Associate Professor Jamie Sanders specializes in the history of nineteenth-century Latin America and the Atlantic World. His first book, Contentious Republicans (Duke University Press), explores how indigenous groups, ex-slaves, and small farmers created a democratic politics in nineteenth-century Colombia. His second work will examine how Latin Americans imagined and practiced a republican Atlantic World community in the nineteenth century. Jamie grew up in a small town near the Florida/Georgia border. He received his B.A. from the University of Florida (where, we suppose due to rampant grade inflation, he somehow was co-Valedictorian) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He has lived and conducted research in Bogotá, Cali, Popayán, Quito, Mérida, Montevideo, Guanajuato, and Mexico City. He comes to Utah State after teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Southern Methodist University and Brooklyn College.
Articles
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Contesting Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Latin American Research Review (2011)
Atlantic Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century Colombia: Spanish America’s Challenge to the Contours of Atlantic History, Journal of World History (2009)
This article argues that the Age of Revolution and the abolition of slavery do not...
‘A Mob of Women’ Confront Post-Colonial Republican Politics: How Class, Race, and Partisan Ideology Affected Gendered Political Space in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia, Journal of Women's History (2008)
This essay explores why some groups of women in nineteenth–century Colombia were able to engage...
`Citizens of a Free People’: Popular Liberalism and Race in Nineteenth-Century Southwestern Colombia, Hispanic American Historical Review (2004)
“All that belong to the Liberal Party in the Cauca are people of the pueblo...
Books
Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2004)
Contentious Republicans explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of...
Contributions to Books