Michael E. Stanfield

Michael Edward Stanfield, PhD 1992, is an historian of modern Latin America, focusing on topics in the social and cultural history of various South American nations. A Spanish translation of his first book, Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933 (UNM Press, 1998), was published by Ediciones Abya-Yala, titled Caucho, conflicto, y cultura en la Amazonía Noroeste: Colombia, Ecuador, y Perú en el Putumayo, Caquetá, Napo, 1850-1933, in 2009. The University of Texas Press published his cultural history of beauty in Colombia in 2013, Of Beasts and Beauty; Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia. He is currently engaged in researching The Politics of Popular Music in Southern Cone for his next book project.

• Comparative history of the Americas
• Slavery and Race in the Americas
• The Politics of Popular Music in the Southern Cone

• Social and cultural history of Modern Latin America
• Modern Colombian history
• Amazonian history

• University of New Mexico, PhD in History, 1992
• San Diego State University, MA in History, 1984
• UC Berkeley, BA in History, 1979

• Entre bestias y bellezas: raza, género e identidad en Colombia (Editorial Universidad Javeriana, 2021)

• Entre bestias y bellezas: raza, género e identidad en Colombia (Editorial Universidad Javeriana, 2021)

• Of Beasts and Beauty; Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia (UT Press, 2013)

• Caucho, conflicto, y cultura en la Amazonía Noroeste: Colombia, Ecuador, y Perú en el Putumayo, Caquetá, Napo, 1850-1933, (Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2009)

• Michael Edward Stanfield, Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933 (UNM Press, 1998)