Professor - Emeritus
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arturo@temple.edu 9th Floor Gladfelter Hall 1115 Polett Walk Philadelphia PA 19122 Expertise Mexico, Latin America, World Economy
Arthur Schmidt is a Professor Emeritus of History at Temple University where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin American history, Mexican migration to the United States, and world economic history. He has a B.A. from Harvard College (1965) and a Ph.D. in History from Indiana University at Bloomington (1973). At Temple he is a former Director of the Latin American Studies Center, former Director of the Urban Studies Program, and a former chair of the Board of Temple University Press.
Selected Publications
“A Case of Revolutionary Overreach,” A Contracorriente 9.1 (Fall 2011): 394-409.
“A Long Pattern of Not So Divine Intervention: A Commentary on Brian Loveman’s No Higher Law,” A Contracorriente 8.3 (Spring 2011): 287-299.
“Foreword.” Mexican Voices of the Border Region. By Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras. Trans. Sandra del Castillo. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011, vii-xvi. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
“Defrosting Contemporary Latin American History,” A Contracorriente 6.1 (Fall 2008): 347-361. (Link)
“The Political and Economic Reverberations of the Cuban Revolution in Mexico, 1959-1970,” History Compass 6.4 (July 2008): 1140-1163.
Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. “Introduction: Translating Fear.” In Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s Memoir by Alberto Ulloa Bornemann. Ed. and trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007, 1-17. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
“Foreword.” Lucia, Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman. By Robert Gay. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xix. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
“Introduction.” My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary: Reflections of a Former Guerrillera. By María Eugenia Vázquez Perdomo. Trans. Lorena Terando. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005, ix-xxx. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
“Making It Real Compared to What? Reconceptualizing Mexican History Since 1940.” In Fragments of a Golden Age. Mexican Cultural Politics Since 1940. Ed. Gilbert M. Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001, 23-68.
“Mexicans, Migrants, and Indigenous Peoples: The Work of Manuel Gamio in the United States, 1925-1927.” In Strange Pilgrimages: Travel, Exile, and Foreign Residency in the Creation of Latin American Identity, 1800-1990s. Ed. Ingrid E. Fey and Karine Racine. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2000, 163-178.
“Introduction. The Continuing Significance of El Salvador.” El Salvador in the Eighties: Counterinsurgency and Revolution. By Mario Lungo. Ed. Arthur Schmidt. Trans. Amelia F. Shogan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996, 1-39.
“The Internationalization of the Economic Crisis in Mexico and Central America.” In Globalization, Urbanization, and the State: Selected Studies on Contemporary Latin America. Ed. Satya Pattnayak. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1996, 43-64.
“Globalization, Neoliberal Ideology, and National Identity: The Historical Uncertainties of NAFTA.” Caribbean Studies 29.1 (Jan-June 1996): 67-105.
Co-author with Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. “Foreword: The Shaking of a Nation.” Nothing, Nobody. Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. By Elena Poniatowska. Trans. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995, ix-xxix. (Voices of Latin American Life series).
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Urban Studies
- Introduction to Latin America
- Che Guevara and the Question of Revolution
- Latin American Social Struggles
- Latin American Cities
- Studies in Latin American History
- War in Central America
- Revolutionary Mexico
- Contemporary Mexico
- Cambio social de América Latina
- The World Economy Since 1945
- Development and Globalization
- California Dreams, California Nightmares
- Mexican Migration to the United States