Sean F. McEnroe
Professor of History
Sean McEnroe is an historian of the Atlantic world, specializing in religion, ideology, and state formation. His newest book, A Troubled Marriage, is a study of the literal and figurative marriages among European and indigenous communities throughout North and South America. His earlier work, From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico, describes the role of Indian leaders in the creation of modern towns and modern citizenship. As an archival historian, McEnroe works in manuscript and rare book collections in Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Canada. He is currently at work on a third book鈥攖his one a study of new beliefs about science and magic that mingled and spread in the Atlantic world during the nineteenth century.
Office: Taylor Hall 216
Phone: 541.552.6647
Email: mcenroes@sou.edu
EDUCATION
Vassar College, B.A., History (Europe)
Lewis and Clark College, M.A.T, (Social Studies Education)
Portland State University, M.A., History (United States)
U.C. Berkeley, Ph.D., History (Latin America)
PUBLICATIONS
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
(University of New Mexico, 2020)
鈥淚berian Empires and Indigenous Allies鈥 in Borderlands in the Iberian World: Environments, Histories, and Cultures, eds. Cynthia Radding and Danna Levin-Rojo (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 14:3 (2013)
鈥淧lato, Aristotle, and the Virgin of Copacabana鈥 in , eds. Sylvia Sellers-Garc铆a and Karen Melvin (University of New Mexico Press, 2017)
The Americas 69:2 (2012)
Ethnohistory 59:1 (2012)
Oregon Historical Quarterly (2003). Winner of 2003 Joel Palmer Award.
The Oregon Encyclopedia (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 2015)
In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, ed. Trevor Burnard (Oxford University, 2011)
REVIEWS and POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
Professor McEnroe鈥檚 book reviews appear in The Americas, American Historical Review, Catholic Historical Review, Ethnohistory, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, and New Mexico Historical Review. His letters and opinion pieces have appeared in 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚, the Economist, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Oregonian, Ashland Tidings and Medford Tribune.
TEACHING
Before joining the SOU faculty, Professor McEnroe taught Latin American, European, and U.S. history at Reed College, Oakland University, and Oregon Episcopal School. He currently teaches a wide variety of courses on the history of Europe and the Americas. For history majors, he teaches research methods and supervises Capstone research.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professor McEnroe has served as a panelist for the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and on the advisory boards for the Oregon History Project, the Americas Research Network, and Editorial Abya Yala (Quito). His book reviews appear in the Hispanic American Historical Review, The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Ethnohistory, The Americas, The Catholic Historical Review, and the New Mexico Historical Review. He has served as a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies and is a regular contributor to panels for the American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History, American Society for Ethnohistory, and the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. He is a peer reviewer for a variety journals, academic presses, and textbook publishers.