Christin Cleaton Ruiz

Biography

Joined 蓝莓视频 in 2006

Education:
Ph.D., History, Stony Brook University (2005)
M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego (1994)
B.A., History and Modern Languages, Trinity College (1992)

Courses Taught:
HIST131: U.S. History to 1865
HIST132: U.S. History since 1865
HIST276: Latin America to 1800
HIST277: Latin America 1800 to Present
HIST278: Latin American Revolutions
HIST279: History of Women in Latin America
HIST372: Drugs in Latin America
HIST373: Modern Latin America
HIST375: U.S.-Latin American Relations
HIST372: Special Topics in Latin American History 
HIST395: Senior Seminar: Revolutions

Research Interests:
Central American history, history of education, history of social movements, political economy, drugs and the drug economy, colonial Mexico.

Selected Scholarship:

  • Assistant Editor, Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Spring 2015 to Present)
  • 鈥淗istoria de Nuestra Patria: Nicaraguan Textbooks from 1889 to Present,鈥 New England Historical Association Annual Conference, October 24, 2015.
  • Book Review, Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Summer 2015.

Special Interests: 
Raising my daughter who keeps me very grounded and travel to Latin America.