Dr. Joshua Savala
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Joshua Savala received his PhD from Cornell Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é in 2019. His first book project, (Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of California Press, 2022) examines the collaborative relationships forged by Peruvians and Chileans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the book looks at maritime and port workers, masculinity and sexuality, medicine and cholera, anarchism, and the police. The book has won honorable mentions for the best book on the Southern Cone (Social Sciences) and the Flora Tristán prize (best book on Peru) from the Southern Cone and Peru sections of the Latin American Studies Association. A Spanish translation, titled Más allá de la guerra: Historias de cooperación en el Pacífico peruano-chileno, 1856-1929, will be published in a binational edition with the Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My articles have also appeared in the Journal of Historical Geography, Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Journal of Social History, the latter two winning awards for best article on Peru (José María Arguedas prize) and best graduate student paper through the Peru and Labor Studies sections of the Latin American Studies Association.
Savala’s teaching interest include social movements in Latin America, Modern Latin America, Histories of the Pacific, the Southern Cone, and the Andes. Prior to arriving at UTEP in 2024, Savala taught at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Office: Liberal Arts 225
Email: jpsavala@utep.edu
Contact Info:
Liberal Arts 225
Email: jpsavala@utep.edu
