Jason Dormady

Professional Overview

Jason Dormady's academic interests include popular interpretations of revolution and issues surrounding community formation in urban society. He is currently working on two projects: One is an examination of the roll of mass marriage in revolutionary Mexico and the other is a history of women as property developers in mid-century urban Mexico.

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• AA / Journalism - Ricks College, 1997
• BA / History - University of Montana, 1999
• PhD/ History - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007

Courses taught:

• History Undergraduate Courses: Mexico; Colonial and Modern Latin America; Narcotics in World History; Tropics and the Modern World; World History
• Graduate topics in Mexican, Latin American, and World History
• Latin American Studies courses: Mexican Cultural Studies; Latin American Urban Society; Introduction to Latino/Latin American Studies

Selected Publications:

• Conflict and Correspondence: Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939 - 1947, (University of Nebraska Press, 2025)
• Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands.  Edited with Jared Tamez, (University of New Mexico Press, 2015).
• Primitive Revolution: Restorationist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution, 1940-1968, (University of New Mexico Press, 2011).
• "Pleito y Piedad: Clerical / Parishioner Conflict in Rural Morelos" in Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants. David Ramírez Plasencia and David Dalton, Eds. Brill, 2022.
• "God, Cleanliness, and the City: Local Uses of Hygiene and Anticlerical Language in Religious Conflict - Guadalajara, Mexico 1939 to 1942." December 2020 in The Latin Americanist.

Personal Interests:

Dr. Dormady enjoys outdoor recreation in the Cascades, visiting his native Montana, and returning to Mexico as often as is possible.