Dr. Amelia M. Kiddle
Positions
Associate Professor
Acting Associate Dean (Research)
Contact information
Phone number
Office: +1 (403) 220-7710
Location
Office: Social Sciences644
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Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy History, University of Arizona, 2010
M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2003
B.A. International Relations and Ibero-American Studies, University of Toronto, 2001
Biography
Dr. Kiddle is an Associate Professor of Latin American history, Associate Dean of research in the Faculty of Arts, and Editor In Chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. https://www.jstor.org/journal/canajlatiamercar
She specializes in the political and cultural history of Mexican foreign relations and received the Killam SSHRC Emerging Research Leader Award from the University of Calgary in 2014. She is the co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) and she has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies, ISTOR. Revista de Historia Internacional, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, The Jahrbuch fur Geschichte Lateinamerikas - Anuario de Historia de America Latina, The Latin Americanist, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Her co-edited volume with María L.O. Muñoz, Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2010. 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) was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2016.
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 published an anthology of newspaper articles from Latin America reacting to the expropriation and she is completing a 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. Dr. Kiddle spent 2017-2018 working on this project as a fellow of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. http://arts.ucalgary.ca/cih/ Her most recent edited volume, Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History, which was the result of a SSHRC-supported conference of the same name held in 2014, was published in 2021 by the University of Calgary Press.
As well as supervising undergraduate and graduate students in Latin American history at the University of Calgary, she welcomes Latin American students to work with her in Calgary through the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-internship and the Government of Canada's Emerging Research Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) http://www.scholarships-bourses.gc.ca/scholarships-bourses/can/institutions/elap-pfla.aspx?lang=eng
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| HTST 367 LEC 01 01 | Latin America Since Independence | |
| HTST 467 LEC 01 01 | Mexican History | |
| HTST 64704 LEC 01 01 | Topics in Latin American Hist | |
| LAST 211 LEC 01 01 | Latin America: People, Places |
Awards
- Great Supervisor Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies. 2020
- Annual Fellow, Calgary Institute for the Humanities. 2017
- Killam SSHRC Emerging Research Leader Award, 2014
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010
- Pemio Genaro Estrada, 2010
Publications
- “‘Ambitions for Leadership’: Latin American Responses to Mexican Labor’s Role in the Founding of the Confederación de Trabajadores de América Latina”. Amelia M. Kiddle. The Latin Americanist. 403-436. (2022)
- “Revolutionary Diplomacy in Mexico, 1910-1946”. Amelia M. Kiddle. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. (2018)
- “Between Two Revolutions: Mexico-Cuba Cultural Relations” . Amelia M. Kiddle. Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina. 108-128. (2017)
- “Separating the Political from the Technical: The 1938 League of Nations Mission to Latin America” In Beyond Geopolitics: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations. Amelia M. Kiddle. University of New Mexico Press. 239-257. (2015)
- “¿Solidaridad o interés propio? Uruguay y la compra de petróleo mexicano después de la expropiación petrolera". Amelia M. Kiddle. Istor. Revista de Historia Internacional. 187-2017. (2015)
- “In Mexico’s Defense: Dueling, Diplomacy, Gender and Honor, 1876-1940”. Amelia M. Kiddle. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 22-47. (2015)
- “La expropiación mexicana y la política latinoamericana: los casos de Colombia y Venezuela” . Amelia M. Kiddle. Boletín del Archivo Histórico de Petróleos Mexicanos. 53-62. (2013)
- “Cabaretistas and Indias Bonitas: Gender and Representations of Mexico in the Americas during the Cárdenas Era”. Amelia M. Kiddle. Journal of Latin American Studies. 263-291. (2010)
- Historical Dictionary of Mexico. Ryan A. Alexander and Amelia M. Kiddle. Rowman & Littlefield. 518. (2024)
- Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History. Amelia M. Kiddle. University of Calgary Press. 416. (2021)
- Mexican Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era and the Creation of Mexico’s National Image. Amelia M. Kiddle. University of New Mexico Press. 328. (2016)
- La expropiación petrolera mexicana en la prensa de Latinoamérica. Antología documental. Amelia M. Kiddle and Cecilia Zuleta. Pemax. 531. (2013)
- Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría. Amelia M. Kiddle and María L.O. Muñoz. University of Arizona Press. 320. (2010)
- “New Book – Energy in the Americas”. Amelia M. Kiddle. NiCHE. (2021)
- “For Canadians with disabilities, supports are often too little, too late”. CBC. Amelia M. Kiddle. (2021)
- “Let the debate begin about erecting Macdonald statue in Alberta”. Amelia M. Kiddle. The Calgary Herald. (2020)
- “Interview: Looking Back and Moving Forward—Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies". Amelia M. Kiddle. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 294-303. (2015)
In the News
- Latin American Resource Nationalism . Radio Canada International. (2019)
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