Ryan M. Jones has been a member of the 麻豆传媒团队 faculty since 2014, and is a specialist in the history of modern Latin America. Professor Jones is the Coordinator of 麻豆传媒团队's Latin American and Caribbean Studies program.
He is the co-editor of the recently published volume, , the first anthology to provide a worldwide perspective on the birth and development of the field of sexual science.
Office Hours, Fall 2024
1:30-2:20 and 4:20-5:00 T/Th; other times by appointment.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. and MA, History, University of Illinois
BA, History, Millikin University
Publications
Defeating the 鈥淪ocial Danger鈥 of Homosexuality while 鈥淔orging the Fatherland鈥: Sexual Science and Biotypology in Mexico's National Development, 1927鈥57, History of the Human Sciences, special issue 鈥淪exual Science and Development鈥, 36, no. 5 (December 2023): 122鈥151.
鈥淣ow I have Found Myself, and I Am Happy: Marta Olmos, Sex Reassignment, the Media, and Mexico on a Global Stage, 1952鈥7鈥 Journal of Latin American Studies 55, no. 3 (August 2023): 455鈥489.
鈥淐heck Your Narratives: Essentials for Understanding Latin American History, 1400鈥揚resent鈥 in Melanie Medeiros and Jennifer Guzman, eds. Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, March 2023)
Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, and Ryan M. Jones, editors, (University of California Press, 2017)
鈥淢exican Sexology and Male Homosexuality: Genealogies and Global Contexts, 1860鈥1957 in A Global History of Sexual Science, edited by Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas Haynes, and Ryan M. Jones, 232鈥257
隆Viva the Queer Zapata! The Sexual Politics of Defining Mexican Identity and Icons in Fabi谩n Ch谩irez鈥檚 鈥楲a Revoluci贸n鈥欌 Nursing Clio, March 25, 2020
Awards
2022 SUNY Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching
SUNY system-wide award recognizing 鈥渃onsistently superior teaching in keeping with the State University鈥檚 commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality鈥2019 Professor Recognition Award for 鈥淓xceptional Dedication鈥 to 麻豆传媒团队 Students, presented by Student Affairs Council
2017 Faculty Recognition Award, for 鈥淢ost Influential Teacher鈥 to Student-Athlete
2015 Honorable Mention, 鈥淗onoring Teachers鈥 Faculty Award, 麻豆传媒团队,
Nominated by students for exceptional contributions to student learning
Affiliations
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Urban History Association
Research Interests
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Latin American History
- Professor Jones is a specialist in Modern Latin American history, particularly in Mexico, Argentina, and Cuba. His thematic research and teaching interests include Gender and Sexuality, Masculinity, Citizenship, Visual Culture/Photography, Pacific Worlds, and Histories of Science and Medicine. He is currently revising a book manuscript entitled Erotic Revolutions that investigates Mexican history through the lens of masculinity, male homosexuality, and citizenship between 1870 and 1968.
Classes
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HIST 271: Hist of Latin Amer Since 1825
A broad survey of Latin American history from independence and the emergence of new nations to the present. Primary emphasis is placed upon the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the major states--Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, and Chile, with some attention given to Andean Nations and the Caribbean--as well as to relations and interactions between these nations and the United States. Topics include revolutions, modernity, gender and sexuality, race, American imperialism, immigration, drug wars, art and music movements, the environment, the Cold War, and food history.
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HIST 470: History of Modern Mexico
This course covers Mexican history with particular attention to the modern period in larger historical, transnational, and temporal contexts. Topics include: pre-Columbian civilizations, colonial New Spain and the Spanish Empire, Independence and the First Empire, caudillismo and the Mexican American War, the French Intervention and the Second Empire, the Porfiriato and modernity, the Revolution, the socialist experiment and Maximato, Cardenas and nationalism, the consolidation of the Dictablanda, the demise of the PRI after 1968, and the turn towards democracy by the end of the 20th century. Specific attention will be given to popular culture, art, film, music, and muralismo; women, gender, and sexuality; environmental history; race, ethnicity, and indigenismo; nationalism and nation-building; liberalism and its discontents; student activism and social movements; and Mexico in world history.