Michael Schroeder
Professor Emeritus of History
- Honorary Membership in the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Nicaragua (AGHN). (2017).
- Harold Eugene Davis Prize for the best article published in 2011-2012 by a member of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), for “Social Geographies of Grievance & War,” Dialectical Anthropology, Dec. 2012 (see below). (2013)
- Arnold Grant for Student-Faculty Experiential Learning, Lebanon Valley College (2013-2015 and 2011-2013)
- Pleet Initiative for Student-Faculty Research, Lebanon Valley College (2009-2011)
- Rockefeller Foundation Grant-In-Aid (2005)
- Honorable Mention, Conference on Latin American History Prize (awarded annually to the best English-language scholarly article on Latin American history in a journal other than Hispanic American Historical Review and The Americas) for “Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs,” JLAS, 1996 (see below) (1997)
- Mellon Fellow, Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities (1987-1989)
Books
2018. Los malditos pájaros de hierro: La guerra aérea en Nicaragua durante la rebelión de Sandino, 1927-1932 (Managua: La Alcaldía de Managua, 2018; translation of “Social Memory and Tactical Doctrine,” International History Review, Sept. 2007; see below).
2007. The New Immigrants: Mexican Americans (New York: Chelsea House).
2007. The Twentieth Century and Beyond (New York: McGraw-Hill). Co-authored with Richard Goff, Walter Moss, Janice Terry, and Jiu-Hwa Upshur; wrote all chapters on the Americas; offsite promotional material from McGraw-Hill here.
2007. Encyclopedia of World History, 7 vols. (New York: Facts On File). General editor, with Marsha Ackerman, Janice Terry, Jiu-Hwa Upshur, and Mark Whitters; wrote c. 170 entries (c. 140,000 words) on the history of the Western Hemisphere from the First Americans to Hugo Chávez; offsite promotional material by Facts On File here.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2019. “Digital Resources: The Sandino Rebellion Digital Historical Archive,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American History (forthcoming).
2018. “Caudillismo Masked and Modernized: The Remaking of the Nicaraguan State via the Guardia Nacional, 1925-1936,” with David C. Brooks, Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies (MARLAS), 2 (2), Dec. 2018, pp. 1-32 (link above to PDF file; via the web, visit www.marlasjournal.com/16/volume/2/issue/2/).
2012. “Cultural Geographies of Grievance & War: Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast Region in the First Sandinista Revolution, 1926-1934,” Dialectical Anthropology, 36, December (3-4), pp. 161-196. With commentaries by Jeffrey L. Gould and Wolfgang Gabbert, and my response. Awarded the MACLAS Davis Prize for 2011-2012.
2007. “Social Memory and Tactical Doctrine: The Air War during the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1927-1932,” International History Review, 29, September, pp. 508-549.
2005. “Bandits and Blanket Thieves, Communists and Terrorists: The Politics of Naming Sandinistas in Nicaragua, 1927-1936 and 1979-1990,” Third World Quarterly 26 (1), February, pp. 67-86.
1996. “Horse Thieves to Rebels to Dogs: Political Gang Violence and the State in the Western Segovias, Nicaragua, in the Time of Sandino, 1927-1934,” Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (2) May, pp. 383-434.
Book Chapters
2011. “Rebellion from Without: Foreign Capital, Missionaries, Sandinistas, Marines & Guardia, and Costeños in the time of the Sandino Rebellion, 1927-1934.” Co-authored with David C. Brooks. In Luciano Barraco, ed., National Integration and Contested Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. New York: Algora.
2010. “National Security and Transnational Insecurity: The Cuban Missile Crisis,” in Jordana Dym & Karl Offen, eds., Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 246-49.
2002. “Baptized in Blood: Children in the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua, 1926-1934,” in James Marten, ed., Children and War: A Historical Anthology (New York: New York University Press).
1999. “To Induce a Sense of Terror: Caudillo Politics and Political Violence in Northern Nicaragua, 1926-1934 and 1981-1995.” Arthur Brenner and Bruce Campbell, eds., Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability (New York: St. Martin’s Press).
1998. “The Sandino Rebellion Revisited: Civil War, Imperialism, Popular Nationalism, and State Formation Muddied Up Together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934.” In Gilbert Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, and Ricardo Salvatore, eds., Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.- Latin American Relations (Durham: Duke University Press).
- HIS 105 Formation of the Modern World
- HIS 202 Historical & Cultural Geography
- HIS 250 The Historian’s Craft
- HIS 254 Topics in the History of the Americas
- HIS 275 Modern Latin America
- HIS 305 Introduction to Public History
- FYE 111-112 People & the Planet