DWYER, John J.

Associate Professor

Phone: 412.396.6475
Fax: 412.396.1439
Office: 612 College Hall
dwyer@duq.edu
Curriculum Vitae

John (Jay) Dwyer received his MA and PhD in history from the University of Illinois and BA in history and political science from Rutgers University.  He was a C.I.C. Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, a Guest Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, and a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico.  He has received grants from the Franklin Roosevelt Institute, SHAFR, and the Tinker and Wimmer Foundations.

His research focuses on twentieth century Mexico, especially peasant movements, state-building, land reform, as well as U.S.-Mexican relations.  He has published articles and book chapters in Diplomatic History, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Journal of the West, and other edited works, including Crossing Over: Redefining the Scope of Border Studies (Cambridge, 2007).  His book, The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico, was published in 2008 by Duke University Press.  It won the 2009 Alfred B. Thomas Best Book Prize awarded by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies and received the 2009 Honorable Mention (2nd place) for the Thomas McGann Best Book Prize awarded by the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies.

His new research project examines the impact of Mexico's maquiladora industries on the U.S.-Mexican-Californian border region, and addresses environmental degradation, industrialization, urbanization, popular agency, international commerce, and bilateral affairs.

Before arriving at Duquesne, Dwyer taught as a visiting assistant professor at Ohio University, the University of Utah, and UC San Diego.  He teaches courses in Latin American history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and global history, along with the graduate seminar.

Ph.D.: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
M.A.: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
B.A.: Rutgers University (New Brunswick)

Courses Offered:

HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World
HIST 161: Latin American Civilization
HIST 169: Reform and Revolution since 1900
HIST 270: Latin America: Conquest to Independence
HIST 271: Modern Latin America
HIST 277: History of Mexico
HIST 376: Revolution in Modern Latin America
HIST 382: Latin American History through Film
HIST 482W/582: Inter-American Relations
HIST 483W/583: Mexico & the U.S.
HIST 491W/691: Seminar