Stephen Andes
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
237A Himes Hall
sandes@lsu.edu
225-578-6669
Courses Taught
HIST 1007 (World History Since 1500); HIST 4083 (Mexico: The National Period, c. 1810-Present); HIST 4195 (Religion, War, and Death in Latin America); INTL 3001 (Gateway to International Studies); INTL 4997 (The Mexican Drug Trade); HIST 7970 (Reading Seminar in Comparative History: Graduate)
Current Research Interests
20th Century Latin America, esp. Mexico; Latin America鈥檚 Cold War; Catholic social and political movements; Religion and Revolution in Latin America; Vatican policy; Modern Christianity; Christian Democratic parties; Religion and Narco-violence in Mexico.
Interested in Directing Theses On
Modern Mexico; Catholicism in Latin America; The Mexican Revolution; Religion and Revolution in Latin America; Cold War in Latin America.
Education
BA, Portland State University (2004)
MA, Portland State University (2006)
D.Phil. Oxford (2010)
Awards and Honors
Fourth Year Leave, Fall Semester 2015, College of HSS
Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, 海角社区, 2014
Manship Summer Research Fellowship, 海角社区, 2014
Council on Research Summer Research Stipend, 海角社区, 2013
Best Dissertation: Latin American Studies Association (Mexico Section), 2010-2011
Abbey-Santander Academic Travel Award (2009)
Latin American Centre Travel Scholarship, University of Oxford (2008)
Scatcherd European Scholarship, International Office, University of Oxford (2007).
Carr/Stahl Travel Funds, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford (2007).
Notable Articles
鈥淪inging for Cristo Rey: Masculinity, Piety and Dissent in Mexico鈥檚 Cristero Rebellion,鈥� in Michael Matthews and Stephen Neufeld, eds., Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme and Power (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015), pp. 181-215.
鈥淎 Catholic Alternative to Revolution: The Survival of Social Catholicism in Postrevolutionary Mexico鈥� The Americas 68:4 (April 2012): 529-562.
鈥淓l Vaticano y la identidad religiosa en el M茅xico Posrevolucionario, 1920-1940,鈥� Estudios 95, Mexico City, ITAM (Winter 2010): 67-97.
鈥淓l Cristo Rey Conservador: la alianza t谩cita entre cat贸licos y conservadores chilenos y el conflicto religioso de M茅xico, ca. 1926- 1929鈥� in Jean Meyer, ed., Las Naciones frente al conflicto religioso en M茅xico. Mexico City: Tusquets Editores, 2010, pp. 169-192.
Books
Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
The Mysterious Sofia: One Woman's Mission to Save Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Nebraska, 2019)
Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II (co-editor with Julia G. Young) (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016).
The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile: The Politics of Transnational Catholicism, 1920-1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).