William Schell Jr.

Education

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1992
• M.A., University of North Carolina, 1985
• B.A., University of North Carolina, 1982

Publications

• “Why Do We Have an Illegal Immigration Problem from Central America? We Should Know. We Helped Create It,” History News Network. 28 July 2014.
• “Review Essay: The Mythistory of Emiliano Zapata,” Journal of Historical Biography 9 (2011).
• “Emiliano Zapata and the Old Regime: Myth, Memory, and Method,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos  25:2 (2009).
• Obituary, Andre Gunder Frank, Hispanic American Historic Review 85 (2005).
• Student Guide: World Civilizations to 1500. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
• Student Guide: World Civilizations since 1500. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
• “Colonial Studies,”  Conference on Latin American History Newsletter 38 (2002).
• Integral Outsiders: The American Colony of Mexico City, 1876-1911. Wilmington, DE. Scholarly Resources, 2001.
• "Silver Symbiosis: ReOrienting Mexican Economic History," Hispanic American Historic Review 81 (2001).
• "Wars of Latin American Independence," "Mexican Civil Wars," "Mexican Revolution," "Cuba's Ten Years War," "Conquest of Mexico and Peru," in Magill's Guide to Military History. Salem Press, 2001.
• Obituary, Victor O. Story, Hispanic American Historic Review 78 (1998).
• "Politics and Government: Porfiriato," "Banking and Finance: National Period and Porfiriato," "Trade and Markets: 1821-1910," "Fueros," and "The Braniff Family," in The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
• "Money as Commodity: Limantour and Mexico's Conversion to the Gold Standard, 1905," Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12 (1996).
• "Yankee Bankers and Builders: The growth of Mexico City during the Late Porfiriato," Xi Lam 1 (1995).  
• Slatta, Richard; William Schell, Jr. et al.  "Comments on Postmodernism and Latin American History," Itinerario: European Journal for Overseas History 19 (1995).
• "Lions, Bulls, and Baseball: Colonel R.C. Pate and Modern Sports Promotion in Mexico," Journal of Sports History 20 (1993).
• "Banco de Chiapas: A License to Print Money – Collaborators, Swindlers and the Porfirian Banking System," SECOLAS Annals 24 (1993).
• The biographical entries for Lucas Alaman, Lazaro Cardenas, Porfirio Diaz, Agustine Iturbide, Benito Juarez, Francisco Madero, Juan Peron, and Getulio Vargas in the Cambridge Biographical Dictionary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• "American Investment in Tropical Mexico: Rubber Plantations, Fraud and Dollar Diplomacy," Business History Review 64 (1990).
• "Matt Ransom, Minister to Mexico - The Last Roman," The State 55 (1988).
• Medieval Iberian Tradition and the Development of the Mexican Hacienda. Syracuse: Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1986.
• "The Creelman Conspiracy: Towards a Reappraisal of the Fall of the Porfiriato" South Eastern Latin Americanist 29 (1985).

Courses Taught

• World Civilizations to 1500
• World Civilizations since 1500
• History of Latin America
• History of Mexico
• Film History
• American Experience since 1865
• U.S. Foreign Relations
• World since 1945
• Modern Iberia

Research Interests

• Mexican History;
• Latin-American History;
• Film;
• Foreign Relations