<h2>Thomas Jordan</h2><p></p><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <table bgcolor="#000000" cellspacing="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" valign="top"><img border="0" alt="Thomas Jordan" src="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/img/JORDAN.gif" /></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td><strong>Thomas Jordan</strong><br />Assistant Professor<br /><br />Latin America<br />Office Phone: 618-650-2316<br /><br />Location: Peck Hall, Rm. 1212<br /> E-mail: <a href="mailto:thjorda@siue.edu">thjorda@siue.edu</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr></table><p></p><h3>Education</h3><p>Ph. D. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) (2000 - History)</p><p> Dissertation: "Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio de Janeiro,</p><p> 1930-1964." Thesis directed by Dr. Joseph Love, Dr. Nils Jacobsen, and Dr. James Barrett.</p><p>M.A. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) (1993 - History)</p><p>B.A. Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas), (1989 - Economics)</p><h3>Academic Appointments</h3><p>Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville, IL), August 2000 to present.</p><p>Assistant Professor at Blackburn College (Carlinville, IL), 1999-2000.</p><h3>Course Offerings</h3><p>IS 326 Modern Latin America (team-taught interdisciplinary course on Latin America)</p><p>Hist 112A World History to 1500</p><p>Hist 112B World History since 1500</p><p>Hist 360A History of Latin America - Colonial Period</p><p>Hist 360B History of Latin America - 19th and 20th Centuries</p><p>Hist 400 Topics: History of Brazil</p><p>Hist 400 Topics: History of Cuba</p><p>Hist 460 History of Mexico</p><p>When appropriate, I am willing to offer directed-reading courses for graduate students and direct senior or independent projects for advanced undergraduate students.</p><h3>Research Interests</h3><p>Broadly speaking, I am interested in twentieth-century Brazilian social history. My current research examines the role that urban labor played in local, regional, and national-level politics during the 1940 to 1964 period. Focusing on urban workers and their unions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, my</p><p>work traces the twenty-year transformation of Brazil's labor movement from a relatively weak and unorganized movement in the late 1940s into a major political force by the early 1960s. In this process, the city's labor unions challenged the government's restrictions on "legitimate" union activities by fortifying the government-sanctioned unions, creating new types of labor organizations, and forging alliances with local and national politicians. My recently completed dissertation, entitled "Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1964," looked at these issues by focusing on the activities of the textile and metalworkers'</p><p>unions in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, I am broadening my study to look at the tactics used by other labor unions to accomplish these same goals.</p><p>Selected Publications and Paper Presentations</p><h3>Publications</h3><p>Review of Jeffrey Lesser's Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (2000) on H-LATAM (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews)</p><p>Review of Anthony W. Pereira's The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 (1997) on H-LATAM (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews)</p><p>Review of John D. French's The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo (1992) in Thematica: Historical Research and Review, 1:1 (1994), p.123-125.</p><h3>Paper Presentations</h3><p>"Redefining Proper Unionism: The Case of the Metalworkers' Union in Rio de Janeiro, 1950-1964." Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association annual meeting (Louisville, Kentucky, November 2000)</p><p>"Policing the Unions: Brazil's Political Police and Workers in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1964." Paper presented at the Social Science History Association conference (Chicago, Nov. 1998)</p><p><a href="/artsandsciences/historicalstudies/facstaff.shtml">Back to Faculty/Staff Directory</a></p>