Michiel Baud is Director of CEDLA (from April 2000) and Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated in Contemporary History at the University of Groningen in 1982 and received his Ph.D. cum laude in Social Sciences at Utrecht University in 1991. From 1995 to 2000 he was Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leiden.

Research interests

I carried out my Ph.D research in the Dominican Republic, where I studied the social history of a tobacco producing peasantry in the northern part of the country. In doing so I combined traditional historical documentary research with oral history and anthropological fieldwork techniques. Afterfinishing his Ph. D I did research in southern Ecuador, Argentina and North-Eastern Brazil.
His current research interests are indigenista ideologies and their influence on present-day academic interpretations of the Andes, the role of ethnic movements in Latin American politics, the social history of Latin American borders, the analysis of Latin American modernity and the construction of collective memories in present-day Latin America.

Selected publications

- (2009) (edited with Annelou Ypeij) Cultural Tourism in Latin America: The Politics of Space and Imagery . C EDLA Latin America Studies 96, June 2009.
- (2008) Review Essay: 'Intellectuals and Dictators in the Dominican Republic' , European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies , April 2008, pp. 101-105.

-  (2008) "Towards a new social and political history in Peru . Review Essay", Revista de Indias 242 (enero-abril); pp. 289-300
- 2007 "Indigenous Politics and the State: The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Social Analysis , Special issue: "Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin America", 51:2, (Summer 2007); 19-42. Reprinted in: Edward F. Fischer, Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin America (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2009).
- (2007) "Liberalism, Indigenismo, and Social Mobilization in Late Nineteenth Century Ecuador", in: A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker (eds.), Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007); pp. 72-88.
- (2007) "Ambivalent Academia: Latin and Anglo-Saxon influences in Latin American Studies in Europe", LASA-Forum , 38:1 (Winter 2007); pp. 7-8.
- (2006)"Ideologías de raza y nación en América Latina, siglos XIX y XX", in: Historia General de América Latina , Volumen IX: Teoría y metodología en la Historia de América Latina, Estevão de Rezende Martins and Héctor Pérez Brignoli (eds.), (Madrid: Ediciones UNESCO / Editorial Trotta, 2006 ); pp. 175-194.
- (2006) " Intellectuals and History in the Spanish Caribbean: Between Autonomy and Power ", Caribbean Studies 34:1 (Jan. -June 2006); pp. 3-17
- (2006) "Indigenismo, políticas de identidad y movimientos indígenas en la historia andina", in: Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches y Armando Guevara Gil (eds.), Agua y Derechos. Políticas Hídricas, Derechos Consuetudinarios e identidades Locales (Lima: IEP/WALIR, 2006); pp. 33-57
- (2006) " Trends in Peruvian historiography ," review essay, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 80, April 2006 pp. 92-98. [Published online in a revised version as: " New Visions on the Social and Political History of Peru ", Sephis E-Magazine, 3:1 (Sept. 2006); pp. 50-54.]
- (2005) "Intelectuales, nación y modernidad en la República Dominicana", in: Francisco Colom González (ed.), Relatos de nación. La construcción de las identidades nacionales en el mundo hispánico (2 vols.) (Madrid/Frankfurt a.M., Editorial Iberoamericana/Vervuert); pp. 933-954.
- (2005) "Beyond Benedict Anderson: Nation-Building and Popular Democracy in Latin America", International Review of Social History 50 ; pp. 485-498.
- (2005) "Beyond the State. Politics and society in Latin America and Africa", in: Anke van der Kwaak, Rachel Spronk, Karen Willemse (eds.), From Modern Myths to Global Encounters. Belonging and the dynamics of change in post-colonial Africa (Leiden: CNWS), pp 38-49.
- ( 2004) Edited with Rosanne Rutten, 'Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America'. Supplement 12 International Review of SocialHistory ( Also published as separate book by Cambridge University Press ).
- ( 2004) Edited with Donny Meertens, Colombia from the Inside. Perspectives on Drugs, War and Peace , Cuadernos del CEDLA no. 18 (CEDLA: Amsterdam); pp. vi + 126.
- (2004) ' Area Studies and academic colonialism: Latin America thirty years later' , in: Dirk Kruijt, Paul van Lindert & Otto Verkoren (eds) State and Development. Essays in Honour of Menno Vellinga. Amsterdam: Rozenberg; pp. 103-116.
- (2003) ' History, Morality, and Politics: Latin American Intellectuals in a Global Context ', International Review of Social History , 48; pp. 55-78. [Published in German: "Wissenschaft, Moral und Politik. Lateinamerikanische Intellektuelle im globalen Kontext", in: Lateinamerika und Europa. Auf den Weg zu einem gemeinsamen Bildungs- und Kulturraum?, Atención . Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Latienamerika-Instituts, Band 7 2004; pp. 15-43.]
- (2003) Intelectuales y sus utopías. Indigenismo y la imaginación de América Latina .Amsterdam: CEDLA.
- (2002) 'Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Netherlands' , Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe , 72 (April); Special issue 'Major Trends and Topics in Latin American Studies in Europe'; pp. 139-160.
- (2002) Wetenschap, moraal en politiek. Latijns Amerikaanse intellectuelen in een mondiale context (PDF), Inaugurele rede Universiteit van Amsterdam uitgesproken op 23 mei 2002. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA; 39pp.
- (2002) 'Race and Nation in the Dominican Republic', New West Indian Guide, 76:3&4 (November); pp. 104-113.
- (2001) Militair geweld, burgerlijke verantwoordelijkheid. Argentijnse en Nederlandse perspectieven op het militaire bewind in Argentinië (1976-1983) Den Haag: SDU.
- (2001) El padre de la novia. Jorge Zorreguieta, la sociedad argentina y el régimen militar . Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura.
-(2000) 'State-building and Borderlands in Latin America' (PDF), in: Fronteras. Towards a Borderless Latin America , (Amsterdam: CEDLA, 2000). pp. 41-82
- (2000) (Co-editor) Política, identidad y pensamiento social en la República Dominicana. Siglos XIX y XX , Madrid/Santo Domingo: Ed. Doce Calles/Academia de Ciencias de Dominicana.
- (2000) "Un permanente guerrillero'. El pensamiento social de Ramón Marrero Aristy (1913-1959)", in: Raymundo González, et al. (eds.) Política, Identidad y Pensamiento Social en la República Dominicana. Siglos XIX y XX (Madrid/Santo Domingo: Ed. Doce Calles/Academia de Ciencias de Dominicana); pp.181-212.
- (2000) (with Kees Koonings) 'Germans and Tobacco in Bahia (Brazil), 1870-1940', Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas , 37; pp. 149-175.
- (1999) (With Kees Koonings) 'A lavoura dos pobres: Tobacco Farming and the Development of Commercial Agriculture in Bahia, 1870-1930', Journal of Latin American Studies 31; pp.287-329.
- (1998) 'Barrington Moore in Latin America: Coffee, Power and Modernity', European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 64 (June); pp.113-121.

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