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David S. Parker

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Dr. Parker is now retired from teaching, but continues to research, write, and supervise current graduate students. A social and socio-legal historian of urban South America, he remains best known for his research on the middle class. But he also wrote a book about the duel in Uruguay as a parallel system of law, as well as publishing articles and book chapters on public health, housing, and labor. His current SSHRC-funded research examines how experts and activist intellectuals in late 19th- and early 20th-century Spain, Argentina, Chile, and Peru conceptualized their countries' urban social problems in the mirror of global comparison.

Selected Publications

Chapters in Books

  • "Taxonomy, Identity, Mode of Being, or Political Project?  Epistemologies of 'Middle Class' in Latin America since 1948."  In Mario Barbosa Cruz, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Claudia Stern, editors, Middle Classes in Latin America:  Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies.  New York and London: Routledge, 2022: 384-404. 
    • Spanish translation in Clases medias en América Latina II: Guerra fria, neoliberalismo y movilizaciones sociales. Bogotá/México: Universidad del Rosario/UAM Cuajimalpa, 2023 (ISBN 978-958-500-095-7): 331-370.
  • "An Introduction to José Carlos Mariátegui's 'The Anti-Imperialist Perspective' (1928)."  In Aesthetics and Politics in the Global South.  Ed. J. Daniel Elam.  New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Bloomsbury Philosophy Library. Web. 26 Apr. 2023. <DOI 10.5040/9781350302587>
  • “Asymmetric Globality and South American Narratives of Bourgeois Failure.”  In Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel, eds., The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2019:  275-294.
  • “Siúticos, Huachafos, Cursis, Arribistas and Gente de Medio Pelo: Social Climbers and the Representation of Class in Chile and Peru, 1860-1930.”  In A. Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, eds., The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2012:  335-354.
  • "Gentlemanly Responsibility and Insults of a Woman:  Dueling and the Unwritten Rules of Public Life in Uruguay, 1860-1920."  In Katherine Bliss and William French, eds., Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America Since Independence.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2007:  109-132.
  • "Civilizing the City of Kings:  Hygiene and Housing in Lima."  In Ronn F. Pineo and James A. Baer, eds., Cities of Hope:  People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930.  Boulder, Westview Press, 1998:  153-178.
  • "Los pobres de la clase media:  estilo de vida, consumo, e identidad en una ciudad tradicional."  In Aldo Panfichi H. and Felipe Portocarrero S., eds., Mundos interiores:  Lima 1850-1950.  Lima:  Universidad del Pacífico, 1995:  161-185.

Journal Articles

  • “Honor Ideology, Dueling Culture, and Judicial Lies in 1920s Uruguay,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, August 2016.
  • “The All-Meaning Middle and the Alchemy of Class,” EIAL: Estudios Interdiscipinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 25:2 (Dec. 2014):  9-29.
  • "Middle-Class Mobilization and the Language of Orders in Urban Latin America:  From Caste to Category in Early Twentieth-Century Lima," Journal of Urban History 31:3 (March 2005):  367-381.
  • "Law, Honor, and Impunity in Spanish America:  The Debate over Dueling, 1870-1920." Law and History Review 19:2 (Summer 2001):  311-341.
  • "Discursos, identidades, y la invención histórica de la clase media peruana," Debates en Sociología 22 (1997): 99-112. DOI:
  • "Peruvian Politics and the Eight-Hour Day:  Rethinking the 1919 General Strike." Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 30: 3 (Dec. 1995):  417-438.
  • "White-Collar Lima, 1910-1929:  Commercial Employees and the Rise of the Peruvian Middle Class."  Hispanic American Historical Review 72:1 (Feb. 1992):  47-72.

Media

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  • "The Duel of Law," History Today, Volume 74 issue 11 (November 2024), 28-39.

 

  • "Why Dueling was legal in Uruguay from 1920 to 1992," talk at Concordia University, March 10, 2023,

  • "Studying the Middle Class in Lima as the Wall Fell in Berlin:  A Historian's Mini-Memoir."  In ReVista: the Harvard Review of Latin America.

Awards and recognition
  • History Department Teaching Award, 鶹վ, 2019.
  • Principal's Teaching Award for Promoting Student Inquiry, 鶹վ, 2018.
  • James A. Robertson Prize for the article "White-Collar Lima," Conference on Latin American History.
Graduate supervision

Dr. Parker is no longer taking on new graduate supervisions, but is committed to seeing his current students through to completion.

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