Anton Rosenthal

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9475 Office: 2612 Wescoe Hall Email: surreal@ku.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D. Minnesota, 1990; M.A. Minnesota, 1984; B.A. Berkeley, 1973). Recent Publications: "Spectacle, Fear and Protest: A Guide to the History of Urban Public Space in Latin America," Social Science History, Spring 2000; "Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict and the Reorganization of Public Space in Montevideo" in James Baer and Ronn Pineo, eds., Cities of Hope (Westview Press, 1998), 30-52; "Correo Mítico: The Construction of a Civic Image in the Postcards of Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900-1930," co-authored with Catherine Preston, in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 15 (1996), 231-259; "The Arrival of the Electric Streetcar and the Conflict over Progress in Early 20th Century Montevideo," Journal of Latin American Studies 27:2 (May 1995), 319-342; "Streetcar Workers and the Transformation of Montevideo: The General Strike of 1911," The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 51:4 (April 1995), 471-494.

Teaching Interests: Cultural and Social History of Modern Latin America; Popular Culture of Africa and Latin America; Urban Sociology and Urban History; History of Los Angeles; Labor History of Latin America; Nationalism and Revolution in the Third World. Professor Rosenthal is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Byron T. Schutz Award, the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (2000) and the Center for Teaching Excellence Distinguished Teaching Fellow (2001-2002).Course syllabi can be seen at www.ku.edu/wcb in Spring 1999 and Spring 2000 or in "Topics in Third World History: Nationalism and Revolution," Radical History Review, No. 68, Spring 1997, 137-146. Professor Rosenthal was also trained in Sociology and African History in addition to Latin American History.