Manuel Morales Fontanilla, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of 历史, 历史
Assistant Professor of 历史, Race and Ethnic Studies
Sutherland, 214
Penn State 阿宾顿
1600 Woodland Road
阿宾顿, PA 19001

Manuel Morales Fontanilla was born and raised in Bogotá, 哥伦比亚. He has an extensive bilingual teaching and research record in public and private universities both in 哥伦比亚 and the United States. Morales Fontanilla enjoys spending time outdoors swimming, biking, and playing soccer.  

Morales Fontanilla's work sits at the intersection of physical culture, politics, and identity. It draws on his background in history and law and contributes to the fields of critical studies of race and ethnicity, sports studies, gender studies, spatial studies, and social and 文化 history in the Americas. His first manuscript, Impossible Roads: Cycling, Difference, and Territory. 哥伦比亚, 1930 – 1995 probes the social, 文化, and political importance of competitive cycling in the country from the appearance of the first competitions until its consolidation as a popular mass phenomenon. It uses cycling as a tool to understand how difference is reproduced in relation to the politics of space and identity formation. 

Book Chapters:

2023 “The General’s Vuelta: Cycling and Dictatorship During 哥伦比亚’s La Violencia 1953-1958,” in Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, edited by Martin Hurcombe and Phil Dine, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 

2012 “El Deporte En Bogotá Y El Debate Intelectual De Los Años 20.” En Estudios Socio文化es Del Deporte. Desarrollos, Tránsitos Y Miradas, editado por David Leonardo Quitian, 150-175. Bogotá: Editorial Asciende. 

Journal Articles:

2020 “Sports Policy in 哥伦比亚,” International Journal of Sports Policy and Politics, Volume 12, Issue 4, 717-729.

书评:

2020年牧师. of Gods, Games, & Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sports (Macon: GA: Mercer University Press, 2019) By Rebecca Alpert and Arthur Remillard eds. Journal of Sports 历史, 47: 3 (2020) pp. 296—297.  

2014年牧师. of Gender State and Medicine in Highland Ecuador: Modernizing Women, Modernizing the State, 1895-1950 (Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) By A. 金正日克拉克. Journal of Latin American Studies, 46: 02, 2014, Pp. 401-402.  

Public Scholarship:

2009 “¿Y Si La Bomba Estalla? O Lo Que Creí Que Era El Embrión,” Revista Suma Cultural No 9, Enero-Junio. 

2008 “El Deporte en la Bogotá de los 20,” Revista Suma Cultural No 8, Julio-Diciembre. 

2008 “El Dorado Una Época Inolvidable,” En Historia Del Fútbol Dorado, Revista Memoria Viva, Archivo de Bogotá, Agosto. 

Work in Progress:

Impossible Roads: Cycling, Difference, and Territory, 哥伦比亚 1930 – 1995 (Manuscript in preparation). 

 

2018 Ph.D. in 历史, University of California, San Diego. 

2011 M.A. in 历史, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, 哥伦比亚.  

2010 LL.B. Universidad Nacional de 哥伦比亚 School of Law and Political Sciences, Bogotá, 哥伦比亚. 

2005 B.A. in 历史, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. 哥伦比亚.  

HIST 127: Introduction to U.S. Latina/o 历史
HIST 178: Latin American 历史 to 1820
HIST 179: Latin American 历史 since 1820
HIST 497: Revolution in Latin America
HIST 497: Populism in Latin America