• Steven B. Bunker
  Assistant Professor
  Ph.D. Texas Christian University, 2006
  
  sbunker@bama.ua.edu
  
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. 1:30-3:30 p.m.; Thurs. 12:30-1:30 p.m.

  Research Interests:

• Latin American History
• Mexican History
• Modernity, Material Culture, and Consumption
• Cultural, Economic, and Business History

Courses Recently Taught:

• Colonial Latin America (HY 237)
• Mexico since 1810 (HY 277)
• U.S. Relations with Latin America (HY 474/574)
• Literature of Latin America (HY 605)

Publications:

• Book project: Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911 (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming).
• "'Consumers of Good Taste': Marketing Modernity in Northern Mexico, 1890-1910." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 13: 2 (Summer 1997), 227-269.
• "Porfirato: Interpretations," in Michael S. Werner, ed., Encyclopedia of Mexico (Dearborn Publishers, 1997).

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• University of Alabama Research Advisory Council Grant (2007-2009)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Government of Canada, two-year fellowship, 1997-1999.
• Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize for Best Article, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1998.
• Ida Green Fellowship, Texas Christian University, 1995-1996.