Dr. Christoph Rosenmuller

Associate Professor

CONTACT: 

E-mail: rosenmul at mtsu.edu

Phone: (615) 898-2638 

Office Location: Peck Hall, Room 277

MTSU Box 23
 Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Web: www.mtsu.edu/~rosenmul

TEACHING FIELDS:

Latin American, U.S., and World History

COURSES:

History 2010: Survey of United States History I

History 1110: World Civilization I

History 1120: World Civilization II

History 4490: Mexico and the Caribbean

History 4520: Modern Latin America 

History 4480: South America

History 4510: Colonial Latin America

History 6304: Topics in Global History (Graduate Seminar on Latin America)

Professional Experience:
Associate Professor (Assistant 2004–2008) of Latin American History. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2004-


Visiting Assistant Professor, Latin American History. Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York. 2003-2004

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Latin America with an emphasis on colonial Mexico and Argentina. Political, Social, and Legal History.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:


Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702–1710. Latin American and Caribbean Series, No. 6. Christon Archer, series editor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008.

“The Power of Transatlantic Ties: A Game-Theoretical Analysis of Mexico’s Social Networks, 1700–1755.” Latin American Research Review, 44:2 (2009): 8–36.“Friends, Followers, Countrymen: Viceregal Patronage in Mid-Eighteenth Century New Spain.” Estudios de Historia Novohispana (Mexico City). 34 (2006): 47–72.

“Assayers and Silver Merchants: The visita of 1729/1730 and the Reform of Mexican Coinage.” The American Journal of Numismatics. Second Series 16–17 (2005): 179–193.



“La Sociedad Cortesana y los Precursores de las Reformas Borbónicas, 1700–1755: Estudio Preliminar” (A Preliminary Study on the Court Society and the Precursors of the Bourbon Reforms, 1700–1755). XIV Congreso Internacional de AHILA, Castellón, Spain, 20–24 Septiembre 2006 (Proceedings of the XIV Congress of the Association of European Historians of Latin America). Simposio 1: Los Borbones en las rocas: la construcción y el naufragio de las reformas borbónicas. Manuel Chust and Ivana Frasquet Miguel, eds. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2008. 1–8.



WORK IN PROGRESS:

“The Indians long for change": The Secularization of Regular Parishes in New Spain, 1749–1755.”Empire, Nation, and Corporations in Mid-Eighteenth Century New Spain.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Tulane University

M.A., Universität Hamburg, Germany

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain