Department of History

Paul Gootenberg

Professor (M.Phil. Oxford, 1981, PhD. University of Chicago, 1985)

Research Interests

My research (and graduate training interests) span most of modern Latin America, with an emphasis on Andean and Mexican history and historical sociology. My current writing is about the history of contested drug-commodities, particularly Andean cocaine in its global context, on which I recently published. Before that, I wrote mainly about 19th-century Peru, in terms of economic history, state formation, political economy, social history and the history of economic ideas. Related to work at the Social Science Research Council, I have a broad interest in social science and historical practice, and the advance of interpretive and historical social science during today's cultural turn.

Publications

"Between Coca and Cocaine: A Century or More of U.S.-Peruvian Drug Paradoxes," Hispanic American Historical Review, 83/1, Feb. 2003

"Hijos of Dr. Gerschenkron: Late-Comer Conceptions in Latin American Economic History" In M. Centeno, F. López-Alva, eds. The Other Mirror (Princeton, 2001)

Cocaine: Global Histories, ed. Paul Gootenberg (New York: Routledge, 1999)

E-Mail

paul.gootenberg@sunysb.edu

Office

SBS N-319

Phone

631-632-7569

Fax

631-632-7367