Department Faculty
Camilo
Trumper
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Office: 1012 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0831
Email: ctrumper@buffalo.edu
Education
PhD in Latin American History, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
MA in History, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
BA (Honors) in History, University of British Columbia, 2000
Areas of Specialization
Latin American History
Urban Studies
Visual Culture
Methods of Cultural History
Publications
"Social Violence, Political Conflict and Latin American Film: The Politics of Place in the ‘Cinema of Allende'." Radical History Review. Special Issue: Taking Sides: The Role of Visual Culture in Situations of War, Occupation, and Resistance 106 (2009).
"The Politics of Public Space: Santiago de Chile’s Estadio Nacional Through a Historical Lens." Brújula, 4, December 2006.
"Ephemeral Histories: Public Art and Political Process, Chile 1970-1973" in S. Nagy et al., Democracy in Chile: The Legacy of September 11, 1973, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. (Awarded the 2007 Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies’ Arthur P. Whitaker prize for best book in Latin American studies.)
Current Research Projects
Revising Book Manuscript - ""A ganar la calle': The Politics of Public Space and Public Art in Santiago, Chile, 1970-1973."
"Valparaiso, Chile between the Gold Rush and the Panama Canal" (Research project-in-progress, which looks at the port city of Valparaiso through the lens of transnational and local, urban history simultaneously to study the transformation of a "Pacific World").
Frequently Taught Courses
Urban History of Latin America
Visual and Material Culture of the Americas
Art and Politics in Latin America
The Public Sphere and Popular Culture
Dictatorship and Human Rights in the Americas
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies