in Carlos Aguirre y Paulo Drinot, eds. La revoluci�n peculiar. Repensando el gobierno militar de Velasco (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos).

2017 ��Colonias de poblaci�n o lugares de destierro y tormento? Colonias penales en Am�rica Latina, c. 1800-1940� (with Ricardo Salvatore) (Spanish translation of �Colonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940�), in Lila Caimari and M�ximo Souzo, eds. Historia de la cuesti�n criminal en Am�rica Latina (Rosario: Prohistoria, 2017).

2017 �The Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821�1971,� in Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot, eds. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule (Austin: University of Texas Press).

2015 �Apogeo, crisis y transformaci�n del pan�ptico iberoamericano: Apuntes para la historia de un modelo arquitect�nico,� in Jorge A. Trujillo Bret�n, ed. Voces y memorias del olvido. Historia, marginalidad y delito en Am�rica Latina (Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara).

2015 �La c�rcel y la ciudad letrada: hacia una historia cultural de la prisi�n en el Per� del siglo veinte,� in Daniel Palma, ed. Delincuentes, polic�as y justicias. Am�rica Latina, siglos XIX y XX (Santiago de Chile: Universidad Alberto Hurtado).

2015 �Colonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940� (written with Ricardo Salvatore), in Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein, eds. Global Convict Labour (Leiden: Brill).

2015 �A Cultural Tragedy: The Destruction and Reconstruction of the Peruvian National Library, 1943-1948,� in Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores, eds. From the Ashes of History. Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente).

2013 �Per� campe�n: fiebre futbol�stica y nacionalismo en 1970�, in Carlos Aguirre and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Lima siglo XX. Cultura, socializaci�n y cambio (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, 2013), pp. 383-416.

2013 �Punishment and Extermination: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Lima, Peru, June 1986,� in Eric A. Johnson, Ricardo Salvatore, and Pieter Spierenburg, eds. Murder and Violence in Modern Latin America (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 193-216.

2012 �Tinterillos, Indians, and the State: Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries in Post-Independence Peru,� in Stefan B. Kirmse, ed. One Law for All? Western models and Local Practices in (Post-) Imperial Contexts (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2012), pp. 119-151.

2009 �C�rcel y sociedad en Am�rica Latina: 1800-1940," in Eduardo Kingman Garc�s, ed. Historia social urbana. Espacios y flujos (Quito: FLACSO).

2008a �El pensamiento entre rejas: intelectuales peruanos y la experiencia de la prisi�n,� in Carlos Aguirre and Carmen McEvoy, eds. Intelectuales y poder. Ensayos en torno a la rep�blica de las letras en el Per� e hispanoam�rica (ss. XVI-XX) (Lima: Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos � Instituto Riva Ag�ero), pp. 413-456.

2008b �Los usos del f�tbol en las prisiones de Lima (1900-1940)�, en Aldo Panfichi, ed. Ese gol existe. Una mirada al Per� a trav�s del f�tbol (Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�).

2007 �Prisons and Prisoners in Modernising Latin America, 1800-1940,� in Frank Dik�tter and Ian Brown, eds. Cultures of Confinement. A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press and London: Hurst).

2005 �Two Worlds Apart? Labour and Crime in Latin American History,� in Workers in the Informal Sector. Studies in Labour history 1800-2000, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen (New Delhi: SEPHIS/Macmillan).

2004 ��Los irrecusables datos de la estad�stica del crimen�: La construcci�n social del delito en la Lima de mediados del siglo XIX," in Carmen McEvoy, ed. La experiencia burguesa en el Per� (1840-1940) (Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert), pp. 309-330.

(A sligthly different version of this article was also published in Paula Alonso, ed. Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formaci�n de los Estados nacionales en Am�rica Latina, 1820-1920 (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Econ�mica, 2004).

2003 �Mujeres delincuentes, pr�cticas penales, y servidumbre dom�stica en Lima, 1862-1930,� in Scarlett O�Phelan, et. al. comps. Familia y Vida Cotidiana en Am�rica Latina, Siglos XVIII-XX (Lima: IFEA/Instituto Riva Ag�ero/Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica).

2001 "Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform," in Salvatore, Aguirre, and Joseph, eds. Crime and Punishment in Latin America.

2000 "La poblaci�n de origen africano en el Per�: de la esclavitud a la libertad," in Carlos Aguirre, et. al.
Lo africano en la cultura criolla (Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Per�).

1999 "Working the System: Black Slaves and the Courts in Lima, Peru, 1821-1854," In Darlene Clark Hine and Jacqueline A. McLeod, eds. Crossing Boundaries. Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).

1996a "The Lima Penitentiary and the Modernization of Criminal Justice in Nineteenth-Century Peru," in Salvatore and Aguirre, eds. The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America.

1996b "Patrones, esclavos y sirvientes dom�sticos en Lima (1800-1860)," in Pilar Gonzalbo and Cecilia Rabell, eds. Familia y Vida Privada en la Historia de Iberoamerica
(Mexico City: El Colegio de M�xico).

1995 "La Penitenciar�a de Lima y la modernizaci�n de la justicia penal en el Per� del siglo XIX," in Felipe Portocarrero and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Mundos Interiores: Lima, 1870-1950 (Lima: Universidad del Pac�fico). [Click here to read chapter]

1990 "Cimarronaje, bandolerismo, y desintegraci�n esclavista.
Lima, 1821-1854," in Aguirre and Walker, eds. Bandoleros, abigeos y montoneros. [Click here to read chapter]

d) Journal Articles

2025, �Face to Face with Soviet Socialism, Hospitality, and Censorship. Mario Vargas Llosa in Moscow, May 1968� (with Kristina Buynova), Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LXXXI, No. 1 (Winter-Spring), pp. 37-77.

2024, ��El premio m�s revolucionario? Las venas abiertas de Am�rica Latina y el Premio Casa de las Am�ricas de 1971,� Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual, 28, 2024, pp. 157-168.

2022, �Apuntes sobre la �guerrillerizaci�n� de la cultura: Las venas abiertas de Am�rica Latina, el Premio Casa de las Am�ricas y los debates sobre los intelectuales y la revoluci�n,� Hist�rica, vol. 46, No. 1.

2022, ��Asalto a mano desarmada�: las ediciones cubanas del boom,� Calle del Aire (Seville), No. 3, june, pp. 127-144.

2019 �Mario Benedetti y el internacionalismo literario: Casa de las Am�ricas, el Centro de Investigaciones Literarias y la serie Valoraci�n M�ltiple (1967-1976)� (with Augusto Wong Campos), Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay, 16, 2019, pp. 81-111.

2019, �Alberto Flores Galindo: entre la utop�a andina y la utop�a socialista�(with Charles Walker), A Contracorriente, 16, 2, Winter 2019, pp. 176-192.

2017 �Revisitando El nacimiento de la penitenciar�a en Am�rica Latina veinte a�os despu�s� (with Ricardo Salvatore), Revista de Historia de las Prisiones, No. 4, 2017, pp. 7-42.

2017 ��Vamos a quitarle el frac al libro, vamos a ponerlo en mangas de camisa�. El proyecto editorial Populibros peruanos (1963-1965)�, Pol�ticas de la memoria, No. 17, verano 2017/2017, pp. 204-222.

2016 �Una tragedia cultural: el incendio de la Biblioteca Nacional del Per�,� Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional: La Biblioteca, No. 11-12, 2016, 107-139.

2014 �Hombres y rejas. El APRA en prisi�n, 1932-1945,� Bolet�n del Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos, 43, 1, pp. 7-30.

2013 �Nicomedes Santa Cruz: la formaci�n de un intelectual p�blico afroperuano,� Hist�rica, XXVII, 2.

2011 �Terruco de m� Insulto y estigma en la guerra sucia peruana,� Hist�rica (Lima), XXXV, 1 (2011), pp. 103-139.

2009 ��De qui�n son estas memorias? El archivo de la Comisi�n de la Verdad y Reconciliaci�n del Per�,� Jahrbuch f�r Geschichte Lateinamerikas (K�ln, Germany), Vol. 46, pp. 135-165.

2007 �Cultura pol�tica de izquierda y cultura impresa en el Per� contempor�neo (1968-1990): Alberto Flores Galindo y la formaci�n de un intelectual p�blico,� Historica (Lima), XXXI, 1, pp. 171-205.

2005 "Silencios y ecos. La historia y el legado de la abolici�n de la esclavitud en Hait� y Per�," A Contracorriente, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-37.

2002 �La historia social del Per� republicano (1821-1930),� Hist�rica (Lima), XXVI, 1-2, pp. 445-501.

2000 "Delito, raza y cultura: el desarrollo de la criminolog�a en el Per� (1890-1930)," in Di�logos en Historia (Lima), 2, 2000, pp. 179-206. [Spanish translation of Aguirre 1998].

1998 "Race, Crime, and Morals: The Development of Criminology in Peru, 1890-1930," in Crime, History and Societies 2, 2 (Fall).

1992 "Agentes de su propia emancipaci�n. Manumisi�n de esclavos en Lima, 1821-1854," Am�rica Negra (Bogot�), Vol. 2, No. 2, december. [Also published in Apuntes (Lima, Universidad del Pac�fico, No. 21, 1992].

1989 "Resistencia y rebeli�n: un comentario,"
Pasado y Presente (Lima), No. 2/3.

1988 "Violencia, castigo y control social: esclavos y panader�as en Lima, siglo XIX," Pasado y Presente (Lima), 1. [Reprinted in Augusto Ruiz, ed. Lima. Nuevos estudios de historia y arqueolog�a (Lima: Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, 1998).

1987 "Paternalismo y rebeli�n en la hacienda esclavista del siglo XIX," Kuntur (Lima), 6.


Other publications

2021 �Para una nueva historia de las bibliotecas en Am�rica Latina. Di�logo entre Carlos Aguirre y Alejandro E. Parada�, Pol�ticas de la memoria, 21, pp. 107-117.

2019 �La novela del guardaespaldas�, en Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversaci�n en La Catedral, edici�n conmemorativa del 50 aniversario (Barcelona: Alfaguara).

2013 �Entre la censura y el fuego. La ciudad y los perros,� Libros & Artes, 60-61, April 2013.

2011 �La experiencia de la prisi�n,� Libros & Artes, 46-47, April 2011, Special Issue on �The Fiction of Jos� Mar�a Arguedas.�

2009 �Entrevista a Carlos Aguirre,� Urvio. Revista Latinoamericana de Seguridad Ciudadana, Quito, No. 7, May 2009, pp. 137-142.

2009 �Archivos, Poder e Historia en Am�rica Latina,� Special Issue of Jahrbuch f�r Geschichte Lateinamerikas (K�ln, Germany), Vol. 46, edited by Carlos Aguirre and Javier Villa-Flores.

2009 �Hegemon�a,� in Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos, ed. by M�nica Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin (Mexico City: Siglo XXI Editores).

2008 �Marxismo e Izquierda en la Historia de Am�rica Latina� (Carlos Aguirre, Guest editor), A Contracorriente. A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 2008.

2008 �Prisons and Punishment: Prison Colonies and Islands� and �Prisons and Punishment: Latin America,� entries for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Peter Stearns, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008).

2007 Carlos Aguirre and Pedro Guibovich, eds. �Libro, lectura y cultura impresa en el Per� siglos XVII-XX,� Hist�rica (Lima), XXXI, 1. [Click here to read the presentation to this dossier].

2007 �Hobsbawm encara el tercer milenio,� Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros, No. 2, December 2007.

2005a �Aristocracia y plebe,� Libros & Artes (Lima), No. 11.

2005b �Hacia una historia del discurso racista en el Per�� (Prologue to Marcel Vel�zquez, Las m�scaras de la representaci�n. El sujeto esclavista y las rutas del racismo en el Per�, 1775-1895, Lima, UNMSM, 2005). Reproduced in Ciberayllu, January 9, 2006 (http://www.andes.missouri.edu/andes/Comentario/CAg_Mascaras.html)

2004 �Duelo de caballeros. Lima a comienzos del siglo XX,� Libros & Artes (Lima), No. 9.

Lectures, Presentations, and Papers at Conferences

2024

�Di�logo con Roger Chartier,� Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos, Lima, October 25, 2024.

Discussant, �La cultura escrita en la �poca de la reproductibilidad digital,� lecture by Roger Chartier, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, October 23, 2024.

�Hell Has No Limits. Jos� Donoso, 100 Years, a Laboratory of Writing,� round table with Cecilia Garc�a-Huidobro and Javier Guerrero, Princeton University, April 30, 2024.

�A Long Night with Fidel Castro: Intellectuals Discuss the Cuban Revolution,� Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University, March 5, 2024.

�The Inner History of the Latin American Boom: Literature, Politics, and Friendship,� Johns Hopkins University, Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, February 27, 2024.

�Las cartas del Boom,� Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center (Bloomfield, New Jersey), February 9, 2024.

2023

�Las cartas del Boom,� panel with Juan Cruz, Librer�a Iberoamericana, Madrid (October 26).

�Las cartas del Boom,� lecture delivered at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas, Institutosde Historia y Literatura, Madrid (October 26).

�El taller del historiador,� panel, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, Escuela de Posgrado (September 11).

�Las cartas del Boom,� book presentation, Librer�a El Virrey (September 6).

�Las cartas del Boom,� roundtable, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Letras, August 31).

�Una noche con Fidel: los intelectuales y la Revoluci�n Cubana,� paper presented at the 6th Conference on Latin American Intellectual History (S�o Paulo, Brazil, July 26).

�Del Boom al Bio Boom: Di�logo sobre las biograf�as de La ciudad y los perros y Cien a�os de soledad,� with �lvaro Santana-Acu�a and Gustavo Guerrero (Vancouver, BC, May 26).

��La plebeiade�: la colecci�n Biblioteca Peruana de PEISA y el �auspicio� del Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas,� paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress (Vancouver, BC, May 25).

�Mari�tegui y la modernidad global: presentaci�n de dos antolog�as de Jos� Carlos Mari�tegui,� with Mart�n Bergel, Latin American Studies Association Congress (Vancouver, BC, May 25).

2022

�Las cartas que nunca llegaron: voces y silencios en los archivos carcelarios,� round table on �Sin archivos no hay historia,� Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, November 17, 2022.

�Vigilar e imprimir: Vallejo, Trilce y los talleres tipogr�ficos de la penitenciar�a de Lima�(with Bill Fisher), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Seminario: 100 a�os de Trilce de C�sar Vallejo, October 26, 2022.

�Una aproximaci�n a los estudios sobre el libro y la edici�n. Conceptos claves y di�logos con especialistas,� Universidad Nacional de San Mart�n (Buenos Aires), September 20, 2022 (via zoom).

��La plebeiade�: la colecci�n Biblioteca Peruana de PEISA y el �auspicio� del Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas,� presented at the seminar on �El Estado editor,� August 18, 2022.

�C�sar Vallejo, Trilce y la imprenta de la penitenciar�a de Lima,� lecture delivered at the Casa de la Literatura Peruana, Lima, August 10, 2022.

Open Veins of Latin America: The Cuban Revolution, Cultural Politics, and the Making of a Classic,� lecture delivered for the Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group, Northwestern University, March 11, 2022.

2021

Las venas abiertas de 1971: a medio siglo de un a�o decisivo,� presented at the Colloquium onLas venas abiertas de Am�rica Latina de Eduardo Galeano. 50 a�os despu�s,� June 23-25, Universidad de la Rep�blica (Montevideo) (via zoom).

Intelectuales, coleccionismo de libros y bibliotecas privadas en el Per� del siglo XX,� lecture, Instituto Riva Ag�ero (Lima), April 29, 2021 (via zoom).

�El legado del sesquicentenario de la independencia del Per�,� round table, C�tedra Bicentenario, Proyecto Especial Bicentenario del Per�, January 20, 2021.

2020

"De Mari�tegui a Sendero Luminoso: Alberto Flores Galindo y los debates en la izquierda de los 80s," XXX Coloquio Internacional de Estudiantes de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, November 3, 2021 (via zoom).

��No hay isla feliz�: Alberto Flores Galindo, Cuba y la utop�a socialista,� Department of History Discussion Seminar, Universidad de San Andr�s (Buenos Aires), September 25 (via zoom).

�Cuando el boom lleg� a Casa: redes pol�ticas y literarias cubanas y latinoamericanas en los or�genes del boom,� Inaugural Lecture, Colloquium on Intellectuals and Cultural Networks, Universidad de Valpara�so, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and Universidad de Santiago de Chile, July 23 (via zoom)

�The History of Prisons in Peru, 1850-1935,� guest lecture, Instituto Latinoamericano de Criminolog�a y Desarrollo Social (Lima), July 2 (via zoom)

2018

Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of Vargas Llosa�s La ciudad y los perros,� Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History, University of California at Santa Barbara, October 5.

�Una vida entre libros. Intelectuales peruanos y sus bibliotecas,� Casa de la Literatura Peruana, August 28.

Repensando el 68 en Am�rica Latina: Revoluci�n y autoritarismo en Cuba y Per�,� Universidad Nacional de San Mart�n (Buenos Aires), August 22.

�Cuba�s 1968,� Latin American Studies Association Congress, Round table on �1968: 50 Years After,� Barcelona, May 23-26.

2017

�Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution: Revisiting the Padilla Affair,� lecture at the Federico Villarreal University, Lima, August 29.

�New Perspectives on the Velasco Regime (almost) Fifty Years After the Military Coup," lecture at the Catholic University of Peru, Lima, August 24.

�The History of Prisons in Republican Peru: Contributions and Perspectives,� Lecture at the University of San Marcos, Lima, August 18.

�The 1943 Fire at the National Library: Debates and Lessons,� Lecture at the Peruvian National Library, Lima, August 8.

�Una experiencia acad�mica interdisciplinaria en Latinoam�rica. El Seminario de Historia Rural Andina, Per� 1966-2016,� Roundtable, LASA Congress, Lima, April 30.

2016

�Archives and Human Rights: Whose Voices Do We Hear?,� presented at the Latin American Studies Association congress, New York, May 27-30, 2016.

��La segunda independencia? Velasquismo y la reinterpretaci�n de la historia en la celebraci�n del sesquicentenario de 1971,� presented at the Colloquium on �Nuevas miradas sobre el r�gimen militar de Velasco Alvarado,� Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos, Lima, June 14-16, 2016.

�Archives, Power, and Memory in Latin American History�, Norbert Lechner Keynote Address, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, August 18, 2016.

�Archivos, memoria y poder en la historia latinoamericana,� lecture delivered at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, August 23, 2016.

�La ciudad y los perros. Biograf�a de una novela�, presented at the Seminar on Intellectual History, Instituto Emilio Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, August 26, 2016.

2015

�Abolition in Spanish America: Rethinking Slave Agency,� presented at the Conference on �Antislavery Republics: The Politics of Abolition in the Spanish Atlantic,� Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, October 30-31, 2015.

�Michel Foucault y la historia de las prisiones en Am�rica Latina,� presented at the 3rd. Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences (FLACSO, Quito, August 26-28, 2015).

�Archives, Memory, and Human Rights in Latin America,� presented at the symposium on �Collective Memory and Human Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the Past and Present-Day Challenges,� Guatemala City, June 25, 2015.

�Bringing the Book to the Masses: The Experience of Populibros in Peru, 1963-1965,� presented at the LASA Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico (May 26-30, 2015).

�Revisiting The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America (almost) Twenty Years Later� (with Ricardo Salvatore), presented at the Conference on �A History of Penal Regimes in Global Perspective, 1800-2014� (Harvard University, March 5-7, 2015).

2014

�Slavery and Abolition in Nineteenth-Century Peru,� presented at the 10thColoquio de �African�as� (Instituto Nacional de Antropolog�a e Historia, Mexico City, September 26, 2014).

�Intellectuals and their Libraries in Twentieth-Century Peru,� presented at the Colloquium on �Libraries of the Americas. Power, Cultural Capital, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1800-2000� (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, August 19-20, 2014).

�Between Fiction and Reality: Soccer in the Writings of Mario Vargas Llosa,� presented at the Conference on �Soccer as the Beautiful Game: Football's Artistry, Identity and Politics� (Hofstra University, April 10-13, 2014).

�Documentaries as Vehicles of Memory,� presented at the Conference on �What is Documentary?� (University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication, Portland, April 24-26, 2014).

2013

�Latin American Peasants and Revolutions in the Writings of Eric Hobsbawm,� presented at the North American Conference on British Studies (Portland, November 8-10, 2013).

��Hay que inducir el genocidio�: la masacre de presos de Sendero Luminoso en 1986,� Keynote address, North Carolina State University, October 17, 2013.

The Second Liberation? Military Nationalism and the Sesquicentennial Commemoration of Peruvian Independence, 1821�1971,� presented at the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013 and at the Conference on �Rethinking Military Nationalism: New Perspectives on the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, Peru, 1968-1975,� University College London, October 4, 2013.

�Una tragedia cultural: el incendio de la Biblioteca Nacional del Per� en 1943,� delivered at the Conference on �La cultura del libro: aproximaciones desde la historia y el arte,� Peruvian National Library, August 22-23, 2013.

�La c�rcel y la ciudad letrada: Apuntes para una historia cultural de la prisi�n en el Per� del siglo veinte.� Keynote address, Conference on �Crime, Police, and Justice in Latin America,� Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile, April 8-10, 2013; also delivered as a guest lecture at the Instituto Riva Ag�ero, Lima, September 12, 2013.

2012

�Tortura y violencia en las c�rceles peruanas: una aproximaci�n hist�rica,� presented at the Seminar on �Din�micas del espacio penitenciario en el Per�,� Instituto Franc�s de Estudios Andinos, Lima, September 6, 2012.

�Colonies of Settlement or Places of Torment? Penal Colonies and Convict Labor in Latin America, c. 1800-1940� (with Ricardo D. Salvatore), presented at the conference on �Global Convict Labor,� International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, June 13-14, 2012.

��Per� Campe�n�: Fiebre futbol�stica y nacionalismo en 1970,� presented at the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012) and at the Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per� (September 12, 2012).

Archivos, derechos humanos y la preservaci�n de la memoria hist�rica,� Lecture at the Archivo Hist�rico de la Polic�a Nacional (AHPN), Guatemala, March 21, 2012.

�The Destruction and Reconstruction of the Peruvian National Library, 1943-1948,� Paper presented at the American Historical Association Convention (Chicago, January 5-8, 2012).

2011

�The Curious History of the Latin American Panopticon, 1830-1930: Adoption, Transformation, and Collapse of a Penal and Architectural Model,� Paper presented at the International Workshop �Traveling Penologies: Towards an Entangled History of the Prison and Technologies of Punishment,� ETH Zurich, Institute of History, 2-3 December, 2011.

�Black in Latin America: Mexico and Peru,� Portland Community College, November 29, 2011.

�Printing, Reading, and Writing: Inside the Prison: Notes Towards a Cultural History of Incarceration in 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish America,� presented at the Colloquium on �Crime and Punishment in Latin America. Practices and Representations,� University of Colorado, Boulder, October 7-8, 2011.

�Libros, lectura y c�rcel: Apuntes para una historia cultural de la prisi�n,� Lecture delivered at the Instituto de Investigaciones Human�sticas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima), June 27, 2011.

�Apogeo, crisis y transformaci�n del pan�ptico iberoamericano: Apuntes para la historia de un modelo arquitect�nico,� Keynote Address, International Colloquium onHistory, Marginality, and Crime in Latin America,� Universidad de Guadalajara, May 17-19, 2011.

�Nicomedes Santa Cruz: The Making of a Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru,� presented at the Conference on �Black in Latin America� (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, January 27-29, 2011).

2010

�Insult, Stigma, and Torture in Peru�s Dirty War and Beyond,� University of Washington (Seattle), February 26, 2010 (Presented as part of the series �Dangerous Subjects: Contention, Violence, and Control in Latin America,� Simpson Center for the Humanities). A Spanish-language version of this paper was presented at CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas), Madrid, October 25, 2010. [More info here].

�(Party) Discipline and Punishment: APRA in Prison, 1932-1945,� presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 7-10 January 2010.

�Cultural Approaches to Legal History: The Case of Prisons and Punishment in Latin America,� presented at the Workshop �One Law for All? Law and �Modernization� in Comparative Global Perspective. Universal Claims, Local Implementations,� Humboldt University, Berlin, October 29-30, 2010.

2009

�Independencia y nacionalismo en la historiograf�a peruana contempor�nea (1970-2009),� presented at the Taller de Reflexi�n sobre Am�rica Latina (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, October 15-16, 2009).

�El boom de la memoria hist�rica: verdad, subjetividad y pol�tica�, Delivered at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (Lima), September 8, 2009.

�De qui�n son estas memorias? El acervo documental de la CVR,� delivered at the Symposium onHistoria, memoria, archivos y verdad: experiencias de reconstrucci�n de una realidad� (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, September 1, 2009).

De la esclavitud a la libertad. Los afro-descendientes en Am�rica hispana, 1800-1900� (A lecture series offered at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre Am�rica Latina y el Caribe, Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico, Mexico City, August 19-21, 2009).

�Independencia, clases populares, e historia desde abajo,� paper presented at the Conference on �Independencia y Democracia en el Per�� (Centro de Estudios del Bicentenario and Instituto Riva-Ag�ero), Lima, August 12-14, 2009)

�El Apra en Prisi�n, 1932-1945,� paper presented at symposium on �Formaci�n y desarrollo del Apra: entre lo nacional y lo indoamericano, 1920-1948,� 53rd. International Congress of Americanists (Mexico City, July 19-24, 2009). Also presented at the panel onMemoria, mito y pol�tica: el Apra en la historia del Per�� (Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, August 26, 2009).

2008

�F�tbol, sociedad y pol�tica en Am�rica Latina,� Casa Mari�tegui (Lima, September 16 2008).

�Political Violence and Political Prisoners in Contemporary Peru,� University of Oregon and Central Oregon Community College Distinguished Lecture Series (Bend, OR, April 25, 2008).

��Hay que inducir al genocidio�: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Peru, June 1986,� Presented at the Conference on �Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America. Human Rights, Memory and Democracy (University of Oregon, Jan. 31-Feb 2, 2008)

2007

�De qui�n son estas memorias? El Archivo de la Comisi�n de la Verdad y Reconciliaci�n del Peru,� Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, Montreal, September 5-8, 2007.

�Punishment and Extermination: The Massacre of Political Prisoners in Peru, June 1986,� Presented at the Conference on �Violence and Genocide in Latin American History,� Central Michigan University, August 23-25, 2007.

�Los estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos: debates y desaf�os,� Presented at the Coloquium �Cartograf�a(s) de Am�rica Latina: Cultura, Econom�a y Geopol�tica del siglo XVI al XXI,� Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, August 7-9, 2007.

2006

�De Paz Sold�n a Lay Fun: Apuntes para una historia social del castigo en el Per�,� Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (Lima), September 14, 2006.

�Authoritarian Democracy: State and Political Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Peru,� Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, May 5, 2006.

�The Latin American Prison Crisis in Historical Perspective,� delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Congress (San Juan, PR), March 15-18, 2006.

2005

�State, Society, and the Prison in Modern Latin America,� presented at the workshop on �Cultures of Confinement� (SOAS, University of London, 23-24 June, 2005)

�Political Prisoners in Twentieth-Century Peru: From APRA to Shining Path� (UC Davis, April 18, 2005; University of Washington, April 29, 2005; Carleton College, May 27, 2005)

2004

Los afro-descendientes en la historia andina� (co-authored with Prof. Kris Lane, William and Mary College), presented at the Symposium �Am�rica Andina: espacio, actores, y representaciones� (Cuenca, Ecuador, July 6-10, 2004).

�1804, 1854, 2004: Silencios y ecos en la historia y el legado de la abolici�n de la esclavitud en Hait� y Per�.� Keynote address delivered at the Coloquium on �La abolici�n de la esclavitud y sus procesos de manumisi�n en el Per�, Am�rica Latina y el Caribe� (Lima, August 17-20, 2004).

�El pensamiento entre rejas: Los intelectuales en prisi�n�, presented at the Colloquium �Intelectuales y Poder en la Historia del Per�� (Lima, Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�, December 14-16, 2004).

2003

�Disgraced Gentlemen: Political Prisoners in Lima, 1890-1935,� presented at the LASA XXIV International Congress (Dallas, 26-29 March, 2003), Northern Illinois University (April 2003), and the Latin American History Workshop (University of Chicago, October 2003).

�Speaking for the Subaltern? The role of legal intermediaries in the shaping of legal and political cultures in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Peru,� presented at the Workshop �Slavery, Emancipation, Claims-Making, and the Law,� University of Pittsburgh, April 25-26, 2003.

Batallas por la memoria: The Left, the Shining Path, and the Truth Commission in Peru,� presented at the Conference on �Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America� (University of Oregon, November 5-7, 2003).

2002

"State, Political Violence, and the Debates about the Death Penalty in Peru," presented at the Conference "The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty," Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, March 1-2, 2002.

"Los irrecusables datos de la estad�stica del crimen": La construcci�n social del delito en la Lima de mediados del siglo XIX," presented at the Conference on "Construcciones Impresas. Diarios, peri�dicos y revistas en la formaci�n de los estados nacionales en Am�rica Latina y Estados Unidos," Universidad San Andr�s (Buenos Aires), May, 16th-17th, 2002.

�Race, Masculinity, and the Forging of Criminal and Prison Sub-Cultures in Lima (1860-1930),� presented at the Conference �From Purity of Blood to Indigenous Social Movements: Cultural Race, Racism, and the Meanings of Mestizaje in the Andes and Central America� (University of Iowa).

2001

"Two Worlds Apart? Labor and Crime in Latin American History," Paper presented at the workshop "The Return of the Marginal" (El Colegio de Mexico/Sephis, Mexico City, June 27-28, 2001).

"Militarismo, violencia pol�tica y democracia en el Per� contempor�neo." Department of History, University of Oviedo (Spain), December 11th, 2001.

2000

"Tinterillos y leguleyos: Legal Intermediaries and Subaltern Subjects in Modern Peru," Paper presented at the LASA Congress, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.

"Violence, History, and Political Culture: Revisiting Alberto Flores Galindo's Work" (with Charles Walker), Presented at the LASA Congress, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.

1999

"From Slavery to Freedom: The Peoples of African Origin in Peru," Lecture delivered at the Colloquium on "Lo africano en la cultura criolla," Congreso de la Republica, Peru, November 1999.

"From Prison to Convent: Female Prisoners in Lima, 1860-1930," Presented at the Conference on "Familia y Vida Cotidiana en Latinoamerica, siglos XVIII-XX" (Instituto Riva-Aguero, Universidad Catolica del Peru)

1998

"Mapping Lima's Morals: The Political and Cultural Construction of the Criminal Classes in Late Nineteenth-Century Peru," paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting (Chicago, September 24-27, 1998)

"In Search of the Reformable Deviant: Female and Juvenile Inmates at Lima's Prisons, 1880-1930," delivered at Yale University, April 30, 1998.

1997

"Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890-1930: The Prisoners' Agenda for Prison Reform." Paper presented at the Conference "The Contested Terrains of Law, Justice, and Repression in Latin American History," Yale University, April 24-27.

1996

"Changing Images of Crime and Criminals in Modern Peru, 1890-1930," Conference on Latin American History, AHA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (January 4-7, 1996).

1995

(with Ricardo Salvatore) "The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America," 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Montreal (August 27-September 3).

"Working the System: Black Slaves and the Courts in Lima, Peru, 1800-1854," Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora: A Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (April 13-15)

1994

�Introducci�n a los debates y problemas de la historia social norteamericana�, SUR, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo (Lima), May 18, 1994.

�Delito y modernizaci�n en Lima, 1860-1930�, SUR, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo (Lima), February 1994.

1993

�A Tribute to Edward P. Thompson�, round table, SUR, Casa de Estudios del Socialismo (Lima), November 11-13, 1993.

"Patrones, esclavos, y sirvientes dom�sticos en Lima, 1800-1860," Conference on "Family and Private Life in Latin America", Mexico City, El Colegio de M�xico and Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico (May 3-5).

1992

Roundtable, "Punishment and Social Control in Latin America," Department of History and Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson (September 10).

1991

"The penitentiary of Lima and the modernization of criminal justice in Nineteenth-Century Peru," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago (December 26-30).

Work in Progress

Intelectuales y cultura impresa en el Per� del siglo XX
Latin American Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1971