Alan Shane Dillingham
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Alan Shane Dillingham is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. During the 2024-2025 academic year, Dillingham will be an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Maryland. Having previously taught at multiple liberal arts institutions, Dillingham seeks to connect the history and politics of Native peoples across the Americas in his teaching and scholarship.
Dillingham's award-winning first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021), traces the contested history of Mexican indigenista policy and how Indigenous peoples of southern Mexico advocated for alternative forms of development and anticolonial education. The American Society for Ethnohistory selected Oaxaca Resurgent for its 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award and the Conference on Latin American History selected Oaxaca Resurgent for its 2023 María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History.
He has published articles and book chapters on the Global 1960s, education and development policy, and the rise of Third World politics. Dillingham is the recipient of various research and awards and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently working on a second book project that explores modern Indigenous history and politics from a hemispheric perspective.
PhD, University of Maryland
BA, University of Maryland
Book
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021)
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
“Mexico’s Turn Toward the Third World: Rural Development under President Luis Echeverría,” in México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies, ed. Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2018), 113-133.
"Indigenismo Occupied: Indigenous Youth and Mexico’s Democratic Opening (1968-1975)” The Americas, Vol. 72, No. 4 (October 2015): 549-582.*
*Awarded the Antonine Tibesar Prize for most distinguished article published in The Americas by the Conference on Latin American History.
Op-eds and Public Writing:
“Lo que revela una perspectiva indígena sobre la Intervención Estadounidense,” Animal Político, May 3, 2023
“What an Indigenous perspective on U.S. and Mexican history reveals,” The Washington Post, February 10, 2023
“Wakanda Forever’ arrives just in time to dispel Thanksgiving myths,” The Washington Post, November 23, 2022
"Why the anti-Indigenous remarks of the L.A. City Council sparked protest," The Washington Post, October 20, 2022
"Mexican Activist Protests Femicide at Oaxacan Festival," NACLA, August 16, 2022
“The Violence at the Root of Our Thanksgiving Myth has been Hemispheric,” The Washington Post, November 23, 2021
“Mexico’s Classroom Wars,” with René González Pizarro, Jacobin, June 24, 2016
Courses
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
| HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
| HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
| HST 101 | Global History Since 1500 |
| HST 337 | Amer Indian History to 1900 |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 305 | Studies in Latin Amer History |