Curriculum Vitae
Olga Magdalena Lazín
UCLA
VISITING SCHOLAR, 2006-2012
UCLA
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW, 2001-2006
PROFMEX
DIRECTOR OF WORLDWIDE STUDIES
PROFMEX
(Worldwide Consortium for Research)
Tel. (310) 208 2244
www.profmex.org
440 Veteran Ave, Suite 207
Citizenship: USA & Romanian
Education
2009 - Visiting Researcher Fellow at UCLA, Education in Grand Los
Angeles
2005 Post-Doc Fellow,
Latin-American Studies & Education
2001 Ph.D. in
History, UCLA
1996 M.A. in
History, UCLA
1990 B.A. in Philology,
Boljay University
Book
(Sole author):
La
Globalización Se Descentraliza: Libre
Mercado, Fundaciones, Sociedad Cívica y Gobierno Civil
(Guadalajara, Los Ángeles, México: Universidad de Guadalajara,
UCLA Program on Mexico,
PROFMEX/World, Casa Juan Pablos Cultural,
2008)
Book (Joint author):
La globalizacíon se amplifica: Lados brillantes
y oscuros de los nexos globales
(Guadalajara, Los Ángeles, México: Universidad de
Guadalajara, UCLA, Program on Mexico,
PROFMEX / World, Casa Juan Pablos Cultural, forthcoming 2010).
Por Olga Magdalena Lazín y James W. Wilkie.
Professional Service:
PROFMEX (Worldwide Consortium for
Research) R & D Director, 2008
to present
2008
-- Director, Worldwide Research
and Teaching at UCLA, Program on Mexico
2004
-- Program Coordinator,
PROFMEX Initiative to Develop Teaching and Research
on North America at the University of Baja California, Tijuana
1997
-- Editor-in-Chief,
PROFMEX Web Journal, Mexico and the World <www.profmex.org>
1994
-- PROFMEX Director, NAFTA-European
Studies, new programs
1991-1992
-- PROFMEX Director, European Integration
Studies
1989
-- Programs Director for Modern Latin
American Studies
1995-1999 --
UCLA Program on Mexico, Director of Globalization Studies
Articles
& Book reviews:
2010 Lydia's Open Door: Inside
Mexico's Most Modern Brothel,University of California Press,by Patty
Kelly
2008 In H_NET
Reviews on books upon Latin America.
2009 Women’s Issues
& Reproduction Rights (http://www.olgalazin.net/articles)
2006 Sole
Author:
“Revising
Wilkie’s Concept of Greater Mexican Los Angeles “
(Bounded
by Oxnard-Ventura, Riverside, and Tijuana-Ensenada).
Mexico and the World, 10:5 (Fall 2006)
forthcoming
2004a Sole Author:
"La
carrera mundial hacia los bloques de libre comercio”, pp. 34-57 en Globalización y Cambio Tecnológico: México en el Nuevo Ciclo Industrial Mundial, Eds.
Alejandro Dabat, Miguel Ángel Rivera Ríos y James W. Wilkie (México,
D.F., Guadalajara, Los Ángeles: Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, UCLA Program on Mexico, PROFMEX / Juan Pablos Editor, 2004). [See also 2003.]
2003 Sole Author:
"La
carrera mundial hacia los bloques de libre comercio”, en Publicationes
de UNAM, Número 24, pp. 8-20. [See also 2004a]
2001b Sole
Author:
“Rise
Of The U.S. Decentralized Model For Philanthropy: George Soros’ Open
Society and National Foundations In Eastern Europe,” Mexico
and the World 6:1 (Winter 2001),
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume6/1winter01/01lazin1.htm
2001a Sole
Author:
“History
and Components of Globalization,” Statistical
Abstract of Latin America 37 (Los Angeles:
UCLA Latin American
Center Publications),
pp.
xxiv-xxvii.
2000 Sole
Author
Book
Review: “Joseph Love; Crafting the Third World: TheorizingUnder-development in Romania and Brazil.” (Stanford University
Press, 1996), in Mexico and the World 5:2, web reprint in Mexico and
the World <www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume5/2spring00/00Lazin1.htm>. [See
also 1999.]
1999c Sole
Author:
Book
Review: “Joseph Love; Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Under-development in Romania and Brazil.” (Stanford University
Press,
1996), also in UCLA Historical Journal Vol. 19, pp. 89 to 93. [See also 2000.]
1999b Sole Author:
“Mexico
and Romania Compared,” in Mexico and the
World, edited
by James W. Wilkie (México, D.F.: PROFMEX-ANUIES), pp.
206-233. Also in Web Journal Mexico and
the World 6:1 <www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume6/1winter01/01lazin1.htm>
1999a Joint Author:
"Globalización
Fast-Track y el Surgimiento de Áreas de Libre
Comercio
(ALC) y Corporaciones Transglobales (CTG) Virtuales", pp. 307-359 en México Frente a la Modernización de China, ed. Oscar M. González Cuevas (México, D.F.: Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco). Co-authored with James W. Wilkie.
1996b Sole
Author:
“Bloque Emergentes
de Comercio Internacional:
Comparación Entre el Área de
Libre Comercio de América del
Norte y la Unión Europea,” Carta Económica Regional,
Universidad de Guadalajara,
No. 48, May-June, pp. 29-36.
1996a Joint
Author:
“Mexico
as a Linchpin for Free Trade in the Americas,”
Mexico & the World, Vol. 31, Part 2
(Fall 1996).
Co-author
James W. Wilkie. [See also 1994 and 1995a.]
<www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume1/4fall96/mexico_nafta_freetrade.htm>
1995b Sole
Author:
“NAFTA
and The European Union Compared,” Statistical
Abstract of Latin America, Vol. 31, Part 2, pp. 1205-1230;
Reprinted
in Web Journal Mexico & the World 2.2 (1997)
<www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/webjournal.htm>.
1995a Joint
Author:
“México
Como Punta de Lanza para el Libre Comercio en las Américas,” pp. 47-112 en Ajustes y Desajustes Regionales, eds.
Jesús Arroyo Alejandre y David E. Lorey (Guadalajara y Los Angeles: University
of Guadalajara, UCLA Program on Mexico). Co-author James W. Wilkie. [See also
1994 and 1996a.]
1994 Joint
Author:
“Mexico
as a Linchpin for Free Trade in the Americas,” pp. 1173-1203. in
Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Vol. 31:2,
Co-author
James W. Wilkie. [See also 1995a and 1996a.]
1985b Sole
Author:
“Originality
and Stereotypes,” Nord, Baia Mare
University, Romania, Jan, p. 3.
1985a Sole
Author:
“Confessions,”
in Romanian, Nord, Baia Mare University, Department of Philology &
Literature, Romania, January 1, pp. 4 to 19.
Teaching Experience:
Lecturer of History:
2010 UCLA Ext: Latin American Issues and
Globalization, Spring Semester
2009 UABC Tijuana: Mexico y la Globalización, Spring Semester
2009 UCLA, History Department,
History 161, Mexican History Since Porfirio Diaz.
2008 University of Tijuana: Mexico
Frente a la Globalización, History Department. UAT., Winter
Semester
2007 Cal
State University, Dominguez Hills,
The
Individual, Family, and Community in Historical Perspective.
Hist.
301.1, Spring
2006 Cal
State University, Dominguez Hills,
The
Individual, Family, and Community in Historical Perspective.
Hist.
301.1, Spring and Fall 2006
2005 Cal
State University, Dominguez Hills
The
Individual, Family, and Community in Historical Perspective.
Hist.
301.4, Winter Semester
2005 West
Los Angeles College
Mexican-American
History in the History of the United States Since 1863
History
44, Summer Session
2005 Calif.
State University Dominguez Hills
The
Individual, Family, and Community in Historical Perspective
History
301.4, Spring Semester, and Fall Semester, Hist 301.4.
2005 Cal
State University, Long Beach
Women
in Global Perspective
Women
Studies, Winter Semester
2004 Calif.
State University Dominguez Hills
The
Individual, Family, and Community in Historical Perspective
History
301.4, Fall Semester
2004 UCLA,
Mexican Film Since 2000
History 170C, Summer Session
Co-taught with James Wilkie
2004 UCLA
Elitelore
and Cinemalore in the 20th Century
"Hollywood's Mexico,” History 169, Winter Quarter
2004 El
Camino College,
History
of Mexico
History
19, Spring Semester
2004 Cerritos
College,
History
of the United States and Its Constitution,
History
101 (Two Sections), Spring
Semester
2003 Cerritos
College,
History
of the United States and Its Constitution,
History
101 (Two Sections), Fall Semester
2003 UCLA,
The
Mexican Films of Luis Buñuel,
History
XLC 170A, Summer Session
2003 UCLA
Extension
Issues
in Latin American History: Globalization Since 1492,
History XL 170C, Summer Quarter
2003 UCLA
Extension
Mexican
Film History
History
170C, Spring Quarter
My
Invited Guest: Alejandro Pelayo, Cultural Attaché of Mexico
2002 California
State University, Domínguez Hills
The
Individual, Family and Community in Historical Perspective:
History
301.1, Fall
Semester
Spring
Semester
Summer Session
2002 California
State University, Domínguez Hills
History
of the World,
History
121, Summer Session
2002 Santa
Monica College.
The
Mexican Revolution Since 1910
History
19, Spring Semester.
2002 California
State University, Domínguez Hills
Women
and Globalization
Women’s
Studies 401-I, Spring Semester
2002 California
State University, Long Beach
World
History Since 1500,
History
212, Spring Semester
2001 Santa
Monica College
The
Mexican Revolution Since 1910
Fall
Semester
2001 California State University, Domínguez Hills
Women
in World History,
History
380, Fall Semester
2000 Santa
Monica College
History
of Mexico
Summer
Quarter
2000 Santa
Monica College,
History
of Latin America
Summer
Quarter
1999 Cerritos College
History
of the Americas,
History
8.1, Winter Quarter
1999 UCLA
Many
Images of Mexico
History
171, Spring Quarter
Co-taught
with James W. Wilkie
UCLA Course Teaching
Assistant: Department of History
2009 Women in Maquiladoras; Equity Pay
1999 Colonial
Mexico (8A)
1999 Classic
Travel Accounts of Latin America (History 170C)
1997-1998 Historical Statistics of Latin
America (Graduate: 268A-B)
1995 Elitelore
and Folklore (History 169)
1994 Leaders
in World Development (169)
1993-1994 Latin American Film
and Society (170A)
2010 Women in Mexican Cinema: Hist. 160
2009 – Elitelore and Folklore in
Latin America: History 161
2004 “Viva Zapata The Film and the Debate”, Winter
2004
2003 “Mexico’s Film History,” UCLA
2002 “Women in International Advocacy Movements: Globalizing
Women in History” California
State University, Domínguez Hills
1999
“Frontiers
in Elitelore,” UCLA
1994
“Issues in Elitelore
and Folklore,” UCLA
1999-2001 “Reconstructing
the Legal Framework For Civil Society in Romania: The Mexican
Model."
1997-1998 “Women
Issues and Civil Society in Mexico”
1996 “Latin America and
Eastern Europe Compared”
Conferences, Seminars,
Lectures, and Professional Activities
2010 UCLA Conference,
School of Law, “Reproductive Justice in
U.S. and Mexico:
Is Machismo Winning?, March 12-15th, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Mexico and
Globalization, Paper UNAM, Mexico D.F., January 25, Mexico Frente a la
Globalización.
2007 - Universidad Michoacana, Panelist “Greater Los Angeles and The Digital Coasts of California”,
September 27, Morelia, Mexico. Organizer
2006 UCLA-State of Quintana
Roo-Instituto de Administración Pública, Conference on
“Innovative
Practices of State Governments in Mexico, Cancún, December 21-23.
Paper: “Improving the Historical Amparo System”
2006 University of Baja
California, Tijuana, two-day seminar, Aug 25-25,
“The
European Union as Broadly-Based Historical Model Compared to
the
Narrowly-Based U.S. Free Trade Agreements.”
(The
EU provides for migration as well as worker and student mobility—
provisions
absent in NAFTA, a mere trade agreement)
2005 National
University of Mexico, Mexico City, December 13
Invited
Lecture: “Historical Theory and
Oral History Methods.”
2004 University of
Guadalajara, three-day seminar, April 26-27,
“The
Long Collapse of Europe’s Communist Dictatorships--
First-Hand
View and Continuing Research in Eastern Europe.”
2003b PROFMEX Seminar:
“Mexico’s
Two Green Revolutions”
Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico, December 15
2003a American Historical Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago, January 3 Session
19. Modern Medicine, Science, and Technology in the Developing World, “Health,
Education, and Communications in Latin America, 1940–2000”
2002b IEEE (Communications, Computers and
Electronic Engineering)
Conference
IEEE, Acapulco, paper on “The Social Impact of
2002a Southwest Feminist Leadership Institute,
Chair, "International Family
Planning and the Global Gag Rule,"
Los Angeles, March 1
2001b International
Education Association
Conference
on Latin American Literature and Education,
Paper:
“The Challenge of Globalization, Civil Society in
Latin
America and Canada.” Mexico City, June 17-24
2001c Conference
on “Urban Poverty Worldwide,” Toluca, State of Mexico,
November 6-9, Paper: “Women in the Labor Force:
Mexican Women Laborers in Maquiladoras”
2001a PROFMEX Conference on Immigration Policy,
UCLA, Los Angeles.
“Social Security
Totalization Project Advancements”, Jan. 15th.
2000c PROFMEX-UCLA Conference on Mexico and
Public Policy,
Paper:
“Mexico’s Free Trade Agreements a Lichpin for Development” Morelia,
Michoacán,
Mexico, Sept. 14– 23.
TV Interview: Noticiero Canal 13, Televisa
National Program
Mexico/USA
coverage September 19-25
2000b Conference Organizer Technological
Knowledge and Women’s
Role in the Global Advocacy
Networking,” UCLA, June 4
2000a PROFMEX-UCLA Conference Organizing
Committee,
“Mexico
and Public Policy,” Morelia, State
of Michoacán,
1999d UCLA Colloquium in European History
and Culture,
Paper: "Globalization of Civil Society:
"The
Open Society Fund in East-Central Europe–International Philanthropy"
October 16
1999c PROFMEX-Guanajuato Conference on
Innovative Ideas for Mexico’s Development, Paper “The Role of Transnational
NGOs in Developing Civil Society in Mexico,” Guanajuato City, April 14-19.
1999b U.S. Small Business Association
Seminar at UCLA:
Chair,
“Globalization and Romania's Transylvanian Region,” July 7.
1999a American-Romanian Academy
Paper:
“International Advocacy Networks From Local to Global”, University of Oradea,
Romania, March 15-20.
UCLA, May 1998.
1997d PROFMEX-ANUIES Conference
Paper:
“Mexico and the World,” Morelia,
State of Michoacán,
December
8-15
www.profmex.com
//mexworld/issue6/art1
1997c Romanian Civic Academy Conference
on Rebuilding Civil Society,
Paper:
“The Deliberate Distraction of Romania’s Civil Society after 1947
by
the Ceausescu Dictatorship," Sighet, Maramures, Romania, June 22
1997b Romanian Academy Conference,
Paper: “Civic Society and the Transfer of
the Mexican-U.S. Model
to
Romania,” Cluj Napoca, Romania, June 15,
1997a PROFMEX-ANUIES Conference
Organizing Committee,
“Mexico
and the World,” Morelia, State of
Michoacán,
December
8-15. Paper presentation: “Regional development and Tourism in Mexico.”
1996b UCLA
Colloquium in European History and Culture,
Paper:
"Civil Society and the Mexican Adaptation
of
the U.S. Philanthropic Model," October 16
1996a UCLA Colloquium on Romania,
Paper:
“The Emerging Mexican Informational Infrastructure,” June 17
1994c Mexico’s Federal Electoral
Institute, Invitee as International
Observer
of the Mexican Presidential Election, Mexico City,
August
19-22 (Zedillo).
1995a The American-Romanian Academy of
Science Annual Meeting,
Moderator:
“Session on Culture"
Paper:
“Orwell's ‘1984’ and Life Under
‘Big Brothers’ Stalin & Ceausescu,”
University
of Reno, January 12-17
1994 University of Guadalajara,
Lecture:
“From European Community to European Union”
October
13
1994 Chief of Mission, Establishment of PROFMEX
Office, Budapest, September
1993 - Organizer, NPPOs GLOBAL-Program for Legally Facilitating the
Flow
of U.S. -
Based Tax Exempt Funds to Not-For-Private-Profit
Organizations
Worldwide. Conferences held in:
Belgium,
Hungary, Romania, 1998
Hungary,
Romania, Switzerland, 1994
France,
Russia, Spain, 1993
1994b PROFMEX Conference on Experiences
of De-statification
Paper: “NAFTA and EU Compared,” Mexico City,
August 23, 1994
1994a Romanian Internet Learning
Workshop.
Paper: “Ironies and
Complexities of Redefining Civil Society In East-Central Europe.” Miercurea
Ciuc, Romania, April 29
1993b Mexico
City University (UAM-A),
Lecture:
“Accelerating the Education of Young Women in Mexico:
A
Development Imperative,” September 18
1993a Chief of Mission, Establishment of
PROFMEX Office at the Institute
of
Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
June
15-26.
1992 Director NAFTA - European Integration Studies,
based in France
and Mexico, February 20-December 15.
1992 Chief of Mission,
Establishment of PROFMEX Office, Paris and Bordeaux, Moscow (Russia) in April.
1991 PROFMEX
Organizer, “Mission to Analyze De-statification in Eastern
Europe,” September 15 –
October 12.
Memberships:
AAUP 2005—
American Historical Association 1998--
The Northern California Translators
Association (NCTA), 2002 --
California Faculty Association, Latino
Caucus, 2001—
CSUDH
Lecturer’s Representative, 2004--
UCLA Alumni Association, Life Member,
2001--
Holmby Park Advisory Board, Beverly
Hills, 2001--
Conference on Latin American History
(CLAH), 1998 –
PROFMEX–Consortium for Research on
Mexico
Board
of Directors, 1997—
Languages Spoken and Written: Freelance
translations from:
English Speak,
read, write
Romanian speak,
read, write
Spanish speak,
read, write
French speak, read,
write
Latin read, write
Italian speak,
read, write
Hungarian speak,
read, write
Research Travel by World Region and Country
Europe Americas
Austria: 1991 Canada:
1992, 1995
Belgium:
1995 Costa
Rica: 1999
Bulgaria:
1992 Guatemala:
1999
Czech
Republic: 2006 Mexico:
1992--
France: 1991-1992
USA:
October 1992--
Hungary:
1991, 1992, 1995, 2003--
Romania:
1992--
Russia:
June 1993
Spain:
March 1992
Switzerland:
June-July 1994
Turkey:
July 2000
UK
(England): 2001, 2006
(Scotland): 2006
References
Elena Chiriac, Manager
512 Veteran Ave
L.A., Ca 90024
31 824 5077
James W. Wilkie, UCLA Professor of
History and Globalization
Chair, UCLA Program on Mexico, 6299
Bunche Hall, L.A. 90095
President, PROFMEX
1242 Lachman Lane, Pacific Palisades, CA,
90272
Tel. cell (310) 454-8812, office
206-8500,
E-mail: james.wilkie@att.net
Iván T. Berend, UCLA Professor of East
Central European History
Director, UCLA Center for Eastern Europe
and Russian Studies
UCLA, 6343 Bunche Hall, 405 Hilgard Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel. (310) 825 1178
E-mail: iberend @history.ucla.edu
Jesús Arroyo Alejandre, Professor of
Economics and Rector
University of Guadalajara, Jalisco,
Mexico
Tel: (011-52-33) 36-33-54-45
E-mail: jesusarr@cucea.udg.mx
Nadima Simón Domínguez, Professor
UNAM, Facultad de Contaduria y
Administración, Div. Investigación
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico D.F.
Cell: 01 (52) 55 54 14 98 71
Tel: (011-52-5622-8465
Home address: Ingenieros Petroleros 72
E-mail: nadimasimon@hotmail.com
Ronald E. Hellman, CUNY Professor of
Sociology
Director, CUNY Center for Science and
Society in the Americas
City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016
Tel.
(516) 477-4011
rhellman@suffolk.lib.ny.us
Professor Adriana Baban
Department of Psychology
Babes-Bolyaj University
400015 Republicii 37
Cluj-Napoca
Romania
Tel/Fax: 40.264.599402
email:
adrianababan@psychology.ro
Alejandro Mungaray
Rector,
University of Baja California
Mexicali, BC, Mexico
Alejandro <Mungaray@uabc.mx>
Richard Weiss, UCLA Professor of U.S.
History
UCLA Bunche Hall 7256, 405 Hilgard Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel. (310) 825 1779
E-mail: rweiss@history.ucla.edu
Ana Torres-Bower, Professor of Philosophy
Former Dean of Social Sciences
Cerritos College
11110 Alondra Blvd.
Norwalk, CA 90650
Tel: (562) 860-2451 Ext. 2778
TorresBower@cerritos.edu
Fields
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Modern Latin American History
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Colonial/Imperial History (Spanish and Portuguese Empires)
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Specialties
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Globalization
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The
Green Revolution
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Development
– Growth of Civil Society and NGOs
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Science
and Technology
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Development
– International Trade and Economic Relations
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International Economic Relations
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My research and teaching
interests focus on development and technology transfers from 1450 through the
present day. I am particularly interested in understanding global trends
and how they promote continuity and change. I am currently working on a book
about how trade and technology have changed human food sources.
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