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- John Weber
- Assistant Professor
- History
- 8000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3949
- jwweber@odu.edu
- Dr. Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History. He received a Ph.D. in 2008 from William and Mary, an M.A.
in 2002, also from William and Mary, and a B.A. in 2000 from Vanderbilt University. In 2009-2010, he was a Visiting Assistant
Professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Prior to that, he was the Summerlee Foundation Fellow in Texas History for the
Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He has held adjunct teaching positions at the College
of William and Mary, University of Richmond, and Thomas Nelson Community College.
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Education
- College of William and Mary,
2008
- Major: History
- Degree: Ph. D.
- College of William and Mary,
2002
- Major: History
- Degree: M.A.
- Vanderbilt University,
2000
- Major: History
- Degree: B.A.
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Articles
- Weber, J. (2011). “The District Deputy Supreme Dictator for South Texas Will Lead You Astray: Reading Anglo Fears and Racial Violence in Early
Twentieth Century South Texas”. Journal of South Texas, 24 (1), (pp. 22-30).
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Presentations
- “Pecan Shelling and Its Discontents: Migrant Industrialization in Depression-Era San Antonio"
- Conference Name: Western History Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Western History Association
- Location: Oakland, CA
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- “Homing Pigeons, Cheap Labor, and Frustrated Nativists: Immigration Reform and the Deportation of Mexicans from South Texas
in the 1920s"
- Conference Name: D.C. Working Class History Research Group
- Sponsoring Organization: D.C. Working Class History Research Group
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: June 18, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- “HemisFair ’68: Inventing the Past in San Antonio"
- Conference Name: Southern Labor Studies Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Southern Labor Studies Association
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Date: April 7, 2011
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- Fields in the Factory: South Texas Labor and the Perils of Agricultural Exceptionalism
- Conference Name: Agricultural History Society
- Sponsoring Organization: Agricultural History Society
- Location: Orlando, FL
- Date: June 10, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- How the Migrant Stream Crossed the Pacific: South Texas Field Laborers in Hawaii
- Conference Name: Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
- Location: Boulder, CO
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- The District Deputy Supreme Dictator for South Texas Will Lead You Astray: Reading Anglo Fears and Racial Violence in Early
Twentieth Century South Texas
- Conference Name: Texas A&M University-Kingsville
- Sponsoring Organization: Texas A&M University-Kingsville
- Date: April 6, 2010
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- The International Union will no longer have a representative in Texas’: The C.I.O. and Agricultural Unionism in South Texas
- Conference Name: Labor and Working Class History Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Labor and Working Class History Association
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: May 28, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- Texas is Everywhere South of the Canadian Border: The Bracero Program and the Nationalization of South Texas Labor Relations
- Conference Name: Southern Methodist University: Clements Center for Southwest Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Southern Methodist University: Clements Center for Southwest Studies
- Location: Dallas, TX
- Date: April 15, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- Texas is Everywhere South of the Canadian Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Evolution of Modern American Labor Relations
- Conference Name: XII Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians
- Sponsoring Organization: XII Conference of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
- Date: October 4, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- Texas is Everywhere South of the Canadian Border: The Mexican Revolution and the Evolution of Modern American Labor Relations
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: April 19, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- A Forgotten Massacre Reexamined: The Plan de San Diego and the End of the Cycle of Borderland Rebellions
- Conference Name:
- Location: Williamsburg, VA
- Date: March 23, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- HemisFair ’68: When San Antonio Fiddled as the Rest of the World Burned
- Conference Name: University of California
- Sponsoring Organization: University of California
- Location: Santa Barbara
- Date: May 5, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- The Shadow of the Revolution: South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the Rise of the Mexican American Working Class
- Conference Name:
- Location: Williamsburg, VA
- Date: February 13, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Weber, J.
- Summerlee Foundation Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
- John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship, Texas State Historical Association
- Provost’s Summer Grants for Graduate Research, College of William and Mary
- George Pozzetta Dissertation Research Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
- Fellow, Oaxaca Summer Institute of Modern Mexican History