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Matthew O'Hara

Matthew O'Hara   
Matthew O'Hara
    Title:  Assistant Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  mdohara@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-5199 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  537 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:00pm and by appointment

Courses Taught 
HIS-11B-01 - Latin America: National Period
HIS-134A-01 - Colonial Mexico
HIS-134B-01 - History of Mexico, 1850-Present
HIS-190T-01 - Latin America in the Cold War
HIS-204C-01 - Colonialism, Nationalism, and Race Research
HIS-280A-01 - Proseminar: Teaching Pedagogy

Research Focus 
Modern Latin America and Mexico; late colonial Latin America; religion, spirituality, and ritual; urban history; race, ethnicity, and identity; political culture

Education History 
Ph. D. University of California, San Diego

Selected Publications 
Books

A Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857 (forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2009).

Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, co-edited with Andrew Fisher (Duke University Press, 2009)








Articles

“El capital espiritual y la política local: la ciudad de México y curatos rurales en el México central,” in Religión, Política e Identidad en la Independencia de México, ed. Brian Connaughton (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, forthcoming 2010).

"The Orthodox Underworld of Colonial Mexico," Colonial Latin American Review 17, no. 2 (2008): 233-250.

“Racial Identities and Their Interpreters in Colonial Latin America” (co-authored with Andrew Fisher) in Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, Matthew O’Hara and Andrew Fisher, eds. (Duke University Press, 2009): 1-34.

Miserables and Citizens: Indians, Legal Pluralism, and Religious Practice in Early Republican Mexico” in Religious Culture in Modern Mexico, ed. Martin Nesvig (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007): 14-34.

“Stone, Mortar, and Memory: Church Construction and Communities in Late Colonial Mexico City” Hispanic American Historical Review 86:4 (2006): 647-680.

“Politics and Piety: The Church in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 17:1 (2001): 213-231 (review essay).