Dr. Amelia Kiddle

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary

Dr. Kiddle is Associate Professor of Spanish American history and the Coordinator of Latin American Studies at the University of Calgary.

Media

"Historia del Petróleo en México y América Latina del siglo XX al XXI" por Amelia Kiddle

En ocasión del coloquio realizado por el Centro de Estudios Históricos y el Archivo Histórico de Pemex, bajo la coordinación del Dr. Carlos Marichal, “Historia del Petróleo en México y América Latina del siglo XX al XXI”, pedimos a cinco académicos participantes que nos refirieran brevemente algunos aspectos centrales de sus proyectos de investigación y, en particular, sobre la relevancia de estudiar hoy la historia del petróleo en México y otras naciones latinoamericanas, a partir de los archivos históricos existentes. En esta cápsula tenemos por ello los comentarios de los doctores Amelia Kiddle (University of Calgary), Xavier Tafunell (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), María Cecilia Zuleta (El Colegio de México), Paul Garner (Leeds University y El Colegio de México) y Reto Bertoni (Universidad de Montevideo). Producción: Programa de Educación Digital / Colmex Digital

Opinion: Let the debate begin about erecting Macdonald statue in Alberta

Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era
by Amelia M. Kiddle
University of New Mexico Press
Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico
by Amelia M. Kiddle; Maria L. O. Muñoz
University of Arizona Press
Beyond Geopolitics: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations
by Alan McPherson; Yannick Wehrli
University of New Mexico Press

Looking Back and Moving Forward—Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Published by Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

2015 This conversation took place via e-mail following Dr. Handy's nomination for the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2015 Distinguished Fellow Award and has been edited for publication...

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08263663.2015.1051842

In Mexico's Defense

Published by Mexican Studies

2015 This article examines Mexican diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and argues that a transnational code of honor rooted in the practice of dueling governed diplomats’ behavior. It demonstrates that, in spite of domestic reforms that exalted the incorporation of the masses and the empowerment of women in revolutionary Mexico, diplomats continued to participate in the diplomatic culture of dueling—both actual and journalistic—that feminized the nation and perpetuated patriarchy within the diplomatic corps...

URL: http://msem.ucpress.edu/content/31/1/22.abstract

Cabaretistas and Indias Bonitas: Gender and Representations of Mexico in the Americas during the Cárdenas Era

Published by Journal of Latin American Studies

2010 This article examines the promotion of Mexico's national image in the Americas during the Cárdenas period, using as a starting point a scandal arising from a 1940 performance of Mexican dancers at a cabaret in Panama. Mexican diplomats found the show objectionable because it clashed with the image of women that they used in their efforts to raise the country's reputation abroad...

URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022216X10000441

Biography

Dr. Kiddle is Associate Professor of Spanish American history and the Coordinator of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Calgary. She specializes in the political and cultural history of Mexican foreign relations. She has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Her first monograph, Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era, which is based upon her University of Arizona doctoral dissertation (winner of the 2010 Premio Genaro Estrada from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs) has just been published by the University of New Mexico Press. As an outgrowth of this project, she developed an interest in the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938's place in inter-American affairs. She and her colleague in Mexico, Cecilia Zuleta recently published an anthology of newspaper articles from Latin America reacting to the expropriation and they have begun work on a co-authored book tentatively titled The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 and the Roots of Resource Nationalism in Latin America, a project which is supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Recognition/Reconnaissance

SSHRC Connection Grant, “Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflextions on Energy and History.”

2014

SSHRC Insight Grant, “The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 and the Roots of Resource Nationalism in Latin America.”

2016 - 2019

Premio Genaro Estrada, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Government of Mexico, 2010. Best doctoral dissertation on the topic of Mexican foreign relations.

2010

Killam Emerging Research Leader Award, University of Calgary

2014

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University

2010 - 2012

Expertise

  • Spanish American History
  • Mexican History
  • Latin America

Education/Éducation

  • University of Chicago
    Social Sciences
    Master of Arts
  • University of Arizona
    Latin American and World History
    Ph.D.