Curriculum Vitae

Theron Corse

Contact Information: Dept. of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, John A. Merritt Blvd., Nashville, TN 37209-1561

Education:

PhD, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, 1995. Concentrations: Southern Cone and Twentieth Century. Dissertation title: “Projecting Perón: The Constructed Image of Juan Perón, 1945‑1949.” Director: Dr. Simon Collier        

M.A., Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, 1992. Concentrations: Central America and Twentieth Century. Master’s Thesis: “‘The Problems of the Guatemalan’s are the Guatemalans’ and No One Else’s’: Nationalism and the Guatemalan Press, 1952‑1954.” Director: Dr. Marshall Eakin        

Academic Year in Spain, 1988-1989. (A U.S.‑based program associated with the Universidad de Sevilla. Studied Spanish, History, and Political Science.)         

B.A. University of Georgia (Athens), 1988. Concentrations: Latin America, Subfield in Europe. Senior Thesis: “Good Intentions: John Lind’s Failed Mission to Mexico.”        

Georgia Institute of Technology, 1984-1986. (Studied for a B.A. in Applied Mathematics)

Teaching and Adminstrative Experience:

2009-present: Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies, Tennessee State University

2009-present: Adjoint Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University

2007-present: Associate Professor, Latin American History, Tennessee State University

2002-2007: Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Tennessee State University

Summer 2005-2009: Acting Department Head, History, Geography and Political Science, Tennessee State University.

Summer 2005; Summer 2006: Adjunct Instructor, Latin American History, Vanderbilt University.

1995‑2002: Assistant Professor (tenured), Latin American History, Fayetteville State University.

1990‑1993: Graduate Resident, Vanderbilt McTyeire International House.

Publishing and Editorial Experience:

Protestants, Revolution, and the Cuba-U.S. Bond (University of Press of Florida, 2007)

Study Guide to Accompany World Civilization: The Global Experience 5e (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006)

Study Guide to Accompany World Civilization: The Global Experience 4e (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004)

Book Review – Jason Yaremko. U.S. Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000). Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 33:3 (2004), 499.

Book Review – Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora (New York: PALGRAVE, 2001). Hispanic American Historical Review, 83:1 (February, 2003)

“American Baptists and the Protestant Experience in Cuba, 1959-1969,” American Baptist Quarterly, 20:1 (March, 2001), 27-59.

“Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary Church and the Challenge of Castro’s Cuba, 1959-1970,” Cuban Studies 31 (2000), 1-33.

“Building Hegemony: Perón, Gramsci and Political Strategy in the Age of the Masses,” MACLAS Latin American Essays 12 (1998), 107-118.

The Technique (Georgia Tech), 1984‑1986; The Red and Black (UGA), 1986‑1988; The Vanderbilt Hustler, 1989‑1995. Reporter, Columnist, News Editor, Graphics/Layout Editor.

Teaching Areas:

  • Caribbean History
  • Central American History
  • Historical Novel in Latin America
  • Historiography and Historical Methodology
  • Latin American Survey
  • Mexican History Survey
  • Military Regimes of the ABC Countries
  • Race and Identity in Latin America
  • Reform and Revolution in Latin America
  • Religion and Revolution in Latin America
  • Renaissance and Reformation
  • Science and Technology
  • Southern Cone ( Argentina , Chile , Uruguay)
  • The Mexican Revolution: History, Art, Music and Film
  • Women in Latin America
  • World and Western Civilization

Archival Employment:

Assistant Archivist, Historical Collection, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University, 1993‑1994.

Presentations:

“Changing Protestant Identity and the Cuban Revolution.” Montreal, American Academy of Religion, 2009.

Chair, “Reconsidering New Approaches to Aviation History in Latin America,” SHA 2009

Chair, “Latin America.”Nashville, International Studies Association South, 2009

“A Modest Exception, Cuban Religious Identity and the Nature of U.S. Power,” New Orleans, Southern Historical Association, 2006.

Chair. “Stepping Into Many Pasts: UT Martin Students Follow the Count of Monte Cristo.” Tennessee Conference of Historians, 2006, Nashville, TN.

“Pilgrims in a Strange Land: The Religious Trip Report as Travel Literature in Communist Cuba.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies, 2006, Charlotte, NC.

Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee. Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies, 2005, Nashville.

Chair. “Politics, Culture, and Identity in the Mid-Twentieth Century Caribbean: Three Perspectives on Transition.” Houston, Southern Historical Association, 2003.

“Projecting the Peróns,” Dallas, Latin Americans Studies Association, 2003.

“Religion and Civil Society in Communist Cuba,” Fayetteville, NC, North Carolina Association of Historians, 2002.

  “Unintended Consequences: Cuban Protestants and the Politics of the Embargo,” New Orleans, Southern Historical Association, November, 2001.

  “Bad Timing: The Fate of Three 1950s-era Missionary Programs in Castro’s Cuba,” Chapel Hill, North Carolina Religious Studies Association, October, 2000.

“A Strange Conspiracy: Dean Rusk and the Protestants Evade the Cuban Embargo,” Myrtle Beach, SECOLAS, March 2000.

“American Baptists and the Protestant Experience in Cuba , 1959-1969,” North Carolina Religious Studies Association, Wake Forest University , 1999.

“Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary Church in Cuba, 1959-1970.” MACLAS, Ursinus College , March 1999.

“Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary Church Confronts Castro’s Cuba.” SECOLAS, Lafayette , LA , March 1999.

Discussant. “External Shocks, Local Reactions: Argentine Responses to War and Depression, 1914-1952.” ATWS, Durham , October 1998.

“Presbyterians in the Revolution: The Experience of a Mission Church in Cuba, 1959-1970.” NCRSA, Fayetteville , NC , October 1998.

“Revolutionary Spirits: Afro‑Cuban Religion in Castro's Cuba.” SECOLAS, Savannah , April 1998.

“Building Hegemony: Perón, Gramsci and Political Strategy in the Age of the Masses.” MACLAS, Trenton, 1998.   

“Repression and Opportunity: Afro‑Cuban Religion and the Cuban Communist State.” North Carolina Religious Studies Association, 1997, Western NC Univ.       

“Afro‑Cuban Religion and the Communist State ‑ A Preliminary Report.” MACLAS 1997,   Annapolis.           

“El pueblo and the plebiscite: Peronist Authority and the Idea of Citizenship, 1945‑1955.” LASA 1997, Guadaljara.          

“Pueblo, trabajador, descamisado: The Place of the People in Peronist Iconography.” LASA, Washington D.C., 1995.           

Chair. “Politics and Political Culture in the Southern Cone.” LASA, Washington D.C. , 1995.

Honors and Awards:

NEH Extending the Reach Faculty Research Award - $24,000 (2001-2002)

Lynn E. May Jr. Study Grant, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (2000)

North Carolina Faculty Development Award (1995 and 1996)

Leeland Sage Fellowship (1993‑1994)

Vanderbilt Dissertation Enhancement Award (1993)

Vanderbilt University Graduate Fellow (1989‑1993)

Dean’s List eight quarters (1984‑1988)

Georgia Tech Merit Scholar (1984)

Professional Service:

Secretary, Latin American and Caribbean Section, Southern Historical Association, 1998-present.

Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee. Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies, 2005, Nashville.

Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2000-2003.

 

 

 

 

 





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