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GRETCHEN KRISTINE PIERCE, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

· Ph.D., History, University of Arizona, May 2008

Major Field: Latin America; Minor Field: Art History

Dissertation: “Sobering the Revolution: Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol Campaigns and the Process of State-Building, 1910-1940”

· M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, May 2002

Major Field: History; Minor Field: Art History

Thesis: “The Stamp of the Revolution: The Mexican Revolution through Postage Stamps, 1910-1968”

· B.A., Interdisciplinary Humanities, Certificate in Latin American Studies, summa cum laude, Arizona State University/Barrett Honors College, May 2000

Thesis: “Feministas Visuales: The History of Mexican Feminism as Portrayed in the Lives and Works of the Photographers Tina Modotti and Lola Álvarez Bravo”

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

· Shippensburg University (SU), History/Philosophy Department

Associate Professor, July 2014-present

Assistant Professor, Aug. 2009-July 2014

· Northern Illinois University, History and Latin American Studies Departments

Visiting Assistant Professor, Aug. 2008-May 2009

· Indiana University Northwest, History/Philosophy Department

Adjunct Instructor, Aug. 2005-June 2008

· University of Arizona, History Department

Teaching Associate, Aug. 2002-May 2004

Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2001-May 2002

· University of Arizona, Latin American Studies Department

Teaching and Research Assistant, Aug. 2000-May 2001

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Shippensburg University

· HIS 105, World History I/Historical Foundations of Global Cultures (regular and majors-only sections, in person and on Zoom)

· HIS 106, World History II/Thinking Historically in a Global Age (regular and majors-only sections, in person and on Zoom)

· HON 123, Chocolate, Coffee, and Coca-Cola: Commodities in Honors World History II

· HIS 349, Food in Latin American History

· HIS 360, History of Mexico ( in person and on Zoom)

· HIS 366, History of Brazil (in person and on Zoom)

· HON 360/388/396/397/398, Honors Colloquium: Reach Out

· INT 300, Pot, Penicillin, and the Pill: A Global View of Drugs (International Studies capstone)

· HIS 444/490/493, Select Topics: History of Women in Latin America (undergraduate/graduate course)

· HIS 593, Food in Latin American History (graduate course)

Northern Illinois University

· ILAS 100, Latin American Civilizations

· HIST 381, Colonial Latin American History

· HIST 382, Modern Latin American History

· HIST 498, Topics in Latin American History: Women in Latin America

Indiana University Northwest

· HIST H113, Western Civilization I

· HIST H114, Western Civilization II

· HIST F300/WOST W401, Women in Latin America

University of Arizona

· HIST 369, History of Modern Mexico

Teaching Awards and Honors

· Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Scholar Educator, Fall 2019-Spring 2021

· H-LatAm/Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Syllabus Prize (for HIS 349), 2017

· Professor of the Month, Alpha Phi Sorority, Mar. 2012

· Nominated for Excellence in Teaching Award, UA, Aug. 2003

Teaching Presentations

· “¡Buen Provecho! Bom Apetite! Thematic and Experiential Approaches to Teaching the History of Food and Stimulants,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) Conference, Mar. 2021 (roundtable presenter)

· “Start the Semester with a Questionnaire to Map Your Students’ Needs,” SU CETL Workshop, Jan. 2021, Dec. 2020 (roundtable presenter)

· “Encouraging Participation on Zoom,” SU History Department Teaching Workshop, Sept. 2020 (presenter)

· “Expanding Students’ Worldview and Critical Thinking,” CETL Workshop, Aug. 2020 (presenter)

· “Creating and Communicating a Sense of Belonging within Academic Majors,” CETL Workshop, Aug. 2020 (presenter)

· “Creating a Comprehensive and Flexible Course Calendar,” CETL Workshop, Aug. 2020 (presenter)

· “Alcohol and Other Drugs in the Classroom: Teaching the International Studies Capstone Course,” Midwest World History Association Conference, Sept. 2015

RESEARCH

Publications

Manuscripts in Progress

· “Altered States: Anti-Alcohol, State-Building, and Identity-Formation Projects during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940.” (The University of Arizona and University of Nebraska Presses have both expressed interest).

· “Desfanatizar y Desalcoholizar la Población”: the Interrelated Anti-Catholic and Anti-Alcohol Campaigns,” in Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940, ed. Jurgen Buchenau and David Dalton (chapter written and accepted by editors; book proposal accepted by the University of New Mexico Press).

· “Chicas Modernas and Chinas Poblanas: International and National Influences in the Mexican Beer Industry and its Advertisements, 1910-1940,” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook (article written and accepted by editors and blind reviewer; article undergoing final revisions)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

· Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, ed. Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014) (co-editor, with Áurea Toxqui); paperback edition released 2017.

· “Pulqueros, Cerveceros, and Mezcaleros: Small Alcohol Producers and Popular Resistance to Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940,” in Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, ed. Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui, 161-84 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014) (author).

· “Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910-1940,” in A Companion to Mexican History and Culture, ed. William H. Beezley, 505-17 (London: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2011).

· “Parades, Epistles, and Prohibitive Legislation: Mexico’s National Anti-Alcohol Campaign and the Process of State-Building, 1934-1940,” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 23, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 151-80.

Editor-Reviewed Publications

· “2021: A Research Odyssey. Or, the Second Year of H-Latam’s Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador,” Jan. 4, 2022, Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador, https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/9481430/blog-2021-research-odyssey-or-second-year-h-latam%E2%80%99s (author).

· “How We Did It: H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog,” June 15, 2021, H-Net Editor Resources, https://networks.h-net.org/node/877/discussions/7825172/how-we-did-it-h-latams-research-corner-blog (author).

· “Some Positive Research News in an Otherwise Dismal Year: Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador’s First Year,” Dec. 30, 2020, Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador, https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/7053381/some-positive-research-news-otherwise-dismal-year (author).

· “A Small Archival Gem: the Centro Cultural Manuel Gómez Morin in Mexico City,” Mar. 20, 2020, Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador, https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/6075465/small-archival-gem-centro-cultural-manuel-g%C3%B3mez-morin (author).

· “Introduction to Research Corner,” Dec. 18, 2019, Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador, https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/research-corner/5581397/research-corner-introduction-gretchen-pierce (author).

· Research Corner/Rincón del Investigador/Canto do Pesquisador, Nov. 2019-present, https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blog/Research%20Corner (blog founder/editor).

· “Plutarco Elías Calles,” in Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia, vol. 1: A-L, ed. David M. Fahey and Jon S. Miller, 113-14 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013).

· “Pulqueras, Mezcaleras y Meseras: Women’s Resistance to Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940,” Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, June 26, 2012, http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/pulqueras-mezcaleras-y-meseras-womens-resistance-to-mexicos-anti-alcohol-campaigns-1910-1940/.

· “‘Su Majestad, La Mujer’: Women’s Participation in Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940,” Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, June 19, 2012, http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/su-majestad-la-mujer-womens-participation-in-mexicos-anti-alcohol-campaigns-1910-1940/.

· “Holy, Hated, or Hip?: The Circuitous History of Mexico’s Pulque,” Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, May 31, 2012, http://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/holy-hated-or-hip-the-circuitous-history-of-mexicos-pulque/.

Research Grants

· Dean of College of Arts and Sciences Supplemental Research Grant: SU, Oct. 2018

· Faculty Professional Development Council Grant: SU, July 2018; Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education/SU, June 2010

· Michael Sweetow Fellowship: UA History Department, June 2006

· Ramenofsky Graduate Fellowship: UA History Department, June 2006

· Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship: United States Department of Education, Sept. 2004-July 2005

· Sybil Ellingwood Pierce Fellowship in Southwest History: UA History Department, Apr. 2004

· Hewlitt-Tinker Summer Research Grants: UA Center for Latin American Studies, May 2003; May 2001

Select Conference Papers Presented

International Conferences

· “Chicas Modernas and Chinas Poblanas: International and National Influences in Mexican Beer Advertising, 1910-1940,” International Knowledge Transfer within the Brewing Industry of the 19th and 20th Centuries International Workshop (virtual), Oct. 2021.

· “Los Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, y El Salvador: La campaña anti-alcohólica mexicana y las relaciones exteriores, 1910-1940,” XV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México (RIHM), [The United States, England, and El Salvador: The Mexican Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Foreign Relations, 1910-1940,” 15th International Meeting of the Historians of Mexico], Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 2018

· “‘Cultivar los músculos y combatir los vicios’: Deporte, la campaña antialcohólica, y el proceso de forjar patria en la revolución mexicana, 1910-1940,” XIV RIHM, [“‘To Cultivate Muscles and to Combat Vices’: Sports, the Anti-Alcohol Campaign, and the Process of Nation-Building during the Mexican Revolution 1910-1940,” 14^th RIHM], Chicago, IL, Sept. 2014

· “‘To Cultivate Muscles and Combat Vices’: Sports and the Anti-Alcohol Campaign during the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940,” International Conference on Sport and Society,” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2014

· “Forbidden Fruit: Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s Fetishistic Photographs,” Nueva Academia de San Juan de Letrán, Oaxaca Summer Institute, July 2001

National Conferences

· “Vast Factories, Glass Bottles, and Made-Up Women: Visions of Modernity in Mexican Beer and Tequila Ads, 1910-1940,” Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society/Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Meeting, May 2022

· “Desfanatizar y Desalcoholizar la Población”: the Interrelated Anti-Clerical and Anti-Alcohol Campaigns,” CLAH Session at the American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting (virtual), Jan. 2021.

· “‘Se prohibe la cerveza y en cambio se tolera la venta de vino’: Popular Temperance Leagues and State-Building in Sonora, Mexico, 1934-1940,” Alcohol and Drugs History Society Session at the AHA Annual Meeting, Jan. 2007

· “Sober Revolutionaries: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in the National and Sonoran Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940,” CLAH Session at the AHA Annual Meeting, Jan. 2006

Regional Conferences

· “La familia moderna: Mexico’s Temperance Movement, the Alcohol Industry, and the Identity Formation Process, 1910-1940,” RMCLAS Conference, Apr. 2017

· “Alcohol and Other Drugs in the Classroom: Teaching the International Studies Capstone Course,” Midwest World History Association Conference, Sept. 2015

· “Pulqueros, Cerveceros, and Mezcaleros: Small Alcohol Producers and Popular Resistance to Mexico’s Anti-Alcohol Campaigns, 1910-1940,” RMCLAS Conference, Apr. 2011

· “Men Behaving Badly: The Reconstruction of Working-Class Masculinity and Mexico’s Anti-alcohol Campaign, 1929-1940,” RMCLAS Conference, Apr. 2005

· “The Stamp of the Revolution: Memory of the Mexican Revolution in Postage Stamps,” RMCLAS Conference, Feb. 2003

· “Pleasure Patrols: Anti-Alcohol Campaigns in Revolutionary Oaxaca, 1920-1924,” RMCLAS Conference, Apr. 2002

· “Many Mexicos, Many Revolutions: The Case of Alcohol in Three Regions of 1920s and 1930s Mexico,” Tri-University and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Feb. 2003

SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS

Select University Committee Membership and Leadership

· President’s Cabinet, Fall 2022-present

· Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) Executive Committee, Fall 2022-present

· University Forum, Fall 2020-present

Delegate and Chair, Fall 2022-Spring 2023

Delegate and Vice Chair, Fall 2021-Spring 2022

Alternate, Fall 2020-Spring 2021

· APSCUF Representative Council, Fall 2010-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-Spring 2022

· APSCUF Social Justice Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

Mentoring Underrepresented Faculty Subcommittee, Fall 2015

Chair, Family Medical Leave Act Review Subcommittee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014

· Women’s and Gender Studies Steering Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2016

Executive Committee, Fall 2014-Fall 2015

· Academic Day Planning Committee, Spring 2010-Summer 2011

Co-Chair, Service-Learning Subcommittee, Spring 2010-Summer 2011

· International Education Council, Fall 2009-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

Chair, International Studies Director Search Committee, Spring 2013

· Fulbright Review Subcommittee, Fall 2010-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

Chair, Fall 2015-Spring 2016

University Special Assignments and Leadership

· Middle States Commission on Higher Education Self-Study Report Committee, Fall 2017-Spring 2019 (Faculty Co-Chair)

· University Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Summer 2013-Spring 2016 (Junior Faculty Representative)

· Short-Term Study Abroad Task Force, Spring 2013-Spring 2014

· Dean’s Advisory Council for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, Fall 2012-Spring 2015

Celebration of Student Research Conference Subcommittee, Fall 2014 –Spring 2015

Faculty Brown Bag Research Exchange Subcommittee, Fall 2012-Spring 2014

Chair, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

Select Department Committee Membership and Leadership

· Undergraduate Prizes and Scholarship Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

Chair, Fall 2012-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-Spring 2018, Fall 2020-present

Co-Chair, Fall 2011-Spring 2012, Fall 2018-Spring 2020

· Undergraduate Curriculum Assessment Committee, Fall 2011-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

Select Contributions to University and Student Life

Student Organization Advisor

· Reach Out: a Shippensburg University Wood Honors College Educational Initiative, Fall 2010-Spring 2016, Fall 2017-present

· History Club, Fall 2011-Spring 2016

Campus Educational and Cultural Events: Planner and/or Participant

Organized forty-five events, including:

· “How America Wooed Brazil: U.S. Cultural Influence in Brazil in the 1960s-1970s,” featuring Mr. Eduardo Mack, Nov. 2022

· “‘The Beautiful Art’: Learn Capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian Martial Art/Dance,” featuring Mestre Doutor, Oct. 2022, Oct. 2020, Oct. 2018, Mar. 2016, Oct. 2014 (organizer)

· “Meth and Methodology: Combining GIS and Fieldwork to Investigate Illegal Economies in Afghanistan,” featuring Dr. David Mansfield and Mr. Richard Brittan, Apr. 2021

· “‘There is No Point to Samba if it Doesn’t Make you Smile’: Brazil’s National ‘Joyous’ Music,” featuring Mr. Alex Shaw, Nov. 2018, Apr. 2016, Nov. 2014

· “History in Your Hand: What the Burrito Tells Us About World History,” featuring Dr. Jonathan Reynolds, Annual World History Speaker Series, Mar. 2018

· Campus-wide Skype Discussion with Mr. Steve Johnston (International Source Country Branch Chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy), Apr. 2014

· Faculty Brown Bag Research Exchanges, Apr. 2013 (2), Mar. 2013, Nov. 2012, Oct. 2012 (2)

· Service-learning project at the Shippensburg Historical Society for history majors, Aug. 2013, 2012, and 2010

· “Hispaniola Divided: Two Presentations on Haitian-Dominican Relations,” featuring Dr. Carolle Charles and Dr. Ernesto Sagás, Nov. 2012

Presented at twenty-two events, including:

· Family Medical Leave Act Roundtable, SU Women’s Consortium Retreat, May 2019 (panelist)

· Promotion Workshop, Sept. 2015 (presenter)

· “Libre para Aprender,” introduced migrant students from the Lincoln Intermediate Unit to the International Studies major, Apr. 2015

Student Research, Grants, and Internships

· Advised three MA theses

· Advised seven Honors Capstone projects

Presented at eleven local, regional, or national conferences

· Mentored fifty-six undergraduate student papers, posters, or models

Presented at eighteen local, regional, or national conferences; twelve published in local venues; won nine prizes

· Published "HIS 105 Architecture Project" on Pressbooks, featuring the essays or models of forty students: https://his105archproject.pressbooks.com/

· Advised successful applications for Fulbright (6) and Peace Corps (3). among others

· Oversaw two undergraduate internships

Campus Life Awards

· Faculty Advisor of the Month Award (for Reach Out), National Residence Hall Honorary Association, SU branch, Oct. 2014

· Outstanding Contribution to the Honors Program as Faculty Mentor to Reach Out, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

· Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Advisor (for Reach Out), Campus Life Awards, Spring 2012

Select Professional Community Service

· Editor/moderator for the H-LatAm listserv on the H-Net Commons Forum, Spring 2019-present

· Mentored a high school history teacher for an International Baccalaureate course on the History of the Americas, Spring 2013-Summer 2015

· Member of the Chicago-Guatemala Partnership, Oct. 2006-May 2009