2016 - Present | Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University ‐ Emeritus Faculty | |
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2002 - 2016 | Professor, San Jose State University ‐ History | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2010 - 2013 | Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies |
Department of Education | |
$450,000 | |
2010 - 2011 | Congressional Grant to Establish the Silicon Valley Center for Global Innovation and Immigration at San José State University |
Federal Government | |
$220,000 | |
2010 - 2011 | Grant to Survey Immigrants in San Mateo County, CA |
Silicon Valley Community Foundation | |
$100,000 | |
2009 - 2010 | Congressional Grant to Establish the Silicon Valley Center for Global Innovation and Immigration at San Jose State University |
Federal Government | |
$190,000 | |
2009 - 2010 | Continuing Education Council Grant to Implement Global Studies Online |
Continuing Education Council | |
$50,000 | |
2007 - 2010 | FIPSE Grant for Student Exchanges with Brazilian Universities |
U.S. Department of Education | |
$204,000 | |
2007 - 2008 | Contract for Global Studies Program |
Distance Defense Language Institute | |
$1,010,000 | |
2005 - 2007 | “Global Studies: Students Discovering the World” |
U.S. Department of Education | |
Undergraduate International and Foreign Language Grant | |
$158,800 | |
2001 - 2002 | College Teachers Summer Institute on the Americas of José Martí |
National Endowment for the Humanities | |
$180,000 | |
1999 | Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance |
University of South Florida and Tulane University, Office of Naval Research | |
$1,300,000 | |
1996 | Networking Area Studies Programs in Alabama |
Ford Foundation | |
$210,000 | |
1993 | Guide to Ivey Cultural Approach to World History |
Ivey Foundation | |
$4,000 | |
1993 | Summer Teachers Institute |
Alabama Humanities Foundation | |
Alabama Humanities Foundation Grant for World History | |
$20,500 | |
1991 | Summer Institute on the Columbian Voyage and its Legacies |
National Endowment for the Humanities | |
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant | |
$130,000 | |
1990 | Fulbright-Hayes Teaching Award |
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | |
$20,000 | |
1989 | Planning Grant for a New Mexico History Day Competition |
New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities | |
Role: Principal Investigator | |
$500 | |
1988 | Designing the Latin American Biographical Database |
University of New Mexico | |
Planning Grant | |
$5,166 | |
1987 | The Populists of Brazil |
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | |
Fulbright-Hayes Research Award | |
$18,000 | |
1985 | Beveridge Grant |
American Historical Association | |
$1,000 | |
1985 | Summer Research Grant |
Mellon Foundation; Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico | |
$2,000 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2009 - Present | Director, Silicon Valley Center for Global Innovation and Immigration, San José State University | 2002 - Present | Director, Global Studies Initiative, San José State University | 2009 - 2012 | Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences, San José State University | 2001 - 2002 | Co-director, NEH College Institute on “The Americas of Jose Marti", University of South Florida/Center for Martí Studies | 1997 - 2002 | Founding Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of South Florida | 1998 - 2000 | Co-director, Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, University of South Florida and Tulane University | 1998 | Member, Bolton Prize Committee | 1993 - 1997 | Executive Secretary, Conference on Latin American History | 1991 - 1996 | Co-director, Institute for Latin American Studies, Auburn University | 1991 - 1995 | Co-Director, Institute for Latin American Studies, Auburn University | 1993 - 1994 | Member, Ad Hoc History Department Committee on Salary Compression, Auburn University | 1993 - 1994 | Member, Vice President for Research Search Committee, Auburn University | 1993 | Humanities Advisor, Alabama Humanities Foundation Summer Institute, "Staging World History: Cultures and Boundaries" | 1993 | Co-Director, Summer Teachers Institute, Auburn University and Tuskegee University | 1991 - 1993 | Co-Chair, Program Committee, The Southeastern Conference of Latin American Studies | 1992 | Member, Professional Improvement Leave Review Committee, Auburn University | 1991 | Director, NEH/National History Day Summer Institute on the Columbian Voyage, University of New Mexico | 1989 - 1990 | President, University of New Mexico Fulbright Alumni Association | 1988 | Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Promotion Committee, University of New Mexico | 1984 | Faculty coordinator, Guadalajara Summer School, University of New Mexico |
Honors and Awards
- • Pan American Medallion for career service in history, Pan American Institute for Geography and History, 2009
- • Presidential Recognition Awards, University of New Mexico, 1980
- • Presidential Recognition Awards, University of New Mexico, 1979
Courses
- Quantitative and Computer Methods (Graduate Seminar)
- U.S. Foreign Relations (Graduate Seminar)
- Ibero-American studies (Graduate Seminar)
- Modernization in Latin America (Graduate Seminar)
- The Caribbean and Central America (Graduate Seminar)
- Modern Latin America (Graduate Seminar)
- Brazilian History (Graduate Seminar)
- World History
- Inter-American Relations
- Southern South America
- Mexico since 1821
- Colonial Latin America
- Spain and Portugal in the Americas
- Urban History of Latin America
- Society and Development of Latin America
- Survey of Latin America in the National Period
- Latin America and the World
- Brazil 1500-Present
1976 | Ph.D., Stanford University ‐ Latin American History | |
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1969 | M.A., Stanford University ‐ Latin American Studies | |
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1968 | B.A., University of California - Berkeley ‐ Latin American Studies | |
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Contact Information
Michael L. Conniff, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of History
San José State University
408-924-7196