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About Ethan Fredrick

Ethan Besser Fredrick is a graduate student in Modern Latin American history seeking his PhD at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on the Transatlantic Catholic movements in Mexico and Spain during the early 20th century.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ethan:

Latin American Studies August 16, 2023

If I Give My Soul

Faith Behind Bars in Rio de Janeiro

Andrew Johnson

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
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Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two weeks living …
Latin American Studies April 30, 2023

Death in Old Mexico

The 1789 Dongo Murders and How They Shaped the History of a Nation

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In a Mexico City mansion on October 23, 1789, Don Joaquín Dongo and ten of his employees were brutally murdered by three killers armed with machetes. Investigators worked tirelessly to …
Latin American Studies March 24, 2023

Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940

Margaret Chowning

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long nineteenth century. This traditional view …
Iberian Studies February 12, 2023

The Fabric of Fear

Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950

Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Jorge Marco and Gutmaro Gomez Bravo's book The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco's New Society in Spain, 1936-1950  (Liverpool UP, 2023) deals comprehensively with the process of Francoist state- and nation-building in …
Latin American Studies January 31, 2023

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban …
Latin American Studies September 14, 2022

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

The Making of a Race War Paradigm

Ana Sabau

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely …
Latin American Studies December 15, 2021

Moral Majorities Across the Americas

Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right

Benjamin A. Cowan

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. In Moral Majorities Across the Americas, Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious …
Latin American Studies November 12, 2021

Vendors' Capitalism

A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City

Ingrid Bleynat

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households …
Latin American Studies September 30, 2021

Unrevolutionary Mexico

The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship

Paul Gillingham

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
An essential history of how the Mexican Revolution gave way to a unique one-party state. In Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship (Yale University Press, 2021), Paul Gillingham addresses …
Latin American Studies August 25, 2021

Guatemala's Catholic Revolution

A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968

Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval's Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968 (U Notre Dame Press, 2018) is an account of the resurgence of Guatemalan Catholicism during the …
Latin American Studies May 10, 2021

The Conquered

Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity

Eleni Kefala

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Eleni Kefala's book The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021) probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of …
Latin American Studies May 6, 2021

The Spirit of Hispanism

Commerce, Culture, and Identity Across the Atlantic, 1875-1936

Diana Arbaiza

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2021

Just Immigration in the Americas

A Feminist Account

Allison B. Wolf

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Latin American Studies February 1, 2021

Citizens of Scandal

Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico

Vanessa Freije

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke University Press, 2020), Vanessa Freije develops a new rich thesis about the role of the press in Mexican …
Latin American Studies July 27, 2020

The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976

Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street

Benjamin T. Smith

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin …
Latin American Studies June 16, 2020

Latin America and the Global Cold War

Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, Vanni Pettinà

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Latin America and the Global Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America’s forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world …
Latin American Studies April 9, 2020

Victory on Earth or in Heaven

Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion

Brian A. Stauffer

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion (University of New Mexico Press, 2019), Brian A. Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an …
Latin American Studies January 29, 2020

Land, Liberty, and Water

Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940

Salvador Salinas

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In Land, Liberty, and Water: Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940 (University of Arizona Press, 2018), Salvador Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos - …
Latin American Studies October 23, 2019

Mexican Exodus

Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War

Julia G. Young

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict, using previously unexamined archival …