RESUME
ABDIEL OÑATE Tel-(415) 338-6177
Associate Professor Email- onate@sfsu.edu
History Department http//userwww/sfsu.edu/~onate/
San Francisco State University ..
EDUCATION
El Colegio de Mexico, Ph.D., History, 1985.
University of East Anglia (England), Diploma in History, 1975.
National University of Mexico, B.A., Economics, 1971.
RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of History, San Francisco State University, since 1988.
Latin American Area Studies Coordinator, San Francisco State University, 1998-2000.
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 and 1995.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis, 1986-1988.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Latin American History, (Mexico, Cuba, and Central America) and their relations with Western Europe (Spain, France, and Britain). Political and economic history with focus on state formation, foreign investments, banking, and foreign trade.
PUBLICATIONS
"La battalla por el banco central: las negociaciones de Mexico
con los banqueros internacionales, 1922-1925", forthcoming in Historia Mexicana, XLVIII, Jan.-Mar. 2000.
The Bankers and the State: the Making of Post-Revolutionary
Mexico, 1920-1928. Manuscript under review for publication.
Banqueros y hacendados: modernizacion en el Mexico
revolucionario, 1908-1926. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana Press, 1992.
"The Crisis of 1907-1908 and the First Agricultural Bank in
Mexico". In Carlos Marichal (ed.),Banks and Power in Mexico,
1800-1936. Mexico: Editorial Grijalbo, 1986.
Fausto de Elhuyar and Classical Economic Thought in Mexico,
1790-1821". Economia:Teoria y Practica, no. 4, Sept.-Dec., 1984. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.
"The Rise of U.S. Preeminence in Latin American Markets, 1945-
1980". In Noel Osborn (ed.), The Dilemma of Two Nations.
Mexico: Editorial Trillas, 1982.
"Railroad Concessions in Mexico between 1848 and 1876: A Study on
Economic Policy". Investigacion Economica, no. 153, Vol.
XXXIX, Jul.-Sep. 1980. Mexico: UNAM.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
" Nation Building in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: the Struggle
for the Central Bank, 1920-1925, " Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, England , April 9, 1999.
"Banking and Money in Revolutionary Mexico: Financial
Institutions for a Modern State," Peper presented at the ninety-first Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Diego, CA, Aug. 8, 1998.
"To Pay or Not to Pay: The Internatioal Committee of Bankers
with Interests in Mexico and the Early Post-Revolutionary State, 1923-1926." Paper presented at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 19, 1997.
"Mexico: Crisis and Revolution in the 1990s."Paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the International Socialist Organiza-
tion, University of London, London, England, July 9, 1995.
"Nation Building in Mexico: Alberto J. Pani and the
International Committee of Bankers, 1924-1926".Paper
presented at the 86th Annual meeting of the American
Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Los Angeles,
CA, August 13, 1993.
"Alberto J. Pani and the Negotiation of the Mexican Foreign
Debt, 1923-1926." Paper presented at the XVII International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Los
Angeles, CA, September 26, 1992.
"The Agrarian Policies of the First Revolutionary Governments in
Mexico, 1917-1926". Paper to be presented at the 84th Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Pacific
Coast Branch, Kona, Hawaii, August 17, 1991.
"The Crisis of 1908 in Mexico and its Agrarian Solution". Paper
presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast
Council on Latin American Studies, San Francisco, CA, Octo
ber 27, 1990.
"The Response of the Porfirian State to the Land Question on
Mexico, 1900-1912". Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Salt Lake City, UT, August 10, 1990.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Faculty Grant for Research and Creative Work, César E. Chávez
Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco State University, 1998.
Certificate of Recognition for Achievements and Outstanding
Service as Faculty Advisor, San Francisco State
University, 1998.
Award for Excellence in Teaching, Office of the Provost and
Vice-President for Academic Affairs, San Francisco State University, 1997.
Research Mini-grant. Office of Research and Profes
sional Development, San Francisco State University, Spring
of 1992.
Assigned Time. President's Research and Professional
Development Awards, SFSU, Spring of 1991.
Research Mini-grant. Office of Research and Professional
Development, San Francisco State University, Spring
of 1990.
Faculty Affirmative Action Award. San Francisco State
University, Spring of 1989.
Research Grant for Doctoral Dissertation, National Council of
Science and Technology, Mexico, 1983.
British Council Fellowship for Research, British Government, London, 1973-1975.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
World Affairs Center (San Francisco, CA)
Latin American Studies Association.
American Historical Association.
Pacific Coast Council on Latin America. (Elected as a member to
the Board of Governors for the period 1990-1993.
Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for Latin American Studies.