Cynthia Radding

curriculum vitae

Research Interests

Cynthia Radding’s research interests in Latin American colonial history focus on the intersections between environmental and ethnographic history. Her current work exemplifies methods for comparative history, across North and South America and within the broad borderlands region of northern Mexico and southwestern U.S. Her scholarship is rooted in the imperial borderlands of the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, emphasizing the role of indigenous peoples and other colonized groups in shaping those borderlands and transforming their landscapes. Her current project, “Bountiful Deserts, Imperial Shadows,” explores the ecological transition between wild and cultivated plants, the cultural intersections of sedentary and nomadic peoples, and the production of knowledge in northern Mexico.

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Some Notable Publications

• Landscapes of Power and Identity. Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (Duke University Press, 2005)

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Graduate Students advised by Dr. Cynthia Radding

• Justin Blanton
• Jason Kauffman
• Benjamin Reed

Courses Offered (as schedules allow)

For current course listings, consult the Registrar's Schedule of Classes.

• HIST 240—Introduction to History of Mexico: A Nation in Four Revolutions
• HIST 529—Mexico, 1750–1870: Citizenship and Conflict in a New Nation
• HIST 393—Senior Seminar in Environmental History
• HIST 713—Space, Territoriality, and the Creation of Regions in Colonial Ibero-America.
• HIST 820—Ethnohistory as a Transdisciplinary Field
• LTAM 697—Senior Research Capstone Seminar