Overview
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Professor Uribe-Uran holds a joint appointment as Professor of History and Law. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Banco de la Republica de Colombia's Fundación para la Promoción de la Investigación y la Tecnologia, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of over twenty books or book chapters and more than sixty articles and book reviews. His next book projects include a history of constitutionalism in early republican Colombia and two micro-histories of domestic crimes in Mexico and Cuba during the colonial era. Dr. Uribe-Uran also works on contemporary legal issues in the Andean region, with particular attention to judicial reform, the judiciary, and the inter-American legal system.
Dr. Uribe-Uran teaches a wide range of courses on Latin American Colonial and Modern History as well as global history including: Global History of Domestic Violence, History of Law and Human Rights in the West, Global History of Murder, and History of Women in Latin America. His expertise in comparative legal history is also reflected in graduate offerings such as Crime and Society in LA, Law and Society in LA and Comparative History of State and Society in LA. Other courses he has taught have included Latin American History through Film and LA History through Music alongside a general survey of Latin American Civilization.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2013Physical Violence Against Wives and the Law in the Spanish American World, 1820s-2000sFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/blar.12107 Web of Science: 000326835400003
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2007"Iglesia me Llamo": Church asylum and the law in Spain and colonial Spanish AmericaFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0010417507000552 Web of Science: 000245931900009
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2006Innocent infants or abusive patriarchs? Spousal homicides, the punishment of Indians and the law in colonial Mexico, 1740s-1820sFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X06001611 Web of Science: 000242433200005
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2002Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774–1871Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/03612759.2002.10526019
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2001Colonial Baracunatanas and their nasty men: Spousal homicides and the law in late colonial New GranadaFull Text via DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2001.0105 Web of Science: 000171044000002
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1998Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767–1831Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/03612759.1998.10528210
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1998El “48” chileno: igualitarios, reformistas radicales, masones y bomberosFull Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-78.1.161
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1996Transition to Democracy in Latin America: The Role of the JudiciaryFull Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-76.4.834
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1996Criminalidad, ley penal, y estructura social en la provincia de Antioquia, 1750-1820Pecado y delito en la colonia: la bestialidad como una forma de contravención sexual (1740-1808)Labradores, tejedores, y ladrones: hurtos y homicidios en la provincia de Tunja, 1745-1810Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-76.2.356
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1995KILL ALL THE LAWYERS, LAWYERS AND THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN NEW-GRANADA, 1809-1820Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1008261 Web of Science: A1995TB18500003
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Book
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Book Chapter
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2021Fernando Velez Barrientos (Colombia, 1847-1935). 342-354.Web of Science: 000749002300025
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2017
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2010From exception to normalcy: Law, the judiciary, civil rights, and terrorism in Colombia, 1984–2004. 199-223.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511782213.013
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Book Review
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2019Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico. Ed. 124.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhy558 Web of Science: 000462553800100
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2018Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History. Ed. 75.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/tam.2017.155 Web of Science: 000430406300012
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2016State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic. Ed. 96.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-3678009 Web of Science: 000386537600024
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2016The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Ed. 63.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00141801-3496955 Web of Science: 000384722200013
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2015The Work of Recognition: Caribbean Colombia and the Postemancipation Struggle for Citizenship. Ed. 120.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/120.5.1940 Web of Science: 000368367900112
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2015Ambitious Rebels: Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850. Ed. 72.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/tam.2015.52 Web of Science: 000358020700021
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2012Native Claims. Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920. Ed. 36.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0165115313000119 Web of Science: 000315457800011
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2012SALT AND THE COLOMBIAN STATE: LOCAL SOCIETY AND REGIONAL MONOPOLY IN BOYACa 1821-1900. Ed. 56.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-203X.2012.01162_14.x Web of Science: 000218124200019
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2012For Tranquility and Order. Family and Community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850. Ed. 31.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2012.00713.x Web of Science: 000304754100017
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2012Nation and State in Latin America: Political Language during Independence.. Ed. 92.Web of Science: 000303142900024
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2010Justice and torture in the Andes: Jude Tadeus Andrade appeal before the Audience of Charcas, 1791. Ed. 90.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-141 Web of Science: 000276348400010
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2010Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico. Ed. 42.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X10000106 Web of Science: 000277527100008
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2009Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug.. Ed. 66.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.0.0199 Web of Science: 000270480300033
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2008Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831. Ed. 113.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/ahr.113.4.1207 Web of Science: 000260268200117
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2008Hers, his, and theirs: Community property law in Spain and early Texas. Ed. 83.Web of Science: 000255812000025
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2008Honor status, and law in modern Latin America. Ed. 64.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2008.0034 Web of Science: 000253243000027
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2005The mutiny of Esquilache, America and Europe.. Ed. 110.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/ahr.110.3.875 Web of Science: 000229989600145
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2004Class mates: Male student culture and the making of a political class in nineteenth-century Brazil.. Ed. 46.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/lap.2004.0039 Web of Science: 000223968300009
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2004The political power of the word: Press and oratory in nineteenth-century Latin America.. Ed. 61.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2004.0116 Web of Science: 000223783800010
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2004Blood and debt: War and the nation-state in Latin America.. Ed. 60.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2004.0032 Web of Science: 000223783500009
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2003Blood and fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953.. Ed. 65.Web of Science: 000187609100029
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2003Law and colonial cultures: Legal regimes in world history, 1400-1900. Ed. 83.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-83-4-775 Web of Science: 000187910400029
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2003Dynamics of the old regime and constitutional order: Representation, justice and administration in Latin America: 18th-19th centuries. Ed. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2003.0061 Web of Science: 000182911600006
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2003The men of the pampas: An agrarian history of the Buenos Aires countryside, 1700-1830. Ed. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2003.0029 Web of Science: 000181788700021
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2002Liberalism in the bedroom: Quarreling spouses in nineteenth-century Lima.. Ed. 107.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/532766 Web of Science: 000178674600106
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2002Constitutionalism and liberal order in Latin America, 1850-1920. Ed. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2002.0095 Web of Science: 000177216800016
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2002State formation and democracy in Latin America, 1810-1900. Ed. 58.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2002.0060 Web of Science: 000175360100020
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2002Republic of capital: Buenos Aires and the legal transformation of the Atlantic world. Ed. 58.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2002.0029 Web of Science: 000173910800027
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2001Civility and politics: On the origins of Argentina: Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862. Ed. 57.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2001.0131 Web of Science: 000168402800024
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2001Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810-1825. Ed. 57.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tam.2001.0130 Web of Science: 000168402800017
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1999Republicanism and constitutional reform, 1891-1910. Ed. 79.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00182168-79.3.571 Web of Science: 000082436700029
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1998Based on a true story: Latin American history at the movies.. Ed. 40.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/166207 Web of Science: 000076042400019
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1998The Americas in the age of revolution, 1750-1850. Ed. 54.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1007785 Web of Science: 000073527800014
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1998Colombia's military and Brazil's monarchy: Undermining the Republican foundations of South American independence. Ed. 40.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/166309 Web of Science: 000072447300015
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1998The Chilean "48": Egalitarians, radical reformists, Freemasons and firemen. Ed. 78.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2517415 Web of Science: 000074570400040
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1997The wages of war: The Mexican aristocracy in the context of Western aristocracies - Nutini,HG. Ed. 77.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2516742 Web of Science: A1997XN87200036
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1997American independence: Economic consequences - Spanish - Prados,L, Amaral,S. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900071
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1997Independence - Essays on social history - Spanish - Colmenares,G. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900063
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1997Independence and revolution (1780-1840) - Spanish - Galindo,AF. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900064
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1997Independence in Latin America: A comparative approach - Graham,R. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900074
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1997Latin American revolutions, 1808-1826: Old and new world origins - Lynch,J. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900075
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1997Mexico in the age of democratic revolutions, 1750-1850 - Rodriguez,JE. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900072
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1997Modernity and independence: Essays on Hispanic revolutions - Spanish - Guerra,FX. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900069
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1997
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1997The independence of Latin America - Bethell,L. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900065
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1997The independence of Mexico - Spanish - delaTorre,E. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900068
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1997The independence of Mexico and the creation of the new nation - Rodriguez,JE. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900066
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1997Trade, war, and revolution exports from Spain to Spanish America, 1797-1820 - Fisher,JR. Ed. 32.Web of Science: A1997WJ85900070
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1996Transition to democracy in Latin America: The role of the judiciary - Stotzky,IP. Ed. 76.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2518018 Web of Science: A1996WB98500085
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1996The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830: The state and regional development - Andrien,KJ. Ed. 53.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1007630 Web of Science: A1996VR34400015
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1996Latin America in the 1940s: War and postwar transitions - Rock,D. Ed. 23.Web of Science: A1996VH23700008
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1995HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF COLOMBIA - DAVIS,RH. Ed. 75.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2516790 Web of Science: A1995QC65100011
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1994AMERICA - NEW INTERPRETIVE ESSAYS - STEPAN,A. Ed. 74.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2517572 Web of Science: A1994NN81400011
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Other Scholarly Work
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2017Rebecca Mae Salokar In Memoriam. 592-594.Web of Science: 000398820900054
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2005The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. 486-487.Web of Science: 000211676000031
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2005Resistencia: Hip Hop in Colombia. 269-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1525/jlat.2005.10.1.269 Web of Science: 000211675900041
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Review
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2014SPANISH AMERICAN ROYALISM IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION. 270-281.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/lar.2014.0003 Web of Science: 000333137100015
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2000The birth of a public sphere in Latin America during the age of revolution. 425-457.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0010417500002528 Web of Science: 000088780200007
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1995THE LAWYERS AND NEW-GRANADA LATE COLONIAL STATE. 517-549.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X00011597 Web of Science: A1995TD94200001
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Solis, Gracia G, Reading Spaces: Nation and Popular Learning in Nineteenth-Century Lima 2017
- Silvia, Adam M, A System-of-Systems Framework for Assessment of Resilience in Complex Construction Projects 2016
- Oelze, Micah J, The Symphony of State: São Paulo's Department of Culture, 1922-1938 2016
- Pacheco, Roberto, “¡Pobres Negros!” The Social Representations and Commemorations of Blacks in the River Plate from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the First Half of the Twentieth (and Beyond) 2015
- Bonilla, Angela P., Integration of Colombian refugees in Costa Rica : an ethnographic approach to the refugees' legal, economic, and social experiences 2006
Research
principal investigator on
- The Symphony of State: Sao Paulo's Department of Culture, 1922-1954 awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2014 - 2016
co-principal investigator on
- Digital Archives for Virginia Key awarded by Institute of Museum and Library Services 2017 - 2019
- Digital Archives for Virginia Key awarded by Institute of Museum and Library Services 2017 - 2019
- Miami Beach Archives Digitalization Project awarded by City of Miami Beach 2014 - 2018
- Subcontract for Institution Nbr 6493 awarded by US Agency for International Development 2006 - 2010
Contact
full name
- Victor Uribe
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-4799 (confirmed)
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