William Schell Jr.

Dept. of History Murray State University Murray, KY 42071

Phone 270-762-6572 Fax 270-762-6587 E-mail bill.schell@murraystate.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	2002-present Murray State University Murray, KY Professor of History § Program Director, World Civilizations and Cultures § Teaching: World, Latin American, Film and History 1997-2002 Murray State University Murray, KY Assoc. Professor of History (tenured) § Program Director, World Civilizations and Cultures § Teaching: World, Mexican, Latin American, US Foreign Relations, Film History 1991-1997 Murray State University Murray, KY Asst. Professor of History § World, Mexican, Latin American, Modern Iberia
PUBLICATIONS	“Colonial Studies,” Conference on Latin American History Newsletter 38 (2002): 15-17. CIV 101: World Civilizations and Cultures to 1500—Student Guide. 7^th ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. CIV 102: World Civilizations and Cultures from 1500—Student Guide. 7^th ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. Integral Outsiders: The American Colony of Mexico City, 1876-1911. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001. "Silver Symbiosis: ReOrienting Mexican Economic History," Hispanic American Historic Review 81 (2001): 89-133. "Wars of Latin American Independence," "Mexican Civil Wars," "Mexican Revolution," "Cuba's Ten Years War," "Conquest of Mexico and Peru," in Magill's Guide to Military History. Salem Press, 2001. "Politics and Government: Porfiriato," "Banking and Finance: National Period and Porfiriato," "Trade and Markets: 1821-1910," "Fueros," and "The Braniff Family," in The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. "Money as Commodity: Limantour and Mexico's Conversion to the Gold Standard, 1905," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12 (1996): 67-90. "Yankee Bankers and Builders: The growth of Mexico City during the Late Porfiriato," Xi Lam 1 (1995): 62-67. Slatta, Richard; Schell, William, Jr. et al. "Comments on Postmodernism and Latin American History," Itinerario: European Journal for Overseas History 19 (1995): 125-142. "Lions, Bulls, and Baseball: Colonel R.C. Pate and Modern Sports Promotion in Mexico," Journal of Sports History 20 (1993): 259-276. "Banco de Chiapas: A License to Print Money – Collaborators, Swindlers and the Porfirian Banking System," SECOLAS Annals 24 (1993): 58-68. The biographical entries for Lucas Alaman, Lazaro Cardenas, Porfirio Diaz, Agustine Iturbide, Benito Juarez, Francisco Madero, Juan Peron, and Getulio Vargas in the Cambridge Biographical Dictionary (New York: Cambridge University Press, (1990). "American Investment in Tropical Mexico: Rubber Plantations, Fraud and Dollar Diplomacy," Business History Review 64 (1990) (1990): 217-254. "Matt Ransom, Minister to Mexico - The Last Roman," The State 55 (1988): 28-29. Medieval Iberian Tradition and the Development of the Mexican Hacienda. Syracuse: Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, (1986). "The Creelman Conspiracy: Towards a Reappraisal of the Fall of the Porfiriato" South Eastern Latin Americanist 29 (1985): 47-63.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS	“McWorld and the Clash of Civilizations: A view from the Bullring in Porfirian Mexico,” Greater Philadelphia Area Latin American Studies Consortium, 2002. "Bullfighting and Wrestling: comparative meaning," Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association, 2002. "Land and Society in Porfirian Mexico: Building the Zona Rosa," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2001. "Pacific Relations: Mexico, China, Japan, and the United States, 1867-1940," 12th Annual South Eastern World History Association Meeting, 2000. "Defensive Modernization in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Comparing Porfirian Mexico and Meiji Japan" 16th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference, 2000. Chair and Commentator, "Immigrant Communities in Post-Colonial Mexico," X Reunion de historiadores mexicanos y norteamericanos 1999. "Don Porfirio's Yankees," 1st Historical Society Conference, 1999. Panelist, “Teaching of World History," and commentator, "Controversies in World History," South Eastern World History Association, 1998. "Silver Symbiosis: Mexico, China and the 19th Century Pacific Peso Trade," Third International History & 50th California History Institute Conference, 1998. "The Big Picture: Systematizing the Teaching of World History," Ohio Valley History Conference and for the South Eastern World History Association, 1997. "Harper Baylor Lee: A Yanqui Bullfighter in Porfirian Mexico," Conference on Latin American Popular Culture, 1996. "The Legacy of Joel Poinsett in Mexican Politics, 1823-1898," Ohio Valley History Conference, 1995. "A Modern Trade Diaspora: American Integral Outsiders in Porfirian Mexico," Yale University NEH Conference Rethinking the Post-Colonial Encounter: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. Presence in Latin America, 1995. "Integral Outsiders: The North American Colony in Porifiran Mexico," Council on Latin American History of the American Historical Association, 1995. "The Secret Diplomacy of Roosevelt's Big Stick," MSU Phi Alpha Theta lecture, 1995. "Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way: Counterfeiting and Social Resistance in Late Porfirian Mexico," Southeastern Conference of Latin Americanists, 1995. "The Whole Truth About Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution," University of Western Kentucky, Phi Alpha Theta, 1992. "Bullfighting and Baseball: Sport and Culture in Mexico," Murray State University, Phi Alpha Theta, 1991. “Col. R.C. Pate, Mexico's First Modern Sports Promoter: Limits to Hegemony," SECOLAS, Myrtle Beach, SC, 1989. "The Diaz Doctrine: A Vision of Greater Mexico;" "Col. R.C. Pate, Sports Promoter: Amusement and Popular Culture in Porfirian Mexico;" "Plantations, Speculation and Fraud: American Investment in Tropical Mexico;" "The US and the Fall of Porfirio Diaz: Changing US Interpretation of the Neutrality Acts;” Lecture Series on Porfirian Mexico, UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Latin American Studies, 1987. "Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Leyva, and the Election of the First Constitutional Governor of Morelos, 1869--The National Importance of Regional Disputes in State Politics" SECOLAS, Merida, Yucatan, 1985.
PUBLIC SPEAKING & OUT REACH	Weekly commentary WKMS Public Radio. “Opposing Military Tribunals,” commentary for NPR Morning Edition, 28 Dec. 2001. Program Co-organizer and panelist: International Terrorism: Challenges and Options, MSU Institute for International Studies, 2001. "Common Good: The Dark Side" College Forum, 1998. "The Television Family," College Forum, 1997. Program Organizer and panelist: E Pluribus Unum: America's Culture War, College Forum, Sept. 1995-May 1996. "The Impact of Migrant Labor in Western Kentucky," Non-Formal Education Committee, 1996. Program Organizer and panelist: Ordinary People: the Individual and the Holocaust, College Forum, Sept. 1994 - May 1995. Program Organizer and panelist: Four panel series on NAFTA, Non-Formal Education Committee, 1993.
TECHNICAL SKILLS	Microsoft Office; Netscape; Dream Weaver, create and maintain web pages.
AWARDS	Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kentucky Colonel (2000). Conference on Latin American History, James A. Robertson Memorial Prize (2001).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS	American Historical Association Conference on Latin American History Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies World History Association Ohio Valley History Conference Phi Alpha Theta
COMMITTEES AND SERVICE	Faculty Senate (at-large); Senate Finance; Academic Council; Undergraduate Studies; Global Studies Program; Chair, World Civ; Curriculum Revision and Course Development; Roads (sic) Scholars; Costa Rican Exchange; Cinema International; Non-formal Education; Tenure and Promotion; Academic Planning; Chair, Scholarship; Curricula; Techcom; Undeclared Student Advisor.
ACADEMIC DEGREES	Ph.D. University of North Carolina 1992 History M.A. University of North Carolina 1985 History B.A. University of North Carolina 1982 History