Miguel Novoa is a historian, economist, and international affairs analyst. He is currently a History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis. His major is in Latin American History, with emphasis in Peru and a minor certification in World History.
Born in Lima, Peru, Miguel grew up in East Texas in the United States. He graduated High School in Waco, Texas. Miguel earned a B.A. in History & Economics from Texas A&M University at College Station. He earned a Grad.Cert. in Nonprofit Management and a Master's in International Affairs, with an emphasis in International Development and Economic Policy, from the Bush School of Government and Public Service.
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Miguel is currently a Teaching Consultant Fellow and Digital Initiatives Lead at the UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE). Before joining UC Davis, Miguel was a Graduate Writing Consultant at Texas A&M's University Writing Center and a Spanish Language Instructor at the Bush School. He has also worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington D.C. and for the Global Issues Initiative of the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment at the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington.
He can be reached via email at [email protected] or [email protected] and by land mail at History Department, 2216 Social Science & Humanities, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616. He can also be found online: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia.
He can be reached via email at [email protected] or [email protected] and by land mail at History Department, 2216 Social Science & Humanities, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616. He can also be found online: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia.
Research and Interests
Miguel researches the threat of re-enslavement over Afro-Peruvian freedpeople, from 1854-1868, juxtaposing this against Peru's Guano Boom bonanza fertilizer sales to Europe and the United States. He uncovers the links between the elite's machinations for guano affluence and slavery's precarious abolition. Moreover, Miguel proves how Afro-Peruvians protected their own freedoms amid uncertain conditions caused by political instability and limited prospects for labor and housing. By closely examining the predicaments faced by freedpeople, Miguel illuminates how the neglected issue of re-enslavement afflicted post-emancipation Afro-Peruvian society and set the foundation for their present social, political, and economic marginalization.
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A trained economist, Miguel has also researched and created a detailed legislative chronology of the 2014 U.S. Farm Bill (Agricultural Act of 2014) for Virginia Tech's Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE), and has participated in a Graduate Capstone group project for the World Bank on the relevance of labor regulations on Ghana's youth labor force employment.
Miguel has written extensively on topics related to South American society, politics, and culture. He is the author of award-winning research on the history and economics of the maritime and land disputes between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Miguel has also authored three featured articles in the English Wikipedia on topics related to Peruvian sports and cuisine and the Falkland Islands.
Miguel is an avid student of ancient civilizations and music history. He is also interested in subjects related to state formation, the history of citizenship and human rights in Latin America and the United States, and the complicated nature of human identity.
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Miguel is the Founding Director of the Melody Museum - Music History Database, a project promoting understanding of worldwide cultural traditions and identities through music. During leisure time, Miguel plays the Afro-Peruvian cajón and cooks Peruvian dishes.
Fields of Study
• Inter-American Relations • Latin American History • Citizenship & Identity • Global Economy • Transnational Migration • Archaeology • Economic Systems & Society • Ancient Civilizations • State Formation • Latin American Culture (Cuisine, Sports, Dance, and Music) • Latin American Intellectual History • Nonprofits in Society • Power in International Relations • Subaltern Studies • Economic History •
ResearchCollection of academic works (essays, historiographies, book reviews) and my encyclopedia entries for public view.
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Teaching
My thoughts on teaching, grading, and the expectations that I hold for myself to promote student-centered learning.
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Blogs
Collection of music videos; critiques on world-shaping events; works on image restoration, poetry & short stories.
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