Announcing Dr. Sherman’s newest course...

 

 

GENOCIDE IN THE THIRD WORLD

People are really good at killing each other. But when, why, and how do humans kill on a massive scale? This course addresses these questions by comparing select late twentieth-century bloodlettings in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

 

Next offered: Fall Quarter 2010 (MW 4:10-5:50)

Course Details: Reading two books and segments of a third, along with various articles and brief firsthand accounts; heavy in-class film content (nearly 25 % of class-time), along with lecture material; two exams (non-comprehensive second exam during Finals Week); not WI. This course counts for the Non-Western component for History majors, but does not provide candidacy for the Nezahualcóyotl Prize.  

 

 

 

BOOKS

A Communist Front at Mid-Century: The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1933-1959 (Praeger, 2001)

Latin America in Crisis (Westview Press, 2000)

The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940 (Praeger, 1997)

COURSES TAUGHT

Colonial Latin America
Argentina
Mexico
Central America & the Caribbean

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

A native Ohioan, John Sherman came to Wright State in 1994 after earning his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Latin American History. His publications include three solo-authored books and numerous articles and chapters – including The Mexican ‘Miracle’ and Its Collapse in the Oxford History of Mexico. John has taught through the University Studies Abroad Consortium in Costa Rica and Spain, and has offered fifteen different courses since arriving at Wright State (the four courses listed above are his most regular upper division offerings). He has served the Department as its Graduate Director (2000-07) and Chair (2008-09), and is presently on partial leave—teaching only half of the time. 

 

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