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Education
D.Phil. University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), December 1994
Master of Arts, Texas Christian University (Fort Worth), August 1988
Bachelor of Arts, Adams State College of Colorado, May 1986 (summa cum laude). Majors in History/Government and Spanish
Research & Teaching Interests
Dr. Pasztor is a Latin American specialist with a focus on Mexico. Her research and publications have focused on the Mexican Revolution and on Mexican regional history. She is currently researching the history of homeopathic medicine in Mexico and hopes to broaden her work on this topic to include Cuba and Colombia. Dr. Pasztor has also worked since 1993 as a consultant for the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, and has co-authored the “Modern Mexico” section for several volumes of the Handbook of Latin American Studies. She has also served as a consultant historian for the U.S. Department of Energy and for the Swedish government. In this capacity, she has published and presented work on archival record keeping.
Dr. Pasztor’s teaching interests include all of Latin American history and she offers a survey of both the colonial and modern eras. She also teaches the History of Mexico, Women in Latin America, History of Brazil, Central America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Latin America. Dr. Pasztor also contributes to the HSU History Department’s core courses, teaching Introduction to History, Computer Research in History, and the Senior Seminar.
Dr Pasztor contributes to the History Department's core courses by teaching Historical Methods and Senior Seminar, and she provides courses in World History for Education majors.
Publications (selective):
The Spirit of Hidalgo: the Mexican Revolution in Coahuila. University of Calgary Press, 2002.
Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History, with Don M. Coerver and Robert Buffington. ABC-CLIO Press, 2004.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, “Modern Mexico” section, with Don. M. Coerver. Volumes 56, 58, 60, 62, 64. Library of Congress/University of Texas Press, 1994-2008.
“Terra Incognita: The Place of Latin America in World History,” Bulletin of the World History Association, November 2007.
“Cattle, Contraband, and Customs: The Texas-Coahuila Border and the Mexican Revolution,” Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American History, Spring, 1995, pp. 161-180.
Various articles for Encyclopedia of Latin American History, ed. Barbara Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995.
“El femenismo en la América Latina: El Caso de México,” Crítica (Madrid, Spain) February 1991, pp. 35-36.
“Lessons from the Vatican Archives for Repository Recordkeeping,” Radwaste Magazine. Chicago: American Nuclear Society, July 1994, pp. 39-47
“The History and Administration of the Vatican Archives.” Swedish Radiation Protection Institute, Stockholm, NKS-KAN 1.3(91)6, 1993, 21 pp.
“A Historical Perspective of Cultural Development in Southeastern New Mexico,” in B. Guzowski and M. Gruebel, eds., Background Information Presented to the Expert Panel on Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SAND 91-0928 (Sandia National Laboratories/U.S. Department of Energy) 1991, Section IX pp. 1-35. |
