Brian Larkin

Contact Information:

Office: Quad 359C

Phone: (320) 363-2719, blarkin@csbsju.edu

Place of Birth:

Chicago, IL, though I grew up in La Crosse, WI.

Education:

BA - History, St. John’s University (MN) 1992

MA - Latin American History, University of Texas at Austin 1994

PhD - Latin American History, University of Texas at Austin 1999

Academic Interests:

• Colonial Latin American History
• Religious History
• Mexican History

Courses Taught:

• HIST 120: Latin American Experience
• HIST 200: History Colloquium
• HIST 321: Colonial Mexico
• HIST 322: Modern Mexico
• HIST 323: Religion in Latin America
• HIST 395: Historiography & Methods

Story:

After receiving my PhD I taught world history and Latin American history at the University of Maine at Presque Isle for a year. I started at CSB/SJU in fall 2000. I teach a lower-division survey of Latin American history (Latin American Experience) and upper-division courses on colonial Mexico, modern Mexico, and religion in Latin America. I have led CSB/SJU semester-long study abroad programs to Nicaragua/Costa Rica and Guatemala.

Hobbies:

• Travel
• Reading
• Cooking
• Biking
• Swimming

Publications:

• “Confraternities and Community: The Decline of the Communal Quest for Salvation in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City” in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico, ed. Martin Nesvig (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
• “Liturgy, Devotion, and Religious Reform in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City,” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 60 (April 2004): 493-518.
• “The Splendor of Worship: Baroque Catholicism, Religious Reform, and Last Wills and Testaments in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City,” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 8 (Fall 1999): 405-442.