 Jesus
Mendez
Associate Professor of History
Phone: 305-899-3472
Fax: 305-899-3385
E-mail: jmendez@mail.barry.edu
Office: O'Laughlin Hall, 248
Jesus Mendez, Associate Professor of History,
was born in Havana, Cuba. He earned his BS in Chemistry and History
and his MA in History from the University of Miami at Coral Gables
and his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Texas
at Austin. Following an appointment at the State University of New
York at Binghamton, he has taught history at Barry University since
1981. A past director of the Barry University Honors Program and
former chair of the Department of Social Sciences, he is currently
the academic advisor for pre-law in the Department of History and
Political Science. His research and publication interests focus
on Latin American intellectual history.
Classes Currently Taught
The Meaning of History; History of Latin American
Colonial Period to 1824; Latin American National Period from 1824
to present; History of the Caribbean; Race, Gender, and Class in
Latin America; History of Florida; Modern English History; Europe
in the Twentieth Century; and Senior Seminar.
Awards and Honors
1998 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Institute Grant to Brazil
1997 Kettering Foundation Grant
1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections
Grant to Mexico
1984 Rockefeller Archive Center Research Gran t
1983 Fulbright Research Grant to Argentina
1977-78 Organization of American States Fellowship to Argentina
Selected Publications
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Honors
Curriculum: Theoretical and Structural Observations," in Mark
E. Clark and Roger Johnson, Jr., Eds., Curricular Reform: Narratives
of Interdisciplinary Humanities Programs (Chattanooga, TN: Southern
Humanities Press, 1991)
"Foreign Influences and Domestic Needs in
Intellectual Institution Building: The Gestation of the Casa de
Espana/Colegio de Mexico," SECOLAS Annals (1990)
"La Institucion Hispanocubana de Cultura,"
Circulo: Revista de Cultura (1988)
"Jose Ortega y Gasset and His Three Visits
to Argentina," Proceedings of the "Espectador Universal"
International Interdisciplinary Conference (New York: Greenwood
Press, 1987)
"The Rockefeller Foundation and Spanish Intellectuals,"
Rockefeller Archive Center Newsletter (Summer 1986)
"Church-State Relations in Argentina in the
Twentieth Century: A Case Study of the Thirty-second International
Eucharistic Congress," Journal of Church and State (1985)
"Impact of Spanish Republican Exiles on Intellectual
Life in Argentina," SECOLAS Annals (1985)
"The Origins of SUR, Argentina's Elite
Cultural Review," Inter-American Review of Bibliography (1981)
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