The Department of History

Alfonso W. Quiroz (Ph.D., Columbia University), a specialist in Latin American, Caribbean and world history, teaches at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His teaching and scholarly interests cover Latin American and Caribbean colonial and modern history, economic history and policies, Cuban and Peruvian history, and modern world history.

He is the author of Domestic and Foreign Finance in Modern Peru, 1850-1950 (1993), Deudas olvidadas: instrumentos de crédito en la economía colonial peruana 1750-1820 (1993), and La deuda defrauda: consolidación de 1850 y dominio económico en el Perú (1987), as well as articles and chapters on Peruvian colonial and modern credit, and Cuban nineteenth-century corruption, education, and socioeconomic repression. He is also co-editor and co-author of Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz (2005) and The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Uses of a National Symbol (2006). He is currently working on a forthcoming book on the history of corruption in Peru, Corrupt Circles: Costs of Unbound Graft in Peru, and a history of civil society and reformism in Cuba, Latent Cuba: Reform and Civil Society before 1959.

He was the curator of the centennial exhibition on propaganda and popular participation during the Spanish-American War of 1898, at the New York Public Library (“A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Spanish-American Conflict”) and at the New York Historical Society (“Militant Metropolis: New York City and the Spanish-American War, 1898”).

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